Sunapee Group Discusses Menu for the Future

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Sunapee News

Thirteen community members sliced into a hot-topic last week, when session one of a six-week discussion group met at Sunapee Abbott Library to explore food, sustainability and community. Conversation circled around local food options (or the lack thereof) and the individual food choices people make based on upbringing and ethnicity, lifestyle and personal and global [...]

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Sunapee Recreation Forms Ski Town Hill Sub-Committee

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Sunapee News

The Sunapee Recreation Department is creating a sub-committee to study, plan and develop recreational features on Ski Tow Hill, located on 103B. This comes after voters approved on Election Day a town warrant article identifying the site for a children’s playground and other possible elements: hiking trails, picnic area, Frisbee golf course, horseshoe pits, bicycle [...]

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Earth Hour 2009 is March 28. Out the Light Says New London Energy Group

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Sunapee News

Earth Hour 2009 is Saturday, March 28 from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. The New London Energy Committee is spreading the word and inviting the community to turn out the lights. Residents and businesses in the New London area and beyond are encouraged to turn off unnecessary lights and electrical appliances and reduce or eliminate non-essential [...]

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OPINION: It’s Time to Replace Plastic and Paper With Re-Use

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Sunapee News

Opinion The debate over plastic or paper has shifted to re-use when it comes to grocery and shopping bags. Across the world, people and governments are understanding the cost of use-and-discard shopping bags. They are encouraging instead re-usable bags. It’s time to for Americans, the private and public sector, to expand this commitment to re-use. [...]

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Snowkiting on Lake Sunapee

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Sunapee News

Gray ice on Sunapee, reports SnowKitingNewEngland.blogspot.com. It looks like the group will be out on Lake Sunapee on Saturday and Sunday, March 14 and 15. What’s snowkiting? Related YouTube: Al Peterson, Charlie Meding, Chris Porter, the Tuthills and others on Lake Sunapee: SnowKiting on Lake Sunapee (New Hamsphire Chronicle, WMUR)

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