Week in history for Dec. 14, 2023
Dec. 14, 2001: William King, former chairman of the state Republican Party, a state delegate and manager of Merrill Lynch on Main Street, dies at the age of 90. Dec. 14, 1999: For the first time in more than a decade, the Concord teachers union authorizes its leadership to call for a strike vote if a settlement on a new three-year contract is not reached within the week. Dec. 14, 1774: A crowd of 400, led by Thomas Pickering, a...
Bulletin board for the week of June 15, 2023
Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music On Friday, June 16 at 2 p.m. at the Richard Brown House on 142 South Village Road in Loudon, through traditional music Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki relays some of the adventures, misadventures, and emotions experienced by Irish emigrants. The focus is on songs about leaving Ireland, sometimes focusing on the reasons for leaving (a man who is driven from his land by English persecution), sometimes...
Bulletin board for March 9, 2023
Economic impact of climate change A panel discussion at the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law hosted by the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership & Public Service, co-sponsored by The League of Conservation Voters and The Concord Coalition will focus on the economic and budgetary cost of climate inaction, economic opportunity of climate action and the current and future environmental regulatory landscape Moderated by...
Bulletin board for Feb. 9, 2023
Beat the librarians The trivia challenge is back! Head to Lithermans Limited in Concord to test your trivia skills on Feb. 9 at 6 p.m. Create a team of four to six players, and compete against a group of librarians made up of staff from the Baker Free Library and Concord Public Library. Bookish trivia will appear alongside questions about science, sports, pop culture, and more. Prizes for winners. Poetry Society presents Join the...
Bulletin board for week of Dec. 1, 2022
The crime that stunned the nation On August 19, 1997, in little Colebrook, New Hampshire, a 62-year-old carpenter named Carl Drega, a man with long-simmering property rights grievances, murdered state troopers Scott Phillips and Les Lord at a traffic stop in a supermarket parking lot. Then Drega stole Phillips’s cruiser and drove downtown to settle some old scores. By the end of the day three more were dead, Drega among them, and four...
