That's like a million in dog years – Tue, 20 Aug 2013
Therapy dog Lily is the star of the Concord Public Library’s Paws For Pages program – and last week was her 14th birthday! Paws for Pages attendees brought her gifts.
Instagram photo of the week – Tue, 20 Aug 2013
This instagram photo comes to us from @photoxbalm. The lens flare has turned the sun into a pretty flower! If you want your Instagram photos to appear on our page, tag us – we’re @concord insider.
Where the Insider goes – Tue, 20 Aug 2013
Ian Gallagher just spent two months in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopa, working with Berhan Yehun, an organization that helps kids from vulnerable living situations stay in school. Here, we see that he’s brought along the most educational reading material possible – the “Concord Insider!” Check out little Tilahun reading the paper with the rest of his schoolyard chums. If you take the “Insider” with you to an exotic location, we want to see the...
City briefly
Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell shows up for classes at Dame School, only to realize that the building no longer houses a school. He sentences himself to detention and passes the time by writing the city memo on the chalkboard over and over again.Winner WinnerFinancial report dinner?The city of Concord was recently awarded a certificate of achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers...
The benefits of home food preservation – can it, readers!
Discovering methods to save food from times of abundance for eating during lean months has proven vital to moving our civilization forward. Today, the benefits that emerged from our ancestors’ efforts at preserving food continue to positively affect our lives – and we’re gaining new benefits, too! For ourselves, our community, and the planet, the modern day benefits of preserving our own food have an impact that extends far beyond our...
City briefly
Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell shows up for classes at Dame School, only to realize that the building no longer houses a school. He sentences himself to detention and passes the time by writing the city memo on the chalkboard over and over again.Winner WinnerFinancial report dinner?The city of Concord was recently awarded a certificate of achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers...
Come together and celebrate the Heights
It’s easy to think of the Heights as a place to find little more than fast food and slow traffic. And you certainly can find those things there. Loudon Road and its circus of commerce is the place to go if you need to turn an old car title into cash and purchase $1 hamburgers, some jewelry and a Slurpee, all while listening to a choral car horn performance.But hidden just beyond the boundaries and bustle of Loudon Road is a network of...
Book of the Week: The Abundance
The AbundanceAmit Majmudar2013, 255 pagesFictionMala and Ronak are grown children of Indian immigrants. They learn that their mother has cancer and return to the family home in the Midwest to be with her. Mala asks her mother to teach her how to cook the traditional Indian dishes. Cooking has always been an expression of their mother’s love for her family. A new chapter in their lives begins, and there is a new closeness between...
This week in Concord history
Aug. 20, 1816: A wandering portrait painter named Samuel F.B. Morse writes to his parents that he has just been to a party in Concord and met a 17-year- old woman who is “very beautiful, amiable and of excellent disposition.” She is Lucretia Walker, a member of one of Concord’s most prominent families. Morse decides to stay in Concord for a while.Aug. 20, 1844: Samuel Jackman, the oldest man in Concord, dies at the age of 96. He was a...
Bulletin Board: VNA offering eight-week grief support group
The Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association is offering Life After Loss, an eight-week adult grief support group on Wednesdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. beginning Sept. 11 at Concord Regional VNA Hospice House, 240 Pleasant St. Trained grief facilitators provide an opportunity for grief support and education to participants who have suffered a recent loss.The group size is limited to 12 participants and sessions are free. For more...
We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it
The Sewalls Falls Bridge is getting old, folks. So old and rickety, in fact, that the city recently posted a 3-ton limit for vehicles crossing the bridge. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of things that would be too heavy to cross the bridge. Keep this in mind as you traverse that treacherous span. ∎ Four Geo Metros ∎ One 2013 Cadillac Escalade ∎ Six dromedaries ∎ Five dromedaries (obese) ∎ 25.5 Matt Bonners ∎ 1,088,640...
The Food Snob: Shaquille O’Neal is back – in soda form!
The Food Snob was as excited as the rest of you when we heard that Shaquille O’Neal was getting into the beverage game. We had high hopes for his foray in the world of drink; after all could the man who once penned the line “I dribble rhymes like basketballums / They call me E.T. (what’s that, Shaq-man?) / Extra tallums” be anything less than infallible? We picked some up at the local 7/11 to find out.Soda Shaq (yes, it’s called Soda...
Bulletin Board: Friends Program involved in letter writing program
The Friends Program is leading a project for the 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance to encourage and engage people of all ages to show their support for our active armed services members, their families and veterans.The agency hopes to send more than 5,000 letters and notes to Operation Appreciation run by Blue Star Families, which will distribute them to active personnel and their families of all branches of the military and to...
Bulletin Board: Audubon Center to host book chat with Senator
Iowa Senator Rob Hogg, author of America’s Climate Century, is touring New Hampshire and other New England states Aug. 17 to 29 to call on Americans to take the climate action we so urgently need and to make the fight against climate change our new national purpose. As he says, it is the defining historical challenge of this century – and Americans need to lead the world in the fight for sustainability and survival.Hogg will be...
Bulletin Board: Digital bookmobile making stop on Main Street
New Hampshire residents will be able to learn about downloadable e-book and digital audiobooks hands-on, thanks to the New Hampshire State Library, which is bringing Overdrive’s Digital Bookmobile to the state.The Bookmobile will be making a stop in Concord on Aug. 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in front of the State House on North Main Street.The Bookmobile will showcase the free downloadable services that are available to New Hampshire...
Diane Baxter rose through the ranks – right through the glass ceiling!
As James Brown – and later, via American Idol, Joshua Ledet – noted, it may be a man’s world. But, with all apologies to grammarians everywhere, it wouldn’t be nothing without a woman or a girl.Who knew the New Hampshire National Guard was so in tune with the Godfather of Soul?When Pembroke native Diane Baxter was recently promoted to the role of Command Chief Warrant Officer for the New Hampshire National Guard, she joined rather...
