WOW gives locals a chance to test the waters
The second annual Weekend on the Water festival was held Sept. 6 and 7 at Riverfront Park and featured all sorts of different aqua-themed activities. And there was a giant inflatable rubber duck!
WOW gives locals a chance to test the waters
The second annual Weekend on the Water festival was held Sept. 6 and 7 at Riverfront Park and featured all sorts of different aqua-themed activities. And there was a giant inflatable rubber duck!
Everyone walks for the animals with the SPCA – including the animals
The Pope Memorial SPCA held its annual Walk for the Animals on Sunday at Northeast Delta Dental, with two different walking courses and a host of vendors and other entertainment. We’d make a dog pun here, but we’d rather just tell you how much of a treat it was to be there.The Pope Memorial SPCA held its annual Walk for the Animals on Sunday at Northeast Delta Dental, with two different walking courses and a host of vendors and other...
Everyone walks for the animals with the SPCA – including the animals
The Pope Memorial SPCA held its annual Walk for the Animals on Sunday at Northeast Delta Dental, with two different walking courses and a host of vendors and other entertainment. We’d make a dog pun here, but we’d rather just tell you how much of a treat it was to be there.
Concord’s Rachel Vogelzang can’t wait to share her first CD with you
You can keep sharing sepia-toned photos of your tacos with hundreds of your closest Facebook followers if you want to. But Concord musician Rachel Vogelzang is waiting for the moment she gets to share the culmination of years of hard work. Vogelzang’s first studio CD, Blocks, is set for a Nov. 1 release, with a Sept. 30 digital prelease to people who have pledged through her PledgeMusic campaign (more on that later). How long it has...
Get Your Rear In Gear is the perfect excuse to write ‘inflatable colon’
Some things are just bound to catch the Insider’s attention. Like the words “inflatable colon.” We can’t really imagine a scenario in which that wouldn’t immediately perk our ears up, but it’s especially effective when connected to a charitable event built on collaboration with tons of Concord people and organizations. That’s how the first Get Your Rear in Gear 5K Run/Walk, put on by the New Hampshire Public Health Association, wound...
It's on, Hooksett – Tue, 16 Sep 2014
September is Library Card Sign Up Month, which is much more fun with a little friendly rivarly. That’s why the Concord Public Library is challenging its Hooksett brethren to see who can generate the most sign-ups before the month is out. (Hooksett purges its cards that haven’t been used for three years and Concord doesn’t, so anyone in Concord with a card that hasn’t been used in three years will count as a new sign-up.) The above...
Instagram photo of the week – Tue, 16 Sep 2014
In this week’s episode of Behind the Scenes at the Concord Insider, we show you the place where all letters to the editor wind up. We’re kidding: PLEASE SEND US LETTERS. Actually, we can thank Instagram user @miamarsh73 for this super cool basement shot.
This week in Concord history
Sept. 16, 2003: The Bishop Brady girls’ soccer team earns its first victory of the season with a 3-1 decision against Kearsarge.September 16, 1820: John George of Concord has raised a radish weighing 3 pounds ½ ounce and measuring 13¾ inches in diameter.Sept. 16, 1975: Democrat John Durkin beats Republican Louis Wyman in a special election for a U.S. Senate seat. The seat has been in dispute since the November 1974 election. Wyman’s...
Walking a mile in the governor’s shoes?
Not only is New Hampshire’s First Gentleman, Tom Hassan, suiting up for the Walk A Mile In Her Shoes event, but so are at least 100 others – and that number will expand by Oct. 1 when the walk kicks off. If that is not enough, some great local entrepreneurs challenge you to step in and step out with these generous motivators. Three Main Street shoe stores and a hair salon want you to Walk A Mile In Her Shoes. We all need to band...
We checked out a different kind of fall fling at Beaver Meadow
The sport of FlingGolf came to Beaver Meadow Golf Course for a demonstration Sunday morning. The game, in which players fling a golf ball using a stick similar in design to a lacrosse stick, is played on traditional golf courses. Alex Van Alen conceived the sport in Massachusetts and is showcasing it across the country. Spoiler alert: we dug it! Stay tuned next week for a first-hand account of our first official round.
We discovered this information about the Discover Downtown debut
Intown Concord, in partnership the Merchants Roundtable, will host the first Discover Downtown event Sept. 19. Discover Downtown is a new event series and campaign designed to bring people to the heart of Concord for shopping, dining, enjoying, and building community. During Discover Downtown, more than 45 downtown stores and businesses will extend their hours until 8 p.m. or later, and will feature special promotions, discounts,...
Classic Concord photo – Tue, 16 Sep 2014
Pop quiz, everyone: This is a picture of A) the foyer in Tom Aspell’s City Manager lair; B) The hallowed house of Concord marble busts or C) the main entrance to the New Hampshire Historical Society Building. Trick question: it’s all of the above! Thanks to reader Earl Burroughs for the photo.
City briefly
Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell spends hours researching and building a costume that will allow him to become the world’s first flying city manager. Only after he climbs to the roof of the State House does he realize he’s built a gorilla suit by mistake. Dejected, he heads to the forest to live with his fellow primates, stamping out a city memo with his oversized footprints.Moving right alongMain St. preps startingThis week, those...
The Insider shares in the Day of Caring
Granite United Way held its annual day of activism and drew a record number of volunteers from businesses in and around Concord – more than 450 on 64 projects in the county – and we were there to chase them around the city.
The Insider shares in the Day of Caring
Granite United Way held its annual day of activism and drew a record number of volunteers from businesses in and around Concord – more than 450 on 64 projects in the county – and we were there to chase them around the city
Concord Public Library book of the week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.Delicious! A NovelRuth Reichl2014, 380 pagesFictionRuth Reichl, former restaurant critic and author, turns to fiction in her novel Delicious!Young Billie lands a job at a famous food magazine in New York City, where she meets a cast of interesting co-workers. There’s a secret about the mansion where they work (in the library no less!), lots of...
Concord Hospital receives urgent care recognition
Concord Hospital Walk-In Urgent Care has been selected by the readers of Parenting New Hampshire as a “Family Favorite” award recipient in 2014 Greater Concord Urgent/Immediate Care Center category. The Family Favorite awards, now in its fourth year, is an award program that recognizes family-friendly businesses, services and places in almost 60 categories – as chosen by the readers of Parenting New Hampshire magazine. “The Family...
Back Roads And Byways comes to McGowan
McGowan Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Back Roads And Byways: New Landscapes, featuring the oil paintings of Susan Abbott. The show will run from Oct. 7 to Nov. 14, with a reception on Oct. 10 from 5 to 7 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. Susan Abbott’s paintings in this, her first solo exhibit at McGowan Fine Art, present a fresh, moving, and colorful vision of the New England landscape. Abbott...
Friends Program receives support from Franklin Savings Bank
The Friends Program received a check for $2,500 from Franklin Savings bank last week. “Today’s youth are tomorrow’s leaders,” said Franklin Savings Bank President and CEO Jeff Savage. Nancy Watson of Boscawen, branch supervisor of Franklin Savings Bank, presented Friends Program Executive Director Jerry Madden with the check.
CATCH ads pair of new members to board
CATCH is pleased to announce the addition of two new members to its Board of Directors. Ken Koornneef, president of Nobis Engineering, will join the board at its meeting this month. Koornneef has been a long-time volunteer with CATCH and has served as President of Nobis Engineering since 2009. Liza Poinier of Concord will join the CATCH board as an ex-officio member through the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce’s Board Leader...
Poetry Society reading at Gibson’s and open mic
The Poetry Society of N.H. is very pleased to sponsor an outstanding double feature at Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., on Sept. 17. The features are Mark DeCarteret and S Stephanie, and the reading starts at 7 p.m. Mark and S will read first, followed by an open mic afterwards. Everyone is invited. Newcomers are encouraged. We highly recommend the parking garage right behind Red River Theatres. Parking is free after 5 p.m. For...
Grace Episcopal to host free monthly supper
Grace Episcopal Church across from Merrill Park at 30 Eastman St. will host its monthly community supper Sept. 19 from 5 to 6 p.m. Our September supper features spaghetti and meatballs, tossed salad, garlic bread and dessert. So come, bring your family and friends and take the night off from cooking. There is no charge but donations are welcomed and support our Take-A-Tote Ministry which helps to feed Concord’s hungry school children....
