Frank Haley Hopes to be Top Fundraiser for Twelfth Year

Walk for Sight is on Saturday, June 4

By Lauretta Phillips, for the Beacon
Frank Haley Hopes to be Top Fundraiser for Twelfth Year

Frank Haley and his family at an earlier Walk for Sight in Concord. Frank, 92, hopes to be the top fundraiser for the event again this year, which would make it 12 years in a row. This is not the first time 92-year-old Frank Haley shared the annual 3K walk hosted by the New Hampshire […]

Diane Hersey’s Y2K Wish List May Come True in Andover

An era gone by? Perhaps not...

By Diane Hall Hersey, for the Beacon

Andover is helping me to realize some major things I have already done and would like to revisit again. These milestones involve living the good life, as defined by the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s. What follows is a wish list that I wrote 16 years ago, in December 1999. I was informed that you can’t […]

Fiona Petersen Wins Prestigious Dog Writers Award

Maxwell Medallion for Best Series

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Fiona Petersen Wins Prestigious Dog Writers Award

Fiona Petersen, local dog trainer and behavior consultant from Andover, was recently awarded the Dog Writers Association of America’s prestigious Maxwell Medallion. The award was presented at the Dog Writers Awards Banquet, which is held annually at the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City, the day prior to the start of the Westminster Kennel Club […]

Jim and Diane Hersey Moving to Andover

Building a home at the Hersey Family Farm

By Diane Ried Hersey, for the Beacon

When Jim Hersey Jr. left the family farm in Andover to set off for college, he may not have given much thought to returning to his Andover roots someday. Folks who travel Route 11 see Jerry and his brother Jim daily. They are tending the Herefords, haying, splitting wood, or repairing the fence line, year […]

Alicia Barry Earns Academic Honors

President's List for a perfect 4.0!

Alicia Barry of Andover, a 2015 Proctor graduate, received this letter from the Dean of the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health, where she is studying: “Congratulations for making both University of South Carolina’s President’s List and the Arnold School’s Dean’s List in recognition of your excellent performance during the 2015 fall […]

Mary Kuechenmeister’s SPI Featured on Encore.org

Preserving stories and stimulating learning

By From Encore.org
Mary Kuechenmeister’s SPI Featured on Encore.org

This story about Mary Keuchenmeister of Andover is part of a national online collection of Stories from the Encore Movement. It is reprinted with permission from Encore.org, a nonprofit building a movement to tap the skills and experience of those in midlife and beyond to improve communities and the world. “I am challenged by those […]

Steven Hunt has Restored a Classic 1969 Chevy Impala

Turns out it's a car with a history

By Lindy Heim, for the Beacon
Steven Hunt has Restored a Classic 1969 Chevy Impala

Steven Hunt is not the kind of person you come across every day.  Steven is a 20-year-old who has accomplished something quite extraordinary for such a young man. Motivated by a strong desire to restore an old car, it took Steven a full year and a half, but he did just that.  Now he has […]

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