Get out there and have your best fall ever
As you’ll soon see over the next bunch of pages, we found all kinds of great happening coming up over the next few months – both in Concord and around the state.Fall is a great time to get outside and enjoy a crisp day with the family, your significant other or a group of friends. Heck, you can even go enjoy fall fun by yourself if you’re so inclined.And since there’s so much to do, we figured why not come up with a list of great...
Fall fun is waiting for you all over the state
Sept. 21 Welcome Week Manchester In honor of Welcoming Week, an annual celebration that invites communities across America to bring immigrants and U.S.-born residents together, The Currier Museum is offering an afternoon of art making, history and fun. Join us for a unique art activity that relates to the collection, take a tour that explores works of art with New Hampshire connections and fuel your body with light snacks and coffee...
Wicked FIT Run, Making Strides, Halloween Howl among Concord’s fall highlights
Since this is the Fall Guide, we’d be remiss if we didn’t give you a good idea of what’s going on around here this fall.While there are many pages full of events taking place all over the state, we didn’t want our home city to feel left out or slighted, so we made a whole separate spread of events happening here in the capital city.Here’s a roundup of some of the city’s main attractions coming this fall: Sept. 22 The Health Club of...
It’s time to start decorating for fall, and we found lots of ideas
Since it’s just about fall now, we figured many of you might be looking to change up the decorations around the house to match the season. We had time last week to poke around the city and see what kinds of fall decor we could find. Here’s a little sampling of what we came up with.
We stopped by Everett Arena to see how they install the ice
We stopped by Everett Arena in March of last year to check out the process of taking down the hockey rink and getting the arena set up for its spring/ summer season, in which the place turns into a convention center where numerous events are held. This year, we decided to check out the opposite process –bringing the ice and boards back.We got an email alerting us that starting Monday (the day before this paper was published), the...
We found this perfect signs-of-fall photo on Instagram
With this being the Fall Guide issue, we figured we’d take to Instagram to see if anybody was posting fallish pictures yet. Since it’s still technically summer for a few more days, we could understand if everybody was still holding onto that dream, but, alas, we did find a perfect photo for this issue. Instagram user @jankytownproductions posted this shot of a barrel of pumpkins at Dimond Hill Farm, and even started the caption with...
Go Try It: Nothing like trying to win some cash at work
There are just somethings that are synonymous with fall. Apple picking – which we’ll get to next week, raking leaves (which we hope to never have to do again) and football.And in case you weren’t aware, our New England Patriots are fresh off their fifth Super Bowl title. Not only does that supply all of us with bragging rights for an entire year, but it also means a new scratch ticket game through the New Hampshire...
Christa McAuliffe School students raised money for hurricane relief with a lemonade stand
Who doesn’t love a good old-fashioned lemonade stand? You’re driving down the street in the summertime and you see a little table on the corner with a sign overhead. Before you’re even close enough to read it, you know what it is, and you start rummaging through your seats for change.If you were out the weekend of Sept. 9-10 in the area near Second Start, which is on Knight Street, you might have seen one of these set up with a...
Author of Ice Bucket Challenge book to speak at Gibson’s
While everyone knows of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the viral craze that swept the nation in summer 2014, too few know the truly inspirational story behind it. Pete Frates was a man at war with his own body. A man whose love for others was unshakable. A man who refused to fight alone, and in so doing mobilized a global army to combat one of the most devastating diseases on earth: ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. When the disease touched...
State Street Combo celebrates 20 years of making music at Hermanos
If you’ve ever eaten dinner upstairs at Hermanos Cocina Mexicana, you’ve likely been treated to pleasant jazz music to complement your margarita and burrito.If you’ve been there on the second Sunday or Monday of any month for the last 20 years, you’ve definitely heard the State Street Combo.The four-piece Concord-based jazz band just celebrated two decades of entertaining the dinner crowds at Hermanos last Sunday and Monday, almost 20...
New city community center is taking shape
If you’ve needed to stop by Concord Parks and Recreation for anything in recent months, you probably noticed that they no longer have a home on the Heights.Instead, what used to be the Dame School and headquarters for Parks and Rec is now a pretty large construction zone.Since June, their offices have a new – albeit temporary – home at White Park, where they were before moving into the Heights Community Center a few years back. But...
The Concord art world is a happening place
Concord is home to lots of great artists and art galleries.So each week, we are putting together a list of current exhibits (and ones that will soon open), so you can have a handy guide to all the art world happenings. That way, when you’re looking to scope out some cool art, you don’t have to look too far.Just think of it as our little gift to you. If you know of an exhibit not listed, let us know. McGowan Terra Incognita: Becky...
Check out a band or performance this week
There’s a lot going on these days in the Concord entertainment world, so we figured why not put together a list of some options to get you through the week? As always, use this as an outline, because there will most certainly be more going on than what we found. The Audi On Friday at 7:30 p.m., the Walker Lecture Fund Concert series features the Freese Brothers Big Band. A local tradition and audience favorite, this “swinging” swing...
Welcoming Week exhibit only up this week
By TIM GOODWINThere’s a pretty cool art show going on just this week, and you should definitely check it out. As part of National Welcoming Week, Welcoming Concord is hosting an exhibit of artwork created by new American artists, along with artwork that celebrates the diversity of the Concord community. But it’s only this week, so don’t wait.The show is at both Creating CommUnity, located a 18 N. Main St., Suite 206, and Red River...
Food Snob: Terrasini Pastry Shop moved into Steeplegate
You know it’s not hard to get us to try a new eating establishment in this neck of the woods.So we recently caught wind that a new pastry shop had moved into the food court at Steeplegate Mall, and if there’s one thing we greatly enjoy, it’s dessert. We later learned that Terrasini Pastry Shop, which specializes in Italian pastries, isn’t a brand new business, but rather one that made its way down from Main Street Laconia to the big...
Capital Area Wellness Coalition: Walk with Mayor Bouley – twice, if you’d like
Since 2009, the Capital Area Wellness Coalition (CAWC) has been working to promote healthy eating and active living in the Capital region. The CAWC is a volunteer coalition consisting of representatives from Concord Hospital, Concord YMCA, City of Concord, Community Action Program, Central N.H. Bike Coalition, UNH Cooperative Extension, Merrimack County Conservation District, Delta Dental, Concord Regional VNA, Granite United Way,...
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Craft fair at GoodLife on Saturday Come on over to GoodLife Programs & Activities’s first ever craft fair on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at its 254 N. State St., Unit L location. This is a fund-raising event featuring a great variety of local New Hampshire crafters, plus a bake sale and a raffle. All items are hand or homemade. The entrance fee is $2 and fees benefit GoodLife; kids are free. For a list of vendors, visit...
Book of the Week: ‘The Chalk Pit’
The Chalk PitElly Griffiths2017, 360 pagesMystery Ruth Galloway is called to look at some bones that have been unearthed in a tunnel under the city of Norwich, England. She is concerned because the bones show signs that they were in a pot, possibly cooked. This could indicate cannibalism. The age of the bones are key as a developer wants to build an underground restaurant in this location. But more importantly, is this the site of a...
This Week in Concord History
Sept. 19, 1989: After nearly two years of shoulder problems, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Tewksbury of Concord wins his first Major League game since 1987. It is also his first Major League shutout, a 5-0 four-hitter over the Montreal Expos. Sept. 19, 2000: A deal has been struck to keep Concord’s Sunnycrest Farms a working apple orchard, the Monitor reports. A grassroots coalition led by the orchard manager has worked out...
