Colby-Sawyer College will host this season’s Local Arts Forum, featuring presentations in April by Spring Ledge Farm owner Greg Berger and award-winning novelist and Professor of English at Dartmouth College Ernest Hebert. The forum will begin on Thursday, April 4, when Greg will share images of New London’s Spring Ledge Farm and discuss sustainability and […]
Audrey Pellegrino to open new Danbury Country Store
There is good news for users of the Northern Rail Trail. The Danbury Country Store, formerly the Danbury General Store, is slated to open in mid-April (target date: Friday, April 19). Designated an official Rail Trail Welcome Center by the Board of the Friends of the Northern Rail Trail in Merrimack County (FNRT), the store […]
February 20 Condensed from draft minutes Present: Alex Bernhard, Steve Darling, Tom Frantz, Myra Mayman, Joyce Morton, Ellsworth Morton, Steve Rayno, Peter Southworth, Nita Tomaszewski, Bob Ward, and guests Hal Posselt, David Murray, Diane Littlefield, Bernard Davis, Jr., Elaine Clow, Norman LaPierre, Lyman Cousens, Craig Saltmarsh, Michael Wright, Nicole Hoyt, and Bruce Crawford The February […]
Don’t miss the next Friends of the Northern Rail Trail (FNRT) event coming up in April: our annual fundraising dinner scheduled one night only, Thursday, April 25 at The Coach House Restaurant at the New London Inn. The Coach House will offer the restaurant’s regular menu, which is varied and outstanding, in both dining rooms. […]
The Concord-Merrimack County SPCA is offering a low-cost rabies and microchip clinic at Blue Seal, 520 Hall Street, in Bow on Saturday, April 13, from 12 to 2 PM. The cost is $20 for a microchip and $10 for a rabies vaccination. Please bring a record of previous rabies vaccinations; this helps determine if your […]
Zany events, big concert round out the ski/ride season.
Mount Sunapee Resort has received 40 inches of snow since February 9, and there is more snow and more trails open on the mountain than any time so far in the season. This all points to lots of spring skiing and riding. As the spring season approaches, the special events get more frequent and a […]
20” pickerel takes top prize
The Andover Fish and Game Club (AF&G) held the Willis Nowell Memorial Kids Ice Fishing Derby this year on February 23. It was a nice day on Eagle Pond in Wilmot, and 33 kids and their families were ready to have some fun. Besides fishing, the kids were treated to free hot dogs and drinks, […]
A chance to share ideas, concerns with other landowners
Are you a landowner of significant acreage, say 25 acres or more? Have you ever wished you could get together with other landowners in your area to discuss topics of common interest, like how to handle passing your land on to the next generation; how to share your love of the land with your grandchildren; […]
Video: Boiling at Tucker Mountain Maple
The New Hampshire Maple Producers Association chose former New Hampshire governor Nahum Bachelder’s house on Maple Street as the location of this year’s ceremonial tapping, with Governor Maggie Hassan as celebrity tapper. After the tapping, the party adjourned to the Tucker Mountain Maple sap house on Tucker Mountain Road, where boiling was already in progress. […]
March 23 and 24 is New Hampshire Maple Weekend
The 2013 maple season is underway for local Andover area sugarhouses. Local sugarmakers as well as other producers around the state have begun the annual ritual of converting the clear sap into the liquid gold we all love: maple syrup. Governor Maggie Hassan has declared Saturday, March 23, and Sunday, March 24, as New Hampshire […]