No Fun Anymore
It really isn’t all that much fun running for governor this time. In years past, it was only me representing the Flatlander ticket. This year, as you may have read in a previous column, I…
Caption Contest Photo #592
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Grateful Stout from Great Rhythm Brewing Co.
You have to admit one thing about New Hampshire beer lovers; they are proud of the ability of the brewers to make such great and varied beers in a place where just over one million…
Choosing A Fishing Kayak
by Tim Moore Contributing Writer Kayak angling is the fastest growing aspect of fishing. No other area of the recreational fishing industry is seeing as many new innovations and products. While this growth is great…
Presidential Primary Circus
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer NEW YORK -The seemingly never ending presidential primary circus came through New York with the predictable partisan name calling and puerile political promises. For much of the…
Makers, Takers And Tax Day
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer Speaker of the House Paul Ryan wants you to know that he’s sorry, so very sorry. Speaking to a group of House interns a few weeks ago, the…
New Hampshire’s 1933 Emergency Gardens
by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Weirs Times Contributing Writer In the Spring of 1933, needy New Hampshire families agreed to plant 5,771 gardens in response to the Emergency Garden Campaign conducted by the University of…
Old And New
I had just finished doing my business in the men’s room of a building I had never been before. Being old school, I reached for the familiar handle I had known since childhood that would…
The White Plague
by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Weirs Times Contributing Writer If you read the death notices that were in some of the old yearly Town Reports of New Hampshire you will find that the cause of death…
Miles and Miles from Henniker Brewing Company
Beer of the week: Henniker Brewing’s Miles and Miles New Hampshire’s rich and diverse heritage includes many special people, places and things. Among them is the fact that Captain Alan Shepard came from the Granite…
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Expanding
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS—Calling for an end to “human trafficking and other forms of human slavery,” British Cardinal Vincent Nichols presented a stunning testimony against the “resurgence of slavery”…
A Little Competition
In case you missed it – and I can’t imagine anyone who did – the latest debate with the candidates from The Flatlander Party was a real doozy. There hasn’t been a debate for the…
A Good Day Bushwhacking
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer There are a lot of mountains in New Hampshire. Mount Washington’s summit is 6,289 feet above sea level. There are hundreds more that are at least 2000 feet high. Well,…
Caption Contest Photo #590
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Slip-Bobber Kayak Panfishing
by Tim Moore Contributing Writer Warm water fish such as crappie, perch, bluegill, largemouth, and smallmouth bass all head for shallow water in the spring to spawn. Length of daylight is a driving force, but…