Help deepen and strengthen opportunities and community ties
Do you think Andover is a pretty nice place to live? Would you be interested in coming together with others in our community to share ideas about making Andover an even better place to live? If you answered yes, then maybe you’d be interested in talking with other folks about forming an Andover Community Association. […]
Just a reminder that the all-class Andover High School reunion will be held this year on Saturday, July 12. Once again we will be meeting at the Ordway Recreational Area in South Danbury. We will follow the same schedule as usual, with a meeting in the morning, pictures, and then our wonderful pot luck lunch […]
Thursday, May 1 at 7 PM
The Friends of the Wilmot Public Library (FOWPL) will host professional bear rehabilitator and author Ben Kilham at 7 PM on Thursday, May 1, in the Wilmot Town Hall, 9 North Wilmot Road, just off Route 4A in Wilmot Center. Prior to Ben’s talk, FOWPL will have a brief business meeting starting at 6:40 PM […]
Demonstrations on May 3 for the community
The Salisbury Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department will host its third annual open house on Saturday, May 3, from 10 AM to 2 PM at the Salisbury Fire Station, located at 276 Old Turnpike Road (Route 4), in Salisbury. This is a great time for the community to come tour the fire station and the […]
A week in July or a week in August
LRGHealthcare is proud to once again offer local teens an opportunity to participate in the popular Caring Student Intern (CSI) Program. CSI is offered to teens between the ages of 15 and 18 who have an interest in learning about careers in healthcare. Participants will learn medical skills such as taking blood pressure and respirations, […]
Snickers has plenty of love to give
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 […]
Life-long learning program serves Kearsarge area
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 […]
May 10 at 7 PM at the Blazing Star Grange Hall
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 […]
Grange Youth Day on Saturday, May 3
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 […]
Fun facts and much nostalgia
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 […]