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NEW Hours!
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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We now have 874 Subscribers! Tell your neighbors about subscribing!
You may need to click "view entire message" at the bottom to see ALL the news!
If you missed some newsletters, find them or subscribe at warner.lib.nh.us/library-news Check your "social" or "promotions" email folders. If you are subscribed, it helps to add the newsletter@warner.lib.nh.us address to your contacts for reliable delivery.
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Effective June 1, The Warner Transfer and recycling station reinstated fees for certain items. Fees were paused for 2 years due to the pandemic.
The complete fees list is on the town website at:
Interested in running for State Rep for District 8 (Henniker, Bradford and Warner) in the September Primaries? Register at the Warner Town Clerk's office between June 1 and June 10 (special hours for registration Friday June 10, 3-5 pm). Must be a resident, and a locally registered voter.
Town committees... Meet at Town Hall.
and often also on ZOOM. Links on the
All Town of Warner email addresses (warner.nh.us) are now @WarnerNH.gov. (but NOT the library).
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A "Lafayette's Tour" Historical Marker was installed May 21 in front of Town Hall.
Kearsarge Regional School District Congrats to Student of the Month, Francie Reid!
Congratulations to KRSD Equestrian Team for winning both a team state title (or in Equestrian terms, the Reserve High Point Team) as well as having a number of riders win individual state titles! Individual winners were:
Celeste Abarca - 2'3" Equitation Over Fences
Hannah Marcom - English Suitability
Jane Anderson - Western Suitability, Western Equitation, Open Freestyle
Margaret Donohue - Pole Bending
KRHS Graduation is Sat. June 16 and the last day of School is Tues. June 21.
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Order your Library Summer Program theme T-Shirts ASAP to be sure to get your size while available! This year's theme is "Oceans of Possibility"
Order form is available at the library or download online HERE
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During Warner's Memorial Day observance, American Legion Post 39 member Ted Young laid flowers at the grave of Lyman W. Bigelow III, a Sergeant in the US Army, who was killed in action in Korea at the age of 21. Post 39 is named for Bigelow and others. (Wilkins-Cloues-Bigelow-Pearson). Photo by Barbara Lassonde.
The family and friends of Charmaine Lucile Rose invite you to a Celebration of her Life on Sunday, June 5th at 2:00 pm at NH Audubon's McLane Center, 84 Silk Farm Rd, Concord. Charmaine died peacefully on December 21, 2019 in Concord where she lived for the previous 13 years. She lived in Warner NH for 30 years prior to Concord.
Gladys "Lee" (Sharples) Durgin, 81, formerly of Webster and Warner, NH, died January 24, 2022 in Medina OH and was. Obituary
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Warner Wildlife and Tornadoes! |
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Birth Announcement! A few weeks back, a robin built a nest atop empty coat hangers in the middle of the Food Pantry tent and last weekend, two baby robins hatched!
The tent was "off limits" while she tended her eggs and will remain so until her babies take flight. A gift of joy from Mother Nature!
(Photo by Meg Whittemore.)
Virtual Super Stellar Friday June 3 at 7 pm: Dr. Eric Hoffman of Plymouth State University's Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute discusses the climatology of tornados in the continental United States to understand where and when they are likely to be observed. He'll also provide information about the structure of tornadic thunderstorms. Lastly, you'll hear about how a group of students and faculty travelled to Great Plains to investigate storms and share stories about their trips in 2017 and 2019. Virtual Super Stellar Friday is a FREE event, but registration is required—click here to register
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Want to help plan Warner’s 250th Birthday (Sestercentennial) celebration in 2024? Come to a planning meeting TONIGHT Thursday June 2nd at 7 pm at the Warner Town Hall. Should it just be a week-long event or events throughout the year? How can we celebrate it during the Fall Foliage Festival? We need ideas and people willing to help organize events. You don’t need to know Warner’s history as you will learn it as we go along. The Warner Historical Society has a committee researching and writing Warner’s history from 1974 to 2024. The society will also be planning an exhibit commemorating Warner’s past and present for that summer. Let’s make this a fun and creative event!
Frederick Douglass Community Reading, Friday July 1 at Noon. Warner will once again join volunteers from around the state on July 1st at noon to read Frederick Douglass’ famous speech, “What to the Slave is Your Fourth of July”. The event will take place inside the Warner Town Hall. If you would like to read a portion of Douglass’ speech please email: info@warnerhistorical.org.
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The Nature Discovery Center Museum season begins June 4. The Museum will be open Saturdays 10:30-4 and Sundays noon to 4 in 2022. Volunteers welcome.
June 4, 2022
MKIM Spring Plant Sale and NH Herbal Network’s Herb and Garden Day. In addition to the Herb and Garden Day activities in the powwow field, Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum (MKIM) will be having a plant sale and raffle at the front entrance.
The museum will be open and regular admission applies to tour the museum (free for members). There is no charge to shop at the plant sale (by donation) or to shop the MKIM gift shop. To shop at the NH Herb and Garden event sales area there is a $5 fee.
The Pillsbury Free Library will be holding a mini book sale on Sat. June 4 from 9:30 to 12:30 to clear out storage space. No new donations are being sought, as we have plenty to sell! Volunteers needed to set up on Friday June 3 or pack up at 12:30 June 4.
KCPA SPRING SHOW June 11th 5:00 pm, June 12th 2:00 pm Matinee, at the Warner Town Hall. Act I Peter Pan Ballet Act II The Variety Show. Tickets: $20.00 Adults $15.00 Children and Students. For more information: www.NHPerformingArts.org
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For Doctor Who, Superheroes or...? |
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Jokes are flowing already when people spy the library's newest feature which arrived this week: two privacy booths. The Poppin Pod booths have been installed in place of two open computer desks, which will provide better privacy options for people engaged in oral exchanges such as phone calls or online discussions for telehealth, job interviews, classes, or Zoom meetings. They are surprisingly roomy.
The booths were purchased thanks to federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, and made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the New Hampshire State Library, as well as funds raised by The Circle of Friends of Pillsbury Free Library.
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Business News & Holiday Hours |
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The Kitchen Warner is working on some new fun things. The back deck is being finished, The front porch bar is being worked on. There will be a new happy hour between 3:00 and 5:00 Wed thru Saturday....details to follow.
And there is a new summer menu.
They are also running a promotion. "When you come to the restaurant, share pictures on your Facebook, tag us, and/or follow us and leave a review and be entered to win a $50 gift card."
30th Annual Plant Sale at the John Hay Estate at the Fells. Saturday, June 11, 9:00-11:00am.
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Kelly of @ibisstudios is the next artist in WPM's tiny gallery series!
Kelly’s talents range all over, from ink and watercolor, to printmaking, to beadwork. A little bit whimsical, a little bit of macabre, her work is full of curiosity and detail.
Friday June 4 at 4 PM – 7 PM
Sip And Learn at Warner Public Market. 3 new NH varieties for you to sample and learn about directly from the Vintner himself! Free (ages 21+)
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HELP US keep the newsletter going! SEND Warner news to newsletter@warner.lib.nh.us! |
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Warner Connects NH Food Pantry and Community Resource Center News
Applications for the 2022-2023 fuel assistance program will be accepted starting July 1st. If you heat with wood, vouchers will be sent early so deliveries can be made prior to the cold weather. Applications are available in the CAP or Warner Connects offices at 49 W. Main Street, Warner. Questions? Call 603-456-2246.
Received an electric disconnect notice? Help is available through the Neighbor Helping Neighbor program. Call 603-456-2053 for more information.
Red Cross Blood Drives in Warner: the next one will be on TUESDAY June 14, 11:30 am - 5 pm at United Church of Warner. www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/. "The short amount of time it takes to donate can mean a lifetime to a patient with a serious medical condition. We urge eligible donors to join us in the selfless act of giving blood"
For one more week, donations to help the people of Ukraine can be dropped off at the United Church of Warner Parish House at any time through June 10th. They will be taken to the Slavic Church of Manchester for shipping to where they are needed.
Cash donations can be made online or an in-person cash or check donation can be dropped off In the church sanctuary during the Sunday 10am worship service
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Sunday Soccer at Bagley Field 3pm Sundays. This is all-ages, all-community, no-fee pickup for the joy of the game. We're considering a time cut-off for younger players so the teens and adults can enjoy some more physical play. |
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Covid 19 ALERTS Merrimack County is rated as HIGH risk by the CDC County Check Tool (based on hospitalizations and deaths, not total cases). at this level, CDC advises "wear a mask indoors in public.."
Paxlovid and monoclonal antibody treatments are now available by doctor prescription
Note: Family Tree Health Care in Warner is now offering on-site vaccines to patients
CDC guidelines for isolation and quarantine:
Up to THREE orders of FREE at- home rapid tests delivered by USPS are available from https://www.covidtests.gov/ the third set contains eight, shipped in two packages.
If you have health insurance through an employer or Marketplace, your insurance will pay you back for 8 at-home tests each month for each person on your plan.
In NH, you can arrange for a test through your Doctor's office.
Vaccination data:
Warner: 67.5% fully vaccinated, 75.4% at least one dose.
Merrimack County (CDC) over age 5: 73.1% fully vaccinated, 88.4% at least 1 dose.
To get a COVID-19 vaccine: vaccines.nh.gov or call 211. You can also schedule a vaccine through your doctor's office. Vaccinations for Covid-19 are FREE, and available for ages 5 and up. Second boosters available 4+ months after the first, for ages 50+.
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Plan ahead for Summer vacation!
the John Hay Estate at The Fells We have Library Passes!
For NH Museum links and info about library passes, visit
Current exhibits include:
Summer hours: OPEN 10 am - 4 pm Tues. through Sat. New Exhibit: Alexander Graham Bell.
The Nature Discovery Center, located alongside the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, will reopen Saturday, June 4, at 10:30 AM.
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by Roger Robbins
In 1929, writer E. B. White married Katherine Angell. With her, Katherine brought her 9-year-old son, Roger. Stepfather and Stepson wrote some of the best stories in America in the 20th Century.
E. B. White
For anyone who has ever tried to write effectively, The Elements of Style, co-authored by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, has proven a powerful, plain-spoken tool. Roger Angell
A long-time writer and fiction editor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell raised baseball writing to an art.
Sports historian Richard Crepeau said the baseball story "Gone for Good" from Angell's book Five Seasons, "may be the best piece that anyone has ever written on baseball or any other sport." Another writer said Roger Angell's prose was so good he could "make a paper clip sing." |
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Magazine Highlight:
Woman's Day is focusing on the positive feeling that warm weather brings! This issue includes foods to enjoy with friends and family, creative ides for watermelons, surrounding yourself with people who inspire you, and fun ways to get fit!
Issue pictured: June/July 2022
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Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to smuggle past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the secret librarian of Auschwitz, responsible for the safekeeping of the small collection of titles, as well as the ‘living books’ - prisoners of Auschwitz who know certain books so well, they too can be ‘borrowed’ to educate the children in the camp. Nowhere are books more dangerous than in Block 31 of Auschwitz, the children’s block, where the slightest transgression can result in execution, no matter how young the transgressor…
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IT'S SYNC Audiobook Season! From April 28th until August 17th, check out AudioFile Magazine's FREE audiobooks for teens! 2 per week - download now and read later if you don't have time to read until vacation. Learn more at https://audiofilemagazine.com/sync/
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From June 2 - June 8, the 2 Free SYNC Audiobooks to download:
Andrew Maraniss's latest sports-focused biography centers on baseball player Glenn Burke. Having played in the 1970s, Burke is remembered for two things: He was gay at a time when the gay liberation movement was in its infancy, and he is credited as the inventor of the high five.
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Narrator Jason Culp relies on careful modulation to convey this nuanced, comprehensive examination of a dangerous time in twentieth-century history—the period of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Culp delivers the words of famous leaders such as Stalin, Kennedy, and Reagan with slight accents or impressions. To varying degrees, both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. employed propaganda, and he delivers the most blatant examples with suitable hints of sarcasm.
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Miss Sue's News (for Kids) |
New Children's Items in our catalog:
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The Summer Reading Program brochures are out! All programs are free and are open for any child who has finished Kindergarten. Sign up with Miss Sue for as many days as you want. It's going to be a fun reading summer, lots of ocean critters, beaches and lighthouses, and PIRATES!! Miss Sue also has copies of the brochure on her desk. |
Storytimes with Miss Sue, every Thursday at 10:30 am - stories, songs, fingerplays, and a craft.
This program is back to being held in the Children's Room.
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Information from Angela Brannon Tarleton:
KCPA Auditions for KCPA YOUTH SUMMER MUSICAL Charlotte's Web. Wednesday evening June 15th at KCPA Studio 5:00-6:00 pm. Please prepare one minute song and prepare to read from the script and learn a simple dance combination. More information at www.NHPerformingArts.org
Lavender Fields @ Pumpkin Blossom Farm is having some children's art classes throughout the month of June. Details at:
The Teddy Bear Picnic on Thurs. May 26th was a lot of fun! Thank you to all the parents for making the picnic fun and YUMMY!
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Every Week
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Library Story Time Thursdays 10:30 am
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Trivia night: Tuesdays at 6-8 pm at Reed's North Restaurant.
Coming Soon.
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Plant Sale Sat. June 4, 9 AM - 4 pm at Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum. free admission
- Herb & Garden Day- access to vendors $5.
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Mini Book Sale at the Library: Sat. June 4, 9:30-12:30 (no donated items needed)
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BookEnds Book group Sunday June 5 at 4 The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klume
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The Library Book Club meets Wed. June 8 at 1:30 pm to discuss The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Richardson. Books for July's meeting are now available.
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Phone Phreaking. Fri., June 24 at 7 PM. Talk hosted by New Hampshire Telephone Museum $5.
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Kite Making Workshop at NH Telephone Museum Tues. June 28 at 2 pm, $5
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July 1 (Friday) Frederick Douglass Reading in Town Hall at Noon.
- July 4 - Independence Day Holiday
- July 6 Library Summer Program begins 1:30 pm
- July 9-10 Powwow at MKIM
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Other Online Event listings: Things to do or view
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Tuesday evening Library hours! The library is now staying open until 8 pm on Tuesdays (but not Thursdays) as of May 3. To keep within budgeted hours, we have dropped the Wednesday morning hours (now opening at 1 pm) - but keeping Monday mornings, 10 am to noon, for now.
Covid protocols at the Library: We are no longer holding returned items in quarantine, so they can be returned inside when we are open, instead of placing them in the Book Drop slot outside. Masks are optional but encouraged, during library visits unless/until Covid numbers rise again. Curbside pickup is an option for anyone.
Thanks for helping us provide safe space for our most vulnerable residents, of all ages!
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Library Trustee committees meetings include the Monthly Board Meeting on the third Tuesday of each month (at 6:30 pm, in person), and various Committee meetings, some that meet monthly, vary in time.
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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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