Kelsen Brewing’s Paradigm Brown Ale
by Jim MacMillan Weirs Times Contributing Writer Nestled in a conspicuous row of stores of a small mall in Derry, NH, hides Kelsen Brewing, a nano brewery who is getting noticed. In business only a few…
Month: April 2015
Pakistan Key Piece in China’s Wider Great Game
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS–The rhetoric reached the heights of the Himalayas, the pomp and pageantry evoked that of an operetta, but the political optics delivered a clearly focused political…
It’s Time For Reality Day
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer April showers might bring May flowers, but the lies of April lumber into May like zombies, mindless and moldy. Advocates of those special April days called “Equal Pay…
Good Television?
As you know, community public television (aka local access) is one of the most misunderstood forms of entertainment, basically because it is hard to understand what is being said on many of the programs. If…
Belgian Mare Brewery’s Alsteadder Ale
by Jim MacMillan Weirs Times Contributing Writer As the series of single owner / self-distributed brewers continues, we concentrate on New Hampshire’s entrepreneurs who accept the challenge to brew the best beers they know how to…
Caption Contest Photo #539
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Vietnam Debacle 1975–Imagine a Different Ending
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS – It’s been forty years since the wars in Indochina ended and the curtain dropped ushering in a new period of darkness for the people…
A Spring Skiing Adventure On Mount Cardigan
by Amy Patenaude Weirs Times Outdoor/Ski Writer While skiers and snowboarders raced to Tuckerman Ravine, we decided to take advantage of the lingering snow on Mount Cardigan. Maple syrup farmers and spring skiing enthusiasts like…
Season Of Ideas
Now that the New Hampshire Lottery Commission has extended their olive branch to me in the form of a lottery ticket that is supposed to smell like bacon, I have thought long and hard for…
Caption Contest Photo #538
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Food Shortages Still Stalk North Korea
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS -There’s an urgent food crisis in communist North Korea, where shortages affect up to 70 percent of the population. According to an alarming new UN…
There Is No “I” In IEP
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer Another year, another IEP meeting. Another wasted 45 minutes trying to salvage a student’s public school education by updating his ironically-named “Individualized Education Program” (IEP)
End Of Season Event
Now that the winter is really finally over…again…and most of you are hurrying about to get your yards cleaned up and looking good so they can be ready for the fall raking season which is…
Throwback Brewery’s Dippity Do
by Jim MacMillan Weirs Times Contributing Writer We are turning into Europe, especially Germany, during the 1980’s and 90’s. That is to say that if you traveled throughout Europe back then, you would have realized that…
Different Strategy
Many of my inner circle insist that it is too early for me to be announcing another run for governor of New Hampshire, but I disagree. I think that the time is perfect. It is…