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 [...] [...]
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[ 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 [...] [...] |
[ 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 meeting. [...] |
[ 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 meeting. [...] |
[ 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 [...] [...] |
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 site). [...] |
[ May 26, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] The purpose of this hearing is to update the townspeople on the status of the former Geddes property. [...] |
[ 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. [...] [...] |
[ 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 election. [...] |
[ 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 Schillemat. [...] |
Nelson School’s fifth and sixth grade had a wonderful trip to Ferry Beach Ecology School in Saco, Maine the week of May 10. Students attended three lessons a day, exploring different ecosystems and gaining a better understanding of how cycles, change, succession, and disturbance work in different areas of our environment. Lessons included the ABCs [...] [...] |
[ July 10, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Workshop 7:30 Dancing 8 – 11:00 (or so) Admission $8, $6 seniors and students Everyone welcome Jeff Petrovitch is the the Energizer Bunny of dance callers.He can be heard on Monday nights in Nelson, and at dances throughout the Northeast. An innovative dance band bringing together members from Western and Central NY and Northern PA, Tunescape nudges the [...] [...] |
The 2010 Nelson School Auction raised $8400, a stunning total that means the students will get their new swings for the playground. Thanks to all who participated! [...] |
[ May 6, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] On the first Thursday of every month Moving In Step hosts a community Pot Luck Supper. We all meet at around 6:30 in the evening in the Henry Melville Fellowship Hall of the Nelson Congregational Church. There’s plenty of parking at the church or in the lot at the Town Common … Read [...] [...] |
[ August 14, 2010; 9:00 am; ] Remember to bring your own lawn chairs to Old Home Day. You’ll be much more comfortable while eating lunch and watching the festivities. ______________________________________________________________________ Old Home Day Games Town Common 9:00 a.m. Possibly the last bastion of amateur excellence in American sports. Foot races, frog-jumping, tug of war, egg toss, and more. Races Town Common 9:00 a.m. Bike race (helmets required) and [...] [...] |
[ May 3, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] Supervisors of the Checklist will meet at the Brick Schoolhouse at 7 p.m. to add new voters to the checklist. [...] |
Nelson Town Officials are now providing pdfs of minutes of the various official meetings that take place in town. These minutes are provided at a special web site dedicated to this purpose: www.minutes.townofnelson.com (see also the link to the left) Since this is a new process, there is some getting used to it, but in [...] [...] |
[ May 30, 2010; 11:30 am; ] Nelson’s Memorial Day Celebration begins with a concert by the Nelson Town Band, in front of the Town Hall. At noon there is a parade up the hill to the cemetery, where there is more music, and a remembrance. All veterans and active US military service men and women are invited to march. [...] |
[ May 15, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] The Long Awaited “Donations Only Rummage Sale” Event is finally here! Okay, that was dramatic, but true! The Nelson Congregational Church will hold a Spring Rummage Sale on Saturday, May 15th, from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm. One of the great things that makes this rummage sale so unique is a “donation box” for your free will offering [...] [...] |
[ May 16, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] More info and tickets The Monadnock Folklore Society presents Jacqueline Schwab, folk and classical improvisational pianist, in concert on Sunday, May 16th at 7:00 p.m. in the Nelson, NH Town Hall. She has been described as someone who plays “gorgeously spare piano” (The Boston Globe) yet “sounds as if she has an [...] [...] |
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