Dorothy Hall has one sweet gig
Name: Dorothy HallTitle: Owner, New England CupcakeryHow long have you been making cupcakes?Forever. Since I was maybe 9, when I used to go to my nana's house.When did you open the store in Concord?At the end of September. And the response from the community has been absolutely awesome.Have you run a bakery before?I've never run a bakery before, but I worked in one years ago. But I did contracts for a software company in...
Embracing a world of 'Holiday Traditions'
I was thrilled to read the section in The Concord Insider on Holiday Traditions. What a nice thing to learn about other parts of the world and how they celebrate the holiday season.We have new additions to our community every day and they will add to the already existing colors in our neighborhoods. Our children and grandchildren play with and attend school with the children in these new families.Me, I went to school with almost all...
Hilary Thomson and the perpetual war on beaver dams
“This will be the 27th time for me to break up this beaver dam so far this year!” declared Hilary Thomson as she used a rake to tear up the dam built by beavers at the outlet of Snow Pond. Her house is on the shore of Snow Pond in East Concord, and she said, “This dam raises the pond's water level just enough to flood my back yard!”Thomson, who taught science at Concord High School for 22 years, is now...
Evening hike
As the January full moon waxes, Five Rivers Conservation Trust will be hosting an evening hike (or snowshoe) through Winant Park in Concord. The event is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 6 at 7 p.m. and will meet at the Parker Academy parking lot on the corner of Hopkinton Road and Fisk Road. The special event will explore the trails of the park and climb Concord's highest hill with a view of the city.David Ross, an avid hiker and...
White beard? Generous? It's the Grammarnator!
Being in a generous holiday mood, the Grammarnator will restrict himself to one error this week, letting a couple of others (as in “couple of good books,” Awesomenator, not “couple good books”) slip by. He suspects that Mr. Basham's piece on partridges (what do you call a family of them?) and ruffed grouses (greese?) probably did not originally refer to a bird that “forges on the ground,” but...
Pick of the week
This week's pick is “Wings of Knowledge,” an annual series of cultural events and lectures presented by NHTI. All events are free and open to the public. The series supports and expands upon NHTI's wide variety of academic offerings, and is another element in the college's expanding community college mission. This week's topic: “What is NEARA anyway?”Watch “Wings of Knowledge” on...
Leave it to Black Ice to melt our heart
The 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey Association recently presented two checks from the funds raised from last year's inaugural tournament. The mission of Black Ice is to maintain and expand ice skating opportunities in greater Concord. This year's benefactors were the Concord Parks and Recreation Department and Concord Youth Hockey.The city received a check for $10,000. The funds are directed to complete and restore an area for...
Collectors put their stamp on a classic hobby
Dennis Mosbeck needed all of 15 words to tidily describe the joy of collecting stamps as a hobby.”The nice thing about stamp collecting is you can do whatever the devil you want,” Mosbeck said.It's around that simple premise that the Merrimack County Stamp Collectors group was created in May 2004, providing local philatelists an outlet to share their pastime without “any structure whatsoever,” according to...
City Briefly
Each week, people gather on City Manager Tom Aspell's lawn to marvel at the giant snowman. The crowd grows and grows until the entire city of Concord is outside Tom's house, gaping at the snowman. Then, Tom himself bursts out of the snowman and carols a city memo with perfect pitch. This week was no exception.toss that treeAt three locationsChristmas trees are not picked up by the trash service, Aspell writes. Residents of...
This Week in Concord History
Dec. 27, 1975: The New York Times reports that more than half the cells at the state prison in Concord are damaged beyond use by inmates angered over the refusal of officials to release a dozen prisoners from solitary confinement for their Christmas meal. Three people are injured in the four-hour disturbance and about 100 inmates are transferred to new locations.Dec. 27, 1985: At the Ramada Inn on Main Street in Concord, Christa...
Concord's hottest hunkettes
You nominated 'em, we've got 'em. It's Concord's hottest hunkettes!
