Saturday, December 6, and Sunday, December 7
Solarize Kearsarge: A project to double the amount of residential and small-business solar in the towns of Andover, New London and Wilmot by the end of January 2015 Upcoming Events in Wilmot & Andover Solar Open Houses in Wilmot — Saturday, December 6, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Home of Jim Sims and Caroline Fairless, […]
Re-val shifts tax burden among individual properties
The amount to be raised by taxes for Andover for 2014 is $5,200,882. This is an increase over last year of $95,052 (or 1.9%). The tax bill for a property assessed at $200,000 will increase by about about $75 over last year. A revaluation of Andover was completed this year, which resulted in a decrease […]
December 6 at Transfer Station; December 13 at Town Hall
I love the Andover Transfer Station. It’s where I catch up on local news, find new treasures for my home, and “shop” for my friends’ birthday gifts. The dump has gone through a lot of transformations since its move from Monticello. We need to plan for resiliency through redundancy and collective creativity. Markets related to […]
Re-val can shift tax burden for individual taxpayers
Once every five years, the town of Andover goes through a “revaluation” process as mandated by state law. Every property is looked at by outside tax assessors, and a new market value is determined, which then becomes that property’s new assessed value. This year was “re-val year” in Andover, and the results are in. The […]
Your community needs you to step up!
With Town Meeting coming up in March, it’s time to think about who’s going to fill all the positions in town government and in the school district to keep the wheels turning smoothly. The following is a run-down of what offices will be on the ballot in March and what the incumbents may be planning. […]
Hall Farm Road in New London, 2 to 4 PM
The second in a series of “solar open houses” will take place on Saturday, November 15, from 2 to 4 PM at the home of Dave Harris, 438 Hall Farm Road in New London (off Seaman’s Road). This is offered as part of “Solarize Kearsarge,” a 15-week project aimed at the residents of Andover, New London, […]
Study hampered by small sample size, limited data
A panel of experts from the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Dartmouth College met with Andover residents on October 22 to present the results of a cancer cluster study for Andover. The study was initiated, following a request by the Board of Selectmen, after several residents of Andover Village voiced […]
Can we get 300 households to donate this year?
The Beacon’s big fall canvassing drive got off to a good start in early October. We enlisted about 20 of your friends and neighbors as canvassers, and by mid-October each canvasser had picked the names of a dozen or so of their friends and neighbors who hadn’t donated to the Beacon yet this year. As […]
Over 50 Andover households considering solar
An audience of more than 160, mostly from Andover, New London, and Wilmot, filled Clements Hall on the Colby-Sawyer College campus on October 18 as representatives from Vital Communities, a Vermont-based nonprofit, and ReVision Energy, an Exeter-based installer of solar-electric systems, told them of the benefits – economic and environmental – of owning their own solar […]