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Letters, Opinion & Commentary From Selectmen, Trustees, School Boards and Neighbors Cyan Magenta Yellow Black INSIDE THIS ISSUE Letters ................. 2, 3, 6, 7, 15, 16 Town News ........................... 4 Library ................................. 5 Schools ............................... 9 Arts & Entertainment ............ 12 SportsFolio ........................... 14 Business .............................. 15 Mont Vernon ........................ 16 B R I E F S Next Issue: March 6, 2014 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black A MHERST C ITIZEN THE AMHERST TOWN LIBRARY – SCHOOL VACATION EVENTS FOR CHILDREN • ADULT PROGRAMS & MORE – PAGE 5 PRSRT. STD. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 10 Amherst, NH ECR WSS Postal Customer Annual Spaghetti Dinner Join Boy Scout Troop 22 on Saturday, March 29 for their annual Spaghetti Dinner at the Wilkins School. General admission is from 5-8pm. Adults (ages 15+) $8 and children (ages 6-14) $5. The special dinner for 2, which includes table-side service plus a chilled bottle of sparkling grape juice is $30. This has two seatings, 5-6 or 6:30-7:30. Please see a Scout for tickets or they may be pur- chased at the door. Sneaker Drive at the Town Li- brary Please donate old or used sneakers to help support the Nike “Re-use a Shoe Program”. This initiative takes worn out sneakers and grinds them down to make high quality sports surfaces including courts, turf fields, tracks and more. The donation box can be found at the Amherst Town Library from March 3rd to March 14th. AMHERST REPUBLICANS Month- ly Meeting Saturday, March 1, 8:00 AM Joey’s Diner, Route 101A, Amherst Our guest speaker will be State Representa- tive Marilinda Garcia, candidate for US Congress in the Second District. Read more about Marilinda at http://elect-mari.com/ For more information please visit www.amherstre- publicans.org Absentee Ballots Town Meeting voting day is March 11, 2014. The polls will be open from 6AM to 8PM at Souhegan High School. Absentee ballots are available to registered voters of the town. NH law requires that you vote in person at the polls unless you declare one of the following absences: 1) You plan to be absent on election day from the town where you are domiciled. 2) You cannot appear in public because of obser- vance of a religious commitment. 3) You are unable to vote due to a disability. 4) You cannot appear at any time during polling hours at the polling place because an employment obligation requires you to remain physically at work or to be in transit to or from work from the time the polls open until the time the polls close. Any person who votes or attempts to vote using an absentee ballot who is not entitled to vote by ab- sentee ballot shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. RSA 657:24 Absentee ballots may be requested in person at the town clerk’s office from 9AM to 3PM, Mon- day through Friday and Tuesday night from 4:30 to 6:30 and up to 5PM on Monday, March 10. They must be returned by 5PM on Monday, March 10th if returned in person or by 5PM on Election Day if re- ceived by mail. No absentee ballots will be accept- ed in hand at the polls. Absentee ballots may be requested by mail by submitting a request in writing with the signature of the requestor. TOWN OF AMHERST PUBLIC NOTICE The Amherst Supervisors of the Checklist will be in session at the Town Clerk’s Office at the Amherst Town Hall on Saturday, March 1, 2014, between 11:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon. New voter registrations, additions and corrections to the checklist, and party changes may be made at this session. No additions or corrections shall be made to the checklist after this session until Elec- tion Day, March 11, 2014. If unsure of your current party affiliation, you may go online to check it at http://cfs.sos.nh.gov/app/ Public/PartyInfo.aspx or check the paper checklists located at the Town Office or Town Library. Town Election – March 11, 2014 Souhegan High School – Amherst Polls Open 7 a.m. – 8 p.m. 384 Rte. 101, Bedford, NH • (603) 472-4080 • www.gscabinetry.com Biggest Sale Ever! 20% Off our Dynasty Cabinetry Mon.-Fri 8:30am-5pm • Sat. 10am-4pm • Please call for appointment American Idol Contestant Performs Impromptu “Gig” at SHS AMHERST --- “Could you imagine where you are now from when you were here?” at question was addressed to Alex Philbrick Preston, a Souhegan High School grad- uate of 2011, now a contes- tant on this season’s Amer- ican Idol. Preston surprised his high school with an im- promptu gig on Tuesday af- ternoon, singing some orig- inal work and answering questions from students and teachers. Alex replied, “Two years ago, I was a band geek—all forms of band, marching band, jazz band. I did it all. If you knew me as a student, you would know that I am super awkward.” Alex has written hun- dreds of songs, one or two while grocery shopping. “I sing into my phone in the milk aisle,” he said, adding, “I don’t talk much about my feelings, but my songwriting allows me to do that.” His Senior Project, a graduation requirement at Souhegan, was to create a press kit for his band. His mentor was Carl Benevides, the band teacher to whom Alex cred- its a lot of his success. e audience laughed when Community Service director Maggie Paul asked Alex if Harry Connick Jr. was as terrific as she knew him to be. Alex said that as the competition’s numbers were reduced, he did have the chance to get to know the judges a bit more. “He is pretty cool, and all the female contestants adore Colby College Chamber Choir to Perform at Amherst Congo Church AMHERST - On Friday, March 21 at 7:00 PM, Dr. Nicolás A. Dosman of Colby College, Waterville, Maine, will present the Chamber Choir of the Colby College Chorale in a free concert performance in the sanc- tuary of the historic Meet- inghouse of the Congrega- tional Church, UCC, at 11 Church Street, Amherst, New Hampshire, on the Amherst Town Common. e Colby College Cham- ber Choir is made up of a dozen highly select, au- ditioned members of the Chorale, and rehearses and performs during the school year both with the Chorale and separately. eir pro- gram will include sacred pieces (including Ave Maria and De profundis), spiritu- als (Elijah Rock and Goin’ Home), and folk music from around the world. e performance, which is free and open to the pub- lic, is the first event of the Chamber Choir’s Spring Break mini-tour, and will be followed by a reception in the Vestry of the church. Nicolás Alberto Dos- man is the director of the Colby College Chorale and Chamber Choir, and is an applied voice associate. He also teaches applied voice faculty at Molloy College. He was the Founder and Chairman of the Miami Choral Festival as well as Chairperson for the Mi- ami-Dade/Monroe County Dr. Nicolás A. Dosman Amherst Garden Club March Meeting Amherst Town Library March Series Celebrating Books Continues: Canzonare Chamber Trio – Mistress of Music AMHERST - e Am- herst Town Library pres- ents, “Canzonare Chamber Trio: Mistress of Music,” on Tuesday, March 4, at 7 p.m. in the Main Reading Room of the Library. Pair- ing books and music, this performance is part of the Library’s March series, Cel- ebrating the Book and All Its Lives. Canzonare will play Jane Austen’s music favorites: Lieder of Bee- thoven and Haydn, En- glish and “exotic” songs, and instrumental music by Nicholson, Geminiani, and Munro. Members include Sarah Bellott (soprano); Kateri Chambers (historical flutes); and, Dylan Sauer- wald (historical keyboards). Canzonare “teases” the musical palate with lit- tle-known offerings from the historical performance repertoire. e Boston based ensemble performs works of high composi- tional quality in programs that highlight the many textures, nationalities, and time periods within the ear- ly music compass. eir programs have been lauded for their “taste and ingenu- ity,” their playing as “seam- less” and “interplay…hard to resist” (American Re- corder and Boston Musical Intelligencer). All programs in the month long series are free and open to the public. How- Sarah Bellott, Kateri Chambers and Dylan Sauerwald perform March 4, 7 p.m. at the Amherst Town Library Liz Barbour speaks to the Amherst Garden Club, March 6 AMHERST - Liz Bar- bour, gardener and cook, will speak on Gardening and Cooking with Herbs at the March 6 meeting of the Amherst Garden Club held at the Messiah Luther- an Church, 303 Route 101, Amherst, N.H. Liz will take her audience on a slide tour of her small cottage gardens where she has maximized the beauty and bounty of an edible landscape. Following the slide presentation there will be a cooking demon- stration and sampling. Rec- ipes will be provided. e meeting will begin at 9:00 am with refreshments and a short business meet- ing followed by the program at 10:15. e public is invit- ed to attend. Alex Preston, a 2011 SHS graduate has been a performer on American Idol. Continued on page 5 u Continued on page 9 u Continued on page 8 u V O L U M E 2 2 – N U M B E R 1 2 F E B R U A R Y 2 5 – M A R C H 5 , 2 0 1 4 A M H E R S T , N E W H A M P S H I R E ’ S C O M M U N I T Y N E W S P A P E R
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Letters, Opinion & CommentaryFrom Selectmen, Trustees, School Boards and Neighbors
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INSIDE THIS ISSUELetters ................. 2, 3, 6, 7, 15, 16
Town News ........................... 4
Library ................................. 5
Schools ............................... 9
Arts & Entertainment ............ 12
SportsFolio ........................... 14
Business .............................. 15
Mont Vernon ........................ 16
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Annual Spaghetti Dinner Join Boy Scout Troop 22 on Saturday, March
29 for their annual Spaghetti Dinner at the Wilkins School. General admission is from 5-8pm. Adults (ages 15+) $8 and children (ages 6-14) $5.
The special dinner for 2, which includes table-side service plus a chilled bottle of sparkling grape juice is $30. This has two seatings, 5-6 or 6:30-7:30. Please see a Scout for tickets or they may be pur-chased at the door.
Sneaker Drive at the Town Li-brary
Please donate old or used sneakers to help support the Nike “Re-use a Shoe Program”. This initiative takes worn out sneakers and grinds them down to make high quality sports surfaces including courts, turf fields, tracks and more. The donation box can be found at the Amherst Town Library from March 3rd to March 14th.
AMHERST REPUBLICANS Month-ly Meeting Saturday, March 1, 8:00 AMJoey’s Diner, Route 101A, Amherst
Our guest speaker will be State Representa-tive Marilinda Garcia, candidate for US Congress in the Second District. Read more about Marilinda at http://elect-mari.com/
For more information please visit www.amherstre-publicans.org
Absentee BallotsTown Meeting voting day is March 11, 2014. The
polls will be open from 6AM to 8PM at Souhegan High School.
Absentee ballots are available to registered voters of the town. NH law requires that you vote in person at the polls unless you declare one of the following absences:
1) You plan to be absent on election day from the town where you are domiciled.
2) You cannot appear in public because of obser-vance of a religious commitment.
3) You are unable to vote due to a disability.4) You cannot appear at any time during polling
hours at the polling place because an employment obligation requires you to remain physically at work or to be in transit to or from work from the time the polls open until the time the polls close.
Any person who votes or attempts to vote using an absentee ballot who is not entitled to vote by ab-sentee ballot shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. RSA 657:24
Absentee ballots may be requested in person at the town clerk’s office from 9AM to 3PM, Mon-day through Friday and Tuesday night from 4:30 to 6:30 and up to 5PM on Monday, March 10. They must be returned by 5PM on Monday, March 10th if returned in person or by 5PM on Election Day if re-ceived by mail. No absentee ballots will be accept-ed in hand at the polls. Absentee ballots may be requested by mail by submitting a request in writing with the signature of the requestor.
TOWN OF AMHERSTPUBLIC NOTICE
The Amherst Supervisors of the Checklist will be in session at the Town Clerk’s Office at the Amherst Town Hall on Saturday, March 1, 2014, between 11:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon.
New voter registrations, additions and corrections to the checklist, and party changes may be made at this session. No additions or corrections shall be made to the checklist after this session until Elec-tion Day, March 11, 2014.
If unsure of your current party affiliation, you may go online to check it at http://cfs.sos.nh.gov/app/Public/PartyInfo.aspx or check the paper checklists located at the Town Office or Town Library.
Town Election – March 11, 2014 Souhegan High School – Amherst Polls Open 7 a.m. – 8 p.m.
384 Rte. 101, Bedford, NH • (603) 472-4080 • www.gscabinetry.com
Biggest Sale Ever!20% Off our Dynasty Cabinetry
Mon.-Fri 8:30am-5pm • Sat. 10am-4pm • Please call for appointment
American Idol Contestant Performs Impromptu “Gig” at SHS
AMHERST --- “Could you imagine where you are now from when you were here?” That question was addressed to Alex Philbrick Preston, a Souhegan High School grad-uate of 2011, now a contes-tant on this season’s Amer-ican Idol. Preston surprised his high school with an im-promptu gig on Tuesday af-ternoon, singing some orig-inal work and answering questions from students and teachers.
Alex replied, “Two years ago, I was a band geek—all forms of band, marching band, jazz band. I did it all. If you knew me as a student, you would know that I am super awkward.”
Alex has written hun-dreds of songs, one or two while grocery shopping. “I sing into my phone in the milk aisle,” he said, adding, “I don’t talk much about my feelings, but my songwriting allows me to do that.” His Senior Project, a graduation requirement at Souhegan, was to create a press kit for his band. His mentor was Carl Benevides, the band teacher to whom Alex cred-its a lot of his success.
The audience laughed when Community Service director Maggie Paul asked Alex if Harry Connick Jr. was as terrific as she knew him to be. Alex said that as the competition’s numbers were reduced, he did have the chance to get to know the judges a bit more. “He is pretty cool, and all the female contestants adore
Colby College Chamber Choir to Perform at Amherst Congo Church
AMHERST - On Friday, March 21 at 7:00 PM, Dr. Nicolás A. Dosman of Colby College, Waterville, Maine, will present the Chamber Choir of the Colby College Chorale in a free concert performance in the sanc-tuary of the historic Meet-inghouse of the Congrega-tional Church, UCC, at 11 Church Street, Amherst, New Hampshire, on the Amherst Town Common.
The Colby College Cham-ber Choir is made up of a dozen highly select, au-ditioned members of the Chorale, and rehearses and performs during the school year both with the Chorale and separately. Their pro-gram will include sacred pieces (including Ave Maria and De profundis), spiritu-als (Elijah Rock and Goin’ Home), and folk music from around the world.
The performance, which is free and open to the pub-lic, is the first event of the Chamber Choir’s Spring Break mini-tour, and will be
followed by a reception in the Vestry of the church.
Nicolás Alberto Dos-man is the director of the Colby College Chorale and Chamber Choir, and is an applied voice associate. He also teaches applied voice faculty at Molloy College. He was the Founder and Chairman of the Miami Choral Festival as well as Chairperson for the Mi-ami-Dade/Monroe County
Dr. Nicolás A. Dosman
Amherst Garden Club March Meeting
Amherst Town Library
March Series Celebrating Books Continues: Canzonare Chamber Trio – Mistress of Music
AMHERST - The Am-herst Town Library pres-ents, “Canzonare Chamber Trio: Mistress of Music,” on Tuesday, March 4, at 7 p.m. in the Main Reading Room of the Library. Pair-ing books and music, this performance is part of the Library’s March series, Cel-ebrating the Book and All Its Lives. Canzonare will play Jane Austen’s music favorites: Lieder of Bee-thoven and Haydn, En-glish and “exotic” songs, and instrumental music by Nicholson, Geminiani, and Munro. Members include Sarah Bellott (soprano); Kateri Chambers (historical flutes); and, Dylan Sauer-wald (historical keyboards).
Canzonare “teases” the musical palate with lit-tle-known offerings from the historical performance repertoire. The Boston based ensemble performs works of high composi-tional quality in programs that highlight the many textures, nationalities, and time periods within the ear-ly music compass. Their programs have been lauded for their “taste and ingenu-ity,” their playing as “seam-less” and “interplay…hard to resist” (American Re-corder and Boston Musical Intelligencer).
All programs in the month long series are free and open to the public. How-
Sarah Bellott, Kateri Chambers and Dylan Sauerwald perform March 4, 7 p.m. at the Amherst Town Library
Liz Barbour speaks to the Amherst Garden Club, March 6
AMHERST - Liz Bar-bour, gardener and cook, will speak on Gardening and Cooking with Herbs at the March 6 meeting of the Amherst Garden Club held at the Messiah Luther-an Church, 303 Route 101, Amherst, N.H. Liz will take her audience on a slide tour of her small cottage gardens where she has maximized
the beauty and bounty of an edible landscape. Following the slide presentation there will be a cooking demon-stration and sampling. Rec-ipes will be provided.
The meeting will begin at 9:00 am with refreshments and a short business meet-ing followed by the program at 10:15. The public is invit-ed to attend.
Alex Preston, a 2011 SHS graduate has been a performer on American Idol.
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