City Briefly
Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell dips the city memo in eggs, sprinkles some cinnamon sugar on that baby and fries it up on the griddle. And voila, French city memo toast. Could you pass the syrup, s’il vous plait.I saw the signAnd it was, like, newThe Douglas N. Everett Arena has a new sign, Aspell writes. The new sign was a much needed upgrade from the previous small wooden sign. The new sign is a more robust structure that now...
Capital Area Wellness Coalition recognizes some swell well people
May 13 marked the Capital Area Wellness Coalition’s second annual Well Done! Awards, which recognize and bring to the forefront wellness activities taking place at worksites, among community groups, and through the leadership of unsung wellness heroes. Ten nominations were submitted in the following three categories: Well workplace: ∎ Sanel Auto Parts (Automotive Supply Associates)∎ Trial Courts Call Center (Walking Wall...
Healthy living officially sprung at the Co-op’s annual fair last week
The Co-op held its annual Spring Into Healthy Living Fair on May 16, and as usual it was a veritable smorgasboard of fun and good health and big crowds.
Healthy living officially sprung at the Co-op’s annual fair last week
The Co-op held its annual Spring Into Healthy Living Fair on May 16, and as usual it was a veritable smorgasboard of fun and good health and big crowds.
Weighted blankets donated to hospital
Concord Hospital Associates has donated 100 weighted blankets to the hospital, to comfort patients and help them heal, in the hospital and at home. The weighted blankets are cotton blankets with sewn-in channels or slots that hold weighted tubes often filled with rice or buckwheat. The weight doesn’t just keep patients warm. It can keep them calm, which is very important for those recovering from illness or injury. “The sensory impact...
Sign up to exhibit at the chamber’s Tri-City Expo
The Tri-City Expo, a joint effort between the Greater Nashua, Manchester and Concord chambers of commerce, will be held at the Radisson Hotel Manchester on Thursday, Oct. 1, from 3 to 7 p.m. Recently named New Hampshire’s “Best Networking Event” by New Hampshire Business Review, the Tri-City Expo will feature over 200 New Hampshire businesses in New Hampshire’s largest business-to-business expo.If you are interested in exhibiting,...
Five Rivers to host bald eagle presentation
As bald eagles rear this year’s chicks right here in the Capital region, Five Rivers Conservation Trust will hold its annual gathering of members and friends and host a special presentation about the recovery of Bald Eagles in New Hampshire and in the Five Rivers’ region. On Thursday, May 28, at 5:30 p.m., at Havenwood Heritage Heights, Five Rivers will briefly recap its successful year and introduce Chris Martin, N.H. Audubon’s...
Nominations sought for Governor’s Arts Awards
As part of its 50-year celebration of supporting the arts in New Hampshire, the N.H. State Council on the Arts is seeking nominations for the 2015 Governor’s Arts Awards. The awards, which are nonmonetary, publicly recognize outstanding contributions made by inpiduals, organizations and communities that have reached distinguished levels of achievement as they support the cultural life of our state. Categories for the 2015 Governor’s...
Tools for caregivers program begins June 2
Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association is offering “Powerful Tools for Caregivers,” a six-week program that empowers family caregivers of adults to take better care of themselves. The program takes place on Tuesdays beginning June 2 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at Horseshoe Pond Place, Senior Resource Center, 26 Commercial St., Suite 105 in Concord. Learn tools to help reduce stress, improve caregiving confidence, establish balance in...
Concord Public Library Book of the Week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net and visit us on Tumblr (reading-rumblr.tumblr.com and concordteens.tumblr.com) and Facebook (facebook.com/ConcordPublicLibrary).The Dark Heart of FlorenceMichele Giuttari2013, 371 pagesFictionChief Superintendent Michele Ferrara is back after being wounded during the capture of a notorious murderer who had terrorized Florence for months. But it...
Girls on the Run Spring 5K slated for June 7
One thousand girls, 240 volunteer coaches and approximately 1,000 other runners will descend upon Concord’s Memorial Field for the Girls on the Run New Hampshire Spring 5K Celebration on Sunday, June 7. Event activities begin at 8 a.m. and the noncompetitive run will start at 9:30 a.m. More than 2,500 participants are expected to run a 3.1-mile route starting at Memorial Field. Many of the runners are girls in grades 3 through 5 who...
Charlie Cole won’t do the no plants dance, even after working all day
Each month, the Concord Young Professionals Network spotlights one of its up-and-comers. This month, we have the pleasure of introducing you to Charlie Cole of Cole Gardens.Where do you live? Concord.Where do you currently work? Cole Gardens.Where did you go to school? Endicott College.What do you like to do for fun? I’m looking forward to getting out on the golf course. The course is a great place to catch up with friends for a few...
This week in Concord history
May 26, 2003: Just about the only full-fledged Memorial Day parade is the procession of cars, complete with trailers and car-top carriers, heading south down Interstate 93, calling an early end to the rainy holiday weekend. Cities and towns around the state either downscale Memorial Day ceremonies and parades, cram events indoors or cancel them altogether.May 26, 1944: After several destructive incidents, the police join school...
Friday night Magic is kind of a thing at Double Midnight Comics
It’s Friday night and the back room of Double Midnight Comics is a battlefield. Lives are being taken left and right and nobody seems to have any interest in stopping it. Actually, it’s kind of encouraged. No, this isn’t some sort of Night at the Museum type occurrence where superheroes and villains have come alive to square off in a fight to the death. This is just what happens every Friday from 7 p.m. to about midnight. It’s Magic...
Nothing like a leisurely inside stroll to get in your daily exercise
We all need exercise in some way, shape or form. Isn’t that how we stay away from ending up a certain shape that’s reminiscent of a beach ball? But when you get a little further along in life, staying active is even more important – not only for your health, but the social side of things. So when Becky Bukowski joined the Concord Parks and Recreation Department as the senior programming coordinator, she held a focus group. She wanted...
Sanders Fish Market truck is an official Friday fixture in Concord
If you’ve ever driven by the Everett Arena about midday on a Friday, you’ve likely seen Kristin Sanders sitting in her truck in the parking lot, selling fish and lobsters to loyal capital area customers. What started as a PR scheme 33 years ago for the Portsmouth-based Sanders Fish Market, Sanders’s weekly Friday trip to Concord has become a major part of the company’s profit. With “easily” 100 customers each Friday, Sanders’s truck...
Matt Bonner on Twitter was as good as you thought it would be
There are a lot of things that would make Twitter better – automatic troll control, a loud buzzer sound whenever someone hastily posts shoddily-sourced news, scratch-and-sniff functionality – but undoubtedly the No. 1 thing Twitter needs is Matt Bonner.Bonner has thus far resisted opening his own account, and we’re all a little worse off for it. How do we know? Because we saw the true power of Bonner tweets last week.Concord’s own...
Wouldn’t one of these tiles look great in your back splash?
Susan Beere has spent the better part of the last quarter century creating ceramic tile art, ranging from large murals to small paintings. As you can tell from this selection, Beere is obviously a big fan of birds, baby birds and just about anything related to birds. In recent years, Beere has been working with free form tiles (like the giant hummingbird on the other page) that would certainly create quite a buzz among the cats in...
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Susan Beere has spent the better part of the last quarter century creating ceramic tile art, ranging from large murals to small paintings. As you can tell from this selection, Beere is obviously a big fan of birds, baby birds and just about anything related to birds. In recent years, Beere has been working with free form tiles (like the giant hummingbird on the other page) that would certainly create quite a buzz among the cats in...
