Toasted Pumpkin Ale / 603 Brewery
As summer weather finally fades into the New Hampshire sunset, your taste choices may also begin to change with the seasons as well. With Octoberfest right around the corner, fall sports take root and focuses…
Syrian Apocalypse
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS— Syria continues to descend into the inferno while the international community stands transfixed. A political solution seems elusive as ever, the civil war grinds on…
My Trump Card
All the excitement over the upcoming presidential race has really gotten me to thinking. Next year I will most likely be involved again in my own campaign for governor of New Hampshire running under the…
Caption Contest Photo #557
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Opa’s Oktoberfest from Moat Mountain
When we realize that summer is waning and the inevitable is on the way (falling leaves, frost and then snow…), we go through a change in many ways. Our activities move from aquatic fun to…
Data Mining with Minors
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer “Show me your papers!” That old movie line unambiguously established that a character was in a totalitarian state – and in trouble. Whether delivered menacingly in cartoonish German…
Caption Contest Photo #556
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A New Group
The summer is always a tough time of year to keep the money rolling into the F.A.T.S.O group coffers. For those of you unfamiliar, F.A.T.S.O. stands for Flatlanders Adjusting To Solitary Oblivion – a winter…
Get Outside and Have Fun!
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer This is a great summer. I have been getting out and I have been getting out with my friends. We’ve been hiking, climbing and biking as much as we can…
Caption Contest Photo #555
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UN Predicts Likely Global Economic Downshift for 2013
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS—The global economy risks sliding back into recession. That’s the sober assessment from the UN’s World Economic Situation and Prospects 2013, which cites weak economic growth…
The Flatlander Fair
Come One! Come All! Whaddya Waiting For?” Yes, it’s time for the sixteenth annual Flatlander Fair next weekend at the Brautonboroughton Fairgrounds, just off of Rte 416G. Resident Flatlanders, Visiting Flatlanders and natives alike…
Moose Ale Squam Brewing
Because uniqueness helps make New Hampshire such a great place to live, we expect that the same concept also apply to brewing beer. There are more than 45 breweries of all different capacities and varieties…
Iraq — ISIL’s Daunting Threat
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS—“Since last summer’s onslaught by terrorists of the so-called ISIL, Iraq has been living through one of the most difficult phases of its modern history,” came…