Beacon needs computers that can run Windows 8.1
Don’t read this article before December 26! No peeking! Was Santa good to you this year? Do you have a computer that’s now redundant and taking up space? If it’s only about three or four years old, the Beacon would love to have it! Microsoft has decreed that we have to upgrade to Windows 8.1 […]
December program featured life in Victorian England
As a woman, imagine that you could not go out without a chaperone, preferably a married woman. You never could visit an unmarried man at his home or speak to him unless you had been introduced. No riding with a male in a vehicle unless it was a relative. There was no unseemly talk in […]
Can you help us find the right person?
The community’s great response to the Beacon’s fall canvassing campaign allows us to take a huge step toward ensuring that the Beacon will be sustainable into the future. The Board of Directors has directed me to hire a paid, permanent part-time Web and Print Production Specialist in order to reduce the number of hours I […]
Present: Larry Chase, Susan Chase, Gisela Darling, Steve Darling, Jeff Dickinson, Andy Prokosch, and Sophie Viandier. Guests: Colby-Sawyer College students 1. Energy Descent Plan: A group of Colby-Sawyer students (Olin, Nicki, Hannah, Garrett, Nate, and Ted) from the college’s Community Project class, which is encouraging the development of the Transition Initiative in the towns in the […]
Accepting donations for Andover Food Pantry
Happy Holidays everybody! I’d like to thank Kenice Barton, Kendall Perkins, Joanna Seeley, Leslie Hackmann, Brianna Keniston, and our two youngest volunteers, Shelby Barton and Emily Hackmann, for hanging in there for the day of our Chili Cook-Off. We’d also like to thank those who made chili and donated items to help out with this fundraiser. This past […]
November 8 meeting ends 123-year-old organization
Andover’s Blackwater Grange #152 met on November 8 in a special meeting and voted to consolidate with the Blazing Star Grange #71 in Danbury. Because the Blackwater Grange had already purchased its dictionaries for the year, they were passed out to Andover, Hill, and New London elementary school students, as they have been for years. […]
The aromas of chicken pot pie and apple crisp greeted people in the Danbury Grange Hall last Saturday for the final 2013 supper and the last Living Sustainably program of the year. While waiting for dinner, attendees circled tables loaded with wonderful craft ideas and freebies to take home. Marjie Gorman and The Purple Ant’s […]
One of few complete sets in existence
Chris Hadsel of Curtains Without Borders kept a group of nearly 30 people spellbound on October 27 as she related the history of northern New England stage curtains – and the Danbury Grange’s in particular – and their meaning to the communities fortunate enough to have them. New Hampshire born and raised, Egbert Foster created […]
Started in 1983 in Colby-Sawyer's student lounge
Grange meets first and third Thursdays
This fall, the Blazing Star Grange has begun to lead the community to make more choices for sustainable living by increasing the use of sustainable supplies used in serving their suppers. For the Grange fair in September, which served around 200 people, Styrofoam divided plates were replaced with a compostable variety. For the November supper, […]