Winning colors – Wed, 02 Jan 2013
Norma Milne and Val Zanchuk were hiking to Emerald Lake in the Rocky Mountain National Park when they decided to compare foliage colors with our Insider Fall Guide. Guess what? We win! Send your travel photos with the Insider to news@theconcordinsider.com.
Harvesting sweet sounds – Wed, 02 Jan 2013
Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki and friends serenaded the customers at Saturday’s winter farmers market at Cole Gardens on Loudon Road with the sweet sounds of fiddle music.
New Year's resolution scavenger hunt
We found the best places in Concord to help you with your New Year’s resolutions. Think you can locate them all? Send your answers to news@theconcordinsider.com. Whoever guesses the most correct places will win a $20 gift certificate to the Concord business of their choice. Good luck and happy hunting!
New Year's resolution scavenger hunt
We found the best places in Concord to help you with your New Year’s resolutions. Think you can locate them all? Send your answers to <a href="mailto:news@theconcordinsider.com">news@theconcordinsider.com</a>. Whoever guesses the most correct places will win a $20 gift certificate to the Concord business of their choice. Good luck and happy hunting!
Ordering up some generosity
This particular Saturday afternoon, the menu featured grilled Italian sausage sandwiches served with peppers and onions, hot coffee and bottles of water and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in order to provide a vegetarian option.But the inpidual items weren’t particularly important. Having a menu at all was.Every Saturday except the first weekend of the month lunch is served, not out of a gourmet restaurant kitchen but rather the...
This week in Concord history
Jan. 1, 1819: The Phenix Hotel, built by Abel Hutchins, opens on Main Street in Concord as “a house of entertainment.”Jan. 1, 1865: Lewis Downing Sr. retires from Abbot & Downing, his coach and wagon company.Jan. 1, 2000: About 50 people from the state and the private sector huddle in an emergency operation center in Concord, ready to respond to whatever havoc the dreaded Y2K computer glitch may bring. To their relief, the...
Here's what's hanging at Kimball Jenkins
The latest gallery at Kimball Jenkins.
Ouch, we’ve got a splitting infinitive
How many newspapers run a grammar column . . . let alone two? Quite the unique and educational opportunity, wouldn’t you say? Especially when the two Insider grammarians are on opposite ends of the spectrum – an intellectual vs. a fun-loving grammar aficionado. This fun-loving grammar aficionado chuckles as she brings grammar to life. One might think from the Grammarnator’s columns that he would like to change the Grammarmatrix’s...
Here's what's hanging at Kimball Jenkins
The latest gallery at Kimball Jenkins
There’s some mistakes you can’t ignore
It is not uncommon to look back at the end of the year and mark the passing of illustrious people. The Grammarnator does so, mourning the loss of two words that have been with us for centuries but which seem to have disappeared for good. You can witness their demise by noting that which has replaced them in the following examples culled from the past month’s reading and listening.“There’s still substantial questions that need to be...
The best of cutting up, raising cain and reporting a rumpus
The Concord Police Department gave us access to some of its recently unearthed log books earlier this year, and the Retro Police Log quickly became the craze that is sweeping the nation. Or at least Concord. So to put a hilarious bow on your year, we collected the best of the Retro Police Log from 2012, even if some of the events are more than 100 years old. Enjoy!Sept. 15, 1906: Frank Watterson, Edward O’Keefe, John Laney, Prosper...
City Briefly
Every January, City Manager Tom Aspell spends a fair amount of time starting with the man in the mirror. While asking him to change his ways, he pens a thriller of a city memo featuring New Year’s resolutions and proceeds to beat it on down to the Insider office where he delivers it alongside his pet chimp, Bubbles. After interpreting all the ABCs and 123s, we’ve taken the liberty of printing it here. Bananas all around!needling...
Donate blood this winter
With the holidays winding down, there is no better time than now to consider giving something that means something and doesn’t cost anything: donate blood. The winter months can be a challenging time for blood collection. For the month of January, the American Red Cross Blood Services is partnering with Dunkin’ Donuts. As a thank you, each presenting donor will receive a coupon for a free pound of coffee. The coupons are redeemable at...
Donation benefits fund
Thanks to a major gift from an anonymous donor, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests has fortified its easement stewardship fund substantially.A forest society life-member who has generously supported the organization’s land protection efforts contributed $500,000 to the Easement Stewardship Endowment. Proceeds are used to support the monitoring of the more than 750 conservation easements held in perpetuity by the...
Festival of carols Jan. 13
A Festival of Lessons and Carols for Epiphany will be presented Jan. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 21 Centre St. Free admission; public cordially invited to attend. Non-perishable food pantry donations are gratefully accepted. For more information, call 424-4743 or visit nhago.org. An event of the New Hampshire chapter of the American Guild of Organists, the program will include seasonal readings from scripture and...
