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PLEASE REVIEW “GUIDELINES FOR PICKING A FEATURED THRU DATE” AT THE END OF THIS PAGE!

This report looks at all the posts for the last 90 days. It shows which posts are featured on which days (starting with today and looking ahead forever) so you can be sure we have enough but not too much to feature on a given day.

You can also check for these other errors:

  • A Featured post that has no dates
  • A post that has a date but is not marked Featured (once you enter a date, you can never go back to “no date”)
  • A post that is not Featured, but should be. 

ERRORS TO FIX IMMEDIATELY: Marked as “Featured Post,” But No End Date Present!

…therefore, these posts will be featured forever.

ERRORS TO FIX IMMEDIATELY: One or More Date(s), But Not Featured

…therefore, these posts will NEVER be featured.

CURRENTLY FEATURED, or Will Be Featured Soon

The first eight are currently showing; the rest will move to the top as currently-featured posts reach their end dates.

Feat StartThru Title
true 3/19/24 Green Burial to be Discussed at The Hub
true 3/19/24 Andover Highway Garage Making Progress
true 3/20/24 US Cellular Provides Cell Phone Service Workshop at Hub
true 3/20/24 Traditions Return to Our Andover Libraries
true 3/20/24 Story Time at Andover Public Library
true 3/20/2024 Library Awarded Sustainability Grant
true 3/21/24 Neighbors Share Recipes - Pita and Hummus
true 3/21/24 Ausbon Sargent Protects 5.12 Acres in Andover, NH
true 3/21/2024 Kearsarge Area Senior Luncheon
true 3/22/24 Thrift & Gift Shop Welcomes New In-House Artisans
true 3/22/24 An 8 Year Old's Adventures with Bessie
true 3/23/24 New Poetry Continues to Arrive at Eagle Pond
true 3/24/24 $1,000 Gift to Andover Fire Department from Franklin Elks
true 3/24/24 $1,000 Gift to Andover Fire Department from Franklin Elks
true 3/25/24 Proctor Names Steve Wilkins Interim Head of School for 2024-2025 School Year 
true 3/25/24 Meet Bruce!
true 3/26/24 Andover Fourth of July Committee Announces Parade Theme! 
true 3/27/24 Monthly Andover Senior Lunch Program Begins
true 3/27/24 WCA and Wilmot Garden Club sponsor program about invasive species
true 3/27/24 New Deli and Country Store Set to Open in Sunapee Later This Year
true 3/28/24 Drop-in Song Circle Begins in Andover
true 3/29/24 New London Hospital Conducting Community Health Assessment
true 3/30/24 Andover Police Department Service Calls — January 2024
true 3/30/24 COA’s March 2024 program listing
true 3/30/24 South Danbury Church News for March
true 3/30/24 Lake Sunapee Region Chamber of Commerce March Events
true 3/31/24 March Events at Andover Libraries
true 3/31/24 Mini Art Show at the Bachelder Library
true 3/31/24 Andover Artists’ Work Included in MicroGalleries Exhibit
true 3/31/24 WCA Slates 16th Black Fly Blitz
true 4/6/24 East Andover Village Preschool Open House and Enrollment
true 4/8/24 April’s Monthly Community Drop-in and Conversation at the Red Barn
true 4/8/24 KACC Welcomes The Beacon to the Area
true 4/10/24 Organization Provides Sports Activities for People with Disabilities
true 4/10/24 Beach Cleanup in Honor of Earth Day
true 4/11/24 German Style Kakao Wins Gold
true 4/11/24 FNRT February Board Meeting
true 4/12/24 News from Andover Fish & Game Club
true 4/12/24 The Beacon Around the World
true 4/15/24 Blazing Star Grange Plans GAAWD’s Country Network
true 4/15/24 Andover Town Administrator Talks at Hub Coffee Gathering
true 4/15/24 Hospice Volunteers Make a Difference
true 4/16/24 Andover Historical Society Calendars Still Available
true 4/19/24 “Jazzpirations” at the Andover Coffeehouse
true 4/19/24 Reverend Cinnamon to Perform at Andover Coffeehouse
true 4/19/24 Andover Service Club Opens Application Process for Scholarships
true 4/20/24 HARE Day Returns to AE/MS
true 4/20/24 Pleasant Places to Visit in Andover in 1893
true 4/22/24 KNP Korner — March 
true 4/22/24 Highland Lake Resident Canada Geese Return
true 4/23/24 Willa Coroka of The Magpie’s Apprentice to Speak 
true 4/24/24 Popular Sap-2-Syrup Event Highlights Local Maple Production 
true 4/26/24 Andover Police Department Service Calls – February 2024
true 4/27/24 Franklin VNA and Hospice 1st Annual 5K
true 4/27/24 Medieval Merriment is coming to Franklin
true 4/27/24 The Franklin Opera House Announces a Special Spring Gala
true 4/28/24 Fitness Classes Offered at WCA’s Red Barn
true 4/30/24 Fourth of July Raffle
true 5/10/24 Conservation District Taking College Scholarship Applications
true 5/15/24 Andover Fish & Game Club Scholarship Applications
true 5/25/24 Registration Open for the WCA’s Black Fly Blitz

FEATURE AGAIN, If Necessary

These posts were featured once … if the content is still “fresh,” you could feature them again.

Feat StartThru Title
true 3/18/24 The Northern Rail Trail in Winter
true 3/16/24 W. A. Bachelder Library New Acquisitions — March
true 3/16/24 Area Newspaper Expands Coverage to Kearsarge, Ragged, Sunapee Region
true 3/16/24 Vail Resorts' Mount Sunapee Celebrates Diamond Anniversary
true 3/16/24 Gardener Recommends Lean Farm Philosophy
true 3/15/2024 At the Polls — Town Elections — March 12
true 3/15/24 At the Polls -— Town Elections — March 12
true 3/15/24 Kearsarge Area Chamber of Commerce Welcomes The Beacon
true 3/15/24 Andover Fish and Game Bucks-Only Results
true 3/15/2024 Andover Coffeehouse Features Local Group with Andover Ties
true 3/15/24 Wilmot Historical Society Puts Warrant on Town Ballot
true 3/14/2024 At the Polls — Town Election — March 12
true 3/14/2024 At the Polls — Town Elections — March 12
true 03/14/2024 At the Polls — Town Elections — March 12
true 3/14/24 Budget Process Covers All Angles; Goal of Full Support
true 3/14/24 Through the Reading Glasses - March 2024
true 3/14/24 The Art of Ukrainian Easter Eggs
true 3/13/2024 Warrant Articles for Andover Town Meeting, March 12
true 3/13/2024 Warrant Articles for Andover Town Meeting, March 12
true 3/13/2024 Warrant Articles for Andover Town Meeting, March 12
true 3/13/24 Andover Town Clerk's Corner - March 2024
true 3/13/24 Parichand’s Plan for Franklin’s Whitewater Park Makes a Splash
true 3/13/24 KNP Korner - March 2024
true 3/12/2024 At the Polls — Town Elections — March 12
true 3/12/2024 At the Polls — Town Elections — March 12
true 3/12/2024 At the Polls — Town Elections — March 12
true 3/12/2024 At the Polls — Town Elections — March 12
true 3/12/24 At the Polls — Town Elections — March 12
true 3/12/24 At the Polls — Town Elections — March 12
true 3/12/24 At the Polls — Town Elections — March 12
true 3/12/24 At the Polls — Town Elections — March 12
true 3/12/24 March 2024 Elections — Sample Ballot for Town Positions
true 3/12/24 March Elections — Sample Ballot for School Board Positions
true 3/12/24 March 12, 2024 Andover Town Meeting and Election Voter Information
true 3/12/24 Conservation Commission Explains Reason for Warrant Article
true 3/11/2024 Andover Public Library New Acquisitions — March
true 3/10/24 AE/MS 2nd Grade Students Host Heart Healthy Breakfast
true 3/10/24 AE/MS 2nd Graders Host Heart Healthy Breakfast
true 3/10/2024 Maple Producers Association Touts Will-A-Way Maple Farm
true 3/9/24 AE/MS Second Grade Hosts Heart Healthy Breakfast
true 3/9/24 AE/MS 2nd Graders Host Heart Healthy Breakfast
true 3/9/24 Andover Recreational Basketball: Season in Review
true 3/9/24 Voters Invited to Meet Candidates at The Hub
true 3/9/24 Capital Improvement Committee Submits Report to Andover Planning Board
true 3/7/24 Meet the Chief - Community Drop-In and Conversation at the Red Barn
true 3/7/24 Status of Black Bears in New Hampshire to be Discussed
true 3/6/24 Lake Sunapee VNA Annual Meeting To Feature Special Staff Presentation
true 3/04/2024 Beacon Draws Winner of Boston Red Sox Raffle
true 3/4/24 Proctor Nordic Skiing Wins Lakes Region Championship
true 3/3/24 Proctor Academy Presents: Mean Girls: The Musical
true 3/2/24 SRKG Coalition Organizes Biannual Wilderness First Aid Training
true 3/02/2024 Fournier's Barber Shop Grows with Franklin
true 2/29/24 Proctor Hosts Annual Ski Area Celebration for the Community
true 2/10/2024 21st Annual Highland Lake Snofest 

NEVER FEATURED and Never Will Be

Be sure there’s nothing in this list that should be featured!

Feat StartThru Title
false Deborah Aylward's View from Concord — April
false Louise Andrus's View from Concord — April
false Sometimes Voters, Event Representatives, Have to Say No
false Howard D. George — March 7, 2024
false Cecelia A. (Yeager) Richardson — March 5, 2024
false Corine A. (Benoit) Keyser — February 17, 2024
false Co-sponsorship of HB 1473 Ignores What's Best for Children
false History’s Warning About Dictators: It Will Be as Bad as it Seems
false Louise Andrus's View from Concord - February
false Deborah Aylward's View from Concord — February
false 2024 Warrant Shows Reduction of $582,726.40 from 2023
false Andover Democratic Committee Hosts Talk by Former NH Senator Jeanne Dietsch
false Andover Conservation Commission Minutes
false Danbury Resident Disagrees with Select Board's Position

Guidelines for Picking a “Featured Thru” Date

Don’t Feature

In general, these types of articles aren’t worth featuring. But any time you think an exception is justified for a particular article, that’s fine!

  1. Letters, Op-Eds, and Minutes of any kind
  2. Candidate profiles at election time
  3. Events in the past that didn’t happen in Andover
  4. General news from organizations that aren’t in Andover or closely associated with Andover
  5. Obituaries of people who never lived in Andover (unless the service is in the future and is in an area church)

Inflexible Dates

Articles that are about an event, a deadline, an effective date, etc. that is in the future should always be featured, and picking the Featured Thru (FT) is pretty much inflexible:

  1. If the article is about an event, etc. that takes place in the future, then the FT date should be the date of the event. But if there’s a “sign-up-by” date for the event, then FT should be the sign-up-by date instead of the event date.
  2. If the article is about multiple events in the future, then FT should be the earliest date (or sign-up-by date) of all the events.

News

Anything that’s interesting and/or important to our readers, but whose interest and/or importance will fade as the days go by, should be featured sooner rather than later. And the more interesting and/or important, the sooner it should be featured. Examples: Results of Town Meeting or elections; changes at the Town Hall; interesting new plans or ideas from a committee or org; etc.

Flexible Dates

Everything else that’s not covered above can be featured, but you’ll want to pick each article’s FT based not on anything in the article, but based on the current array of FT dates in this report. (In other words, these featured articles act as “filler” to keep the front page of the website looking fresh.)

The goals in selecting flexible dates are:

  1. To have at least one article assigned to every day over the next couple of weeks so that we know the front page of the website will never be exactly the same two days in a row.
  2. To have no more than about 3 or 4 articles assigned to a given date (if possible), so every featured article gets to appear in the featured section for at least 2 or 3 days.

That said, there are a few things to consider that will help you pick the best date for a given article:

  1. If any days in the next two weeks have no articles featured, then assign this article to the first date that has no articles.
  2. Otherwise, if the article is about an event in the past, assign it to the first available day that doesn’t already have 3 or 4 articles assigned to it.
  3. Otherwise, if it’s early in the content cycle, pick the day that currently has the fewest articles assigned to it.
  4. As it gets later in the content cycle, consider selecting the next day beyond the most distant day that currently has an article assigned to it.

Problem Solving

  1. If you’ve already got 3 or 4 articles featured on a given date, and now you need to add another because its FT is inflexible, then look at the others for that date. If one of them has a flexible FT date, then change it to a different flexible FT date (click the article’s link; change the date; Update; refresh this FT report). If they’re all inflexible dates, then consider moving the least important one a day or two later (or even earlier, if you have to).
  2. If you need to “unfeature” an article, for whatever reason, you can’t just delete its FT date (long story … don’t ask). Instead, change its FT date to 1/1/01, which means its window to be featured has passed (years ago!).