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Wed. 1 - 5 pm

Thurs. 9 -12 & 1 - 6 pm

Saturday 9 am - 2 pm

Sent to over 1030 contacts! 67% opened last week! (do you open YOURS?)

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NEXT ISSUES: Submit current news and events In brief text please, to Newsletter@library.warnerNH.gov by Tues. March 12, for March 15 issue.

Town Meeting!

Town Election day for Warner is Tuesday, March 12, 2024. Voting hours are 7 am - 7 pm. The Town Clerk's office will be closed that day for Town elections.

A citizen petition on number of Selectboard members, and Changes to the Warner Zoning Ordinance, Article XV, Non-Conforming Use will also be voted on by ballot on Election Day. Relevant Documents are available at https://warner.nh.us/notices, including: Current Zoning Ordinance, Proposed Changes

Sample Zoning Ballot, Sample Town Ballot, Sample School Ballot, Absentee Ballot Request Form.

Town Meeting is Wednesday, March 13 2024, 6 pm until done, at Warner Town Hall

You must be present at Town Meeting and be a Registered Voter to vote on Warrant Articles. Some documents for Town Meeting are at https://warner.nh.us/notices:

Revenue summary for 2023 (XLSX), 2024 Estimated Tax Rate (XLSX), 2024 Operations Budget, DRA Approved 2024 Warrant Articles, DRA Approved 2024 Budget (MS 737)

In addition to the usual items, there are four Citizen Petition articles to vote on Wed:

a 4% cap on tax increases ~ suspending the rail trail project ~ Zero rent for the Food Pantry ~ posting Zoom videos online for all Town Committee meetings. See Warrant.

The Annual District/Precinct Meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 starting at 7PM at Warner Town Hall for residents of the Warner Village Water District. The first session will be Official Ballot Voting. The second session will be Transaction of All Other Business. DRA Approved Warrant Articles DRA Approved 2024 Budget

Got Mud? Reduced Weight Limits on Town Roads - All Class V Roads within the Town of Warner shall be closed to vehicles in excess of 6 tons starting March 1, 2024 until further notice. See the notices page for more info.

Kearsarge Beekeepers Association will meet Saturday, March 9 at 9:15 at the Pillsbury Free Library and Sat. April 13 at Warner Town Hall. New members welcome.

Maple Weekend! March 16 & 17

Warner Town Hall is Maple Central. Stop and pick up a brochure of events, restaurants, and sugar houses to visit!

Breakfast Saturday and Sunday from 7:30-11:00 a.m. at a new location, Warner Town Hall, lower level. Plain and blueberry waffles and pancakes, scrambled eggs, home fries, baked beans, sausage, and beverages. $12 for adults, children 7 – 12 $5, six and under free. Contact Rebecca Courser 603-456-3997.

Help judge the maple syrup contenders in the third annual event sponsored by the Warner Historical Society, 9 am to 1 pm both days upstairs in the town hall.

The Library will have a make and take craft Saturday March 16, 9-1:30, and local Sugar Houses will be open, including Kearsarge Gore Farm, Rogers' Maple Syrup, and Courser Farm Sugarhouse.

Artist Denise Green plans to have an open house (just before Kearsarge Gore Farm).

Warner's restaurants will most likely have maple themed offerings also.

Maple Day at Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum will be Saturday, March 16 from 10 am to 2 pm. Traditional maple syrup making demonstrations, historical displays, storytelling at 11 am and 1 pm, a maple bake sale, acorn pancake samples, and more. The museum and gift shop will be open.

Warner Food Pantry at the Warner Community Building is having an OPEN HOUSE on Saturday, March 9 from 10 am to 1 pm. Come see the newly reorganized space. Over $80,000 worth of food, etc. provided in 2023 to Warner residents. Donate an item to be entered into a raffle!

$9,383 has been raised of the $25,000 goal on the GoFundMe page for Tammy Junkins and sons, whose home on Marsh Lane in Warner was destroyed by fire on Feb. 15.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/wv9vs-support-our-coworker to contribute.

NH Legislative bills: Find meetings and hearings:

NH Senate https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/senate/schedule/dailyschedule.aspx

Online comment link: https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/remotecommittee/senate.aspx

NH House: https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/schedule/dailyschedule.aspx

LIVE STREAM available on youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxqjz56akoWRL_5vyaQDtvQ

Go online to express an opinion about these or other bills.

https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/remotetestimony/

Warner Community Power will begin serving Warner residents with low cost electric supply in March, managed by Community Power Coalition of NH. Residents without other fixed contracts or solar are automatically opted in. You can see options and select which energy choice works best for you, including the % of renewables at the portal at www.communitypowernh.gov/warner or call 1-866-603-POWR or 866-603-7697 to choose your power option, or to opt out. Have your Eversource account number handy. The default CPC rate is 8.1 cents at this time. Eversource is 8.2 cents.

IF YOU HAVE SOLAR net metering: call to confirm PSNH assigned you as NO change.

Ash Bark Basket Making at Mt Kearsarge Indian Museum: Saturday, April 13th!

Five spots left in this workshop by Jennifer Lee! All materials provided. Register here.

NH Telephone museum and Warner Firefighters Museum are open Tues and Sat 10-4.

You're Invited to join in activities for Holy Week at Magdalen College in March

All liturgies are open to the public. https://magdalen.edu/holyweek/ If you would like to attend the Easter feast on Saturday night or the Easter brunch on Sunday morning, please RSVP https://magdalen.edu/easter-meals-rsvp/ for these meals by Wednesday, March 20th. A $5 donation for each meal is requested to help cover the cost of food.

EASTER EVENTS AT UNITED CHURCH OF WARNER - ALL ARE WELCOME.

• Good Friday Service in the sanctuary, March 29, 6:30 PM
• Easter Egg Hunt at the church, Saturday March 30, 3 PM. The Easter bunny will be there, and light refreshments will be served.
• Sunrise Service, Burnt Hill Road, 6 AM, Sunday March 31. Muffins and coffee available at the church after the service.
• Easter morning worship service at UCW, 10 AM

Easter cookie walk Sat. March 23 9:30-12:30 Warner Town Hall – and an appearance by the Easter Bunny is expected! Sponsored by the Warner 250th birthday committee.

Warner Surveys

New London Hospital and Newport Health Center are conducting a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) which includes a 10 min. Community Health survey https://survey.jsi.com/s3/NLH-CHNA24

The Warner Housing Advisory Committee survey is online at surveymonkey.com/r/WarnerHousing24. Paper surveys are available at the Town Hall (outside the Town Clerk's office), Pillsbury Free Library, United Church of Warner (first floor), and Sugar River Bank (front entry). Return your completed paper surveys to the survey boxes.

The Hazard Mitigation Plan Update Committee wants to hear YOUR extreme weather experiences and concerns. Only 79 responses so far - let's get 100!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WarnerNH-HazMit Paper copies are available at the library, Church, Bank and Town Hall.

All are welcome to participate. Next meeting: Wed. Mar. 20, 9-12 at EOC (Fire station)

Reed's North: Saturday Tavern Night music 6-9pm (check FB for weekly details). 

Sunday hours: 8am to 2, Brunch Menu. Team Trivia on Thursdays 6-8.

The Local is open 11 am - 8 pm Tues-Sat. facebook.com/TheLocalWarner

6-9 PM Team Trivia at The Local Every Wednesday

Friday 3/8 - 1st Day w/ Bohannan Farm Local Ground Beef!

Saturday 3/9 - Local Girl Scout Troop 62914 - In House Selling Cookies

Charlie Mac’s Pizzaria is looking to hire a pizza maker and will train. 25-30 hours per week, Week days 4pm-closing. Sunday 12pm-closing. Minimum age is 18.

SCORE Free Online Workshops: https://www.score.org/graniteregion/local-workshops/upcoming-events-calendar

Lavender Fields at Pumpkin Blossom Farm 2024 summer event calendar has been released: Book your favorite events before they sell out - including yoga, Farm to table, and date nights. (more events will be added later also). Shop online now for Easter!

Coming in April: Warner Public Market 2.0! Chris & Krystal Hudon plan to "continue with and expand on what WPM has become... adding hot "to-go" foods, sweet treats and coffee....breakfast sandwiches and burritos. All food products made in the store will use local meats and veggies, purchasing from local farms... [and] to provide all these items at the best price possible so that anyone can afford to buy local. ​"

At Your Library

Library Book Group Next meeting: Wed. March 13 at 1:30 pm, to discuss The First Ladies by Marie Benedict. Copies are available at the library. All welcome.

Tax forms! We now have 1040 and 1040 SR forms, AND instruction books, and can help you print other forms you may need.Need help filing? Call 211 for an appointment for free assistance or go to NHTaxHelp.org.

Warner Writers Group with David Elliott - next meeting, Thurs. March 21 at 6:30 pm. Please sign up to help plan handouts/ send updates: https://signup.com/go/biWjiqL

The Circle of Friends of Pillsbury Free Library will once again have 3 tables at the upcoming Flea Market April 6 at Warner Town Hall. Donations of saleable items may be dropped off at the Warner Town Hall on Friday afternoon, April 5. If you need to make other arrangements call Joan Warren (603-456-3664) or Carol McCausland (603-456-2393). Please, no Christmas items. 

Next Circle of Friends meeting: Thursday April 11 at 1:30 pm

Save the dates for future library happenings!:

Saturday, March 16: Maple Weekend make and take kids craft in the library

Saturday, April 6: Town Hall Indoor Flea Market (vendor spaces are almost all gone!)

Wednesday, April 10: Local Author/ Artist program in the library

Saturday, April 20: Earth Week mini-fair ACTIVITIES AND DISPLAYS.

We have free or reduced cost admission Library passes for:

McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Now open WED- Sunday and vacation weeks 10:30 AM-4 PM. See starhop.com for SHOW schedules (add $7 /show/person).

Registration for summer camps at the center is now open.

The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester currier.org is open Wed- Sunday.

1/2 price with a library pass. Stories of the Sea maritime-themed display.

Art for Vets program: the AFV Family Day is the 3rd Saturday of each month.

Museum of Fine Arts in Boston: www.mfa.org/exhibitions

For the promo-code "pass" discount at MFA, for $10 admission, call 603-456-2289.

Digital Iridescence: Jell-O in New Media ends March 24, 2024

https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/hallyu-the-korean-wave Opens March 24

New Hampshire Telephone Museum and Warner Firefighters Museum will reopen Tuesday March 5, for Saturdays &Tuesdays in March and April, 10-4.

Host an exchange student! https://chinet.org/academic-year/

Girl Scout cookies: The Local will be hosting the Local Girl Scout Troop #62194 cookie sales on Saturday March 9, 12-4 pm

Boy Scouts: Youth age 11-17. Troop 71B & 71G have plenty of things for you to do! Not quite 11 yet? If you are in 5th grade you can join starting on March 1st even if still 10!

Troop 71 Kearsarge/Sunapee NH meet every Wednesday from 7-8:15 pm at the First Baptist Church of New London. We follow the Kearsarge school schedule for snow days and vacation weeks. https://beascout.scouting.org/



Warner 4-H Club's next meeting will be Monday, March 11 at the United Church of Warner, 6:30 PM. Ages 8-18 welcome. A great co-ed group with a mix of ages.

Warner Youth Sports news: WYSA spring baseball and softball registration is open. Go to www.warnersports.org to register via TeamSnap. if you're planning on signing your kids up, do it as soon as possible so we can plan rosters and schedules and such. Here's that link: https://go.teamsnap.com/forms/410174

Rethink, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair

NexTREX stretchy plastic recycling progress report: we have now collected 775 pounds of the target (1000# by August) to win a bench for Simonds School. Clean plastic bags and stretchy film, including bubble wrap can be brought to the library or the School. Many thanks to Judy Pellettieri for weekly weighing and reporting.

Prepping for the Solar eclipse? https://www.wmur.com/article/rossen-reports-watch-out-for-these-fake-solar-eclipse-glasses/46872432

https://www.education.nh.gov/educators/resources-teachers/2024-solar-eclipse

Saturday, March 23 from 10am-12pm: Finding Your Story in the Climate Movement

A gathering at South Church in Concord to talk about finding your place in the climate movement, and telling your story to move others to take action.

Maine Conservation Voters Friday Lunchtime webinars: Free. Friday March 8: New England Feeding New England: A Regional Approach to Food System Resilience

The Warner Parks and Rec CoEd Adult Recreational Softball League: register now! Deadline March 18. http://www.warnerparksandrec.com/coed-recreational-softball/

Pruning season! UNH Extension Food & AG fruit pruning demonstrations across the state include ornamental tree and shrub sessions! Free. Ornamentals: 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟴, 𝟱 𝘁𝗼 𝟳𝗽𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘀𝗵𝘂𝗮, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟯𝟬, 𝟭𝟬𝗮𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟮𝗽𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱, 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟱, 𝟱 𝘁𝗼 𝟳 𝗽𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗲. Schedule of pruning demos: https://extension.unh.edu/resource/pruning-trees-shrubs

Warner Indoor Pickleball at Simonds School is Fridays and Mondays 6:30-8:30 pm in the Gym unless no school. Use the gym's outside door. Use the Team Reach app to find out about attendance and cancellations. WarnerNHPB code WPB21

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Warner Parks & Rec. Old School P.E.. meets at Simonds on Thursdays at 6:30 pm. All adults welcome. Floor hockey, Volleyball; the activities rotate and are posted on FB!

Reed's Tavern Night Music: Sat. March. 9, 6-9 pm Dave Graham Live!

Wednesday, March 13 at 5:30 PM Warner Wednesday: Celtic Night: Special guest piper Warren Smith. 10% off food if kilted. It will be a loud and very fun night! Celebrate our Irish & Scottish heritage. Reservations recommended.

Thursday Night Music at The Local 5 pm March 14: April Cushman

March 21 – Danny McCarthy

Peg Chaffee will be hosting "Second Tuesday Open Mic" at Cafe One East.on Tues. March 13, 6:30 to 8:00 pm. To play, come early to sign up for a 10-minute slot.

Adult Networking Art and Craft Group, 3rd Saturday of every Month (March 16) at Bradford Community Center, 9 AM - 11 AM. supplies provided, Bring your own project to work on or teach.Teenagers welcome, Email Heather at forfengdesigns@gmail.com

Plugged In Music Lesson Studio ensemble classes. $230 for an 8 week session. All music provided and instruments provided depending.

All ages and styles welcome. Email info@pluggedinstudionh.com for more info.

The NH State Council on the Arts is now accepting Letters of Intent for its FY25 Arts Conservation License Plate Grant. 

Other Event listings online : warner.lib.nh.us/warner-events-calendar, nh365.org, visitnh.gov, kearsargecalendar.com nhhumanities.org/programs/upcoming, centerfortheartsnh.org Arts calendar, facebook.com/NHMusicCollective/

The Family Closet Thrift Store VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION Monday March 18, 2:00-4:00pm at the store (refreshments) RSVP: familyclosetwcnh@gmail.com

Spring/Summer Donations begin in April. No more Winter stuff please.

Clearance on Winter clothing and gear 50% off now, $1 Days starting Saturday 3/16 - most clothes, BAG SALE Saturday 3/23 - stuff a bag for $5.

Warner Connects NH has a warrant article fro Town Meeting to request rent-free operation, as was always done in Warner and continues in surrounding towns for their food pantries. Information at https://www.warnerconnectsnh.org/_files/ugd/07a7b3_213dd72e0e5f462789993179170e3b5d.pdf.

Annual Report at www.warnerconnectsnh.org.



Warner Area Food Pantry. https://www.warnerconnectsnh.org. Wishlist: tuna, oatmeal packets, canned past, toilet paper, diapers sizes 'newborn' and '1 yr'

Pantry Client Hours: TUESDAY 4:00-6:00 & THURSDAY 11:00am- 1:00 pm .

Office Hours: Tues - Thurs., 10am - 3pm.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553264195575

Belknap-Merrimack County Community Action has office hours in Warner at 49 W. Main Street next to the Family Closet Thrift Store. Public hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm. Stop by for assistance with Energy cost applications etc. or visit https://capbm.org/ or call 603-456-2207 (x 6301 is Joe Cullen).

Welfare Office Please email [welfare@warnernh.gov], stop in, or call [603-456-2298 Ext 1229] with questions, concerns, or need. Applications are in the plastic tub labeled 'Welfare' in the front of the Town Hall - 24 hours a day.

IRS Tax help: call 211 to make an appointment with Tax aides. Also, nhtaxhelp.org lists sites around the state where people can schedule free sessions to help with their taxes. You can also see if you qualify for free online filing at the IRS site: https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free

We have a handful of Covid-19 Test Kits at the Library. Also, you can ask your insurance if they will reimburse or provide test kits.

Did you order one set of 4 free at-home individual rapid antigen COVID-19 tests since October? Limit of one order per residential address. https://special.usps.com/testkits. Tests may show “expired” dates on the box, but FDA has extended those dates; see the full list of extended expiration dates.

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.

Trustee meetings are published 24-48 hours in advance on the Warner Events Calendar. Approved minutes are published on the Trustee Meetings page.