Fundraising sought for John Winant statue
Fundraising has begun for a statue and plaza to memorialize John Gilbert Winant, whose many roles included governor of New Hampshire and ambassador to England during World War II. The memorial, a bronze statue of Winant with his coat over his arm and hat in hand, inviting passersby to sit on a park bench and spend some time with him, will be located in front of the New Hampshire State Library at 20 Park St. Prior to serving as N.H....
O’Neil named director of resource development
Granite United Way is pleased to announce that Rachel O’Neil has joined the organization as Director of Resource Development. She will focus her efforts on strengthening the Merrimack County region of Granite United Way. She will lead Granite United Way’s fundraising efforts in Merrimack County. Last year the Merrimack County campaign raised a record breaking $2.2 million. O’Neil will also play a key role in the administering the New...
Express Admissions Day at NHTI Aug. 12
On Wednesday, Aug. 12, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in Sweeney Hall, NHTI will offer its annual midsummer Express Admissions Day. On this day, prospective students will have the opportunity to complete their entire admissions process in a single day. The college’s normal $20 application fee will also be waived. Students will start by filling out an application, and then meet with an admissions counselor and/or academic advisor to develop a...
Building Wells in Africa presentation in Bow
On Saturday, Aug. 8, there will be a presentation entitled, Building Wells in Africa, with Paul Adams at Bow Mills UMC, 505 South St., Bow. Adams resigned as a Department Director at the University of Illinois in order to do social work, primarily in Africa. He is sponsored by the Marian Medical Mission, a mission project of the Marian (Illinois) United Methodist Church. This mission has built over 10,000 pure water wells, each for a...
Discover Downtown sidewalk sale Aug. 8
Summer vacation may be coming to a close, but not summer fun! On Saturday, Aug. 8, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., join family, friends and fellow shoppers in downtown Concord, and enjoy more than a mile of savings with the Discover Downtown Happy Birthday Sidewalk Sale. The downtown-wide sidewalk sale will help kick off Concord’s 250th birthday celebration week. Shoppers will find a fun and festive shopping day throughout downtown Concord,...
Whit Symmes Trio to play music on the lawn
Live Music on the Lawn series at the Concord Public Library closes out it’s season Aug. 11 with a lively evening of jazz with the Whit Symmes Trio. This year we’re closing Prince Street and bringing local food vendors for a festive block party atmosphere! Bring the whole family for free entertainment, affordable and tasty treats and all the library has to offer, too. Bring your own chair or blanket!
Concord Public Library Book of the Week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net. We’re also on Tumblr (reading-rumblr.tumblr.com and concordteens.tumblr.com), Facebook (facebook.com/ConcordPublicLibrary) and Instagram.Still Life: A Three Pines MysteryDirector, Peter Moss2014, 88-minute DVDFictionAre you a fan of Canadian author Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Armand Gamache? Did you know that the first Three Pines mystery, Still...
There’s a Janet Ulbrich original bib chilling over in Cambridge now
There’s a little piece of Concord that could be collecting royal drool at this very moment, thanks to Janet Ulbrich. The resourceful Ulbrich crafted a bib for Princesse Charlotte and mailed it all the way to the Royal Family in England this spring, and she recently received an official response – a delightful thank you. This isn’t Ulbrich’s first royal bib rodeo, though. And she’s learned from past missteps. She sent a similar bib...
Watch people throw dodgeballs at each other at National Night Out
We’ve been trying to think of something better than watching members of the Concord police and fire departments chuck dodgeballs at each other. So far the only thing we’ve come up with is when you add members of local businesses and organizations to the mix, all while enjoying some affordable eats. And thousands of others doing the exact same thing. But the annual Badge Ball Tournament is just one of the great things you can expect to...
Some summery homemade jam can help make winter more bearable
A few members of the local Philanthropic Educational Organization had themselves a great morning at Carter Hill Orchard’s blueberry field last week. As part of a PEO fundraiser, all the berries will be used for delicious jams the ladies will make to help raise money for their organization. We may or may not have sampled said jam, and it may or may not be ridiculously delicious (hint: we did, it is). The PEO is a philanthropic...
If you think we take good pics, you should check out Liz Frantz’s
Take a look at just about any photo in the Insider and it usually looks pretty good. And more often than not the photos we previously mentioned have our names underneath them identifying that we, in fact, can take a photo.But we aren’t exactly ready to classify ourselves as photographers. We consider ourselves more as people who take pictures that appear in a newspaper. Although, we have to say, we do a pretty good job at it.But...
This Week In Concord History
July 28, 2003: A group of residents who have spent the last decade fighting a planned connector road between Concord’s Pleasant and Clinton streets file a lawsuit in Merrimack County Superior Court in an effort to stop the project for good. The lawsuit asks the court to revoke a wetlands permit that gives the city permission to build the Langley Parkway through about 3.5 acres of wetlands near White Farm.July 28, 2002: John Frisbee,...
Heidi Pauer is ready to turn up the volume on creative learning
We have to imagine that once summer vacation hits, most teachers are ready for a break. Let’s just say, for example, like for the next two and a half months. The students sure are ready to get away from tests and essays, books and homework. But even after almost two decades of teaching at Bow High School (she’s been there since it opened in 1997) and likely with the ability to prepare for the following school year with her eyes...
He lost his notes, but not his sharp grammar skillz
The Grammarnator is unable to find his recent notes on possessive apostrophe use, but since this is the topic that most seems to need revisiting, he is sure that other examples will soon present themselves to his continually searching eye. In the meantime, here’s something from the Monitor of July 23.Officials in Haverhill have not yet released the name of police officers involved in a shooting more than two weeks ago. A Haverhill...
City Briefly
Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell buys 20 wallet-sized school photos of the city memo so he can hand them out to his family. Look how cute it is all dressed up with a fresh haircut and presented for you here.Hangin’ with the fuzzMeet the po-liceThe Concord Police Department will host its third “Coffee with a Cop” event July 31 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at McDonald’s at 111 Fisherville Road, Aspell writes. Proposed alternative name:...
Entries sought for Audubon photo contest
The Massabesic Audubon Center is pleased to announce its 9th annual Wild New Hampshire Photo Contest and Auction. Enter your photos to win in any or all of the three categories: wildlife, wild plants and land/waterscapes. Up to five photos can be submitted by amateur photographers only. Youth (under 18) and adults (over 18) will be judged separately. All winning photos will be donated to the silent auction that will benefit the...
Conservation grant applications due Sept. 25
The New Hampshire State Conservation Committee (SCC) has announced that the 2016 Conservation “Moose Plate” Grant applications are available. Applications are due by Sept. 25. Eligible applicants include municipalities, County Conservation Districts, qualified nonprofit organizations engaged in conservation programs, public and private schools (K-12), County Cooperative Extension natural resource programs and scout groups....
NAMI N.H. kickoff lunch scheduled for Aug. 6
Gov. Maggie Hassan is scheduled to join volunteers, advocates, team captains, family members and inpiduals living with mental illness at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) N.H. Kick Off Lunch for the 13th Annual NAMIWalks N.H. Community members are invited to join Gov. Hassan at the Kick Off Lunch on Thursday, Aug. 6 at Red River Theatres, 11 S. Main St., Concord. “The Walk Kick Off Lunch is a great blend of fun, food and...
Annual Pork Fest Aug. 16 at Grace Episcopal
On Sunday, Aug. 16, from noon to 2:30 p.m., bring your family and friends to this year’s sixth annual East Concord Pork Festival at Grace Episcopal Church/Merrill Park in East Concord. Enjoy a homemade meal of roast pork, hamburgers, hot dogs, jambalaya, baked beans, potato salad, cole slaw, brownies and ice cream. Lots of family fun including touch-a-truck, a bounce house and live music by Balladeer Jim Barnes, plus a variety of...
Green Street Community Center got a facelift
Concord General Services would like to thank everyone who attended the Green Street Community Center Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Monday, July 13. General Services Director Chip Chesley was the Master of Ceremonies and summarized all of the completed work during the recent renovations facilitated and accomplished by Concord General Services’ Public Properties Division. Over $600,000 worth of renovations were completed at the Green...
Bill Whitman is in the business of taking interesting photos
Bill Whitman is one of those people who just has an eye for what makes an interesting photograph. And it’s a good thing because the Concord resident is a photographer after all. He’s shown at places like Kimball-Jenkins before and if you hurry, you can still catch some of his stuff at the Works through the end of the month. But if you can’t find time out of your busy schedule, here’s a selection of Whitman’s work to enjoy, some of...
Concord Public Library Book of the Week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net. We’re also on Tumblr (reading-rumblr.tumblr.com andconcordteens.tumblr.com), Facebook facebook.com/ConcordPublicLibrary), and Instagram.The Red NotebookAntoine Laurain2015, 159 pagesFictionAs this book opens, we see Laure Valadier being mugged. A few pages later, Laurent Latellier, owner of Le Cahier Rouge (The Red Notebook) bookstore, notices a...
Meet Occasional Piracy, the band that was born at Parker Academy
Ron Noyes saw something special in a small group of students in his Parker Academy music classes last year.“They just had the most focus on music and the greatest desire to do something,” Noyes said of the eight students he picked out of the school’s ensemble. He had them stay after school a couple days a week to practice and they were soon playing open mic nights and getting their own gigs.The group is made up of just five students:...
Nylora Bruleigh is all about bellies and babies
Spending time with babies and pregnant women is just what Nylora Bruleigh does most days. No, she’s not a baby doctor or a maternity nurse and doesn’t even have a medical background. Instead, Bruleigh is just in the business of photographing the little bundles of joy, either already in the world or still in mom’s belly. About 12 years ago, pregnant with her second child and an aspiring photographer in her free time, Bruleigh got a...
We found a way have a little summer fun and still enjoy the AC
It’s warm, sunny and colorful outside these days (in case you hadn’t left your house in a while) and McGowan Fine Art wanted to bring the excitement inside with an exhibit dedicated to Summer Fun. The show runs through Aug. 8 and gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Piccola Opera is ready to turn all of you into pretty big fans
If you don’t have plans this weekend, Jane Cormier would like to see you at the Audi. It could be Friday night or Saturday night, it doesn’t matter to her, as long as you etch out a couple hours to sit in one of the 900-plus seats. ‘Cause as Cormier put it, ‘if they sit in the seats, we’ve got them.’ Cormier, the artistic director and founder of Piccola Opera, has been preparing a long time for these two nights and wants everyone to...
Quality Cash Market’s Tony Heath has been cutting meat for 50 years
We’re willing to bet Tony Heath has been cutting meat longer than you’ve been doing just about anything. After all, he’s been at it for 50 years now (not consecutively, of course. He does go home to sleep sometimes.) Heath is the owner of Quality Cash Market on Eastman Street, and the market is celebrating its annual Customer Appreciation Day tomorrow (July 22). What Heath doesn’t know – unless he’s reading this right now – is that...
We asked Fish and Game for the lowdown on becoming an angler
It’s safe to say that if you’re looking to learn how to fish, you don’t want to ask us. We have almost no experience outside of a couple unsuccessful attempts with friends as young lads and one deep sea excursion that resulted in a new T-shirt for the worst fisherman. But luckily we aren’t about to supply you with a bunch of mumbo jumbo that makes us sound like we know what we’re talking about, that in reality would probably result in...
This Week In Concord History
July 21, 2003: Wayne and Ruth Ross, the owners of Rossview Farm in Concord, have struck a deal with the Trust for Public Land to conserve their 510 acres of forest, wetland and hill on District Five Road, the Monitor reports. Provided they can secure the funding, the Trust for Public Land can buy the land for $2.4 million.July 21, 1873: Meeting at city hall, the Congregationalist society of Concord votes to rebuild its church at North...
Ask for the Grammarnator and ye shall receive advice
The Grammarnator is, as a section of A Tale of Two Cities puts it, “recalled to life” by a letter to the Insider from reader Mark: “I like the Grammarnator column and would like you to ask him a question: July 4th issue of Concord Monitor front page contains a title, “Bills’ fates hang on Hassan” . . . Is this proper grammar? Strikes me as poorly worded. Is it really plural and possessive?”A most interesting question, Mark, and I...
