Velma Hines, April 30, 2015

Graduated Andover High School as Velma Seamans

Velma Hines, 84, passed away at Alice Peck Day Hospital on April 30, 2015. Velma, known to many of her friends as “Tillie,” was born in Grafton on January 3, 1931. She was the daughter of the late Sadie and Archie Seamans. She is survived by her brothers Kernel and Robert and her sister Phebe […]

Horace Whitcher, April 29, 2015

Horace Tilton “Bud” Whitcher, 82, died on April 29, 2015, at Lakes Region General Hospital after a period of declining health. He was born in New London, the son of Horace A. and Evelyn (Marshall) Whitcher. He graduated from New London High School and went on to serve in the US Army during the Korean War. […]

Edwina Stetson, April 24, 2015

Edwina L. Stetson, 94, a longtime resident of Andover, died on April 24, 2015, at the Merrimack County Nursing Home in Boscawen following a long period of failing health. Edwina was born in Tilton on August 5, 1920, daughter of Charles and Georgie (Burnham) Gilman. She and her husband Ralph lived on the Bean Hill […]

Emily Bristol, April 17, 2015

Emily L. Bristol of Rocky Hill, Connecticut, passed away in East Hartford, Connecticut, on April 17 with grace and dignity. She was the loving wife of Craig Warren Bristol, with whom she shared 59 years of joyful marriage. Emily was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 9, 1931, the daughter of Louise and F. Wallace […]

East Andover Village Preschool, May 2015

16 preschoolers graduate to kindergarten

By Elizabeth Janvrin, EAVP

It is hard to believe that at the time of publication, we will be getting ready to come to a close at East Andover Village Preschool for our 2014-2015 school year. We are very proud of our 16 graduates headed off to kindergarten; many of them have been with us the past two years. The group has […]

Andover High School Reunion on July 11

By Judy Perreault, AHS '53

School days, school days, Dear old Golden Rule days… It’s hard to forget them when they played such an important part of our lives. Life-long friends were made, fields of interest explored, and careers chosen. For many of us, those days were a long time ago, but patterns established there have shaped and guided our […]

Through the Reading Glasses, June 2015

Fairy Houses are coming on June 14

By Janet Moore, Andover Libraries trustee

Summertime is just around the corner, and between the peepers, the peonies, and the black flies, it’s quite a multi-sensory time. Get outside, grab the pine cones and acorns littering your garden, rake up the twigs and stones, and come on down to our third annual Fairy House event. Bring your child, bring yourself, and […]

Bachelder Library Acquisitions, May 2015

Adult Fiction Black Tide, Brendan DuBois Beach Town, Mary Kay Andrews The Dog Who Save Me, Susan Wilson City of Woman, David Gilam A Desperate Fortune, Susanna Kearsley The Children’s Crusade, Ann Packer Twelve Days, Alex Berenson Get in Trouble Stories, Kelly Link Green on Blue, Eliot Ackerman GBH, Ted Lewis Adult Non-fiction H is for Hawk, […]

Elkins Fish and Game Club Sends Nine Kids to Camp

A week each at Barry Conservation Camp

Press release

On May 6, at its regular club meeting, the Elkins Fish and Game Club awarded nine camperships to area children for summer programs at Barry Conservation Camp located at the Berlin Fish Hatchery. Attending North Country Adventure Camp will be Sadie Barton of Andover, Isabella Anzalone of New London, Erin Wheeler of Wilmot, Chloe Midgett […]

Board of Selectmen Minutes, April 20, 2015

Condensed from approved minutes

Present: Selectmen Coolidge, Delaney, and Mishcon, Town Administrator (TA) Roy, Road Agent Thompson Road Agent Road Agent John Thompson reported that the cost of the gravel crushing at the Transfer Station is projected to be $10,400. Some of the gravel will be used for the Switch Road project and will provide significant savings there. Thompson […]