Antrim
Soak Up The Rain presentation June 8 at Gregg Lake
A Soak Up The Rain presentation will be held on the Gregg Lake Beach in Antrim on Tuesday, June 8 at 6:30 p.m.
The presentation by Lisa Loosigian from NH Department of Environmental Services will be focused on how to protect Gregg Lake. Simple DIY practices like rain barrels, rain gardens, dry wells and vegetated buffers will be discussed. Learn how to stop erosing and do your part to protect the lake.
Light refreshments will be served. The presentation is free and is presented by the Gregg Lake Watershed Management Plan Committee.
Published: 6/3/2021 12:08:39 PM
On Sunday, June 6 from 4 to 6 p.m., the Old Meeting House of Francestown, the Francestown Heritage Museum and the Beehive Museum of the Francestown Improvement & Historical Society will join together to showcase the town’s history in a free event.
“Frances town” (the original spelling) was named in 1772 by Governor John Wentworth. The name honored Frances Deering, his beloved new wife. Subsequently the town experienced several expansions and declines but to this day remains a quiet, rural and quintessential New England town.
The tour starts at the Old Meeting House where free self-guided tour booklets are available. Visitors will then step out into the town common with its stately Town Hall (the old Francestown Academy), its horse sheds, Fairbanks scales, and its Heritage and Beehive museums (the Beehive was the dormitory for the Academy). Both museums will be open from 4 to 6 p.m. Take a look at the town’s historic treasures, then walk up
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Published: 6/3/2021 12:08:27 PM
Bennington’s Rhubarb Festival is back with in-person live music and events this Friday and Saturday at Sawyer Park.
The town celebration of all things rhubarb started in 2013 as a fundraiser for the library, and became a springtime tradition, according to organizers.
Dinner and music starts Friday night. Bennington local David Blanchard kicks off the night at 5 p.m. with original and classic folk, bluegrass, and blues songs, and singer/songwriter Wendy Keith and Her Alleged Band play from 6 to 8 p.m. Barbecue will be available for purchase. Visitors can enter some of Saturday’s contests, and drop off entries for longest rhubarb stalk or widest rhubarb leaf, grand and small rhubarb bouquets, decorated market baskets, and rhubarb-themed artwork and photos.
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Published: 6/3/2021 12:08:16 PM
The Francestown Select Board is pursuing a rehearing after the state Housing Appeals Board reversed the town Planning Board’s rejection of a four-lot subdivision on the corner of Stevens Road and the 2nd NH Turnpike.
The HAB ruled in favor of landowners Ron and Melissa Shattuck in a May 7 order, the first conclusion they handed down since forming in 2020. In their ruling, the HAB said that the Francestown Planning Board had made an “unreasonable” decision in rejecting the subdivision and had not cited any objective zoning ordinance violations in their decision.
The Select Board voted 2-1 to proceed with the rehearing request on Monday, May 24, Select Board Chair Henry Kunhardt said. A rehearing is a requisite step if the case were ever to go to the state Supreme Court, he said.
Published: 6/1/2021 1:37:16 PM
When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, Tiffany Calcutt had to completely change the way she interacted with clients.
As the owner of Harvest Nutrition and Wellness in Peterborough, Calcutt had traditionally operated in a way that really mimicked what she learned in school: counting calories, focusing on weight loss, protein, exercise. It varied from client to client, but it almost always meant a trip to the scale to track progress.
But unable to meet people in person, forced Calcutt to take a step back and look at how she did things on a more philosophical level.
“I started to recognize there’s so many other ways to gauge improvement,” Calcutt said. “COVID gave me the space to learn how to divert from the scale as a matrix for progression.”