Christmas at The Fells Begins on November 7
Christmas at The Fells Begins on November 7
We are breaking from our biennial tradition and bringing you Christmas at The Fells in 2015! Experience the historic Main House, transformed by professional interior designers, decorators, and talented volunteers. Get inspired while touring each of our 22 rooms, creatively and cleverly decorated to this year’s theme of Sleigh Bells Ring. New this year, we […]
TRIP Center Bus Now Serves Andover on Fridays
Door-to-door service for shopping, appointments
The TRIP Senior Center has expanded its rural transportation service with a bus that now serves Andover, Danbury, and Hill on Fridays. Please call 934-4151 to schedule your ride. The Community Action Program Belknap-Merrimack Counties, Inc. is pleased to offer bus service daily in the Franklin and surrounding areas Monday through Friday from 8 AM […]
Dancing to the Drums
Making Strides Raises Over $460,000 to Fight Breast Cancer
Many Andover residents involved
Nearly 5,000 people turned out for Concord’s 23 annual American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event on October 18. This year’s event raised $466,871.bringing Concord’s fundraising total to over $7 million raised for the American Cancer Society. Dollars raised enable the American Cancer Society to invest in groundbreaking research; provide free, comprehensive […]
Concert of Jazz and Ragtime Music at WCA
Carl Hultberg performs on November 14
The Wilmot Community Association (WCA) will present Carl Hultberg in a free concert at 7 PM Saturday, November 14 at the Red Barn, 64 Village Road. Hultberg, a jazz historian and ragtime/jazz pianist, will read from his recent biographical work, Rudi and Me, play his collection of vintage jazz records, and play jazz records brought […]
Apples and Freedom Acres for South Danbury Speakers
Tom Curren on November 6, Loretta Rayno on November 20
The Speaker Series at the South Danbury Church continues its programming into November with two new events. “We like to try to figure out what will interest our neighbors,” says Kathy Neustadt, a co-founder of the Series, “and the best way we know to do this is to keep varying our focus: from local to […]
Benefit Dinner at New London Inn for WCA and WLP
Wilmot organizations get fundraising boost from dinners
The Wilmot Community Association (WCA) and the Wilmot Learning Place (WLP) will participate in a Thursday’s Child fund-raising event starting at 5:30 PM Thursday, November 19, at the Coach House Restaurant at the New London Inn, 353 Main Street., New London. “With many decades of affiliation, it is particularly appropriate that the WCA and the […]
Wilmot Historical Society Hosts “Memories of Old Wilmot”
Walter Walker to present his new book
Don’t miss the Wilmot Historical Society’s (WHS) annual meeting and cracker barrel program, “Memories of Old Wilmot,” from 1 to 3 PM on Sunday, November 1, at the WCA’s Red Barn next to the Wilmot Post Office at 64 Village Road in Wilmot Flat. WHS board member and history buff Fred Ogmundson will host the […]
Franklin Hospital Serves Meat Without Extra Antibiotics
Transforming animal agriculture
On Thursday and Friday, October 23 and 24, Lakes Region General Hospital and Franklin Regional Hospital will serve over 200 meals that feature meat raised without non-therapeutic antibiotics. Joining alongside Health Care Without Harm and more than 200 other hospitals across the country (49 in New England and one of two in the state of New Hampshire), […]