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Warner News and Events ~ Dec. 11, 2025
from Pillsbury Free Library
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Come view the Festival of Trees inside Warner Town Hall, open every day 8 am -7 pm until January 4. Decorated by local groups.
Dec. 12 in Bradford! Santa will be at Brown Library and FD. The Cookie Walk will also be at the FD which is a fundraiser event for Bradford Independence day celebration, cash or venmo accepted for purchasing cookies. Bradford Community Church "Mac and Cheese" supper is at 5:30 pm. Dine in or take out.
LAST DAY for SURVEY! In response to new State housing laws, the second Warner Housing Committee (aka the HOP Grant 2 Committee) has a short survey now through Friday Dec. 12, 2025 at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WarnerHousing2025 .
Dec 13:
Barn Sale pop-ups at the Upton Chandler House 10 W. Main St, Warner. Saturdays, Dec. 13, 20, and Sunday Dec. 21, 9am to noon. Seasonal decoration and home goods!
Crochet with Susan Jenna December Saturdays, 9:30-10:30 am in the Library. All ages including adult (parents requested to assist with under- 8 yr olds).
Sunday Dec 14:
2-4 pm Boxwood Tree Workshop Call 456-2143 or reedsnorthstaff@gmail.com
2-3 PM. Christmas Vespers: Christmas hymns at United Church of Warner.
4-7 pm Reed's North Music: Dec. 14 Brian Booth,
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Condolences to family and friends of Mike Arsenault, who passed away November 21. Mike retired August 2024 after delivering mail in Warner for 24 years. Obituary.
InterTown Record Tues. Dec. 9: article by Ray Carbone giving an update on the Sherriff's Dept. investigations into two Warner officials. Copies available at the library.
Also of note: The InterTown has announced it will be published every 2 weeks instead of weekly, starting in January 2026.
Articles about Warner: The library clips and saves news by and about Warner people. Please save any Warner items in the Union Leader or Boston Globe please save for us!
Local resident Master woodworker Ted Blachly is part of the exhibit Joined Together: 30 Years of the New Hampshire Furniture Masters running until Feb. 8 but you can chat with him and others at an evening of Art Off the Walls on Dec 18, 5-8 pm featuring the NH Furniture Masters. Enjoy donation-based admission, conversation with the artists, galleries open late, and drinks and treats for purchase from Tidewater Cafe at the Currier. https://www.currier.org/event-details/art-off-the-walls-with-nh-furniture-masters
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Meetings (scheduled in the Town Hall lower level unless otherwise indicated).
Check https://warnernh.gov/calendar/
Select Board Work Session
Mon. Dec. 15, 9:30 – 11:30am
Planning Board Work Session
Mon., Dec. 15⋅7:00 – 9:00pm
Select Board Meeting
Tues., Dec. 16, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Energy Committee
Thurs., Dec. 18, 4:00 – 5:00pm
Budget Committee Meeting
Thursday, December 18⋅7:00 – 10:00pm
Agendas (often with Zoom Link) are at https://warnerNH.gov/agenda/ Updates:
-Please check agenda AND calendar
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Kearsarge Regional School District www.facebook.com/KearsargeSAU65
School Board Meeting - 6:30 pm Thurs. Dec. 11 (New London)
Municipal Budget Committee hearings
Dec. 9 &/or 16, 6:30 – 8:30pm
Kearsarge Professional Devel Ctr, New London or Zoom
https://www.kearsarge.org/district/family-community/pages/calendars
Deliberative session for KRSD warrant articles: Sat. Jan. 10 at KRMS, 9 am.
School Facilities Tour at NLES Wed Jan 7, 5:30pm & Board Meeting at 6:30 pm Public welcome.
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December Tax Payments were due Dec. 11: The Tax Office can now accept payments by credit card in person and over the telephone. warnernh.gov/departments/taxes/
The Warner 2025 Full Revaluation document (417 p) is now available on-line at: https://warnernh.gov/downloads/assessments/Warner_2025_Full_Revaluation.pdf
The Selectboard is discussing a 2026 Transfer Station hours change, to opening only three days per week, such as Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Discussion video from the Dec. 9 meeting Public input is still welcome.
The Supervisors of the Checklist will meet in a Public Session on the 2nd floor of the Warner Town Hall from 10 to 11 AM on Friday, January 2, 2026.
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The Annual meeting for the Warner Fall Foliage Festival was been POSTPONED due to Slat week's snow, and will be held Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 7:00 p.m. Come vote!
Simonds school families: Come decorate cookies, at Simonds School Dec. 17, 5-7 pm . Create holiday keepsakes and get a picture with your family and or friends! Free to all Simonds families—donations encouraged to help cover costs!
Barn Sale pop-ups at the Upton Chandler House 10 W. Main St, Saturdays, Dec. 13, 20, and Sunday Dec. 21, 9am to noon. Seasonal decoration and home goods!
Crochet with Susan Jenna December Saturdays, 9:30-10:30 am in the Library. All ages including adult (parents requested to assist with under- 8 yr olds).
Reed's North: Music SUNDAY 4-7 pm. Dec. 21 Jimmy Howe.
Dec. 20 Community Sing: caroling at Waterloo covered bridge, 6:45 pm. Next clear day if bad weather. Contact Kendra West-Senor. Lyric sheets available - bring a flashlight!
United Church of Warner: Dec 21, 12 PM. sing carols to shut-ins around Warner.
Every Sunday at 10 AM: Worship services featuring live appearances from the historical figures who wrote your favorite Christmas hymns. Coffee and refreshments after worship.
Christmas Eve Candlelight Worship Service. Thurs, Dec. 24, at 6:30 PM. An offering will be taken to support local charity organizations.
Ice Rink news: from Apryl (Parks and Rec President).THANK YOU!!!! To all the people who helped get the rink liner and rink together, and the Fire Dept for filling it. Once the gate is open the rink will be open, after it is fully finished for skating, and lights operational, so please be patient.
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Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum HOURS: through April, the museum is open Fridays and Saturdays 10am-4pm, with tours at 10:30am and 1:30pm. Holiday Sale at the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum Gift Shop for the next two weeks: 10–35% OFF store-wide — Fridays & Saturdays only! Native American art, jewelry, books, and handcrafted gifts.
Warner Historical Society The Main Street Office (15 W. Main St.) is open 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm on Tuesdays and by appointment. info@warnerhistorical.org or leave a message at 603-456-2437.
Barn Sale pop-ups at the Upton Chandler House 10 W. Main St, Saturdays, Dec. 13, 20, and Sunday Dec. 21, 9am to noon. Seasonal decoration and home goods!
NH Telephone Museum Dec. hours: Saturdays 10 am-2 pm and Tuesdays 10-4.
Warner Firefighters Museum is open Sa.s 10 am to 3pm December 13, 20.
Saturday Night Communion In The Chapel at United Church of Warner. at the back entrance of the Parish House, The first Sat every month, starting on Dec. 6, at 4 PM.
Dec 14, 2-3 PM. Christmas Vespers. Join us to sing all your favorite Christmas hymns.
Dec 21, 12 PM. Join us as we travel around Warner to sing carols to local shut-ins.
Every Sunday at 10 AM: Worship services featuring live appearances from the historical figures who wrote your favorite Christmas hymns. Coffee and refreshments after worship.
Christmas Eve Candlelight Worship Service. Thurs, Dec. 24, at 6:30 PM. An offering will be taken to support local charity organizations.
Super Stellar Friday at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center- Friday, December 5
What happens when circus meets science? The Science of Juggling is a fun, family-friendly performance by the Flying Gravity Circus Circademic Squad.
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Crochet with Susan Jenna will continue in December! Saturdays, 9:30-10:30 am in the Library. All ages including adult (parents requested to assist with under- 8 yr olds).
Authors: take note: Anthropic (the company that developed Claude.ai) lost a class action lawsuit, Bartz vs. Anthropic. Authors can search the database by publisher or author https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/ to find out if their titles are on the list and file a claim for $3000 Without a claim, there is no payout.
SUBMIT works to the 2025 Teen Writers Contest. Winners of the competitions in each genre will receive prizes from local businesses and publication in the Teen Writers Project. Open to all writers between the ages of 12 and 18 and who live in or attend school in Andover, Bradford, Danbury, Grantham, New London, Newbury, Newport, Springfield, Sunapee, Sutton, Warner, or Wilmot. Submit your entry at www.centerfortheartsnh.org/teen-writers-contest
Reed's North: Music SUNDAYS 4-7 pm. Dec. 14 Brian Booth, Dec. 21 Jimmy Howe.
Warner's Writer's Group First Tuesday of every month 6:30-7:45 PM (Jan. 6) at Pillsbury Free Library (Frank Maria Meeting Room), Enjoy an hour+ of dedicated writing time.
The Local: Music most Thursdays 5-8 pm.
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Want to watch an old favorite DVD (your own or from the library) this season but don't have a DVD player set up? Borrow ours! (2 types)
See other handy items in our "Library of Things" collection including a code reader for cars, a selfie stick, a Kill-a-Watt meter, and a radon Monitor. Need a sewing machine? Use ours! You can even book time in the meeting room to use it instead of lugging it home.
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Gift ideas: our popular large cotton Tote/Book bags is only $10.
Or send a local notecard with our colorful Library stained glass image (see picture in store link at the end of this newsletter). 5 windows in set.
Museum and Parks passes for free or reduced admission are available:
Full list and more details at: https://library.warnernh.gov/services/passes-2/
A few Museum happenings:
McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Wed. through Sun., 10:30 AM – 4 PM.
ALSO Open on Monday, Dec 29 and Tues, Dec. 30 and New Year's Eve Wed, Dec. 31.
closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
3 pm Planetarium Show for December 1 -14 is Super Massive Black Holes.
and for December 17 -31, 3:00 PM show is Asteroid – Mission Extreme.
For other shows check starhop.com/planetarium.
Borrow our pass! Special First Friday events and Sky watches.
The MFA (Boston): new exhibit “Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, and Pioneer”.
“Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer” Watercolors: timed tickets needed (includes general admission) $10 with a library promo code.
Currier Museum of Art exhibit Embellish Me: Works from the Collection of Norma Canelas Roth and William Roth. 1/2 price with our passes.
Museum of Science in Boston, all year, for 1/2 price entry!
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Saturday, Dec.13, 11-1pm Santa arrives by helicopter and leaves by firetruck at the Aviation Museum of NH. All outside, and free. There are activities, hot chocolate and goodies, and all the kids who visit Santa get goodie bags.
(27 Navigator Way, Londonderry, NH, 603-669-4820 www.aviationmuseumofnh.org )
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Calling all young actors and actresses! If you love, or want to try theater, please contact Miss Sue. We need a few more kids to join the cast for the next play A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (adapted by K. S. Miller) to be presented May 9 at Town Hall. Rehearsals Wednesdays at 3 pm, Jan.-May.
Family Crochet days are continuing! Saturdays, Dec. 13, 20, and 27 at 9:30-10:30am in the library meeting room with Sue Jenna of Warner 4-H Club. Come learn, or help others - adults welcome too!
This year's Ladybug Award books are here. Currently no checkouts while they are being read at story times but they can be read in-house. Voting by K-3rd graders for their favorite will be near the end of December. At that time they will be available to borrow.
Preschooler Story times every Thurs. at 10:30am with Miss Sue: stories, songs, finger-plays, and a craft - in the Children's Room.
Saturday Story times are back! Monthly: at 10:30am, January 17th and February 21st.
New Children's Items in our catalog: September, October, November and STEM KITS,
December holiday books and DVD's are now available. Come in and get some for the long cold days and nights and snow days!
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The Library book discussion group meets on the 2nd Wed. each month at 1:30 pm in the library. All are welcome! The library has copies to borrow up to 4 weeks ahead.
BookEnds BookGroup meets at 4pm on the first Friday every other month at MainStreet BookEnds. Next meeting Feb. 6.
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Alprilla Farm's December Bulk Order is open for ordering through Sunday the 14th! Warner-grown winter veggies like carrots, leeks, squash, potatoes & cabbage, and fresh-milled grains, too! Order NOW to pick up at the farm in Warner on Thurs. Dec. 18th. www.alprillafarm.com/bulk-orders. Support your local farmers and eat well!
Extended Holiday hours at MainStreet BookEnds: Tues. through Sat. 10 am to 6 pm
Ross Mingarelli's CandleTree Soy Candles are now at The Local !
CHRISTMAS TREES. Warner Aubuchon has trees out for sale, and Five Acres Garden and Pet supply in Bradford. Also Smith's Tree Farm 1487 Battle St, Webster. Pine Hills Tree Farm NH 48 Shadow Hill Rd in North Sutton is weekends only, until Xmas
Reed's North: Dec. 31 New Year's Eve Chinese Food packed to go, bar open to 8pm
BUY LOCAL! Many local businesses are listed at /kearsargechamber.org/page/members
https://www.facebook.com/Buttonwood.shop https://www.mainstreetbookends.com/
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Family Closet Thrift Store .
Open Weds. and Saturdays 10am-4pm 603-456-2183. Volunteers needed. Winter clothing! familyclosetwcnh@gmail.com
Warner Area Food Pantry
December Wish List: Dinty Moore Beef Stew, Canned Hash, Canned Pasta, Body Lotion, Face Tissues
www.warnerconnectsnh.org
Drop off items during office hours only, Tues.-Thurs. 10-1pm. Thank you!
Pantry Client Hours: TUES. 4-6 pm & THURS. 11:00am- 1:00 pm. Facebook
Office Hours: Tues - Thurs., 10am - 1pm.
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Belknap-Merrimack County Community Action hours in Warner at 49 W. Main Street. Tues. and Thursdays, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm or call 603-456-2207
Welfare Office - hours by appointment: Contact Warner Welfare office at 603-456-3004 or 456-2298 x1229, or email 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. nhaa.net/meetings/warner-group
Legal help: https://www.603legalaid.org/
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To donate to the Warner Food Pantry, online at www.warnerconnectsnh.org or by mail at P.O. Box 402, Warner, NH 03278. Food and personal care items can also be dropped off.
Reed's North "Friendly Freezer" is still preparing meals on Mondays to donate - contact them to see if you can help! Not a cook? Help package the meals!
There are still some boxes of cereal in the lower entry of the library, which are available for anyone who has a need. Simply pick out what you want!
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Local sports news and signup www.warnerparksandrec.com/ or Warnersports.org/
Indoor Pickleball at Simond's: Mondays and Fridays 6:30-8:30pm. NOT Dec. 22 - Jan 2. Use TeamReach WarnerNHPB, code WPB21 for attendance. If fewer than 4 sign up in the app, by 2pm it may be cancelled for that date unless comments in app indicate otherwise.
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Contributions to the library may be donated online, mailed to P. O. Box 299, Warner NH 03278 or put in the book drop!
Stained glass theme "Thank You" cards (3 for $5), or other non-specific library stained glass cards (5 for $10), pictured here. Buy online and/or Call 603-456-2289 to arrange for pickup.
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