Toasted Pumpkin Ale by 603 Brewery
As promised last week, we look at another great pumpkin flavored beer which embodies the spirit of what fall is about. The cooling temperature, the changing colors of foliage, and the time when we look…
Boyhood Memories-Autumn
by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Weirs Times Contributing Writer No fair for me, and that was no fair to me. October 12th was Columbus Day. Every year it was Columbus Day, and every year on…
It’s My Party
I was contacted by the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records recently to inform me that I just might be included in their next edition. It seems that this election day will be…
Abusers Seek Seats on UN Human Rights Council
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS -In a quiet but contentious campaign, countries are competing for new openings on the UN’s Human Rights Council. Many of the contenders for membership on…
Autumn Hiking Along The Maine Coast
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Why not? We could stay with our AT thru-hiking friend Carey Kish and his fine wife Fran in Southwest Harbor on Mount Desert Island. We could see the Ocean.…
Pumpkins Everywhere!
Taking from the initiative began last week, October’s Brew Review is devoted to pumpkin-style beers which are typically a fall seasonal. Because of the very short season compared to summer ales and the like, pumpkin…
Ambition Gone Awry
by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Weirs Times Contributing Writer A young man’s actions in the city of Laconia, New Hampshire in the year 1906 might be described as ambition gone awry, credit without credence, how…
Curiouser and Curiouser
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer While not a proper English word, when used together as Lewis Carroll coined them in Alice in Wonderland, “curiouser and curiouser” is an acceptable way of saying something…
New UN Secretary General: Guterres Gets It
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS—White smoke has emerged from the Security Council, where the powerful fifteen member body, has selected a new UN Secretary General from among a dozen declared…
Just Doing My Job
One of the more important things a governor does, besides attend luncheons and dinners, is to sign or veto bills that they don’t read once they land on the governor’s desk from the House and…
Get Outside
by Tim Moore Contributing Writer Autumn is a big deal in New England. November is the point at which most New Englanders begin thinking about winter. Cold nights turn into warm days, shorts and t-shirts…
Belknap Bliss Return to Round Pond & More Mountains
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Brrrr, the morning was chilly, the skies were clear and blue and it was a fine day to go hiking in the Belknaps. Fall is here. At 9am…
UN Assembly Opens Amid Global Chaos, Hope
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS—Presidents, Prime Ministers and Kings will convene in New York next week for the opening of the 71st General Assembly of the United Nations. The annual…
The Class of 1956
by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Weirs Times Contributing Writer Recently I found a half dozen or so of my grandchildren all sitting on the same swing and, as I began to exhort them about the…
Ragged Mountain
Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway, Section 9 by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer New Canada Road is a narrow dirt road that is known to many skiers as the short cut to Ragged Mountain Resort. I drove slowly, yet…