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Building the Early Town: First Roads.

By Rick Church |

The charter granting Monadnock Number Six to those early proprietors required that they provide the basic necessities for the new community’s viability.  Of necessity, building roads came first.
Breed Batchellor was the town’s first resident, settling as early as 1766.  He moved into an early structure built by Josiah Billings just over the east line of [...]

Published on May 29th, 2010 | Category: History, Rick Church History Articles |
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1st Thursday Pot Luck Supper

By ADMIN |

[ June 3, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Moving In Step, a Community Project, will sponsor a live talk this evening given by Bonnie Hudspeth of Monadnock Marketplace.  Bonnie will fill us in on the new Co-Op being formed this year for residents in the Monadnock Region.

We all meet at around 6:30 in the evening in the Henry Melville Fellowship Hall of [...]

Published on May 25th, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Civic Opportunity, Community Gathering |
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Moving In Step Steering Cmte Meeting

By ADMIN |

[ June 8, 2010; 7:15 pm to 9:15 pm. ] The Steering Committee of Moving In Step, a Community Project, will meet this evening at the Olivia Rodham Memorial Library on Nelson Common Road at 7:15 pm.

On the agenda:

Old Business
Committee Reports
The Nelson Community Forum
New Business
and any other matters

The public is invited to this [...]

Published on May 25th, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Civic Opportunity |
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Moving In Step Steering Cmte Meeting

By ADMIN |

[ June 29, 2010; 7:15 pm to 9:15 pm. ] The Steering Committee of Moving In Step, a Community Project, will meet this evening at the Olivia Rodham Memorial Library on Nelson Common Road at 7:15 pm.

On the agenda:

Old Business
Committee Reports
The Nelson Community Forum
New Business
and any other matters

The public is invited to this [...]

Published on May 25th, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Civic Opportunity |
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Open House at

By ADMIN |

[ June 13, 2010; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Open House of One Room Schoolhouses and Academies

The Monadnock Historical Societies Forum, or Roundtable Forum, is hosting an open house of many of the remaining one room schoolhouses and academies in the region.  The public is invited to visit each site to learn what it was like to attend school during the 19th and early [...]

Published on May 22nd, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Cultural, Educational, History, Life in Nelson |
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Town Office Summer Hours

By ADMIN |

The Town Office (including selectmen and town clerk) will be closed on the following Wednesdays:
June 9, 23, July 7, 21, August 11, 26, September 8
Please make note of this (this information is also published on the left sidebar of this web [...]

Published on May 22nd, 2010 | Category: Town Business |
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Public Hearing on former Geddes property | Town Hall

By ADMIN |

[ May 26, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] The purpose of this hearing is to update the townspeople on the status of the former Geddes [...]

Published on May 20th, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Town Business |
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Olivia Rodham Memorial Library Book Discussion

By ADMIN |

[ June 21, 2010; 10:30 am; ] We will be discussing

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by
Mary Ann Shaffer
Books may be borrowed from the library

From Bookmarks Magazine
“Traditional without seeming stale, and romantic without being naïve” (San Francisco Chronicle), this epistolary novel, based on Mary Ann Shaffer’s painstaking, lifelong research, is a homage to booklovers and a nostalgic portrayal of an era. [...]

Published on May 19th, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Library |
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Supervisors of the Checklist in Session

By ADMIN |

[ June 1, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Supervisors of the checklist will be in session on Tuesday, June 1, from 7 to 9 p.m., at the town offices in the Brick Schoolhouse, to register new voters and make any other changes or additions to the voter checklist. This is the last opportunity to change party affiliation before the September primary [...]

Published on May 19th, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Town Business |
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Nelson School Graduation

By ADMIN |

[ June 14, 2010; 10:00 am; ] 
Nelson School Graduation takes place in the  multi-purpose room at the school.

Graduates are:

Marcus Bean
Angela Creasey
Lauren Lucas
Megan [...]

Published on May 19th, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Nelson School |