Capital Area Wellness Coalition: Learn 5 steps to a healthier lifestyle with Dr. Matt Longjohn May 20
The Concord Family YMCA extends a community-wide invitation to hear Dr. Matt Longjohn speak at the Concord City Auditorium on May 20 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The presentation, “5 Steps to a Healthier Lifestyle for You, Your Family and Your Community,” is free and does not require registration, but space is limited. Everyone has heard about our nation’s obesity problem. Most know that kids are at risk and families need to take action to...
Instagram photo of the week – Tue, 14 May 2013
This beauty comes to us from Instagram user @downtownconcord. Let there be light!
Free paper? What a novel idea! – Tue, 14 May 2013
Reader Katy Brown Solsky hooked us up with this picture of a flyer she found hanging on the corner of School and Tahanto Streets. As a free paper ourselves, we are totally down. Just don’t use the Insider to store ABC gum!
State of the art
“New Hampshire As We See It” runs through May 31 at the New Hampshire State Library
State of the art
“New Hampshire As We See It” runs through May 31 at the New Hampshire State Library
PHOTOS: Spring Into Healthy Living
Pictures from the annual downtown street fair
This week in Concord history
May 14, 1846: The New Hampshire Patriot advises Concord that the United States has declared war on Mexico. New Hampshire will enlist a battalion of 389 men, including Concord’s Fire Engine Co. No. 2 and three Patriot printers.May 14, 1864: On the march with the 2nd New Hampshire Cavalry in Louisiana, Lt. George S. Cobbs of Exeter is captured by a rebel force during a skirmish. When his men attack in an effort to rescue him, a...
Anna Moskov dreams of sleeping in a Mongolian yurt – who doesn’t?
Our latest Concord Young Professional of the week is Anna Moskov. Read all about her!How old are you? What town do you live in? Where do you work?I’m 33 years old, I live in Contoocook, and I work for New Hampshire Public Radio.* How did you find out about CYPN and how has it benefitted your business or you personally?I started attending CYPN events in 2010 when I started working at NHPR. I wanted to be part of a group that would...
Inventors’ Club hits the Big Apple hard
A few months ago, we introduced you to some of the enterprising members of the inventors’ club, an after-school program at Rundlett Middle School funded by a 21st Century Community Learning Center grant. As it turns out, we weren’t the only ones who wanted to pick the students’ brains – Quirky, a company the group has submitted several potential invention ideas to, invited the group to their headquarters in New York City, and 10...
March For Meals takes place on May 18
A group of seniors at Horseshoe Pond Place will be using their feet for the benefit of some wheels May 18 when they participate in the March For Meals Walkathon, a fundraising walk for the Meals on Wheels program. In other news, the previous sentence established a new world record for combined uses of the words “wheels” and “meals.” Polly Fife, director of senior services at the Horseshoe Pond Place Senior Resource Center, has built a...
Kayleigh Bureau loves robins, spinning
Name: Kayleigh BureauAge: 4Kayleigh participates in Tot Tennis, Concord Recreation Department’s program for tennis players ages 3-5 For more information about Tennis For Tots, visit concordnh.gov or call 225-8690.Who is your favorite tennis player?It’s almost my birthday, and I’m going to turn 5!What do you like most about playing tennis?Going on the baseline.If you could be doing anything else besides playing tennis right now, what...
Missed Connections: Seeking a woman with “twice the beauty of 100 Lithuanians”
We at the Insider like to scour Craigslist’s Missed Connections section to see if anyone in Concord wants to know what love is and wants us to show them is finding true love online. Read on for the best entries, presented, as always, uneditied (argh, we meant unedited, but we keep our promises!).Trying to Work Up Some Courage – m4w – 20 (Concord)Three times! That’s how many times I’ve seen you now! The first two were at my work, the...
City Briefly
Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell laces up his running shoes, puts on his bib and runs full-speed to the starting line. When he gets there, he’s so exhausted that he doesn’t have enough energy to start the race! We hand him a little cup of water, which gives him the strength to gasp out the city memo before collasping in a heap.CHIPS comes to ConcordCops on bikes are backThe Concord Police Department recently took delivery of a new...
Book of the Week: The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive ThinkingOliver Burkeman2012, 236 pagesNonfiction Oliver Burkeman’s The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking is a handbook for what the English Romantic poet John Keats called “negative capability,” or living with “uncertainties, mysteries, (and) doubts” without feeling miserable. Burkeman neatly explains why positive psychology often backfires and...
Beryl McCormack’s artistic career was ‘20 years in the making’
The first creative works of art Beryl McCormack finished didn’t hang from walls so much as cover them. Illegally.Today, her paintings are a focal point of NHTI’s annual student capstone exhibit.In between was a winding, 20-year journey of self-discovery that included an escape from a dangerous drug lifestyle, the blossoming of a family that includes a devoted husband and five children and, beginning last summer, the rebirth of a...
Bulletin Board: Concord in N.H. Restaurant Week
The New Hampshire Lodging and Restaurant Association presents the second annual New Hampshire Restaurant Week, from May 17 to 24. Restaurants will serve three-course prix fixe menus to foodies looking for sweet dining deals and tantalizing discoveries as they try something new at restaurants they’ve never dined at before. The eight-day event features more than 150 properties across the state, and restaurants presenting lunch and/or...
Bulletin Board: Hassan among speakers
Gov. Maggie Hassan will join nearly a dozen state agency leaders as speakers at Culture OneStop, a new conference designed specifically for board members and senior staff at New Hampshire’s cultural nonprofits, as well as for library trustees. Culture OneStop will feature hour-long panels addressing issues related to charitable trusts, employment security and labor, insurance, and resources and economic development. Commissioners from...
Golf classic this summer
When Marshall Crane came back to visit Bishop Brady last year, he was saddened by what he witnessed. When he was in high school, there was so much school spirit and pride emanating from the walls; but today, the enthusiasm is lacking. So he decided to invoke the spirit of beloved coach Frank Monahan to find a way to infuse that enthusiasm and pride into the students at Bishop Brady and all the youth in greater Concord. Fast forward a...
Limited edition images
White Mountain Photography will be showing a limited edition series of images on canvas at the Jill C. Wilson Gallery, Kimball Jenkins Estate, through the month of June. An artist’s reception will be held June 13 at 5 p.m.For the very first time, owner Dana Clemons is releasing a limited edition canvas series. He will be offering a maximum of 200 canvas productions of select images. These images are presently open editions for...
Race moving to Concord
Hundreds of girls will descend upon NHTI on June 9 for the sixth annual Girls on the Run Spring 5K Celebration. The run starts at 10:30 a.m. The move to Concord comes in response to rapid growth of the Girls on the Run program, with teams now reaching all areas of the state. In New Hampshire, the number of girls participating in the spring program has skyrocketed by 63 percent from last year. In 2012, 440 girls participated in the...
