The New Year has arrived and school vacation is over - time for you to get back to work.With that in mind, The Insider cooked up another of our ingenious and wildly enthralling scavenger hunts. The theme? You have to hunt that down, too.Kidding! We first thought it would be fun to do a brick scavenger hunt, but realized the chances of someone correctly identifying 10 specific bricks…

Last summer when I was volunteering at the Little Nature Museum in Hopkinton, a woman came in and talked with me about a sound she had heard at night coming from the woods behind her house. She then imitated the noise and asked, "Who made that sound?"I said, "You just did." Then I explained there were any number of night creatures that could have made a sound similar to the one she had just given.We…

Name: Jamie BreenTitle: Owner, The Storage StationHow long have you been in the storage business?Twenty-five years, at this location on Loudon Road.What are some of the most common items people store?Generally household goods, the summer or winter stuff you swap out.What are some of the benefits for someone looking to rent a self-storage unit?It keeps the clutter away from the house.…

An item in "This Week in Concord History" in the Hunkette issue causes me to abandon my usual grammarnating and offer a poem that I wrote some years ago. On Dec. 27, 1985, ChristaMcAuliffe gave "her last press conference before setting out for Florida and final preparations for the launch of the Challenger."My poem, you see, was about another press conference, an imaginary one that she was giving…

Jan. 3, 1852: Visiting Concord, Henry Hubbard slips on the icy walkway on his way to the Eagle Hotel. The fall breaks his left arm. Hubbard will sue the town and win a judgment of $800.Jan. 3, 1985: Bernhard Goetz, the so-called "subway vigilante" who fled New York after shooting four teens and landed in Concord, is to be returned to Manhattan today. Merrimack County jail guard Thomas Barton says Goetz told him: "What happened had to be done, but I'm sorry it happened."Jan. 3, 2000: Concord Mayor Bill Veroneau opens his fifth term in office with a pledge to explore seriously…

The Winter Farmers Market at Cole Gardens on Loudon Road began in a trial period as a once-a-month venture three years ago.Last year, the market was held every other Saturday.So what's in store for year three?How about a market every Saturday from Jan. 7 through March 31?"This will be the third year the market has been here, and it's been awesome. The response has been very positive," Charlie Cole of Cole Gardens said. "People have a lot of fun. It's something to do on a cold winter day, coming indoors. There's a great selection of different products to choose from…