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Trails Committee Walk

[ February 10, 2011; 12:12 pm; ] The Trails Committee of Moving in Step and the Conservation Commission invite the people of Nelson to an event to celebrate the opening of our first walking trail. The event features a talk by Jeanette Baker on her Appalachian Trail Hike last year. The following afternoon there will be on a walk on the Old Road [...] [...]

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Nelson Celebrates It’s First Official Walking Trail

Jeanette Baker aka Jaybird The Trails Committee of Moving in Step and the Conservation Commission invite the people of Nelson to an event to celebrate the opening of our first walking trail. The event features a talk by Jeanette Baker on her Appalachian Trail Hike last year. The following afternoon there will be on a walk on [...] [...]

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School Forum Continuation

Hello, neighbors! Although it’s been some months since the School Forum, the Nelson School Board has been thinking and planning about ways to continue the discussion. Whether or not you were present at the forums, we would like invite you to meet with us to discuss some of the ideas generated by the forum, and [...] [...]

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1st Thursday Pot Luck

[ October 6, 2011; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] At this month’s Pot Luck we invited everyone in the community to come and brainstorm ideas for a Halloween party for all of the kids! Also, we hope to hear a quick update from the Town Buildings Committee. We all come together at 6:30 pm in the Henry Melville Fellowship Hall of the Nelson Congregational [...] [...]

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Town Archives to be Preserved

The Town of Nelson Archives has recently received notice from the State Librarian, Michael York that a FY 2012 Conservation License Plate Grant in the amount of $5,322 has been awarded to the town for its proposed project “Nelson Town Records.” This grant will conserve, microfilm and digitize five books containing town records from 1802 [...] [...]

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Shoot: It’s Old Home Day!

Hey Nelson Folks: If you’ve spent time in the Town Hall you might have noticed a nice collection of pictures from Old Home Day of many years ago. This is a treasure, and wouldn’t it be nice to create an updated version (to supplement, not replace)?  So, here’s what we’ll do – on Old Home [...] [...]

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Trails in Nelson

The Nelson Trails Group recently explored the old class six road to the “Hart Lot” with its extensive foundations and mill site.  The site was home to a sawmill operated in the early nineteenth century.  The mill location on a falls in Bailey Brook provides habitat for numerous wild flowers; wild ginger graces the Osborne [...] [...]

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Town Buildings: Brainstorming Session

[ June 22, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Lisa Sieverts, member of last year’s Town Buildings Committee, will meet with interested residents for a citizens’ discussion and brainstorming session concerning the Town Hall/Old Schoolhouse restoration project, on Wednesday night, June 22, 7:00 pm at the Library. Please come and offer your input to this important discussion. [...]

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Village in the Village

This summer Village Farm, in Nelson Village, is host to The Game of Village,  a children’s summer camp that was created in Nelson by Cia Iselin in 1971. The Game of Village allows children to create a world in miniature, providing young people a chance to engage with the “adult world” on a small scale. [...] [...]

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Town Buildings Update

Through the work of the Town Buildings Renovation Committee, the Nelson Selectmen were made aware of safety, security, access, and confidentiality issues for two of the town buildings: issues that have potential litigation and liability consequences which would result in considerable expense to the town. The Selectmen, therefore, thought it prudent to get further expert [...] [...]

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[ May 12, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:30 am. ] Our Knitting and Crocheting Club meets at the Chapel By the Lake in Munsonville, NH every other Thursday morning from 10AM to 12PM. Current members are working on a variety of projects: prayer shawls; hats, mittens, and scarves for homeless and needy children, helmet liners for our troops overseas, a sampler afghan and other personal projects. If [...] [...]

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Nelson School Forum #2

[ January 29, 2011; 9:00 am to 11:30 am. ] Please join your friends and neighbors at the Nelson Town Hall on Saturday, January 29 from 9:00 to 11:30 am for the second Nelson School Forum.  This forum will continue the work of figuring out, as a community, what we are going to do about the declining enrollment at Nelson School.  We will be developing [...] [...]

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[ December 1, 2010; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] There will be a meeting of the Use of Public Spaces Committee this evening at 7:00 pm in the Olivia Rodham Memorial Library. For more information, or for the meeting Agenda, please contact Kathy Schillemat kschillemat@yahoo.com or 847-9785 [...]

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[ November 19, 2010; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] The Nelson Resource Directory Committee will be meeting this evening at 7:00 pm in the Olivia Rodham Memorial Library. This committee will be discussing the results of their recent surveying of a cross-section of townspeople. From there, the group will decide in which direction to proceed with the Nelson Resource Directory. For more information, or to [...] [...]

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[ December 6, 2010; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] The Activities & Outreach Committee will be meeting this evening at 7:00 pm at the home of Betsey Church. Please email betseyrick@gmail.com for meeting agenda or for more information. 847-3206 Location: 117 Log Cabin Road Date: Monday, December 6, 2010 Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm EST [...]

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The Nelson Community Forum Follow-up

The work of the September 17 and 18th Nelson Community Forum is over, and now the work toward its resultant goals has begun. The event was a phenomenal show of community interest and support with well over 100 participants, many of whom also volunteered to help with the planning aspects of the occasion.  Thank you all. The [...] [...]

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[ November 6, 2010; 10:00 am to 11:30 am. ] The Activities & Outreach Committee will hold their monthly meeting this morning at the home of Rick and Betsey Church, 117 Log Cabin Road, at 10:00. Agenda items will be forthcoming. More more information, or to join this committee, please contact: Betsey Church 847-3206 Jan Perry 847-3150 Webpage: Activities & Outreach Committee [...]

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[ November 5, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Resource Directory Committee Meeting 7 pm @ Olivia Rodham Memorial Library Location: Olivia Rodham Memorial Library Date: Friday, November 5, 2010 Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm EDT Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes The Public is Invited! More information: Linda Singer (603) 847-3135 [...]

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[ October 28, 2010; 6:30 pm; ] Description: The monthly Meeting of the ‘Space’(s) Committee will meet this evening at 7:00 pm in the Olivia Rodham Memorial Library. For the Agenda, or to ask questions, please email kschillemat@yahoo.com Location: Olivia Rodham Memorial Library Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010 Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm EDT Open To The Public [...]

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[ October 23, 2010; 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. ] Our committee will hike part of the Monadnock-Sunapee trail in Nelson using the Monadnock-Sunapee Trail Map as our guide. On the hike and afterward we will discuss aspects of that trail guide that could be used as a model for our Nelson Trail Guides. The hike, which Tom Murray and Linda Cates are organizing, will be [...] [...]