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NEW Hours! (May 2022)
Mon. 10 am -12 & 1- 5 pm
Tues. 9 am - 12 & 1 - 8 pm
Wed. 1 - 5 pm
Thurs. 9 -12 & 1 - 6 pm
Saturday 9 am - 2 pm
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The library is open for walk-in use. Masks and distancing encouraged.
You can also borrow books by phone 603-456-2289, email, or by placing holds from the website catalog at warner.lib.nh.us
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Community News From Your Library |
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Corridor Committee first meeting
Monday, December 5, 5:30 – 6:30pm
Planning Board Meeting
Monday, December 5, 7:00 – 10:00pm
Select Board meeting
Tues. Dec. 6, 6:30 pm
Conservation Commission
Wednesday, December 7, 7:00 – 8:00pm
Ground Water Committee
Thursday, December 8, 7:00 – 8:00pm
There will be three Budget Committee meetings in December: Dec. 1, Dec. 8 and Dec. 15. at 7 pm. Also on Zoom.
Town committees... Meet at Town Hall and often also on ZOOM. Links on the
Tax Bill Update: Warner property tax bills were mailed on Friday November 25 and payments will be due by Tuesday, December 27, 2022 (no late fees if paid or postmarked by that date). Feel free to pay early!
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Kearsarge Regional School District will expand its preschool program to a second location in the 2023-2024 school year. The District will use Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds to purchase a modular building that will be placed on site at Kearsarge Regional Elementary School at Bradford. www.facebook.com/KearsargeSAU65/
Kearsarge Mountain Road Emergency Access Route:
GIS Summary, Central NH Regional Planning Commission - October 2019
Beware scam order sites such as: https://teesyprint.com/warner-nh-
The NH Fire Marshall's office says:
Half of home heating equipment fires are reported during December, January & February. Stay safe this winter by following home heating safety tips: www.youtube.com
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The next monthly board meeting of the Warner Fall Foliage Festival is Monday, December 5 at 6 pm in Sugar River Bank's meeting room. Public welcome.
The Annual Meeting for the Festival Membership will be held on Wednesday, January 11 at 7 PM in Town Hall. This is where the Membership will hear of the funding recommendations of the Funding Sub-committee and vote on whether or not to accept the recommendations. This is also a time to provide feedback, offer suggestions, ask questions, etc... Festival Membership includes anyone who lives in Warner or anyone who was a part of the Festival.
The Festival Board has several open spots for key roles. The roles of Board President, Volunteer Coordinator and Secretary are open. There are other Board roles to fulfil other tasks that come about in the course of planning for the Festival. Anyone who is interested in these roles, or wants to know more information, can contact the current Volunteer Coordinator, Beth Lukaitis, at volunteerwfff@aol.com.
The Annual Membership meeting is the time when new Board members are appointed. There is a very real risk that if the current openings are not filled by the Annual Meeting, this will be the final meeting of the WFFF. Get involved!
Volunteers are the key to a successful Warner Fall Foliage Festival. Success is turned back to the community in terms of grants awarded. Prior recipients include the School District, the Rail-Trail, the Library, Mainstreet Warner Stage, etc..
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It's That Time of Year! (updated) |
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See business section for Christmas tree info! Also Helping Hands section for Holiday food vouchers. Sneak peek at the 4-H Tree at Town Hall
Family Fun and Local Shopping! Warner Hometown Holidays
Saturday, December 3 (and Dec. 2 at WHS)
NOTE there have been updates since last issue!
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Festival of Trees Display inside Town Hall (starting Dec. 3, until after Dec. 25)
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Holiday Farmer's Market in Town Hall (lower level), 9 am to 2 pm.
- Artisans at the Upton Chandler House Museum on Main St. 10 am to 4 pm AND Friday Dec 2, 5-7 pm.
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The Gingerbread Man performed by Kearsarge Conservatory of the Performing Arts at 11 am in Town Hall (free).
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Mr. and Mrs. Santa among the Trees in Town Hall, arriving 1:30 pm, Photo opp. (cookies provided by The Kitchen).
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Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum will be open 10 am to 4 pm including the gift store. There is also a snow snake craft that day for those who have signed up.
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MainStreet BookEnds Gallery and book store: extended shopping hours that day 9 am to 9 pm and Holiday Children's book readings in the Gallery by the fire - no schedule as well as toys, art, cards, books and other gifts to buy. Warner authors will be signing books: children’s author David Elliott 11 am to 12:30 pm, author Ian Rogers 12:30 -2 pm, and children’s author Matt Forrest Esenwine 2 - 4 pm. Other authors may also be present.
- The Pillsbury Free Library will have a winter stories story time at 10:00am and a make and take craft from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. Refreshments and Open House 11:30am - 1:30pm. Come see our new HVAC system! The library closes at 2 pm.
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The Family Closet Thrift Boutique is opening early from 9am-4pm: donate a non-perishable, non-expired food items, receive a $5 shopping voucher to use in the store that day and a free stuffed animal (while supplies last). For the holidays, find new and lightly used toys, games, puzzles and children books.
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The Warner Connects Food Pantry will host an Open House from 10 am-12pm. Stop by or take a quick tour and see your donations at work.
- The NH Telephone Museum will have a 'Polar Express' themed day, including a movie, a train set-up in the special exhibit area, hot cocoa and marshmallows and a special Polar Express scavenger hunt 10 am-2 pm. Regular admission fee.
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The Nature Discovery Center's nature gift shop in Warner (across from the MKIM) will be open from 10 AM to 4 PM. The Nature Discovery Center will have free admission to the Museum during those same hours.
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Warner Public Market will have their monthly wine tasting, age 21+, after noon. Check out their unique gift selection or pick something up for dinner.
Caroling (Dec. 3):
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Gear Up Homeschoolers will be singing at Town Hall around 12:30 pm, with hot beverages available for a donation, then will move to Pillsbury Free Library (Depot St. side), then back to Town Hall (around 1:30).
- Caroling on the lawn of the MainStreet Warner, Inc. Lodge (behind the monument) 5:30 pm with duo Peg Chaffee and Cheryl Sager.
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Magdalen Choir will present “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” on Saturday, December 3 at 7:30pm at the College campus on Kearsarge Mtn Rd. The service is free and open to the public.
Food! The Kitchen Warner, Reed's North, Cafe One East and Charlie Mac's Pizzaria!
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Magdalen College Polyphony Choir's December 2022 Tour. In The Bleak Midwinter will be presented in five states and seven cities. The 20-voice ensemble’s festive concert of sacred music for Advent and Christmas includes works by Byrd, Palestrina, Victoria, Darke, Todd, and others ranging from the 15th century to the present day, capped off by familiar carols for all present to sing. https://magdalen.edu/concert/
Free & open to the public, at some of the most beautiful churches in New England!
New Hampshire locations: Friday, Dec. 9 at 7:00 PM: Sacred Heart Church, Laconia
Sunday, Dec. 11 at 6:30 PM: Immaculate Conception Church, Portsmouth.
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WYSA signups are open from now until December 15 for the 5 week Skiing and snowboarding program at Pat's Peak. Any child age 6 and up living in the Kearsarge Regional School District area is eligible to participate. Sessions are 4 to 6:30 pm on Thursdays beginning January 5, 2023. Lessons begin at 4:30, followed by free ski time. Elementary students are required to take a lesson as part of the package; optional for older students. Register at www.patspeak.com/Plan-Your-Visit/Lessons-Rentals/Learn-to-Ski-Ride-Program.aspx Contact Glen Moyer, baldeagle03251@yahoo.com.
Winter Parking Ban: The Town of Warner's Parking Ordinance is in effect and states that "no vehicle may be left on any street, road, or highway in the Town of Warner between the hours of 12:00 a.m. midnight and 6:00 a.m., from November 1st until May 1st of each year. Any vehicle found to be in violation of this ban will be towed away at the owner’s expense."
New Hampshire on Skis: Friday, December 9, 5:00 pm (VIRTUAL)
Take Scandinavian and Austrian immigrants, the Dartmouth Outing Club, the Cannon Mountain Tramway, the muscular Christian, amateur tinkerers, and Professor E. John B. Allen. Cover it with snow and shake, and you have all the makings of a unique New Hampshire history. Professor Emeritus of History at Plymouth State University, John Allen is historian for the New England Ski Museum in Franconia and the author of several books about ski history, including Traveling the Old Ski Tracks of New England (late 2022).
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Warner Artists and Performers |
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A Holiday Farmer's Market will be held Sat. Dec. 3, from 9 am to 2 pm in Town Hall.
Kearsarge Conservatory of the Performing Arts presents THE WIZARD OF OZ at Kearsarge Regional High School Friday, December 16 at 7:00 pm & Saturday, December 17 at 2:00 pm. Tickets available at the door or online @ buy.tututix.com/kcpa. $20 Adults, $18 Children. More info at www.NHPerformingArts.org
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Shout out to Warner Selectboard members Sam Bower, Lois Shea and Christine Frost for setting up the 13 Christmas Trees in Town Hall for the Festival of Trees, with decorations by local organizations for all to enjoy during the holiday season.
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Seasonal Warner Area Business |
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Christmas trees will be available on the lawn at Cafe One East and also from Pine Hills Tree Farm in Sutton, 48 Shadow Hill Rd. in N. Sutton. Grand opening November 25 at noon. Trees, wreaths, and Christmas time experiences! Danielle Bee of Warner will be selling dried flower ornaments there. Five Acres Garden Center will also have trees.
Holiday Barn Sale and WHS swag store at the Warner Historical Society's Upton Chandler House Museum, 9 am to noon on Saturdays Dec. 11, and Dec. 18. Decorations and housewares for the holiday season! (Dec. 3 is the Artisans sale)
Cider, apples, gifts, restaurant and cut your own trees while supplies last at Gould Hill Farm in Contoocook. . https://gouldhillfarm.com/ Weekends only, to Dec. 23.
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NHTM Hours change for December (Tues. 10 am - 4 pm and Sat. 10 am to 2 pm.).
Winter hours: The Indian Museum will be open Saturday Dec. 3, 10 - 4, no charge to visit the Gift Store - and at other times by appointment.
The Nature Discovery Center's nature gift shop (across from the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum) will be open just for Saturday, Dec. 3, from 10 AM to 4 PM. Free admission to the Museum during this day only! (Then closed for the season).
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Sugar River Bank have just a few left of Warner Christmas Project wishlist tags set up for anyone who wants to help purchase gifts for needy children in Warner.
Red Cross blood drives Friday, December 9, at United Church of Warner, 43 East Main Street, 11:30 AM - 5:00 pm. Make an appointment: www.Redcross.org.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church 354 Main St. Hopkinton, Wed. Dec. 28,1:30 - 6:30 PM
Warner Connects NH Food Pantry and Community Resource Center News
Open House! Saturday, Dec. 3, WCNH opens its doors to the public from 10 a.m. to 12-noon. Refreshments served. All are welcome!
WCNH is a distribution site for the Toys For Tots program. That means clients may come to WCNH to shop during the weeks of Dec.12 through Dec. 22. Appointments are required. Call (603) 456-2246.
The first annual Children's Holiday Shopping program is scheduled for Dec. 17 & 18 at the WCNH Food Pantry. The program offers children a chance to select gifts for their parents/family members/teachers. The no-cost holiday shopping event comes with gift wrapping as well! Hours are as follows: Saturday, Dec. 17, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 18, 12-noon to 2 p.m., or by appointment (call 603-456-2053). Masks are strongly encouraged!
Family Closet Thrift Boutique is OPEN 10:00-4:00 Wednesdays and Saturdays. Now including toys and games until December 21.
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A big Thank You to the Library's Circle of Friends for decorating the library this week!
The Library's Annual Fund Appeal letters will be arriving in mailboxes next week. We are thankful to the generous donors in the past two appeals, who have made it possible to add services and make building improvements beyond what tax appropriation covers.
Freebies! Stop by and put your name in to win a drawing for:
Desktop computers - one of our giveaways with Windows 10 (not upgradable): we are upgrading to newer, faster models that can run Windows 11. Keyboard and mouse, and monitor included. We won't lie - they are a little slow on startup and definitely no good for gaming...but perhaps better than none? We have 9 Windows 10 desktops and ONE Windows laptop.
50" flat screen TV with stand and wall mount hardware. It has developed a few lines in the image but has HDMI ports and other modern features.
Furniture: two study desk/ carrels, and a double sided tapered shelf unit that fits paperbacks, DVDs or Game boxes but not most hardcover books.
Want to create a unique memento gift from your old slides, negatives or photos? The library has borrowed a digitizing Scanner from the NH State Library which can create digital images from slides and negatives or from printed photos. Save to your flash drive, email or upload for free, or pay to print your family memories on paper!
Or simply use the preview function to figure out what is ON those slides! No cost to scan. Printing at the library is 50 cents per color page.
Do you know someone this would help? Please let them know!
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Have Fun and Reduce Waste, Too! |
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TONIGHT Thursday December 1 at 6:30 pm: Make re-usable fabric gift wrap bags to jazz up gifts! Spaces limited. Sign up required. call 603-456-2289
Photos from our first session for creating Tote Bags HERE
These activities use donated fabric and materials, to make useful items that also reduce plastic and other waste! Thank you to those who have donated fabric and our volunteers! Do you haveideas for future projects to offer? Call us!
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Free COVID and Flu VACCINES! New COVID-19 boosters target the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants - available for people aged 5 years and older.
vaccines.nh.gov. (pharmacies that have been doing Vaccines -or schedule a vaccine through your doctor's office. Vaccines for Covid-19 are FREE.
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Covid Home Test kits: many insurance plans will cover up to 8 tests per month per person. CVS has it set up on their website to order test kits. Walgreens also is offering help.They run them through your insurance and then you can pick them up in store.
Expiration dates on some COVID tests have been extended - check the updates.
Do a Google search by brand. Look again later for extension updates.
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Note that reported numbers do not reflect all cases due to home testing.
CDC guidelines for isolation and quarantine:
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For NH Museum links and info about library passes, visit
DECEMBER HOURS: Only open Tues.10 - 4pm and Sat. 10am - 2pm
Book ahead!
The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester currier.org is open.
Open on Sat. Dec. 3, 10 am to 4 pm.
Winter: groups by appointment.
The John Hay Estate at The Fells
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Gathering the Good Bits
by Roger Robbins
Norman Rockwell understood people. With his brushes and paints, Rockwell captured their "good bits" - those special moments, those wonderful expressions that touch our memories and inspire our better selves.
Some Rockwell "Good Bits" That Inspire Me
Freedom From Want - This wonderful holiday meal with turkey and family pulls me back to my Grandmother's house. The pleasure she felt feeding the family is a memory that lasts long after those days are gone.
The Runaway - The police officer buying the little (runaway) boy a soda reminds me of the kind officer who helped my friends across the road after school. His name was Officer Lawless (no kidding) and he always said hi and remembered our names.
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Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths. The Firekeeper's Daughter is nominated for the 2023 Flume Award, so if you love it, vote for it this spring!
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Miss Sue's News (for Kids) |
New Children's Items in our catalog:
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Warner author David Elliot has a new book published, Bumblebee Grumblebee. It is an adorable board book. Congrats David! |
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Preschooler Story times with Miss Sue are held every Thursday at 10:30 am - stories, songs, fingerplays, and a craft.
This program is held in the library's Children's Room.
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Saturday, December 3rd is Warner's Hometown Holidays. Miss Sue will do a 10:00 am winter story time, and there will be a make and take craft from after the story until 1:30.
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Every Week
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Library Story Time Thursdays 10:30 am
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Family Closet Thrift Store 10 am - 4 pm Wed. & Sat. at Warner Community Center.
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Trivia Night at Reed's North Thurs. 6-8
Coming Soon
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Other Online Event listings: Things to do or view
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Library Trustee meetings include the Monthly Board Meeting on the third Tuesday of each month (at 6:30 pm, in person) Various Committee meetings, some that meet monthly, vary in meeting schedules.
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Your Donations Keep Library Services Strong! |
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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! Contact us if you have any questions.
Stained glass theme "Thank You" cards (3 for $5), or other non-specific library stained glass cards (5 for $10), pictured here.
Call 603-456-2289 to arrange for pickup.
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