Walpole News

The congregations of Walpole have a Community Christmas Fund and every holiday season, the area clergy join with the Ecumenical Youth Group to offer the Giving Tree Project to families in need.

Cheese Purveyors New Hampshire has many quality dairies statewide, including Full Moon Farm in Rochester, Boggy Meadow Farm in Walpole, Agape Homestead Farm in Center Ossipee, The Sandwich Creamery in North Sandwich, Heart Song Farm in Gilmanton Iron Works, Robie Farm in Piermont and Via Lactea Farm in Brookfield.

TURKEY BUFFET SUPPER: A turkey buffet supper will be held at the Third Congregational Church UCC, Alstead, on Saturday, Oct.

It's a busy, weekday workday in the Midtown Mall. The sounds of downtown traffic crescendo every time someone opens the door; laughter peals from the Backside Caf; the Postman heads up the corridor on his appointed rounds, keys jangling as he walks.

A special election to fill the seat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives vacated last week by Anthony Maiola, R-Newport, was authorized Wednesday by the New Hampshire Executive Council at its monthly meeting in Walpole.

The last chapter of the case of a former liquor commission officer, permanently disabled in the line of duty, will end with a decision on whether the state will recoup some of what it has paid for his medical bills.

I have a friend with an unusual job. She's an AI Technician, an artificial inseminator of cows.

KSC STUDENTS COLLABORATE WITH COMMUNITY ALUMNAE IN LEE BLESSINGS' ELEEMOSYNARY KEENE, N.H., 10/06/09 - Keene State College students and alumnae will collaborate in presenting Eleemosynary by Lee Blessing.

VENDORS WANTED FOR HOLIDAY BAZAAR: A Holiday Bazaar will be held at the Third Congregational Church UCC, 14 River St., in Alstead on Saturday, Nov.

Timberframe and prefab home building company Bensonwood of Walpole, N.H., has been contracted to restore a long-missing element to the University of Virginia's Pavilion X. Designed by founding father, philosopher, and UVA architect Thomas Jefferson, Pavilion X was built around 1824.

The local rock trio Spectris had been hard at work recording their debut CD for over a year and a half, and now the fruits of their labor have come to fruition with the release of Industry, their second full-length CD.

At a very busy meeting Wednesday night in Keene, N.H., transportation officials listened as residents from throughout the region tried to convince the state about projects they thought should be prioritized.

The Charlestown-Walpole Advisory Committee agreed Wednesday night any redesign of Route 12 that has a major impact on the Connecticut River would be difficult to get permits for, and thus was not a reasonable option.

Officials on both sides of the Connecticut River are looking forward to a meeting this week to demand that the New Hampshire Department of Transportation start work to re-open the Vilas Bridge between Bellows Falls and Walpole, N.H.. The Governor's Advisory Commission on Intermodal Transportation is meeting in Keene, N.H., tonight at 6:30 in Room ...

Jack-o-lanterns on display last year at the Keene Pumpkin Festival. The event is set to go on Oct.

You may never have trouble getting the kids to eat their fruits and vegetables once you've brought the family here during the fall harvest season.

BEE WORKSHOP: Charles Andros, former New Hampshire/Vermont apiary inspector, will hold a beekeeping workshop on Saturday from 1-3:30 p.m. at 18 MacLean Road.

I found myself in the Marlboro College bookstore one day, talking to its manager, Rebecca Bartlett.

Bellows Falls Opera House recently had the honor of hosting a preview showing for the soon-to-be released and much-anticipated documentary film National Parks: America's Best Idea, created by Ken Burns and the folks at Florentine Films, which just so happens to be nestled locally in downtown Walpole, NH.

The Saxtons River Art Guild will be offering a class by Barbara Schupack of Walpole, NH entitled, "Drawing from Experience" on September 12 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Looking at a scene or an object as the subject for art is more than meets the eye.