Archives: April 2011

Downtown Concord Shop Hop

More than 30 downtown Concord, NH stores are participating in the Downtown Concord Shop Hop on Saturday, April 16. Each participating store will be hosting a special event that day ranging from food/wine tasting, sales and discounts, food drive, Easter egg hunt and the Easter Bunny. Most events run all day during regular store hours unless otherwise noted below. Shoppers…

Spring Feast Week

OK, so the recent snow makes it a little hard to picture warmer weather. Get into the spring season mood with Spring Feast Week in Nashua, a five-day event filled with discount dining opportunities at the city’s best restaurants. Deals include two-for-one meals, a precentage off the tab, prix-fixe dining, discounted appetizers, wine specials and more. Spring Feast Week also…

A Way With Words

Memorable moments along the campaign trail.During the 2010 campaign in N.H. we heard a lot of new phrases from candidates we should probably write down for posterity. So as we look back at the year we consider some of the new terms in our state’s political lexicon. They don’t call election years the silly season for nothing.Granite GrizzlyWhen former vice-presidential…

Got the Travel Bug?

Senior years are a great time to have it.To say Joan Lemire likes to travel is like saying the Cake Boss likes to bake sweets. Alaska. Turkey. Egypt. France. Italy. St. Kitts in January and Australia in February. You name it, Lemire has been there (or is planning on going there presently). Lemire has had the travel bug her whole…

Postcards from the Edge

Tom wanted to revisit his childhood summer in the quaint camps and villages that surround our state’s biggest lake. His wife, Stacy, a city girl, was reluctant to linger where the culinary and cultural highlights were not separated by blocks, but by miles. Could this couple find common ground on their circular tour of Lake Winnipesaukee?We set out to circumnavigate…

From Time to Time

Ask Barbara Ann Paster to tell you about herself and she has two tales to tell. First, she is, as she describes it, “a Russian Jewish mother of three grown children and four grandsons. My husband Barrie and I have lived in Exeter for 28 years.” But she’s also Sarah Shapiro, a Ukrainian Jew who migrated with her family to…