Adventure shopping
Ocean State Job Lots' slogan is 'adventure shopping.' We headed down to find the most adventurous items in the store.
The Insider on ice – Tue, 08 Jan 2013
Renee and Bob Washburn took the Insider with them on a trip to Finland, which apparently is made entirely of ice. If you take the Insider with you on a trip, send a picture to news@theconcordinsider.com.
Concord snowscape – Tue, 08 Jan 2013
This Instagram photo of the week comes to us from @mcafowler. What a beautiful winter day! If you want your photo to be the Instagram photo of the week, tag us in your shot: @concordinsider.
WNHN brings Concord content to the airwaves – are you listening?
It was less than two years ago that Fred Richards encountered Arnie Arnesen at his front door. Now he’s helping bring her to yours every weekday morning.Before you start peering through the blinds, tune your FM dial to WNHN 94.7, where you’ll find Arnesen and a host of other local personalities taking over the airwaves as a new hyperlocal radio station blends tunes and talk in hopes of grabbing the ear of the greater Concord...
This week in Concord history
Jan. 8, 1895: The Supreme Court and State Library buildings are dedicated in Concord.Jan. 8, 1968: With the impeachment of Mayor J. Herbert Quinn behind it, the newly formed Concord city government takes its place. Seven new members of the city council are sworn in, and the newly hired city manager – John E. Henchey of Presque Isle, Maine – is on the scene.Jan. 9, 1944: Miss Grace Blanchard, Concord’s retired librarian of 40 years,...
The Insider hits the wall
My moderate fear of heights has always lingered just below the surface, not troubling enough to bother me on a daily basis but taunting enough to remind me every once in awhile that I feel much more comfortable on terra firma.One would think in choosing journalism as a profession I wouldn’t have to tackle such a phobia at work.One, apparently, would be wrong.In welcoming Evolution Rock and Fitness to town, we also continued the...
Book of the Week
Scorpio RacesMaggie Stiefvater2011, 409 pagesFictionAre you a book-loving high school student, are you close to one, or do you sometimes feel like one? Do you know about The Flume: New Hampshire Teen Reader’s Choice Award? Every winter, teen readers nominate their favorite fiction and nonfiction titles, published within the last two years.One of the finalists for the 2013 Flume is Maggie Stiefvater’s Scorpio Races, the tale of two...
Searching for a foothold
Hilary Harris is well aware of the fact that her windy path to founding Northern New England’s largest rock climbing gym is littered with boulder-sized metaphors.It was a rocky path, to be sure – getting laid off as an architect at the depthof the recession in 2008 and spending more than three years seeing the project through to fruition. There were cliffs, fiscal and otherwise, as the nearly $3 million structure went from pencil...
Have you seen this Sasquatch?
Reader Deb LaValley sent us these mysterious pictures of a possible Bigfoot sighting in Penacook. First, the creature approaches a backyard game camera before it takes a quick breather to pose for a photo. What a well-behaved sasquatch! (Full disclosure: the Bigfoot may just have been LaValley’s cousin playing a prank on the family). If you spot this or any of the wonders of cryptozoology, send us a pic at...
ConcordTV on the search for a junior host
Attention all Concord area students ages 9 to 14: ConcordTV is seeking a student who is looking for the unique opportunity to be on camera as the station’s first ever Junior TV Host. The youth elected will have his or her hosting debut on ConcordTV’s upcoming Telecast of Concord On Air, which is scheduled to air live on Concord’s three community channels, and streamed online, April 14.Auditions will be held at the ConcordTV studio at...
Merrimack County stamp collectors
The Merrimack County Stamp Collectors’ regular monthly meeting will be held Jan. 15 at 1:30 p.m. at the Bow Mills United Methodist Church, 505 South St., Bow. Anyone interested in stamp collecting is invited to attend. For more info, call Dan Day at 228-1154.
Hockey night in Concord
Join the 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey Association for Hockey Night in Concord, at the Red River Theatres on Jan. 15 for a 7 p.m. showing of Miracle. Tickets are $5. Doors will open at 6 p.m. with a Black Ice Ale reception held before the show from 6 to 7 p.m. Come on down and help support the third Annual Black Ice Pond Hockey Championships in late January by coming out with fellow hockey fans for a showing of Miracle and a cold Black...
New WNHN radio show
The American Friends Service Committee will host an issue-oriented weekly radio show to be broadcast from 5 to 6 p.m. every Monday on WNHN, a low-power FM station broadcasting and web-casting from Concord.“State House Watch” will be the radio companion to the organization’s weekly email newsletter of the same name. The show will be hosted by Arnie Alpert and Maggie Fogarty, the organization’s two staff members. “We expect to let...
Franklin Pierce Goes To Kristiansand, Norway – Tue, 08 Jan 2013
Bob and Julie Cole enjoying a beautiful sunny day in Kristiansand, Norway after enduring gale force winds crossing the North Sea.
