Better Uses
I arrived home from work the other day and noticed that something just didn’t seem right. My mailbox, an old rectangular metal box with a hinged top lid, seemed in distress. Designed originally to handle…
Year: 2016
Imperial Stout – Moat Mountain Brewing CO,
Maybe there is a good reason why we try to hibernate in the winter… It just seems when the temp starts to really take a dive, you want to just stay in bed or curl…
Foggy Foreign Policy in Obama’s State of Union
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS – President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, the annual speech to a joint session of Congress, has emerged as more of a political…
National School Choice Week
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times “Resistance is futile!” Anyone familiar with the Star Trek universe will recognize that threat as coming from the Borg (and will know that for some reason, in the 24th…
Thinking Too Much
I have a really great idea for a very funny column about the upcoming presidential primary, but as I sit down to write it’ll know I am totally at the mercy of my laptop. Will…
Ice Rod Matching
by Tim Moore One of the first lessons I teach new anglers and those looking to increase their catch is how to properly match your rod and reel to your line and lure. A properly…
Caption Contest Photo #578
Photo #578 Caption This Photo! Entries due by 02/04/2016. Do you have a clever caption for this photo? Send your best caption to us within 2 weeks of publication date… (Include your name, and home…
Great North Aleworks IPA – Great North Aleworks
When England was starting to colonize India, the settlers there were missing some of the favorite things from their homeland… among those items was English beer. When English supply ships set out on the long…
Pyongyang’s Predictable Unpredictability
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS – Not one week into the New Year, the North Koreans jolted global concerns as well as the Richter scale with a nuclear weapons test.…
Thinking Big
Like many of you, I have my dreams; visions of a different life that can only be fulfilled by winning over half a billion dollars. No, ten million, twenty million…even a hundred million dollars couldn’t…
Whoohooo January!
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer New Year’s Eve is a distant memory and here we are already in the middle of January—time flies when you’re having fun. With some help from Mother Nature and great…
Caption Contest Photo #577
Photo #577 Caption This Photo! Entries due by 01/28/2016. Do you have a clever caption for this photo? Send your best caption to us within 2 weeks of publication date… (Include your name, and home…
Looking Ahead at 2016; Light vs Darkness?
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer NEW YORK—It’s time to consult the crystal snow globe for a look at both the likely and unexpected events which will shape the New Year. Serious strife…
New Year, Old Memes
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Baby New Year is only weeks old and the scythe-wielding old man of 2015 has passed away. Beyond the symbolic hand-off little has changed. Same old resolutions made and quickly…
Christmas Kayak Fishing?
by Tim Moore Most years I have been on the ice, somewhere in the White Mountains, fishing for early season trout long before now. That hasn’t been the case this year because Christmas day felt…