GILFORD — Due to the popular demand for the July 6 Zac Brown Band show, Meadowbrook announced that the band will be sticking around the Lakes Region for a second show the next night, July 7.
ZBB's last visit was in 2010 and was Meadowbrook's first ever 2-night show sell-out. Flash forward three years and a third Grammy win just this year and the Zac Brown Band is one of the hottest bands out. Tickets go on sale Saturday, March 16 at 10 a.m. and range from $47-$117.75. To order, call (603) 293-4700 or log on to www.meadowbrook.net.
The band's latest album, Uncaged which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, is the result of a highly collaborative process by a  group of versatile musicians gelling into a formidable unit. 
"I think that we've grown so much over the past few years as individual musicians and as a cohesive unit," observes drummer Chris Fryar. "As a band we have really grown together. And we play really, really well together. That increasing level of maturity really shows up on Uncaged."

PLYMOUTH — The Plymouth Area Democrats will hold a regular meeting on Wednesday, March 20, at the Plymouth Regional Senior Center. A potluck supper begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by a business meeting at 6:30 p.m.
The featured event at 7 p.m. will be the annual caucuses of the Democratic Committees of the PAD member towns. At the caucuses, each town committee will elect its officers and delegates for 2013.
Democratic voters in PAD towns are invited to attend and participate in the selection of leaders for the town Democratic committees. The Plymouth Area Democrats is a regional committee made up of Democratic voters from the towns of Alexandria, Ashland, Bridgewater, Bristol, Campton, Dorchester, Ellsworth, Groton, Hebron, Holderness, Lincoln, Plymouth, Rumney, Thornton, Warren, Waterville Valley, Wentworth and Woodstock.

MEREDITH — The Meredith Public Library welcomes their new Youth Services Librarian, John Locke, who grew up right here in Meredith, and spent almost every Saturday at the Meredith Library from the time he could read until he graduated from Inte-Lakes High Scool in 2002.
Since then, Locke has been working and studying all over New England, and he is very happy to finally be home again. In 2009,
he received a degree in English Literature from UNH, and has done extensive work towards a Masters degree in Secondary Education, including student teaching at a special needs summer program at Oyster River Middle school in Durham.
Locke has been working in libraries for many years, holding positions in both public and academic institutions, and gaining experience in a wide variety of library services, including circulation, media collections, and youth services. Most recently he was the Teen Services Assistant at the Amesbury Public Library, where he spent his mornings hosting story times for toddlers, and his afternoons running after school programs and supervising that library's popular teen lounge.
Locke is excited to be able to return to his hometown, and looks forward to guiding the evolving teen/tween scene at the MPL.


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John Locke (Courtesy photo)