■The Tucker Mountain Schoolhousewill be open to the public this Sunday, and the second Sunday of every month through October, from 1 to 3 p.m. The antique schoolhouse, built in 1837, features artifacts and mementos of early education as well as a two-holer outhouse and attached woodshed, and it is located on Tucker Mountain Road; visitors can follow the signs from Route 11.
■Local businesses and organizations are invited to an open houseat the Andover Community Hub on Wednesday from 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. The nonprofit building is developing as a community center with programs, classes and community services, but there’s room for more uses, whether public offerings or private rental spaces. Area businesses and organizations who might have need for space are welcome to drop in and take a look around. For more information, contact TheAndoverHub@gmail.com.
■Artists and crafters interested in participating in the annual Christmas in October Jingle Bell Fair to be held at the Andover School on Oct. 26 are encouraged to contact the Andover Service Club to register for a table. Call 735-4101 from noon to 8 p.m. or email MaryO.asclub@live.com for more information. The fair benefits the Merit Scholarship Fund of the Service Club.
SUSAN CHASE
735-5135
srfchase@gmail.com
■Saturday brings the last monthly Contra Dance at the Boscawen Town Hall, in the basement of Congregational Church, until the fall. Beginners, singles and families are always welcome, and all dances are taught. Sandy Lafleur calls the dances while Carol Bittenson and Alex Cummings provide the lively music. Come and give it a try before the series takes a summer break. Adults over 25 pay $9, ages 15 to 25 pay $5 and it is free for those under 15.
■Red Sox mascots Wally and Tessie will accompany the 2018 Boston Red Sox Trophy to Boscawen on June 19. This very special event is sponsored by the Town of Boscawen’s Old Home Day Committee and Ross Express. It will take place at the Winthrop Carter House, 215 King St., next to Black Forest Nursery, from noon to 2:30 p.m. Admission is free, so bring your camera, kids, friends or just yourselves. This will be the only exhibit of the trophy in the Concord area.
■A free community meal is hosted by the Grace Fellowship Church on Saturday beginning at 4:30 p.m. All are welcome for homemade meals and desserts along with fellowship and friendship. The church is located at 235 High St./Rte. 4 west.
■The last day of school for the Boscawen Elementary School is June 19. And the Boscawen Public Library is ready to kick off its “A Universe of Stories” summer reading program on June 24. Opening Day starts at noon with sign-ups, refreshments, welcome prizes and much more. Visit the library’s website at boscawenpubliclibrary.org for more details on all the special programs being offered this summer.
MARY ALLARD
753-8576
boscawenpl@gmail.com
■ Canterbury Community Farmers Market will be Wednesday from 4 to 6:30 p.m. in the center of the town, at the side of the library. This is “What’s the Buzz?” week, celebrating pollinators. There will be music from Don Bartenstein.
■Canterbury Conservation Commission will meet again Monday at 7 p.m. at the Meeting House. Discussion will focus on maintaining Sawyer’s Ferry Lot, at the end of Battis Crossing Road.
■Canterbury Highway Department road works will be preparing Carter Hill Road and Borough Road for chip sealing during this coming week. Check town website for details.
■The next Canterbury Fair planning meeting is Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Parish House. Consider volunteering for What Not tables; collections start June 15 at the Byre. To volunteer to help, call or text Sally at 848 6408. To help with the various Children’s Area activities, contact Danielle at DLKrautmann@gmail.com or call 903 8307. To volunteer at the Book Fair and Multi-Media sale tables, contact Stephanie Jackson at 783 0495 or sfjackson59@aol.com or Paul Lepesqueur at 783 4578 or karma.karumi@gmail.com. Contact Rick Crockford if unable to attend meetings and want to be involved in some other fair activity at the email rcrockford@laconiaschools.org.
■Elkins Public Library summer reading events include Kick Off, on Wednesday at 4 p.m., with magic by George Saterial. The summer reading program will focus on space this year, celebrating the stars with stories, crafts, music and special guests.
■This coming Saturday at 10 a.m., Reps. Howard Moffett and George Saunderson (Merrimack 9) and Howard Pearl (Merrimack 26) invite all interested Canterbury and Loudon residents to a Legislative Listening Session on Saturday morning from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Town Meeting House next to the Canterbury Library. This will be the last such meeting during the Legislature’s 2019 session. Major topics may include the biennial state budget (House and Senate versions will need to be reconciled in a conference comittee), including education funding, the opioid crisis and mental health funding; gun safety legislation; access to women’s health services; redistricting; the status of voter registration bills; and any other concerns raised by participants. Come for all or part of the meeting. Coffee and donuts will be available.
■Canterbury Police Department reminds residents and others to keep their dogs under control and licensed as the summer months progress and more people are outdoors. It also reminds residents of the regulations for the beach access at West Road. Parking is allowed from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. from May 30 to October 15. Any parking outside of those hours will result in vehicles being towed. Contact the police department if anything of concern is noticed by calling 228-1010.
■Free “Weights and Walkers” classes at the Parish Hall start with a half hour of walking at 8 a.m. then an hour of strength exercises from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., Mondays and Fridays. For more information, contact Judy at 783-9698.
■Upcoming workshops at Canterbury Shaker Village include “Introduction to Spiritual Energies,” Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., “Annual Herb and Garden Day,” Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., this year with breakfast and lunch being sold by local vendors, and “50th Anniversary Gala and Auction,” June 19 at 5 p.m.
■4-H has a new leader, Kim Scammon. Contact canterburyrascals4H@gmail.com for more information.
■Loudon Food Pantry is providing food for Canterbury residents, among other towns, in the Huckleberry Business Park, 30 Chichester Road. Money donations are especially needed now. Canterbury residents may drop off at the Elkins Public Library. See loudonfoodpantry.org for more information.
■Solarize Canterbury Solar Open Home Tour is Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Three solar owners will open their homes to show you a working system, and other energy saving features, and to answers questions. Representatives of the solarize vendor 603 Solar will be on hand at some homes. See solarizeCanterbury.org for details on locations.
LOIS SCRIBNER
scribnerlois@gmail.com
■The Loudon Recreation Committee is offering Red Cross swimming lessons at Clough Pond. Once again, lessons will be offered Monday to Friday in two week sessions. The first session will be held from July 15 to July 26, and the second session will be from July 29 to Aug. 9. Evening lessons will be offered as well. Each session will cost only $25 per child, with a family rate of $75 maximum. Children must be at least 5 years old at the start of lessons. If space allows, there is an additional nonresident fee of $10 per child. An adult must be present during the child’s lesson. To register, send this form with payment to Corinne Rowe, 273 East Ricker Road. Please make checks payable to Loudon Recreation. If you have any questions regarding the program, please call Corinne at 738-1983 or email at rowe.corinne@gmail.com.
■MVSD Last Day of School is June 19.
■MVSD Finance Committee Meeting is June 10, 6:15 p.m. at MVMS.
■MVSD School Board Meeting is June 10, 7:15 p.m. at MVMS.
■Loudon Communications Council Meeting is June 17, 6pm in Charlie’s Barn.
■Alternative Energy Committee Monthly Meeting is June 19, 4:30 p.m. at the Town Office.
■Planning Board Public Hearing is June 20, 7 p.m. at the Town Office.
■Zoning Board Public Hearing is June 27 at 7 p.m.
■Loudon Elementary PTA is looking for volunteers to help with Old Home Day festivities and to be in the dunk tank. Please email loudonpta@aol.com or call 556-1587 for more information.
ALICHA KINGSBURY
798-3143
ammhkingsbury@aol.com
■Monday is the Cemetery Trustees meeting at Academy Hall at 4 p.m.
■On Monday, the Hazardous Mitigation Meeting is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Salisbury Safety Building.
■On Wednesday, the Old Home Day (OHD) committee meets at Academy Hall at 6:30 p.m. All are invited to attend. The Salisbury Old Home Day Committee is organizing the vendors for this year. OHD is on August 10. It is looking for vendors of all sorts to join the OHD festivities. If interested, please contact Cindy to reserve a space at 648-6686 or 630-7898. You may also email Cindy at cindymidwife@gmail.com.
■On Thursday, the Recycling Committee meets at Academy Hall at 7 p.m.
■All town residents should have received their tax bills last week. Those bills are due July 3. If you have any questions, please contact the tax collector.
■The Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) will be visiting East Andover Village Preschool and Salisbury Elementary School on June 12 for the final CLiF event. A literacy grant was awarded to both the school and the public library at the beginning of the year. Salisbury Free and Salisbury Elementary School wish to express their thanks to the Children’s Literacy Foundation for its continued support of literacy in New Hampshire and Vermont and for awarding us this grant. Please contact the preschool to RSVP to its event starting at 10:30 a.m. or contact lblanchette@mvsdpride.org to RSVP for the 1:45 p.m.
■Due to low attendance, summer yoga instructor Maris is having one class per week between Salisbury and Andover. From June 7 to 21, the class is at the Andover Hub only at 8:15 a.m. on Fridays, with no class June 28. The cost is $10 per class. Classes in July will be held at the Salisbury Library, running from July 10 to 31, with no class July 3. The cost is an $8 donation per class. There will be no classes offered in August at either location.
■Book Club takes a break during the summer months but will resume in September. The Book Group of Salisbury Free Library meets the fourth Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the library from September to May.
■On June 15, the American Red Cross Blood Drive is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the town hall on Route 4, 645 Old Turnpike Road. Please come and help Salisbury beat its goal in donating 40 units of blood to the American Red Cross this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Please take a moment and go to the redcrossblood.org or call the Red Cross at 1-800-733-2767 to sign up for the Salisbury drive. One unit can save up to three lives. Help us make a difference in the lives of others by donating blood. Salisbury would like to beat out the surrounding towns in what they have donated in the past, which it can do this by getting over that 40-unit mark. There will also be a raffle in which every blood donor may choose to enter. There have been some great prizes donated by local community businesses as well as citizens. The Black Bear Vineyard donated a free wine tasting for 20 people; the Andrus Family donated a gallon of maple syrup; there is a gift card to Buffalo Wild wings; there is free beer from Big Water Brewery; free Karate Lessons from Bill Gregory’s Kajukenpo Karate; a gift card for Cookies and Pizza from Crossroads Country store; a gift card from the Barn Store; and four tickets to the Hopkinton State fair given by the Kulacz family. Let’s come together and show how one small town can make a difference.
■Meet Yuka the Arctic Fox during the “Foxes in NH” presentation by Maria Laycox at 6 pm. at the town hall on June 28. Please bring your kids; they will love seeing a live arctic fox.
■The farmers market starts this Monday from 3 to 6 p.m. at town hall. The market runs until Sept. 30. At this time, it has a few new vendors: DSigns by DS, selling hand-dyed fabrics, and RJM Woodworks, selling beautiful wooden spoons and other wood items. Also featured are Two Pines Farm with vegetables and starter plants, Cutting Farm with honey and maple syrup, Need for Beads with beautiful handmade bead jewelry, Harmony Weaving with handmade woven items and Over the Hill farm with jams, jellies and relishes. The Salisbury farmers market is still in need of more vendors. If interested, please call Helen Binette at 648-2156.
■The Salisbury Historical Society is still in need of artifacts for their veteran’s display. If someone in your family has served in any war from the Revolutionary War to modern day, please take advantage of this opportunity to have them recognized for their service. Photos, with or without biographies, artifacts, uniforms etc. will make for a nice display. These items can be loaned to the society just for the display or donated to be cared for and displayed in a more permanent display. Please contact Linda at 648-2551 or at shscurator@gmail.com to arrange pick up.
■The library now has passes to the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum. Each pass admits a group of up to four people or a family of adults and their children any day except special events. For more information on the museum, go to indianmuseum.org. There are also free passes for The Fells Estate, located at 456 Route 103A in Newbury. For more information and hours of operation, visit its website at thefells.org, call 763-4789 or email info@thefells.org
■Also offered at the Salisbury Free Library are the N.H. State Parks pass: The pass grants admission for two adults and four children to any day-use park at no additional charge. It is not valid at the Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway, the Flume Gorge, Hampton Beach State Park – South Beach, Wallis Sands State Park or parking.
■Salisbury Free Library now has the Jackie Weiner Home Delivery Service. Any resident of Salisbury with an ongoing condition that prevents the person from coming to the library is eligible. This service is absolutely free to patrons of the library. The only charges will be for lost or damaged materials. Deliveries will be made on a monthly basis by a volunteer driver. Patrons participating in this program can borrow books, audio books, magazines, DVDs and jigsaw puzzles. You can obtain an application to participate in this new program or to volunteer by stopping into the library or by visiting the library’s website.
■The last day of school for Merrimack Valley students is June 19.
JENNIFER HOYT
648-2260
jimjen505@tds.net
■This Friday at 7 p.m., join the Webster Free Public Library at the great hall to see the film Loving, which is based on a true story.
■Volunteers are still needed for the library’s summer reading program. Please visit or call the library to sign up to read to some Webster children this summer.
■Don’t forget with summer coming that the library has lots of passes to places all over New Hampshire, including many of the N.H. State Parks. Passes for state parks do not cover Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway, the Flume Gorge, Hampton Beach State Park – South Beach, Wallis Sands State Park, metered parking or camping. Passes allow free entrance for two adults and four children. Please call the library ahead of time to see if these and other passes are available for the day you wish.
■Pillsbury Lake District invites all Webster residents to a perennial plant swap on Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Pillsbury Lake Clubhouse. At 11 a.m., there will be a presentation by UNH Extension speaker Ruth Axelrod, titled “Old Rules, New Goals, Eco-Friendly Gardening.”
■Congratulations to all of the Webster MV High School graduates! Go Pride!
■The Webster Town Crier is currently looking for that next special resident to carry on the torch for reporting our local town events to the Concord Monitor. Please email me or call 229-2896 and leave a message. You could be the next Town Crier!
SARAH CHALSMA
webstertowncrier@gmail.com