Hesser photogallery
Shedding some light on Hesser College.
A doggone good morning
If you like to wake up early, here are some of the furry faces you might see scampering around town.
Look who's talking
Elizabeth is only 11 months old, yet she can tell her parents when she is hungry, thirsty or has a stomachache. How can she communicate at such an early age? Because her parents took things into their own hands – quite literally – and attended a workshop that focuses on teaching sign language to hearing babies.Since the early 1990s, interest in teaching pre-verbal infants to communicate by signing has skyrocketed. Studies...
Food Snob
A few weeks ago, on a swelteringly sticky day, the Food Snob was traversing Main Street and something caught her eye: a sign for basil lemonade.The sign told the Snob to walk around the side of the building, next to the backside of Joe King's and Eagle Square Deli, to get a taste of what was sure to be a refreshing beverage. Unfortunately, a different sign greeted the Snob on the entrance of the cafe, Irresistible Cravings Bakery...
International Concord
Fadi Sarkis came to the U.S. from Lebanon when he was 20 years old. Today, he lives in Concord with his wife and children and runs a gas station in East Concord. International Concord's Erin Woolf finds out more about him.You just took over the ownership of the East Concord Mobil & Auto Repair. Congratulations! How's business?Great! We are really happy to be here. The location is great.Where are you from?Originally...
40th reunion scheduled
The Concord High School class of 1971 will hold a 40th reunion for members and guests on Oct. 8 at Canterbury Woods Country Club in Canterbury. A dinner and dance will take place in the evening. Invitations have been mailed out. For more information, contact Nancy Mellitt at nancymellitt@comcast.net or Tom Cleveland at tecleveland@comcast.net. Check out our Facebook page at: 1971 CHS Class...
Golf for a good cause
Save the date! The American Red Cross in New Hampshire will host the 18th Annual American Red Cross Golf Classic on Sept. 14 at the Passaconaway Country Club in Litchfield.Registration and a continental breakfast will start at 8 a.m., followed by a shotgun start at 9 a.m. There will be prizes and a raffle. Golfers may come singly or as teams of four.The Red Cross is still accepting sponsors for the Golf Classic. Five levels of...
Nature 101
We may have lost the Old Man of the Mountain but we still have a “Man in the Tree.”One day, when I was hiking through the woods in the Concord area, I saw on the trunk of a tree a huge burl in the shape of a man's head. While it is the largest burl I have ever seen during my sauntering in the New England forests, it is small compared to the one that is over 6 feet tall in Tamworth, Australia.Burls are the large rounded...
Get some local grub
Hungry motorists passing by the Everett Arena have a new temptation to contend with – a roadside Farmers Market that features locally-produced delicacies from steak to swordfish to maple syrup. Miles Smith Farm (Loudon), Rollin' in the Dough (Sanbornton), Sanders Fish Market (Portsmouth) and Maple Ridge Farm (Loudon) have joined forces to create a roadside Farmers Market that is in operation every Friday through October or...
Monthly meeting
Merrimack County Stamp Collectors regular monthly meeting will be held at Bow Mills United Methodist Church, 505 South St., Bow, on Tuesday, Aug. 161 at 1:30 p.m. All people interested in stamp collecting are invited to attend. For further information, contact Dan Day, 228-1154.
Bulb fundraiser
Beautify your yard with a colorful selection of fall bulbs and support your local conservation district. The Merrimack County Conservation District is now taking orders for its annual fall bulb fundraiser. Thirty varieties of bulbs are available, including daffodils, tulips, crocus and many other varieties. Proceeds from the fall bulb fundraiser go back into local conservation efforts. For an order form, please visit MCCD's...
Shedding some light on Hesser College
Chances are, you've heard of Hesser College. One can not even turn on the radio or television without being exposed to one of its seemingly omnipresent advertisements. Maybe you've driven by the campus as you're cruising Interstate 93, or you've seen one of the other four locations around New Hampshire. But do you really know what happens there? The Insider paid a visit to the Concord campus to get the inside...
This Week in Concord History
Aug. 9, 1746 – A band of 50 to 100 Indians invades Rumford (Concord), but the Indians will be scared off the next morning by 30 armed guards who escort church-goers back to their garrisons.Aug. 9, 1903 – Omer T. Lassonde is born in Concord. An artist, he will be federal arts director of the WPA in New Hampshire during the Depression. The subjects of his many portraits will include U.S. Sen. Styles Bridges, Gov. John G....
City Briefly
Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell climbs to the roof of City Hall, puts on a harness, and escapes down his executive zipline to Friendly's. Good idea Tom! After a belly-busting hot fudge sundae, even a sewage overflow report would be palatable! We found this city memo spelled out in chocolate syrup on the sidewalk in front of City Hall.everybody out of the poolWe mean itThe City's seven public swimming pools are scheduled to...
A call for Concord’s hottest hunks
Avid readers will remember that around this time last year, we ran our Hunks issue. We threw the white-hot spotlight on Concord’s hunkiest dudes and gave our readers a little something to look at. Well, you’d better schedule a dentist appointment for your eyes, because we’re about to give you another heaping helping of eye candy. But we can’t do it without you, our loyal readers! We are now accepting nominations for our 2011 Hunks...
