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Get all your last-minute holiday items at the Job Lot
Another excursion to Ocean State Job Lot, another batch of interesting and sometimes odd items. This time, it’s a Christmas special!
We also found some cool stocking stuffers
There are only a few days left before Christmas, and you realize that special someone’s stocking isn’t quite full. That’s okay, because there are lots of fun stuffer ideas all over Concord, and here’s just a sampling of what we saw – for less than $10.
You can still tell Santa what you want
There are only a few days remaining until Christmas, and the panic is probably setting in – you (or your child) still haven’t sat on Santa’s lap and told him what you want. That’s okay, though, because the Jolly One seemingly has plenty of time to spare, despite his deadline fast approaching. If you’ve missed him at places like the Feztival of Trees and the city tree lighting, there’s still one option that’s as reliable as any: the...
Here are some last-minute gift ideas for you
We know it’s getting pretty late to be doing Christmas shopping, but we also know that plenty of us (ourselves included) still have a lot to do. There’s less than a week before the big day, so to help everyone out we searched the city for some good last-minute gift ideas. These things are all available in local stores, and they’re all pretty affordable. Check it out.
Some cool ideas for your holiday bash
We figured you might be in the market for a few new recipes for your holiday get-together.So we sent out an email to our newsroom colleagues and here’s a sampling of what we got back. Enjoy!Buffalo Chicken Dip Ingredients 2 cups of cooked or shredded chicken 8 oz. package of cream cheese, softened ½ cup of your choice of hot sauce ½ cup of either ranch or blue cheese dressing ½ cup of shredded cheese or blue cheese crumbles...
We’ve got some suggestions for your Christmas Eve
We understand this week is going to be a little hectic.With buying last-minute presents, going to holiday parties and getting ready for Sunday (that’s Christmas), you don’t have a lot of time for anything else – like figuring out what your Christmas Eve looks like. Don’t worry though, we’ve got you covered.By the time Saturday rolls around, you should be done with shopping (and if you’re not, we feel for you), and you can finally...
We got the lowdown on winter operations
Snow season is officially here! Concord has received a few snowstorms already and crews have been out plowing. As a reminder of our winter operations, streets and sidewalks are plowed on a priority basis. Two sets of crews rotate as needed through snowstorms for street plowing. Our main crew plows streets from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Our swing shift operates when necessary from 3 to 11 p.m. As needed, our main shift resumes operations at 11...
We only got one adult letter to Santa Claus
A few weeks ago, we put the call out for letters to Santa. But instead of enlisting the likes of little Billy and Suzie, we were looking for all the adults out there to write their own wish lists for jolly ol’ St. Nick. Unfortunately, we didn’t quite get the response we were looking for as we got a grand total of one. We were even hoping for a few that we couldn’t print, but nope just the one. That’s alright though, because of a nice...
The cold weather shelter needs volunteers
The Concord Cold Weather Shelter will be run out of the St. Peter’s Activity Center at 135 N. State St. again this year, and the Friends Program will be managing the day-to-day operations. There is no firm open date, but it looks like no earlier than Jan. 4. And the shelter is in need of volunteers. Without enough volunteers, the shelter will not open. You can sign up for recurring shifts or simply pick and choose the shifts that fit...
Friendly Kitchen to host community dinner
It can be pretty easy in today’s world to lose sight of what Christmas is supposed to be all about. While many of us are concerned about whether to buy the iPad or the Kindle Fire for our sweethearts, others are wondering where they’ll sleep tonight, or whether they’ll eat. For those people, Christmas is often just another day. But in Concord, there’s another option: the Concord Community Holiday Dinner. Every year on Christmas Day,...
There’s an art to making a gingerbread house
Presidential Oaks didn’t get a much of a response from the community about its annual gingerbread house contest (don’t worry, we forgot too), so the retirement facility decided to have an employee contest instead. And as you can see, those employees sure put together some pretty impressive gingerbread creations this year.
Here are some helpful tips for getting rid of all that white stuff
With last week’s first official winter storm and another good one over the weekend, we figured it was the right time to remind you of some simple yet very helpful tips to removing snow after a storm. When it snows this early in the season, it could mean a very long and very white few months. And thanks to the people at the Bow Public Works Department, we’ve got some pointers that should help make all that snow removal a little easier...
The Holiday Food Basket Project is back
The Capital Region Food Program’s holiday food basket project kicked off last Friday, and it’s been an all-hands-on-deck approach ever since to make sure all those boxes (almost 5,000 of them) get packed up and into the hands of the people who really need them. You might remember that Tim volunteered last year, filling boxes for a shift, but this time around we caught up with project chair Maria Manus Painchaud, whose father began the...
Take a different approach to holiday eating
With the holiday season in full swing, for most Americans, that means eating – lots of eating – followed by weight gain and a New Year’s resolution to lose weight.The holidays are a time to enjoy family, friends and food. And, contrary to popular belief, you can have all three without putting on the extra pounds. So why not take a different approach this year during this holiday season and beyond? Simply by curbing carbs with lighter...
Bulletin Board
Riverbend offering parenting class Parenting the Second Time Around, a free eight-week workshop series for grandparents, relatives and others who are parenting again, will be held Tuesdays, beginning Jan. 10. The workshop will be held at Riverbend Children’s Intervention Program, 105 Loudon Road, Bldg. 3, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. For more information or to register, call Kathleen Egan at 228-0547 ext. 4041. Judith Stowell ...
Book of the Week: ‘The Second Mrs. Hockaday’
The Second Mrs. Hockaday Susan Rivers To be released Jan. 10, 2017 272 pages Fiction When Major Gryffth Hockaday is recalled to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband’s farm and infant son. Placidia, a teenager now living far from her family with no experience in running a farm or raising a child, must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two...
This Week in Concord History
Dec. 20, 1979: U.S. Rep. John Anderson, a Republican from Illinois, comes to Concord to officially register for the GOP presidential primary. Ronald Reagan, he tells the Associated Press, “is a long way from being home free in this race.” Dec. 21, 1998: The Concord City Council orders City Manager Duncan Ballantyne to review the process used to rename 31 city streets after a prolonged furor over the issue. Ultimately, they say,...
