Back to School

In Sunapee, school was back in session August 26. For school district info, a school calendar, and bus routes, visit http://www.sunapee.k12.nh.us/. Sunapee is entering its second school year governed by its own School Administrative Unit, SAU 85. The Sunapee SAU office (phone 603-763-4627/email), is located at Sunapee Harbor at 68 Main Street and open daily [...]

Center Meeting House Update

Standing in the center of Newbury, New Hampshire as a symbol of where we have been and where we are going, the Center Meeting House is a link between our town’s historic past and its vibrant future. The Center Meeting House Committee in Newbury, NH has updated its website with news about its recent fundraiser, [...]

Sailing Lake Sunapee and Creating Friends

Summer racing for the Lake Sunapee Cruising Fleet is on a reach to the season’s finish line. There are only a few more races on the 2009 schedule. Perhaps you’ve seen sailboats of different sizes and design racing Lake Sunapee on a Wednesday evening or Sunday afternoon. The banner photo, courtesy of Paul Howe Photography, [...]

SRK Greenway Leads 16th Annual Walkabout

It’s time to take a hike or two, or perhaps three, five or seven. The Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway Coalition will lead seven hikes this fall that are open to the public free of charge. The trails chosen are part of the Greenway’s 75-mile Emerald Necklace. Hikers will be able to go over Mount Sunapee, into Sunapee [...]

Croydon and Grantham Community Columns via Sunacom

For Croydon and Grantham community news, catch the latest columns posted August 21 via Sunacom.com.

Sunapee Selectmen Meet August 24

The Sunapee board of selectmen meets next on Monday, August 24 at 7 p.m. at the town hall on Edgemont Road. The agenda (posted on the town website) shows appointments with Police Chief David Cahill regarding a new officer and with Spec Bowers from the budget advisory committee regarding the 2010 budget. Listed under “selectmen [...]

Sullivan County Commissioners Meet Aug. 20

The Sullivan County Commissioners meet on Thursday, August 20 at 3 p.m. at the Unity County Complex, Sullivan County Health Care Facility, 1st Floor Frank Smith Living Room. Here’s the agenda (PDF 56 kb).  An agenda item, under the County Administrator’s Report, reads: “GSCPHN New PHER & ASPR Grants Update.” Sharon Johnson-Callum, the administrative assistant [...]

Planning Board and Selectmen Will Discuss the Sunapee Center

Discussion in Sunapee about the Sunapee Center, a 5-acre parcel with buildings on Sargent Road, continues this week when the town’s planning board meets with the board of selectmen on Thursday, August 20 at 7:30 p.m. The planning board continues to work on revisions to the town’s 1998 master plan, a multi-year process that began [...]

Residential Hazardous Waste Collection in Sunapee Aug. 22

Six towns in the Sunapee area will participate in residential hazardous waste collection this Saturday, August 22. It will be held at the Town of Sunapee highway garage on Route 11 from 9 a.m. to noon. Residents of Sunapee, Springfield, Newbury, Wilmot, Goshen and Lempster are invited to gather their hazardous household materials and bring [...]

Muster Field Farm Days Aug. 29 and 30

How did people work and play in eighteenth-century rural New Hampshire? One can find out at the annual Farm Days celebration at the Muster Field Farm Museum in Sutton, Saturday and Sunday, August 29 and 30. This is Farm’s biggest event of the year and will feature hands-on demonstrations of farm and homestead skills and [...]

McKew offers Writer’s Retreat. Location is Lake Sunapee.

Writing is a process of discovery; if you are open to taking a detour now and again, there is no end to the wonders you will find. – Deb McKew, journalist, editor, teacher and lifelong learner Whether you live locally or a far, perhaps it’s time to for a getaway, a time to take a [...]

A Postcript about The Compass

To read The Compass on-line, visit: www.compasspaper.com Read related article: The Compass will publish weekly says Rapsis from HippoPress (SunapeeNews.com)

Summer Breezes: Farm Stand Pleasures

SunapeeNews.com introduces Summer Breezes, brief stories about summer, as it breezes by, what it means in personal terms and experiences. The joy of summer includes farm stands and fresh cut flowers and a kitchen adorned with delicious colors. Yes, one dreams of having one’s own cutting bed, rows of  plants and flowering shrubs that make [...]

On the Common, Newport’s Apple Pie Craft Fair Aug. 22

Newport’s traditional Apple Pie Craft Fair on the Newport Town Common is coming up on Saturday, August 22. Under the direction of the Kate Niboli, the new director of the Library Arts Center, the Fair Committee has lined up crafts that will ring the common. And, yes, visitors will enjoy the annual apple pie contest [...]

The Compass Will Publish Weekly Says Rapsis from HippoPress

“We believe that a great region deserves its own great community newspaper.” – Jeff Rapsis, associate publisher and partner/owner of HippoPress Have you read The Compass? It’s already on the street and in communities in and around the Claremont area, says Associate Publisher Jeff Rapsis of the HippoPress. With a coverage area similar to that [...]

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