The Insider’s Guide to Spring in New Hampshire
March 24 Raptor Migration in New Hampshire The spectacle of large numbers of migrating hawks, eagles, falcons and other ‘raptors’ has always captivated people, and historical accounts of this phenomenon in N.H. date back to the 1700’s. Conservation of raptors is now a major theme across the globe, and species’ population changes can provide evidence for conservation needs – or successes. N.H. Audubon maintains two active monitoring...
If you want some of these flowers in your garden, it’s time to plan
Now that you’ve read up on how to get your garden ready for planting (we’re assuming you read the page right before this because you always read the Insider from cover to cover each week), it’s time to start thinking about when to plant. We know it’s only March and a little late season snow (eek) might still be lingering on your beds, but this is the time when you want to start mapping things out. At least that’s what Concord Garden...
Get yourself a tee time – outdoors – at Beaver Meadow Golf Course
If you’re a hard-core golf enthusiast, you’re probably well aware that Beaver Meadow Golf Course installed two high-tech golf simulators inside the clubhouse in January. Those simulators allowed for golf to be played at the course all year, not just when the weather cooperated. That’s all fine and good – and we had a blast trying them out – but it’s never quite the same experience as playing outside on a real course. Missing are...
We took a tour of the city to see what was going on outside
Since it was so nice out last week, we took to the streets to see what was happening. People were definitely getting an early jump on spring.
A raptor talk, a nice big breakfast and Easter festivities galore
Thursday If there’s one thing we like talking about here, it’s raptors. Whether we’re referring to the modern birds of prey or the prehistoric killing machines everyone fell in love with in Jurassic Park, we just can’t get enough. If you’re as crazy about raptors as we are, you should check out a talk on raptor migration in New Hampshire at the Audubon McLane Center. It gets going at 7 p.m., and donations will be accepted. For more...
It’s about time to get your hands dirty and ‘wake up your garden’
Oh, the doldrums of winter. “Wake up your garden” and prepare to welcome in spring beginning this month and into April. Start by donning those work gloves, grabbing that rake and gently removing all the leaves, twigs and sticks, pine needles and other winter debris that have collected in your once beautiful flower gardens. Attack your sunniest areas first and gradually make your way through your garden beds, as March and even April in...
S&W Sports has everything you need to get back in the saddle again
With the kind of weather we’ve been having lately, it’s really hard to justify staying inside. Why waste the day away inside when you could be out wearing spandex and weaving through traffic while making turn signals with one arm? That’s right, it’s finally spring, and that means it’s time to go into the garage and dust off the ol’ bicycle. It’s probably safe by now to pack away the snowmobiles and skis (although S&W is still...
The parks and rec departments in Concord and Bow have full slates
When the weather starts to warm up, it’s always nice to find something fun to do outside. For parks and recreation departments, that’s pretty much all they do every day. And it just so happens to be spring now, and the parks and rec departments in Concord and Bow can’t wait to get going on the season. Although the fun never ends with either department, the good stuff really ramps up once spring rolls around. We checked out both...
CRTC culinary team sure can cook up a tasty three-course meal
It’s good to be the best, especially when we’re talking about an area that includes the entire state of New Hampshire. And you can add a group of five culinary arts students from the Concord Regional Technical Center to that list after winning the New Hampshire ProStart cooking competition at the UNH Stillings Dining Hall in Durham on March 5. The team, made up of Chase Haines (Concord High School), Anthony Costello (Pembroke...
Easter came early this year thanks to ConcordTV’s Eggstravaganza
There was no way we were going to miss out on ConcordTV’s inaugural Easter Eggstravaganza, so we stopped by on the opening day to see what kind of fun was being had.
Meet some students from the Capital Area Student Leadership program
The Capital Area Student Leadership program encourages students to become active, effective participants and leaders in their schools and community. The goals of CASL are: • To recruit sophomores from area high schools who show leadership potential and young adults likely to assume greater community responsibilities. The CASL program has graduated over 400 students over the last two decades. • To inspire students to develop, refine...
Havenwood program helps residents create ‘Art From the Heart’
When we enter our retirement years and subsequently can’t live on our own anymore, we sure do hope to end up at a place like Havenwood-Heritage Heights. They’ve got an ice cream parlor, a pool table and tap maple trees around the campus in the spring. And those are just a few of the things we caught a glimpse of last week when we stopped by to check out the reception for Art From the Heart. It was a recent 10-week program for older...
Steve Ambra earns top spot in NHTI staff photography contest
During February, NHTI held a photo contest among staffers to see who was the best with a camera in their hand. Nine photos were entered and hung on the library wall for visitors to vote on. In case you missed the previous spread in the “Insider” last month (shame on you), there were some pretty great pictures. We had a feeling it would be a hard choice for voters, kind of like which issue of the “Insider” is your favorite. (Hint: It’s...
There’s nothing like a good book
Concord Public Library is one of more than 100 public libraries in New Hampshire that are participating in the “N.H. 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten” program, which encourages parents and other caregivers to make sure children are read at least 1,000 stories before they start kindergarten.
Lots of cool, student-created art is on display at Kimball Jenkins
March is Youth Art Month, and the Kimball Jenkins School of Art is displaying the New Hampshire Art Educators Teacher and Student Exhibit to go along with it. All of the art was created by students across the state.
City Briefly
Last week, City Manager Tom Aspell was so excited about the first day of spring that he couldn’t wait to pass along all the upcoming information about spring projects in the city. So like he does each week, he compiled all the big news for Concord in to the City Memo. It’s back South Main to get face-lift On Monday, March 28, the Main Street reconstruction project will resume. Construction will begin on the east side of South Main...
Book of the Week: ‘MARTians’
MARTians Blythe Woolston 2015, 216 pages Fiction In a dystopian near-future, Zoë Zindleman has just been forcibly graduated from her newly privatized high school. Zoë now has the choice of belonging (body and soul) either to AllMART or to QMART, where “your smile is [our] welcome mat.” She also needs to make a choice about where to live: either in the perpetually for-sale house that her mother has abandoned, the sinister MART...
This Week in Concord History
March 22, 1901: The Massachusetts-New Hampshire boundary is finally settled. March 23, 1825: The Rev. Nathaniel Bouton is ordained as minister of the First Congregational Society of Concord. From 1730 until now, the town of Concord, voting as a parish at town meeting, appropriated money to pay the pastor and support the church. The new society will sustain itself without taxpayer support. March 23, 1867: Forty-two years after becoming...
The Bulletin Board
Wine and beer tasting at Old Town Hall in Bow The Falcon Booster Club’s second annual “Taste of Bow Spirit” Wine and Beer Tasting event and silent auction will be held March 30 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Old Town Hall, 91 Bow Center Road. Contact Karen McGee at ishore@comcast.net for tickets. Insider staff NHTI Film Society to show ‘The Winding Stream’ The NHTI Film Society will screen The Winding Stream (not rated) on Friday at 7...
There’s some cool stuff on the horizon in Concord
We know it’s only March, but the reality is that spring is around the corner. And that’s a good thing. Bye-bye winter, better luck next year. Since this is the Insider Guide to Spring and there’s always lots of great stuff going on in Concord once the weather warms up, we figured why not key in on a few important dates that are coming up in the next couple months – before summer gets here. Don’t worry, we won’t expect you to remember...
