Franklin Animal Shelter: Pet of the Month, May 2014

Snickers has plenty of love to give

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Franklin Animal Shelter: Pet of the Month, May 2014

This beautiful girl is Snickers! Snickers came to the shelter as a surrender. She is a beautiful domestic, short-hair calico, and although she is about three years old, she is quite petite in size. Snickers has been spayed, she is litter-box trained, and she is current on all her vaccinations. This little girl has plenty […]

Adventures in Learning Holds 15th Annual Meeting

Life-long learning program serves Kearsarge area

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Adventures in Learning (AIL) will hold its 15th annual meeting on Thursday, May 15, in Wheeler Hall at the Ware Student Center on the campus of Colby-Sawyer College. The event will be an opportunity for AIL members and guests to celebrate another outstanding year of providing lifelong learning programs for adults in the Kearsarge-Lake Sunapee […]

Vaudeville Returns to Danbury for Stage Curtain Fundraiser

May 10 at 7 PM at the Blazing Star Grange Hall

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Vaudeville Returns to Danbury for Stage Curtain Fundraiser

On Saturday, May 10, at 7 PM, Wally Borgen’s vaudeville troupe will fill the Blazing Star Grange Hall in Danbury with music, comedy, and a hint of burlesque to help raise funds for the Blazing Star Grange’s historical stage scenery conservation project. A dessert social at 6:30 PM will precede the event. All are invited […]

Blazing Star Grange Farmer’s Market: May 2014

Grange Youth Day on Saturday, May 3

Press release

It’s Spring and time to get outdoors for the first Grange Youth Day at the Blazing Star Grange Winter Market! Blazing Star will be sponsoring some Danbury organizations that offer programs and activities for the youth of its community. Among the organizations and churches which will gather to entertain and inform youngsters with games, face […]

NHCHF Enjoys Program About the Telephone

Fun facts and much nostalgia

By Judy Perreault, NHCHF

One of our more interesting programs was about the telephone. It was titled Number Please, not a phrase we hear very often today, but when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, these two words were commonplace. The first phones installed required two lines into the home and were connected to each other. Over 1,000 lines were […]

Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum, May 2014

Exhibits, classes, and a reception

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New Exhibit: Giona Sezoha G’dakinna: We Paint Our Land, from Thursday, May 1 through Sunday, July 13. Fine art in the Contemporary Art Gallery including paintings, drawings, pottery, and carved shell. Guest curator Liz Charlebois. Exhibit opening on Sunday, May 4 from 2 PM to 4 PM. Admission to the art gallery is free.  Exhibit Opening […]

Black Fly Open Golf Tournament on May 15

Sponsored by Lake Sunapee Region Chamber

Press release

This year’s annual Black Fly Open Golf Tournament is slated to tee-off at 10 AM on Thursday, May 15 at the Country Club of New Hampshire in North Sutton. The famous Black Fly Open, sponsored by the Lake Sunapee Region Chamber of Commerce, offers not only plenty of golf excitement, it also includes great prizes […]

Living Well Workshops: Step Up to Better Health

May 7 through June 11 at Franklin Hospital

Press release

Would you like to increase your energy and better manage your health? If you or someone you live with has an ongoing health concern such as chronic pain, diabetes, or arthritis and would like to learn how to better manage issues so that you can do the things you want to do, you can benefit […]

Kearsarge Regional Ecumenical Ministries Sees Assistance Needs Rise

$43,848 to 89 area households in 2013

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Kearsarge Regional Ecumenical Ministries (KREM) assisted 89 households on 118 occasions in 2013, providing $43,848 in support. Board members and area clergy reviewing 2013 activity at KREM’s annual meeting in March noted these levels of need continue to rise compared to previous years. Provision of heating fuels, the largest assistance category, nearly doubled from $10,233 […]