Molly Smith grew up as a Brownie in the Girl Scouts in Massachusetts. She’s now Public Relations Manager for the Swift Water Council, which covers all of New Hampshire and two counties in eastern Vermont. That’s 14,000 girls and 4,000 volunteers who are all focused on selling Girl Scout Cookies this month. Although the cookies don’t get delivered until March, hordes of little girls are taking pre-orders now. They’ll snag you with their doe eyes in front of the grocery store in a month or so.

A Manchester firm took top honors from the New Hampshire chapter of the American Institute of Architects Jan. 19.

Dennis Mires, P.A., The Architects of Manchester was awarded an Honor Award of Excellence in Architecture for Adaptive Reuse at the AIANH 23rd annual awards banquet at New Hampshire Institute of Art for work they did for that school.

Craig Farrington started out in the restaurant business 35 years ago. He had spent two days washing dishes at the Howard Johnson’s in Weir’s Beach when the cook didn’t show up for work and he was put in front of the stove.

Now that the Patriots are out, let’s get to something I haven’t been able to get to: the recent milestones reached in college basketball, where Keith Dickson won his 400th game, UConn’s Geno Auriemma won number 600 and Bobby Knight passed Dean Smith for the most wins in NCAA history. Those accomplishments got me thinking about what a coach is supposed to be and how the job each holds differs from the other.

The biggest product announcement this month wasn’t at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.

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