Popular SNOB events Twisted Tales and filmmaker meet-up are back
Two of the more popular parts of the SNOB Film Festival return this year, with Friday Night Twisted Tales and the filmmaker meet-up hosted by the New Hampshire Film and TV Office. Twisted Tales will be Friday night at 10, with the filmmaker meet-up slated for Saturday at 10:30 a.m.For a schedule of shorts to be shown during the Twisted Tales event, turn to the festival’s complete schedule on page 20.Friday Night Twisted TalesThere are...
The League has some new gifts, but you can’t take them home
The League of N.H. Craftsmen’s exhibit, “Gifts From Our Hands: What We Do Best,” is on display between now and Dec. 19. So you should probably go check it out.
This Week In Concord History
Nov. 4, 2003: After a four-year hiatus from Concord’s city hall, Allenstown Police Chief and former councilor Jim McGonigle wins a seat with 1,788 votes citywide, the highest of the three candidates running for councilor-at-large.Nov. 4, 2002: Three dozen South Enders turn out to meet with city councilors about a few neighborhood hot topics: the Northwest Bypass, the Richmond Co. shopping center and the Interstate 93 expansion.Nov. 4,...
City Briefly
Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell picks his own corn so he can make the best popcorn ever for movie night. And the aerial view of the cornfield spells out a city memo!Turn over a new leafThen put it at the curbThe city’s annual leaf pick-up program began Nov. 3 and will run through Dec. 12, weather permitting, Aspell writes. You may now pick up piles of leaves to dump in your yard at City Hall.Kidding! It works the other way....
Homeschool series at Discovery Center
The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center kicked off its 2014 Homeschool Series on the Solar System on Oct. 9 with a workshop on the sun. Subsequent workshops will be held on the second Thursday of each month, from 1:30 to 3 p.m., through June 2015, and will move out from the sun to the farthest reaches of our solar system, covering planets, moons, asteroids, comets, the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud. Cost is $15 per student, $10 for...
Wings of Knowledge returns on Nov. 18
On Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. in the Library Living Room, NHTI will present the next in its series of free public Wings of Knowledge lectures for the 2014-15 season: “Nepal Chronicles,” with travel writer Dan Szczesny. Szczesny is the associate publisher of The Hippo, New Hampshire’s largest weekly newspaper, based in Manchester. An avid New England hiker and member of the AMC’s 4,000-footer club, he was married atop Mt. Lafayette....
Junior Service League red carpet gala Nov. 15
The Junior Service League of Concord (JSL), a non-profit volunteer organization whose mission is to help women and children in crisis in the greater Concord community, has chosen Child and Family Services (CFS), a private non-profit organization, as its primary partner in fundraising and giving efforts for 2014-15. Each year, the JSL raises and donates thousands of dollars for local organizations and schools that share its mission....
Libraries to offer junior maker space kits
The N.H. State Library, working with the Association for Library Service to Children and Lego Systems, Inc., is making Junior Maker Space toolkits available to public libraries throughout New Hampshire. Designed specifically to create hands-on activities for public library patrons aged 4-6, each toolkit includes more than 10,000 Lego pieces, donated by Lego Systems, and an activity guide librarians can use to design activities that...
Information night those who want to be a teacher
On Monday, Nov. 17, NHTI will hold an information night for people interested its Teacher Education Conversion Programs (TECP). The TECP programs provide a path for persons with a bachelor’s or master’s degree to become quickly certified to teach in mathematics, science, special education and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages). The information night will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in NHTI’s Library Living Room. Find...
Mayor’s prayer breakfast slated for Nov. 21
The Greater Concord Area Task Force Against Racism and Intolerance invites you to join them for the 18th Annual Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast on Friday, Nov. 21, from 7:15 to 9 a.m. at the Grappone Conference Center. This year’s theme is “Being a Good Samaritan” and will feature guest speaker Juliana Eades, Executive Director of the NH Community Loan Fund and NH Business Review’s 2013 Outstanding Woman in Business. What is a “Good...
Legal breakfast series at Orr & Reno on Nov. 18
The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that the next seminar in the 2014 Legal Breakfast Series will be held Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 8 to 9 a.m. at the offices of Orr & Reno at 45 S. Main St. on the fourth floor. The seminar, “Maintaining Attorney-Client Privilege in the Digital Age,” will be presented by William Chapman, Esq. Coffee and a light breakfast will be served. This event is free but...
Men’s grief discussion groups Nov. 13 and 20
Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association is offering Men’s Grief Discussion Groups on Thursday, Nov. 13 and Thursday, Nov. 20, from 9 to 10 a.m. at Wesley United Methodist Church, 79 Clinton St. The ongoing drop-in grief discussion groups are designed to help men who are adjusting after the loss of a spouse or significant other. Please note new location. There is no registration or fee to attend. For additional information, please...
NHTI Friday film series to continue on Nov. 14
The NHTI Film Society’s Friday night film series continues Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. in the Sweeney Hall Auditorium with the 1934 classic, The Return of Bulldog Drummond, starring Ralph Richardson and Ann Todd.Richardson – playing retired British office Capt. Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond – is the leader of the “Black Clan,” a secret organization made up of former soldiers under Capt. Drummond’s command during the Great War who are on a mission to...
Concord Public Library Book of the week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net or visit us on Tumblr at reading-rumblr.tumblr.com and Facebook at facebook.com/ConcordPublicLibrary.A Fighting ChanceElizabeth Warren2014, 9 CDs, 660 minutesNonfictionElizabeth Warren is the senior senator for the state of Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. In this book, she tells the story of her life from childhood to her time in...
Jeff Reagan wants you to know more about Black Ice hockey
As a hockey enthusiast, Jeff Reagan knows a thing or two about the game.Growing up in Concord, Reagan would lace up his skates and hit up the local ponds for a game of pickup any chance he got. In fact, even though he went away for college and now lives in the big city of New York, Reagan still enjoys a good skate on the White Park pond. That is, when there’s ice on it, of course.So when his dad, John, kept pushing for him to do...
CHS makes the ALS Association Connolly tougher and $20K stronger
You know Concord High School students enjoyed themselves Tuesday morning, because they got out of class and got to stand outside for 20 minutes. But they also got to celebrate the official fruits of their labor in raising money for the ALS Association – $20,000 worth of fruits (imagine if they’d donated it in apples instead of a giant check). The school sold Connolly Tough T-shirts ahead of a giant homecoming walk in honor of...
This Week In Concord History
Oct. 28, 2003: About 700 people attend the unveiling of the new and improved Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord. The theater sports a three-story glass atrium, a new paint job and a refurbished conference room.Oct. 28, 1906: The New York World reports that Mary Baker Eddy of Concord is mentally and physically unfit to lead the 800,000-member Christian Science church, which she founded. Eddy is 85 years old. “Mrs. Eddy looked more...
We hit Instagram to let NHTI students give us a look at campus life
We figured there was no better way to get a glimpse of life at NHTI than through the students’ eyes, and since it’s not yet scientifically feasible to look directly through them, we hit up Instagram to find the best shots of campus happenings.
Technically speaking, NHTI is a pretty sweet school
There are four main things NHTI wants to provide its students – accessibility, affordability, transferability and career opportunities. Since it’s just a two-year institution, there are a lot of different paths students can take after getting their degrees. And the good people at Concord’s Community College want to make sure every path is as open as new president Susan Dunton’s door is.After taking over this summer, Dunton has been...
These NHTI students are taking gaming to the next level
Things in the gaming world have come a long way since the days of Pitfall and Pac-Man. Back in the day, video games were simple. The controller had a directional pad with a few simple buttons. The characters moved across the screen, from left to right and right to left if you were lucky, with some even having the ability to jump – we’re talking cutting edge stuff here, people. Today’s realistic adventures like Halo, Call of Duty and...
The robots are taking over, or at least in this NHTI program
Like that bodybuilder in the Planet Fitness commercial, the robots at NHTI pick things up and put them down.But, as you’ll soon learn, there’s a lot more behind the SCORBOT-ER 9PRO than just bringing a few bulging muscles to the table. That’s because these robots (or any, for that fact) actually don’t need ripped biceps or triceps – mostly since it can only pick up 8 pounds at a time and usually only moves small blue blocks a short...
‘Back roads and By Ways’ will lead you to this McGowan exhibit
McGowan Fine Art is currently home to Susan Abbott’s “Back Roads and By Ways: New Landscapes.” The exhibit runs through Nov. 14 and shows Abbott’s attraction to small towns, dirt roads, village greens, barn yards and back fields. Both mood and meaning in Abbott’s oil work – images of old houses, old farms, old towns and old trucks – have to do with age and time. And if you like what you see here, there’s plenty more on...
The Concord Monitor team totally rocked it at Making Strides
Two weeks ago we introduced you to the Concord Monitor team as it prepared to take part in the annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. And to be honest, we still think your handshake was a little too firm. Ease up a little, chief. But consider yourself lucky, because you can now say you know a group of people that raised a whopping total of $2,327 for the cause. You’ll tell your grandkids about it, probably. You an also tell...
Instagram photo of the week – Tue, 28 Oct 2014
We’re not really sure where Instagram user @phozography found all these clear marbles in different sizes or how he got them to stay on a leaf, but it’s a pretty sweet trick! Maybe if it would ever rain around here he could recreate the shot with actual water. Tag us in your Instagram pics with #concordinsider!
Halloween Howl is its usual downtown trick-or-treating extravaganza
Intown Concord’s annual Halloween Howl turned Main Street into a trick-or-treaters paradise on Friday evening.
He’s back with a grammar grab back of musings for us
Here’s some miscellaneous usage that has appeared of late. ∎ Continuing the tendency to make compounds of words that have always been separated, the reviewer of a Chicago radio station calls And So It Goes, a film with what can at best be called mixed reviews, “a masterclass in acting.” If this trend continues, he will soon be working for a radiostation. ∎ To flip the coin, an advertisement in the Monitor called an area business “your...
Here’s a primer on the Clean Power Plan
I was proud to join nearly 400,000 citizens from all corners of the nation, including a large group of Granite Staters, who recently marched through the streets of New York City to demand that our political leaders respond to this global challenge. The largest demonstration of its kind ever held, the march provides a strong foundation for efforts to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, the nation’s single most significant...
We successfully trick-or-treated for your best Halloween decorations
We sent out the call for the coolest Halloween decorations in Concord, and boy did you guys answer it. Here’s a sampling of the best that we got – with the caveat that some are not from this year (in your defense, we never specified in our request).
Classic Concord photo – Tue, 28 Oct 2014
Apparently Concord has a long and storied history of having major city buildings with sweet golden domey-type things on top. This is the old Court House and City Hall in 1857, and features both the ubiquitous dome and a rather regal looking facade.
City briefly
Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell rearranges his dorm room to take better advantage of the feng shui, meticulously positioning his collection of Beanie Babies into elaborate scenes based on town council meetings. This time the alignment happens to spell out a city memo!On parking, What say you?And why say you that?The city is seeking the public’s input on parking issues affecting the downtown Concord area, Aspell writes. By...
