With the Mayan calendar predicting the end of the world on Dec. 21, 2012, we asked Concordians what they want to do with their last year on Earth. Click the link to see the full gallery: http://www.theconcordinsider.com/photogallery/no-time-like-the-end-times

The world is going to end in 2012. Mayans knew it, John Cusack knows it - everyone knows it. The only real question now is: How is it going to happen? One theory is that the world will be overrun by reanimated dead bodies, craving sustenance in the form of living human flesh. In other words, a zombie apocalypse. We talked to Concord's own Matt Wheeler, author of Guide for the Living: Zombies (Surviving a Zombie…

Last year, an ordinance came before the city council of Concord to approve the keeping of chickens within the city limits, and Jemi Broussard was there to speak in favor. Her daughter, Elizabeth Broussard, had come home from college two summers prior and had suggested the family keep some chickens. Elizabeth's major at the Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, is in environmental studies with a focus on food…

We at the Insider often scour Craigslist Missed Connections. In the words of the late Heavy D, now that we've found love, what are we gonna do with it? As always, the items are presented without edits.We locked peepers on So. Willow today in front of DD's - We we're idle side by side long enough for me to see how cute you were. You finally looked at me and held eye contact…

Scavenber SuggestionsThe last scavenger hunt was indeed interesting but it had difficulties as a scavenger hunt. Scavenger hunts are best when they can be walked in a finite area. If a car is needed, the hunt still needs bounds. Driving all over Concord is too wide a field. This one presented another problem in that two of the items are very difficult for a lone driver to see if paying attention to the road. The steam vent is surprisingly difficult to see, and the small CHS statue is very difficult to see unless one is on the side road. I found the steam vent through technique learned at the International…

Jan. 17, 1726: Massachusetts grants permission to settle the area that will become Concord. A supervising committee screens would-be settlers. It wants just 100 families.Jan. 17, 1948: Concord's new mayor, Charles McKee, says he's not giving up on plans for a new man-made lake on the Turkey River, despite voter opposition. "As I understand it, there was a lake there once, but someone pulled out the plug and it drained away. I am told it would be a comparatively simple matter to put the plug back in."Jan. 17, 2001: New Hampshire Public Radio announces plans to scrap its classical…