It can get pretty dangerous out there on the open road. Even the most cautious drivers will probably find themselves in a fender-bender at some point in their driving career. With that in mind, the Insider asked the Concord Police Department, as well as city hall traffic engineer and stats guru Robert Mack, to compile us a list of Concord's top ten most dangerous intersections. And…

The Insider got the scoop on the Concord Cooperative Market’s free ‘Brain Freeze’ ice cream social last week.

Like bees over the landscape, dozens of young canvassers with New Hampshire Public Interest Research Group and Environment New Hampshire reap and sow, door to door, all summer long: social justice and social change.It is a life philosophy played out against the backdrop of an upstairs office thick with the work of young minds and hands, with the language of activism and social justice."You…

Ellen Lessard is living a true-life Cinderella story. With merely a wave of her magic wand, she turned a dank, dark and scary warehouse space at 113 Storrs St. into a sparkling center for gowns and garb. Well, maybe it wasn't quite that simple.While there were already plenty of thrift stores in Concord, Lessard thought that none of them really provided high-end women's clothing at a reasonable price. Tired…

By Paul BashamFor the InsiderEarlier this summer I watched a pair of small songbirds build a nest on the light fixture outside our front door. When one of the birds started sitting on the nest, I was sure there were eggs being incubated. After consulting my bird book, I learned that our new neighbors were warbling vireos, one of about 12 species of vireos native to North America. As…

Aug. 23, 1983: Gov. John Sununu denounces the issues raised in a lawsuit challenging New Hampshire's reliance on property taxes to fund schools as "garbage." The suit, he says, is little more than a ploy by those who want a broad-based tax. Fourteen years later, the state Supreme Court will rule against the state in Claremont II, a similar lawsuit.Aug. 24, 1979: Campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination in Concord, U.S. Sen. Bob Dole acknowledges that former California governor and movie actor Ronald Reagan is the heavy favorite. Dole says he hopes to be "in a position…