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Ray Duckler

Concord Monitor staff

Position: Reporter
Phone: 369-3312
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Biography: Ray Duckler has been the Monitor's news columnist since 2007. Before that, he spent more than two decades as the paper's sports columnist. Duckler, with no particular beat, writes human interest columns and pieces based on personal experience, humor and satire. He's a native New Yorker who stills loves the Yankees. Got a good column idea? Duckler is all ears.

Most recent content by Ray Duckler

Lunch breaks on the chopping block

Mark MacKenzie, the state's AFL-CIO president, yesterday told Rep. JR Hoell of Dunbarton to give him a break. Repeal the law requiring half-hour lunch breaks for employees after five straight hours of work? Trust all bosses to do the right thing, all the time? MacKenzie, who once fought fires and now fights for workers' rights, said pass the salad, not this bill. "Quite… 3

February 8, 2012

Concord

Filled with need

Increase of people turning to homeless shelters

The church lobby turned cold quickly. Heidi Fyfe, in her sixth year as a volunteer at the First Church homeless shelter, asked someone near the back of the line to close the door, but that wasn't happening anytime soon. Not with homeless people standing in the doorway and streaming outside, into the night, waiting… 2

February 5, 2012

Super Bowl brawl

Hey, New England - ready to lose again?

Finally, Patriots fans who believe the Giants were lucky four years ago have another shot to lose with dignity. So please, unlike the first game, keep the excuses to a minimum after tonight's rematch. Please? New York's 17-14 victory against New England in Super Bowl XLII had nothing to do with the leprechaun on a box of Lucky Charms, although it certainly was magically… 0

February 5, 2012

International dog tag

A DOG TAG found in France arrived in Concord on Wednesday via Belgium, completing a journey that began 94 years ago. The World War I ID belonging to Nelson J. LaClair of Penacook and featured in the Monitor last week was found by a tour guide last fall and returned to LaClair's son, Francis LaClair, who celebrated his 91st birthday four days before receiving the tag. Nelson LaClair,… 0

February 5, 2012

Gear stolen from bobhouses

FISH AND GAME Department officials are warning ice anglers that gear was stolen from several bobhouses on two lakes last week. Door locks were pried off bobhouses on Lake Winnipesaukee in Tuftonboro and Loon Lake in Freedom, officials said, and both were areas in which a vehicle could be driven onto the ice. "The thefts are a serious legal violation and a real breach of trust for… 0

January 31, 2012

Back from the battlefield

Francis LaClair reacted with eyebrows rising and questions flying. Who is Thierry Maquet? Why is he writing me from Belgium? How does he know my father, Nelson J. LaClair? How in the world - or in Europe - did he find me? Is this a hoax? Thankfully, Francis LaClair, who turned 91 yesterday, can use the internet. He… 2

January 29, 2012

5 Questions: Patricia Cummings

War and pillows, strange bedfellows, converge in a new book by a local author who's dedicated much of her life to the art of quilting and printed textiles. Patricia Cummings of Concord is promoting Sweetheart & Mother Pillows, 1917-1945. The book uses pictures and words to chronicle how soldiers in the two world wars connected with women in their lives through the mass production… 1

January 29, 2012

3,400 PSNH patrons left without power

Higher elevations in New London and the Lake Sunapee area led to more icing than neighboring regions in the state, resulting in power outages affecting 3,400 Public Service of New Hampshire customers, the company said yesterday. As of early last night, about 260 homes were still without power, said Sue Blothenburg, community relations manager for PSNH. "They had an accumulation… 0

January 28, 2012

Giants fan in New England?

WANT TO HATE the Giants, just a tad more, as we move closer to Super Bowl XLVI? Listen to 1967 Concord High graduate Phil Garos. The postal worker from Manchester grew up as a Giants fan in the 1950s, stuck with them after the Patriots were born in 1960, and continues to support them today, at age 62. And he hates the Patriots to boot. He's part of a strange phenomenon: a New England… 0

January 27, 2012

Bullies I have known

His last name was McKillip, but at our Long Island school we called him McKiller. It was the more fitting name for a 12-year-old who'd punch you because he disagreed with you. Heck, he'd punch you if you looked at him funny. McKiller was a beanpole with a nasty right hook. If you nailed a jump shot over McKiller,… 13

January 26, 2012

Most recent comments by Ray Duckler

Fascinating!!

By Ray Duckler - 07/17/2011 - 8:55 pm

A fascinating profile on a fascinating woman. Some have said Maher was not a public figure and therefore telling her story would be media sensationalism. Not true. Maher made herself into a public figure, and this story, in the hands of one of the best journalists in New England, reveals a complex, mysterious woman who had a lot to say. Thanks, Annmarie.