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Warner News and Events
October 29, 2026
from Pillsbury Free Library
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Thurs. Oct. 29, 5-8 pm Music Live at the Local Willy Chase
HALLOWEEN IS COMING!
Fri. Oct. 30, 2 pm Simonds School costume parade on Main St.
Sat. Oct. 31 5-8 pm Halloween Trick or Treat in Warner. Note for safety Geneva St. will be closed to traffic.
From 5 to 7:30 PM The United Church of Warner will welcome trick-or-treaters for Treats, doughnuts, and hot apple cider. Parking and restrooms open to the public.
Sun., Nov. 1 - Change Your Clocks Back An Hour!
Sun. Nov. 1 Reed's North: Music 4-7 pm, Open mic John Farese
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Every Weekend:
Family Closet Thrift Boutique 10 am - 4 pm (also on Wednesdays)
Warner Firefighters' Museum most Saturdays, 10am to 3 pm
NH Telephone Museum Fridays 10 - 4 and Saturdays 10-2
Sat. and Sun. Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum: Fri. and Sat, 10 am - 4pm
Warner Indoor Flea Market every Sat. 8 am to 3 pm and Sun. 8 am to 2 pm
Warner Area Farmer's Market is closed for the season. Holiday Market Sat. Dec 12.
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Mon. Nov. 2 - PTO Meeting - Simonds Library - 6:30 pm
Monday, Nov 2nd 6-7PM The Beginner's Guide to Cemetery Sleuthing - a NH Humanities Program at Brown Memorial Library, Bradford
Nov. 3 Mid-Term elections, 7 am - 7 pm Warner Town Hall. Sample ballot in notices.
The Town Clerk's office will be closed Tuesday November 3 (General Election)
Thurs. Nov. 5 5-7 pm. Love Local: Meet your Farmer. Includes the premiere of a short documentary film, Growing Food, Growing Community featuring Alprilla Farm (Warner), Edgewater Farm, and Brookford Farm, followed by a panel with the farmers and food from Sweet Beet NH Cafe! Tickets by donation, save a spot www.bit.ly/LoveLocal26
Fri., Nov. 6, 12:00 – 4:30pm Blood drive at United Church of Warner.
Nov. 7, 7 pm: Colleen Costello, (Irish Psychic Medium) at Reed's North. Cash bar 6 pm.
Nov. 8, 5-7 pm Custom hat burning: create your own hat design and burn it on your choice of hat. At the Depot, $60 - prepay. Details on Facebook
Nov. 8 4-7 pm Reeds North Music 11/8 Joe Leary,
Nov 12, 7 pm: screening of An Invitation to Wonder: A young filmmaker kayaks through the mysterious wetlands in his grandfather's backyard hosted by Warner Conservation Commission at the Library.
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The 4th Annual Window Dressers Build of heat-saving custom interior storm windows will be held Nov. 12-16 at St. Andrews Church, New London,
Consider volunteering for a four-hour shift or two, to help build inserts, to make food or serve at the welcome table: use this Signup Sheet or sign up manually by email to lorilaicox@outlook.com. See https://windowdressers.org/ to order window inserts.
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Warner's Pumpkin Carving Weekend was a huge success with 85 pumpkins carved, and all the smiles and fun everyone had carving pumpkins, playing games, hanging with the piglets, food and vendors setting up! Thanks to sponsors and participants Ross Mingarelli, Warner Pest Services, Reed's North, Reed’s Fabrication and Repair, LLC CandleTree Soy Candles, RAM AXE Throwing, Micah Thompson Carroll Carpentry, A & A Creations, Chandra Iris Pfeiffer and Warner Market Basket. Be sure to go by this weekend to see the pumpkins!
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Congrats to Apryl Blood of Warner Food Pantry for being awarded a Volunteer NH Award. ConcordNHTV livestreamed the event! Watch Apryl receive her award. https://www.youtube.com/live/Os22jbYuUKQ?si=kLYFLkfSGlbwemJN at the 45-minute mark.
Congrats also to Roberto Rivera (Future Station 114 at old Bradford Junction/ Wicked Sweet Cakes location) for winning the Best Bite of the Night award at the local Food & Beverage event at Sunapee Mountain.
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Condolences to family and friends of Sylvia A. Blanchette, who died Oct. 22 age 103.
Concord Monitor: 10/24: Real estate transfers; Community news by Kathy Carson. 10/27/26 https://www.concordmonitor.com/2026/10/26/warner-planning-board-approves-housing (minor correction,10/28); Obituary Sylvia Blanchette.
InterTown Record 10/27/26 Online or at the library: KRSD takes Simonds off its closure proposal and Workforce housing wins conditional approval by Ray Carbone; Outside Insides by Linda Magoon; Letter about Dan Innis not attending forum, letter about school, ; Warner Neighbors by Kathy Carson; Real estate transfers.
The Messenger (free online/ Market Basket) Warner approves a 34-unit workforce housing project; Kearsarge Superintendent briefs Newbury Select Board on school funding.
News items/ events for the Town columns of the InterTown or Concord Monitor can be sent to Kathy Carson at Townnews.Warner@gmail.com as well as to this newsletter.
Articles about Warner: The library clips and saves news by and about Warner people. Please clip Warner items in the Union Leader, Boston Globe or other sources for us!
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Meetings (scheduled in the Town Hall lower level unless otherwise indicated).
Planning Board Meeting
Mon., Nov. 2, 7:00 – 10:00pm
Elections and Town Clerk's office closed, Tuesday Nov. 3, 7 am to 7 pm
Select Board Wed. Nov. 4, No zoom
Ambulance meeting 4 pm
Work Session to set tax rate 5 – 7pm
Conservation Commission
Wed., Nov. 4, 7:00 – 8:00pm
Budget Comm-TS, DPW Budgets
Thurs., Nov. 5, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Check https://warnernh.gov/calendar/
and https://warnerNH.gov/agenda/
Please check agendas AND calendar
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Kearsarge Regional School District www.facebook.com/KearsargeSAU65
https://www.kearsarge.org/district/family-community/pages/calendars
School Board Meetings (New London),
Thurs. Nov. 5 and Nov 19 6:30 pm
Kearsarge Prof. Dev Ctr, or Zoom.
No School Wed. Nov 11 Veteran's Day
No School Nov 25-27 Thanksgiving Holiday break.
District voting session Dec. 5th, 9 am at Kearsarge Middle School. (petition to close Sutton Central Elem. Sch.)
Press releases about School District
https://www.kearsarge.org
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Kearsarge School District Facilities Decision Center: https://facilitiesdatacenter.pplx.app/
Results of District survey. and https://www.savekearsargeschools.org/resources
HB 1374 Petition Received to Close Sutton Central School. A petition was received under the recently enacted HB 1374, triggering a district-wide vote on the closure of Sutton Central School (if yes it must happen by Aug. 2027).
The vote is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5, 2026, at 9:00 AM at the Kearsarge Regional Middle School. Voters from all 7 District towns will discuss followed by a ballot vote to determine if Sutton Central will be closed at this meeting. Voting may only take place in person, at the meeting.
Thank you, Patrick McGowan, and Paul Lakevicius, Warner’s School Board Repsand Q&A at the Warner Community Forum on School Consolidation on October 27.
Stay up to date on important dates at: www.savekearsargeschools.org/events-1-1-1
Or sign up at that site for emailed updates.
School Board meetings are on Zoom: the link is on the bottom of the day's agenda. Recordings are posted online (use the School Board meetings tab, and find agendas and recent recordings on the left side. (or at www.youtube.com/@kearsargeadmin3163 )
Patrick McGowan, Warner School Board Representative encourages you to reach out to him with any questions at pmcgowan@kearsarge.org.
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Free Tech help for Warner residents on Thursdays from 1-3pm at the Library:
Julia Bodnarik is offering free IT help with email setup, computer, cellphones, or any device or software at the Pillsbury Free Library every Thursday afternoon. Call 603-456-2289 or stop by to sign up for an appointment to avoid wait times.
Interested in playing Mahjong? The Library's Circle of Friends is planning a tutorial session and then regular group game dates. Plans are to hold two 1.5 hour training sessions, both for the "American" version with game cards, and for the simpler "Taiwan" free play version. These would probably be on a weeknight or one weeknight and one Saturday. Email Anastasia glavas at aglavas32@gmail.com or contact the library to RSVP
November 1 is Día de Muertos, a colorful celebration honoring loved ones who have passed, filled with traditions like ofrendas, marigolds, favorite foods, and family gatherings.
Join the celebration by discovering your first words in Spanish or taking your language skills even further! Explore 700+ hours of Spanish learning content for free with your library card access to Transparent Language Online.
Or try some Japanese for November 3, Japanese Culture Day!
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Museum and Parks passes for free or reduced admission are available:
For show schedules, check starhop.com/planetarium. Borrow our pass!
What new passes would you like us to offer in 2027? Squam Lakes Science Center, Odiorne Point Science Center, Canterbury Shaker Village?
SEE the FULL LIST and more details at: https://library.warnernh.gov/services/passes-2/
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Miss Sue's Library News (for Kids)
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The next book on the Story Walk is After Dark by David L. Harrison. Take a nice walk and enjoy reading some poetry about nocturnal animals.
The next prize drawing for the Purple Finch readers is Saturday October 31. Remember, the more of the books you read, the more slips to put in the jar!
Preschooler Story times every Thurs. at 10:30 am: stories, songs, finger-plays, and a craft in the children's room. Oct. 29th, kids can wear their costumes for story time!
Saturday Story times monthly at 10:30am: The next one is November 14.
New Children's Items: August, September, October, and we have new STEM KITS.
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TDS is discontinuing its email service (not internet service) effective October 31, 2026.
Some peoplehttps://tdstelecom.com/tds-email-faq.html.
Beware of Scams pretending to be TDS or Everymail: call TDS if you have questions. The real email reminder comes from e.tdstelecom.com.
If you change your email, remember to update any accounts that use the TDS email for multi-factor authentication.
Remember to sign up any new address for our newsletter! click update profile at the end of the email version or go to https://library.warnernh.gov/newsletter-signup/
Is Google sharing your data? https://lifehacker.com/tech/google-may-use-data-from-gmail-in-personal-intelligence-opt-out
From NY Times "AI by the numbers":
Share of the world’s electricity that data centers currently consume: 1.5 percent. Share of the world’s electricity generated by Germany: 1.5 percent.
Money that campaigns and political action groups have spent on ads generated by A.I. for the U.S. midterm elections: $137 million. Share of those campaign ads that were produced by Republican campaigns or Republican-aligned political action committees: more than 80 percent.
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Warner Fall Foliage Festival Board meets at Sugar River Bank, Wed. Nov. 4, 6 – 7:30pm
United Church of Warner Bible Study every Tuesday at 10 AM in the Parish House.
Fri., Nov. 6 Prayer Shawl Knitting Ministry Monthly on the first Friday,10:00 – 11:00am
The Warner Fish and Game Club meets the 4th Wednesday, at Bartlett Loop.
Club memberships expire Dec. 31 each year unless renewed earlier.
Warner Democrats currently meet on the 4th Sunday at 2 pm in the MainStreet BookEnds Gallery. To receive emails about news and events: WarnerDems@gmail.com
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum HOURS: Daily Mon-Sat 10 am - 4 pm and Sun. Noon - 4, with tours at 10:30am and 1:30pm. The library has passes!
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum will host its Annual 2026 Autumn Auction Fundraiser online from November 6 through November 15, 2026.
2026 Exhibit: Language as Strength honoring the remarkable Diné (Navajo) Code Talkers, ends In November.
MKIM Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/11V9S0D9PA4A2
Warner Historical Society The 15 W. Main Street Office is open 1 to 4pm Tuesdays and by appointment. Email info@warnerhistorical.org or leave a message at 603-456-2437.
Warner Historical Society needs bakers for Nov. 3 Elections at Warner Town Hall:
Sales benefit WHS. The polls are open from 7 am to 7 pm. Deliveries welcomed all day until 4 pm. Please package items in bags of 2-6. Be mindful of ingredients people need to know about and write them on the package (or a card for a group of things). Let us know if you can drop something off: info@warnerhistorical.org
NH Telephone Museum The last admission is a half hour before closing.
In November and December, Museum Hours will be ONLY Fridays and Saturdays
Warner Firefighters Museum is OPEN most Saturdays, 10 am - 3 pm.
Kearsarge Trail Snails Meeting: 2nd Fri. of every month @ 6:30pm (590 Schoodac Rd).
American Legion Post 39. The next meeting is November 10. (2nd Tues. at 7pm).
Warner Firefighters' Assoc Turkey Raffle: Nov. 21 at 7 pm. Raffle Tickets available at Honeycomb Salon on Main St.
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Your Cash Donations Make a Difference! Your monetary donations help the Food Pantry purchase essential, nutritious foods for our neighbors in need.
Beginning with the 2026 tax year, the IRS allows eligible taxpayers who take the standard deduction, rather than itemizing, to deduct qualifying cash charitable contributions of up to $1,000 for individuals or $2,000 for married couples filing jointly, subject to IRS rules.
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Warner Area Food Pantry
Wish List: Cake/brownie mixes, Pasta, not elbows or spaghetti, Jar spaghetti sauce, Canned spaghetti and meatballs, hamburger helper, Dry cereal no plain Cheerios or corn flakes, Face tissues, Cough drops(it’s the season), Dry cat food
Pantry Client Hours: Facebook
TUES. 4-6 pm & THURS. 11:00am- 1:00 pm.
warnerconnectsnh.org
Drop off items during office hours or leave items in the outside cupboard. Thank you! Office: Tues.& Wed. 10-1pm.
3rd Q. Food Pantry stats: Totals: 562 Households, 1137 Individuals, 10,233 Meals, 22% Children, 43% Adults, 35% Seniors.
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Family Closet Thrift Boutique
Wed. and Sat. 10am-1 pm 603-456-2183 familyclosetwcnh@gmail.com
Belknap-Merrimack County Community Action in Warner Thursdays, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm at Senior Housing office, 26 North Rd. WARC@capbm.org. 603-456-2207.
Welfare Office - Thursdays and hours by appt: Contact Molly Loz, Human Services Director at Warner Welfare office 603-456-3004 or help@WarnerNH.gov. Urgent? Dial 211
AA Meetings: Weekly Sat. 7:00 – 8:00pm, Mon. 6:30-7:30pm, and Wed. 7:30-8:30 pm at the United Church of Warner.
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The Local: Music most Thursdays 5-8 pm. https://thelocalwarnernh.com/events
Oct. 22 Jack Ancora, Oct. 29 Willy Chase
Sat. Oct. 24 Exeter Public Library is having an author fair from 10 AM to 2 PM.
Authors can apply here: https://forms.gle/ACvCjLU7z3EE8UmU7
Nov. 7, 7 pm: Colleen Costello, (Irish Psychic Medium) at Reed's North. Cash bar 6 pm.
Nov. 14, 9 am - 2 pm Warner Town Hall: Craft fair: A&A Creations is hosting a fundraiser to help support the Warner Area Food Pantry. Raffle, hot chocolate /coffee bar.
Nov. 21, 9 am -2 pm Craft fair at the Depot under Reed's North.
Writer's Group: online first and third Tues. of the month on ZOOM
ALSO see NH Authors' Directory, at nhauthors.com and a workshop at the Fells.
Reed's North: Music SUNDAYS 4-7 pm, see listing in Business section.
Trivia Thursday. Hosted by Competitive Edge Trivia. Teams of 2 to 6. Come early!
Music: 11/1 Open Mic - John Farese Every 1st Sunday, 11/8 Joe Leary, 11/15 Jimmy Howe
11/22 Colin Nevins, 11/29 Wayne St Jacques.
Paused: Open Mic at Cafe One East
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Thurs. Nov.12: Public screening of Video 'An Invitation to Wonder' sponsored by the Warner Conservation Commission on 11/12/26 at 7:00 pm in the library.
Open to the Public. Free. Film summary: A young filmmaker kayaks through the wetlands in his grandfather's backyard to discover the life, secrets, and importance of wetlands.
WYSA (Youth Sport) NEWS: See www.warnersports.org.
Warner Parks and Rec Dept: https://www.facebook.com/WarnerParksAndRecreation
Local sports news and signup www.warnerparksandrec.com/
Pickleball at Tennis Courts at Riverside: Sundays 9-1 until Nov. 1.
Indoor Pickleball, Mondays and Fridays 6:30 -8:30 pm at Simonds School.
See/add attendance on TeamReach: group WarnerNHPB, code WPB21.
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Library notecards of stained glass designs (5 windows $10), and Thank You cards with door window (5 for $8) are available.
Also book bags ($10) with a sketch of the library and the words "Check it out" .
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