It Happened In The Month Of May
by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Weirs Times Contributing Writer As you know, the month of May can bring to the New Hampshire landscape a variety of weather from cold and snow to the sweltering-like heat of…
Beers Of The Week: Switchback Ale and Porter
The great state of Vermont is mainly known by most people for its cheddar cheese and other dairy products, its maple syrup, the Green Mountains, Cabot Creamery or Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream. But if…
Venezuela’s Slide Into Chaos
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS -Storm clouds are buffeting the coast of Venezuela, the once rich South American state which is sliding into economic chaos and combustable political confrontation. Mass…
Laconia Gets Schooled
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer “But I’d only need one hundred of you.” That line silenced the crowd of teachers listening to a high-tech titan talk about the future of public education. I…
New Scratch
It’s usually around this time of year that I volunteer my time to help educate the youth of our great state. Of course, I don’t have a teaching degree so there is nothing I can…
‘Doc’ Smith – State Veterinarian
by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Weirs Times Contributing Writer After reading about the life of Robinson W. Smith, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, I am struck with wonderment as to how the busy and accomplished animal doctor…
Concord’s Marjory Swope Park Trails
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer This time of year Mother Nature gives us many cold rainy days but she can deliver a nice warm sunny day to tease us while we wait for summer…
The Battle Ahead
It was certainly an uncomfortable afternoon as the existing members of the Flatlander Party got together last Saturday for our yearly Spring Fling brunch. Our party’s recent trouncing in the past election for governor has…
Mount Washington Skiing – Huntington Ravine & Tuckerman Ravine
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer This is harder than I thought it would be, are we more than half way yet?” asked a tuckered out man sitting on a rock on the side of the…
1950s Progressive Production Of Wood Pulp And Paper
by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Weirs Times Contributing Writer Berlin, New Hampshire, in the state’s north country, has been described as the city that trees built because it had its beginnings as a sawmill and was…
Sultan Erdogan’s Uneasy Turkish Turban
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS—There’s troubling news from across the Bosphorus, the narrow slip of water separating Europe from Asia-minor. In a decisive but dividing referendum, Turkish President Recep Tayyip…
Getting Used To It
Some things just take getting used to. Have you gotten one of those new debit or credit cards with a chip in it? Supposedly, these are designed to help keep us safer from those evil…
Syrian Bloodshed Enters Seventh Year
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS – Syria’s bloody conflict has entered its seventh year with unrelenting killings, displacements and bombardments being “one of the largest man-made humanitarian and protection crises…
Road 2 Ruin by Two Roads Brewing
Each day we wake up, get up, make a decision on what to wear, make a decision on what to eat and make a decision on what our day will hold for us. It is…
Marie Paul Joseph Roche Ives Gilbert de Mottier Marquis de Lafayette’s Visit To NH
by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Weirs Times Contributing Writer His official name seems to have no end, but he is known more commonly and more simply as Lafayette by those who remember him, and he is…