Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell heads to a mountain, starts an avalanche and ends up buried deep beneath the snow. Once the weather warms up, the snow melts and he tumbles downhill, finally coming to rest on Main Street. Then he hops up, brushes off and reads the city memo.fido's got mailState of New Hampshire RSA 466:1 requires that every owner or keeper of a dog 4 months of… 0

Remember last year when we ran a story about David Kontak, a local fellow who makes unique music machines in his basement (David Kontak makes crazy music machines, Jan. 18, 2011)? Of course you do! Well, he's got a fresh batch of creations that he will be unveiling soon at the Sharon Arts Gallery in Peterborough.… 0

We at the Insider like to scan Craigslist's Missed Connections for the best posts from Concord (that we can print, anyway! Who knew there were so many different words that mean "genitals?"). Then, we print them here, the two people meet and live happily ever after! Wait, that can't be true. Anyway,… 0

March 13, 1975: Attorney General Warren Rudman vows to fight for tougher obscenity laws so he can successfully prosecute movie house owners for showing what he describes as hard-core pornography. His comments come after the acquittal of a Bethlehem theater owner who had shown Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones.March 13, 1993: People hunker down for what television has hyped… 0

Everyone has their own little trigger that lets them know it's spring. Some people know when they see the first robin light on a tree branch. Others aren't sure it's spring until they dig their hands into that first furrow of aromatic garden soil.Me, I know it's spring when I get that irresistable urge… 0

Name: Julie RichtarikLetter carrier, U.S. Postal ServiceHow long have you been a letter carrier?28 years.How did you decided to get involved in the profession?I took the civil service exam and got a phone call that I had been accepted. The great opportunity in the post office is you can transfer in any of the 50 states… 0

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barbara Walsh will be in Concord on March 15 to discuss her latest book, August Gale, with an appearance at Gibson's Bookstore at 7 p.m. The book weaves two tales together - a deadly Newfoundland hurricane that took the lives of hundreds of fishermen and the tale of her father's… 0

Get out of town and hit up the Lakes Region. 0