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…

Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell hacks into the Cappies' mainframe, adds a category for "Awesomest City Manager," and votes for himself like a million times. Then, he shows up at the Insider pod, demands we fashion him a trophy, and lords it over us. Then he gives us the city memo! act naturallyVans run on new fuelThe General Services Department recently had two Ford Transit Connect cargo vans converted to run exclusively on compressed natural gas, Aspell writes. One will be assigned to the department's administration division for use by the water conservation technician;…