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Canterbury debates pay, raises at outdoor Town Meeting More than 100 citizens sat outside in a tent for 90 minutes Saturday for Town Meeting. Ray Duckler Monitor staff Published: 5/1/2021 3:40:19 PM Canterbury residents showed grit Saturday morning at their Town Meeting, which was postponed in March because of COVID and held near a ball field outside the town’s elementary school. More than 100 citizens sat in folding chairs under a wind-whipped Three-Ring Circus-sized tent as papers blew through the air and microphones occasionally quit working. During 90 chilly minutes, the town expanded on two distinct topics: Raises for town employees and raises for anyone earning less than $14.99 an hour. ....
Letter: Thankful for Unitil Published: 2/26/2021 12:02:15 AM We feel fortunate to have Unitil as our power source. Because of their diligence in having the trees trimmed that might cause power outages, over the past several years we seldom have had to use our generator. The rare occasions where we did, their response time has always been impressive. A good example was Feb. 16, with all the trees bending down from the weight of the ice from the freezing rain. It looked like this would be a long outage but instead the power was restored in an hour. Thanks, Unitil, for the great job you’re doing. ....
A mother and her son were thrown from a snowmobile in Canterbury on Tuesday afternoon after the young boy reached up and hit the throttle.Lauren Sinclair, 32, an experienced snowmobile operator was about to take her son for a ride around 4:30 p.m.. ....
My Turn: Finding the local angle Published: 2/8/2021 6:00:05 AM Back in the 20th century, most American cities, large and small, had their own newspaper, with an office in the downtown business district. Before text messages, before email, and even before fax machines, the best way to communicate with reporters and editors was often to walk right into the newsroom. The Concord Monitor, then located on North State Street at the corner of Pleasant, was no exception. Just off the hall by the newsroom was the office of Tom Gerber, an older (i.e. a few decades senior to me) avuncular sort of fellow, who served as the paper’s editor. His door was usually open, so I could pitch to him my ideas for a column. ....
Many thanks to Ray Duckler and the Monitor for a well-written, heart-wrenching story about Grace Orzechowski’s courageous fight for life. Our daughter had the privilege of working with Grace for two years at Arnie’s. As stated by Grace’s employer,. ....