Here’s your daily schedule for the 76th League of NH Craftsmen’s Fair, August 1-9. It is held at Mount Sunapee Resort located at Mount Sunapee State Park, in Newbury, NH. The Fair features 350 juried members of the League and daily demonstrations, workshops and music. Also, each day, there will be a tour with a [...]
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Visitors to the upcoming Craftsmen’s Fair at Mount Sunapee will see both familiar and new faces including many artisans from the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee region. Fiber artists Marie Wiggins of Sunapee, Barbara A. Fisher of Mt. Sunapee, Susan Scalera of Goshen and Nancy Graham of Newport are amongst the juried participants in the 76th Annual League [...]
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The Sullivan County board of commissioners will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, August 6 at 3 p.m. at the Sullivan County Newport Complex 14, Main St., Newport. The meeting will be held in the Commissioners’ Conference Room. Here’s the agenda: Sullivan County Commissioners – Agenda (PDF 68kb).
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The Lake Sunapee Rock Bass Derby has become an annual event. It’s coming up on Saturday, August 8. The weigh-in will be held at Sunapee Harbor at 11 a.m. and there will be “lots of prizes” for participants, says Scott Blewitt, the Sunapee rec department director. “We have fun and earn prizes while controlling these [...]
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A new grocer has come to New London. The Kearsarge Cooperative Grocer, a satellite of the Concord Cooperative Market, started to welcome customers last week in what they called a “soft opening.” And today the new store announced a grand opening celebration on August 7, 8 and 9 during Hospital Days. The Co-op offers natural, [...]
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Work continues around the clock to replace a failed drainage pipe and to reopen a section of Interstate 89 northbound in Warner that has been closed to traffic since Saturday evening. State Police closed I-89 northbound between Exit 7 and Exit 9 after a sinkhole was discovered. Northbound traffic on I-89 continues to be detoured [...]
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The oldest, continuously running craft fair in the country–the Annual League of NH Craftsmen’s Fair celebrates the “spirit of the maker” this year. It’s the Fair’s 76th year, and it gets underway August 1 at the base of the mountain at Mount Sunapee State Park in Newbury (NH). Each piece of fine craft that is [...]
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Susie Burdidge, a field biologist with the Loon Preservation Committee, will be in Sunapee (July 28) tomorrow afternoon to discuss loons, their natural history and interaction with humans. She will also talk about the work of LPC. Burdidge is responsible for the Monadnock Region that includes Lake Sunapee, and she has recently been out on [...]
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Around the kitchen table, across the country and in the nation’s capital, people are talking healthcare. Congress is vigorously debating reform. And President Obama wants a bill before the August recess. While at home, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Public ponder how to provide their family with medical care and insurance coverage considering the skyrocketing costs. [...]
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There are 80 farmers’ markets operating across the Granite State, but plans for a market in Sunapee this summer did not bear fruit. A Sunapee farmers’ market is a “no-go” this year, said one local vendor who was looking forward to both selling and buying locally. The insurance requirements for small producers, gardeners and artisans, [...]
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Readers of the Valley News have recently seen more articles coming out of the Claremont area, and for good reason. Yesterday, the newspaper announced they’re expanding coverage in the region and will also be holding a public forum to get ideas from residents on Thursday, July 30. at 6 p.m. at the Claremont Savings Bank, [...]
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The Farmers’ Market is “the slowly turning Lazy Susan of the seasons.” – Poet John Hollander The first week of August (2 – 8th) is NH Farmers’ Market week, part of a month-long celebration that focuses on the benefits of eating locally and enjoying fresh food and NH made products while helping local economies, farmers [...]
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Looking for fun and interesting things to do this summer while staying closer to home? Then, here’s a list for you! It’s called: Experience Rural New Hampshire. (PDF 296 kb). It has 16 categories of interest including on-going and special events and a calendar of NH’s country Fairs. New Hampshire’s rural heritage steeped in history [...]
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Governor John Lynch proclaimed the month of August 2009 as NH Eat Local Month and August 2 -8 as NH Farmers’ Market Week, which coincides with the 10th annual National Farmers’ Market Week, saluting farmers’ markets all across America. Each week in August, NH will have a theme, said Mario Capozzoli, Sunapee. Capozzoli, is a [...]
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