A few weeks ago, after walking around the various Fort Eddy Road stores, I stopped at the supermarket to buy some groceries. When I was finished grocery shopping, I realized that I still had to walk out to my car, located somewhere in another time zone. On my way out, already tired from all this walking, I noticed… 0

Leave your wallets and purses at home, parents, because this year’s second-annual literacy festival is totally, 100 percent FREE. You know the rule that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t? That’s not the case here. The Granite State Reading Council will be turning Merrimack Valley Middle… 0

Do you want to know even more about the Concord Public Library? Well good thing the library has a website. Visit it at onconcord.com/library. The Shanghai Moon S.J. Rozan 2009, 373 pages Setting: New York City present and Shanghai 1938-1948 This is the ninth in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith mystery series. This series… 0

Dear Elders, What is there to do in town besides shop for useless knick-knacks, get drunk or help the umpteen thousand homeless, drug-addicted or otherwise suffering people of our city? Signed, Mr. Herr Jan Stickler Dear Mr. Mr., Wow, what neighborhood do you live in? I’d hate to stumble into it accidentally, but… 0

A couple of week ago (or maybe months . . . time flies by fast around here), Becky Levick called with a complaint in the guise of a story idea. I get this a lot. But she wasn't asking us to write about her rotten landlord or, as my grandmother often suggests, "the people living under the bridge." This was something… 0

Have you always wanted to make your own wine but didn’t want to get your feet all grape stained? Well, thanks to Vintner’s Cellar Winery, 133 Loudon Road, you can make your own wine without traveling to California or Italy and keep your shoes on. How do you like them grapes? Last Wednesday, Katie and I met with… 0

Easter is coming up this weekend, and you know what that means, right? Easter egg hunts! Not real eggs, of course, but colorful plastic ones filled with rot-your-teeth goodies. With our egg hunt directory, you could theoretically spend the entire weekend stocking up on candy. Friday, April 10 A flashlight Easter egg… 0

Alexa Roos sent us this photo of her and her boyfriend, Eoin, in New Zealand. The happy couple (who wouldn’t be happy holding The Insider?) is on top of Bob’s Peak in Queenstown. Send a photo of you and The Insider to news@theconcordinsider.com. 0

There's nothing worse than pulling up to a gas pump and discovering that the apparatus to hold the pump in place is missing, causing you to miss the end of "Market Place" or, worse, to stand out in the cold for what feels like forever while the pump clicks slowly forward because there's someone else on the opposite… 0

Dear Tweens, How old should you be to have a cell phone? What do you need it for? Who should pay for it? 0