CONWAY — Happy October, with the foliage really beginning to burst into full splendor, especially in the notches, and fair season getting underway Sunday with the start of Maine’s Fall Blue Ribbon classic, the glorious and beloved Fryeburg Fair! Be sure to honk if you like traffic!
CONWAY — Batten down the hatches, because if we can believe the forecast, we’re all in for a doozie of a late-September nor’easter, especially on the coastlines of New England.
CONWAY — Remember when there used to be a slow season? Not any longer — especially this weekend!
CONWAY — Greetings from Mudville, a.k.a. North Conway, home of “Muddy Board Games”-themed Mud Bowl, the championships of mud football, Sept. 11-13, with today’s activities highlighted by the Tournament of Mud Parade at 9:30 a.m.
CONWAY — I’m back after a week’s vacation down on the Seacoast, where the ocean water was 61 degrees and perfect for a couple of days reading at the beach and taking a Portsmouth Harbor Cruise.
CONWAY — It takes a village, as they say, and that was especially true in Conway Village this past Thursday night, as an estimated 200-plus people brought their lawn chairs to Pequawket Park to enjoy the music of Dennis and Davey in a benefit for Starting Point.
CONWAY — The Arts Jubilee’s board of directors on Thursday night got a good answer to that always time-honored question these past 43 years: Just what do Arts Jubilee audiences want to see? (Also this week's Tele-Talk question: See page 9a in today's edition.)
PINKHAM NOTCH — For the first time in five years, it’s a “Climb to the Clouds” weekend at the Mount Washington Auto Road, with practice runs, a car show and music festival today and the actual car hillclimb Sunday.
CONWAY — Hey, how do you know if a Deadhead has been to your house? Answer: They’re still here.
FREEDOM — Be it ever so humble, there’s nothing quite so sweet as Old Home Week.
CONWAY — OK. Admit it. This World Cup fever has taken hold of you, even if the U.S. is no longer in it and it has all come down to defending world champion Argentina taking on reigning European champions Spain in the finals in New Jersey on Sunday at 3 p.m. on FOX.
CONWAY — Happy 7/11, which has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? And excuse me if I have a sudden urge to rush out for a refreshing Slurpee on this hot, sunny day.
CONWAY — I know exactly where I was 50 years ago today: joining Pluto, Goofy and Mickey Mouse in a spirited patriotic march down Main Street USA at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., on the nation’s bicentennial. The fireworks that night had to be the best I have ever seen.
CONWAY — The countdown is on for the nation’s 250th, which we have all by now learned is called a semiquincentennial, derived from Latin and meaning “half of a 500th anniversary. But we’ve also heard it called “sestercentennial” (meaning “two and a half centuries”); or even “quarter-millenni…
CONWAY — Happy Father’s Day to all the great dads here in the valley, as we also celebrate the arrival of summer, all on the same day, Sunday, June 21.
CONWAY — Happy graduation and congratulations from our community to all Kennett High grads as the Eagles take flight to the rest of their young lives following graduation ceremonies that are to begin today under sunny skies at 10 a.m. at Gary Millen Stadium.