It's time for our most eagerly anticipated issue of each year - the Cappies! We asked you, our readers, to vote for the best of the Concord's businesses, from restaurants to roofers, doctors to dog groomers and almost everything else our fair city has to offer. Now, we've the results compiled, tabulated and ready to serve to you on a piping hot platter of Insider-y goodness!So…

We asked these Conant fourth-graders what features they hope to find in the newly-constructed Abbot-Downing Elementary School, which replaces Conant next year.

\In early spring, when I was in a large flock of Canada geese getting ready to leave our winter playground on the Chesapeake Bay of Maryland, I noticed the handsome gander that soon became my mate. We stayed together all during our journey north as our flock traveled in the famous V-shaped formation, honking all the way. I am sure we must have sounded like a pack of baying hounds. We…

Greenland Police Chief Michael Maloney, who was killed in the line of duty in April, was honored at a New Hampshire Law Enforcement memorial ceremony on Friday. Maloney’s name was added to a memorial containing the names of all the officers killed in the line of duty since 1889.

May 22, 1879: The Monitor editorializes against a fountain in the State House plaza: "The fountain continues to squirt water all over those who have the temerity to walk in its vicinity, as in the days of yore. Its location ought to be changed." In 1914, it is discarded to make room for the statue of Franklin Pierce.May 22, 2001: Concord Litho Group, one of the world's largest printers of greeting cards, has laid off 31 of its 231 employees, the Monitor reports. The elimination of jobs is expected to be permanent.May 23, 1864: The Monitor is published for the first time. The city's…

For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net. The Cuckoo's ChildMarjorie Eccles2011, 232 pagesFictionIn 1909, young Laura Harcourt accepts a job to organize the library at the estate of Ainsley Beaumont, a wealthy mill owner in Yorkshire. As Laura begins to put the library in order, she learns that the Beaumont family has some secrets. For instance, there is the mystery of the tragic fire that killed the twins' father. Then when an accident occurs (or was it a murder?), Laura is strangely included in the dead man's will. What connection…