by Sarah Pearson | Dec 16, 2022 | Food & Drink, In Print
Elevate your cocktail game The premise for “Pour Me Another,” a new book by Concord author J.M. Hirsch is simple. If you love a good cocktail, and generally know what you like, Hirsch guides you in new directions with pages of fun takes. If you love a Gin & Tonic,...
by Sarah Pearson | Dec 16, 2022 | In Print, Sports & Rec
It’s early October, one of the prime times of the year for sports fans: football season is underway, the MLB postseason is about to begin and basketball and hockey seasons are on the horizon. But at the ice rink at Plymouth State University, 32 men and women, ranging...
by ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL | Dec 15, 2022 | In Print, Life & Leisure
The 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey tournament, Winterfest team up Coming Jan. 27-30, you can watch pond hockey of all ages by a bonfire, witness some impressive ice carving, or check out many of the other happenings in between At the end of January, the pond at White Park...
by DAVID BROOKS | Dec 15, 2022 | In Print, Life & Leisure
With 49 years in the business of selling music, Michael Cohen has seen about everything. Lately, he’s seeing it all over again. “It’s gone back to the beginning!” said Cohen, the owner of downtown mainstay Pitchfork Records & Stereo, sounding both amused and a...
by Geoff Forester | Dec 14, 2022 | Community, In Print
At United Shoe Repair, a century-plus of comfort D.J. Annicchiarico, owner and part of fourth-generation cobblers at United Shoe Repair, has a small shop in downtown Concord. D.J. Annicchiarico, owner and part of fourth-generation cobblers at United Shoe Repair, has a...
by Jennifer R. Edwards | Dec 13, 2022 | In Print, Poetry
They’re learning what slides or won’t stand, secret joy in crumbling what they create or find. I give them permission I teach them to ask for. We’re disappointed after each crash. Stand back & everything seems smaller. The world shifts; even now we’re in motion...