(Editor’s note: To those readers out there who’ve been blissfully unaware of the latest Page 2 grammar smackdown, we love you best. Please go on with your bad selves and read the rest of this publication: Leave now. Save yourselves!!!!!) It’s all Sally Helms’s fault. Sally, if you’d never written a letter to The Grammarnator (and asking US to pass it on to him, no less!), critiquing our pronoun use, among other things, we never would’ve responded to you publicly last week, and in the process acted as if we didn’t know what a pronoun was. Now, whether we were messing with your collective…

Yes, readers, it’s true! Winter Carnival, a long-standing Concord tradition, is almost here! In just a few days, you can skate and sled to your heart’s content. Before we get to the pertinent information, we should tell you that the photos you see here are from the 1895 edition of the Granite Monthly. They did a whole spread on Concord’s Winter Carnival tradition with lots of photos…

Colette Farland-Vogt of Horseshoe Pond Place Senior Resource Program kindly invited me to attend Horseshoe Pond's January birthdays celebration on Jan. 16. I accepted the invite faster than she could say "pot roast." In this economy, I can't turn down a free lunch. Once a month, the folks of Horseshoe Pond Place get together for lunch and cake (with ice cream, of course) to celebrate…

Rules of Deception Christopher Reich 2008, 388 pages Setting: Current-day Switzerland Dr. Jonathan Ransom's wife of eight years dies during an ill-fated hiking trip in the Swiss Alps. Several days after her death, Dr. Ransom gets an envelope addressed to his wife containing only two baggage claim tickets. Confused, Dr. Ransom collects the baggage, only to be attacked by two Swiss policemen. In the struggle, one of the policemen is killed, and Dr. Ransom takes off. Scared and confused, he tries to make sense of what is happening but only comes up with more questions. Why is there a foreign passport…

A new year brings new missed connections. We pulled some of our favorites off of Craigslist and left them in their grammatically incorrect glory. Enjoy! The Insiders SUPERCUTS CONCORD HEIGHTS - m4w - 30 i’m not sure if i got your name... you had dark shoulder length hair with your bangs pulled back. i just wanted to say i am very pleased with my “high and tight” hair cut. you seemed to really take pride in your work. and the scalp massage that you gave with the wash was really nice. alot of stylists seem to not want to get thier hands wet anymore. thanks again... i hope i get the chance…

Dear Elders, Do you have a weight problem like I do, or can you eat whatever you want and still not gain a pound? What’s your secret? Signed, The Yankee Bill Twibill Dear Fellow Yankee, Just reading the question put on five pounds around my waist. All I have to do is to smell the cookies or breads in a bakery and the buttons pop from my shirts. So obviously, I have no secret to share…