Concord Snapshot: Back to School

It was a night for visiting classes as parents of the 1250 students, roughly, at Concord-Carlisle High School headed back to class for the annual back-to-school night.

Principal Peter Badalament gave a short overview of the evening's proceedings before turning the parents loose to prowl the hallways of the sprawling (and wet) of the school looking for their child's teachers.

Outside, greeting potential voters in the steady drizzle, two candidates for state representative shook hands with those that could free a hand from an umbrella.

Democrat Rep. Cory Atkins, the incumbent, and rival K.C. Winslow, an Independent, gamely greeted all parents, each at an entrance to the school.

Inside, each class had a table selling all manner of booster items, from winter fur hats to pom-poms, pajama bottoms to T-shirts, pens, planners, and banners, each item emblazoned with the maroon and white Patriots logo