Remembering 4-H Club
by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Weirs Times Contributing Writer Girl Scouts are known for their cookies, but at one time there were also 4-H Club cookies, available in vanilla or chocolate flavors and described as delicious…
Month: November 2016
Syria’s Labyrinth into Hell
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS – It’ s not often a senior UN official leaves a prepared and rigid script to emotionally describe a situation to delegates in the Security…
Christmas Party
Every holiday season the members of FATSO (Flatlanders Adjusting To Solitary Oblivion) get together to celebrate the holidays, exchange gifts and reminisce. FATSO is a winter support group for new transplants started many years ago…
New Hampshire Slopes Are Open!!
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Many of us had less than a 24-hour notice that Bretton Woods lifts would be spinning on Sunday, November 13th. I first heard the news from reading a friend’s…
Call It A Day Double IPA by Moat Mountain Brewing Co
Don’t you just love surprises? Like when you forget it’s your birthday and someone important in your life says ‘Happy Birthday dear.’ Or when you are getting up to start your day and your sweetie…
Not Just Another Chicken
by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Weirs Times Contributing Writer Why did the chicken cross the Rhode? Rhode Island, that is. The answer: To get to New Hampshire to experience a transformation . It has been…
Trump Aftershocks
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer NEW YORK – A jarring electoral earthquake has rocked America with a stunning upset win by Donald J. Trump, the Republican insurgent candidate. The epicenter of the…
Divided Nation
It might just be the most divisive time in our Nation’s history. Never before have people been so diametrically opposed and there doesn’t seem much hope of the two sides ever meeting. We have seen…
Georgiana Falls
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Danielle and I met up just before 8 am at the Irving, the alien gas station, just north of I-93’s exit 33 on Route 3 in Lincoln. I get…
Signal Mountain Fire Tower On The List Of 93
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer There are lots of mountain lists and right here in New Hampshire we have many mountain lists. Some lists have been around a long time and are well known, while…