Avaloch Farm a one-of-a-kind music institute in Boscawen
Imagine a spin on your regular work week – you’re not in the office, instead you’re atop a peaceful country hillside, dining on highly praised cuisine while conversing with fellow professional artists at work. Sounds like a dream, right? Well, as it turns out, facilities like this do exist, and as rare as they may be, we happen to have one right up the road, Avaloch Farm Music Institute in Boscawen.Unfortunately for us, since we’re...
Bulletin Board
Red River hosting youth film festival On Saturday at 10 a.m., ConcordTV will host the 2017 Youth Video Film Festival at Red River Theatres. The event will begin with greetings from station manager Josh Hardy and executive director Doris Ballard. Programming and production assistant Melissa Sweatt and production and training assistant Justin Scarelli, who supervised this year’s camps, will be on hand for the festivities. The festival...
This Week in Concord History
Aug. 22, 2000: The nation’s reborn scooter fascination has definitely reached central New Hampshire, the Monitor reports. “We just can’t keep them in stock,” says Laurie Sanborn, owner of Banagan’s Cycling Company in Concord. Aug. 22, 2001: After a surprise rejection from the state’s Health Services Planning and Review Board on Concord Hospital’s proposed cancer treatment center, the hospital vows it will continue efforts to...
Look who’s trying to find love on Craigslist
We took to Craigslist last week to see who had been posting on the Missed Connections pages in our neck of the woods during the month of July. And we found a ton of great entries to share – and that we could print, unedited, of course. And if you happened to make a connection with your missed connection, we want to know about it. Send us an email to news@theconcordinsider.com and tell us all about it. Cute tall young guy...
From the Crowd: ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ a fun, silly time
I’m not a huge comic book/superhero movie kind of guy. I enjoyed the first three X-Men movies, the first Iron Man and the first Spider-Man with Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, but other than that I’m not very well-versed in this world. But after seeing about 50 trailers for the latest Spidey installment – Spider-Man: Homecoming – and seeing its great reviews online (8.1 out of 10 on IMDB, 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes), I decided I...
