VOLUME 2, NUMBER 35 • July 31, 2020 • Promoting Integrity in the Valley

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Just under a thousand Hopkinton voters turned out last Saturday to cast ‘Drive-Up’ ballots concluding a fi ve-part process spread over the prior week.

The process began last Monday with a fi ve hour virtual presentation of the Warrant by the Selectboard during which comments and questions were entertained. Part 2 of the process was the submission of additional voter comments and/or proposed amend-ments, which were then considered by the Selectboard at their meeting on Thursday (part 3). The Selectboard’s fi nal warrant was then presented to the public on Friday (along with a further virtual meeting - part 4) before Satur-day’s voting (part 5).

Taking up the articles in chrono-logical order, fi rst was a discussion of a Road Bond article. The Select-board lowered their original proposal by $400,000 to $1.8 million. Feedback

Hopkinton’s Voters pass budget, turn down SB2

By John SeGeDy Stone Bridge Post

See HOPKINTON, Page 7

Hillsboro-Deering Elementary School and the HDES PTO would like to invite the community to volunteer for our re-scheduled Playground Build.

We are on schedule to begin assem-bly of the new playground on Saturday, August 8th, and will fi nish on Sunday,

August 9th. Mulching will be done the weekend following.

We are looking for any capable adult to help make this playground great for our kids, they deserve it! Hand tools are provided at the build. We are in search of wheelbarrows and shovels

for the fi rst day. Volunteers can sign up through our post on the Hillsborough Community Facebook page or PTO members Facebook page or by this url: https://tinyurl.com/y2xlxthb

Please contact PTO.HDES@gmail.com with any questions.

H-D playground needs volunteers for August 8-9 build

Three generations of the Edmunds family today, outside the Antrim location, which has been open for almost 60 years, l-r; Lorraine, her grandson Brody, her son Rick, and husband Richard. See story on page 4. (Lucy Pivonka photo)

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Stone Bridge Post is a weekly newspaper published every Friday.

Stone Bridge Post readership consists of the Rt. 202/9 corridor with heavy circulation in Antrim, Bennington, Bradford,

Contoocook/Hopkinton, Deering, Henniker, Hillsborough, Newbury, Washington, Windsor and Weare.

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AD DEADLINE: Wednesdays by 4 pmThe circulati on of the Stone Bridge Post newspaper around the region is 4,400 EACH

week. The newspaper also has numerous hits each week on our website, www.Stone-BridgePostNH.rocks, and our Facebook page. One recent story about friends who skied together each month, one way or another, for ten years, received well over 5,000 hits on our Facebook page.

We, the owners and publishers, Michael Pon and Dwight Gould Sr., stand behind these numbers. We believe our competi tors should state their print circulati on as well.

Community press release

Please join the Deering Communi-ty Church on Facebook this Sunday, August 2nd at 11:30 a.m. for a special Facebook Live event to welcome Deer-ing’s new police chief, Mark Philibert.

Chief Philibert was born in Man-chester NH in 1982. He has one old-er and one younger brother. His fam-ily moved to Hillsborough in 1989 and Mark graduated from the Hills-boro-Deering School district. In March of 2000 Mark joined the Army Re-serves at the age of 17 and attended ba-sic training at Fort Leonard Wood Mis-sourian between his junior and senior year of high school. During my senior year of high school, Mark was hired as a part-time Dispatcher at the Hills-borough Emergency Dispatch Center. At the age of 20 he was sponsored by the Hillsboro Police Department to at-tended the NH full-time Police Acade-my. After completing all required train-ing, he continued the next 18 years of his career in Hillsborough.

During his time with Hillsborough Mark was given various responsibili-ties including firearms Instructor, tac-

tics Instructor, department equipment maintenance, quartermaster, and held other various roles. Over the years he

moved though the ranks with Hillsbor-ough. He served 3 years as the School Resource Officer, 8 years as Patrol Ser-geant, Prosecutor, and 2 years as the Detective Sergeant. Mark participated in many community programs. He was the police liaison for the Hillsboro Community Action Team (3 years), a member of the Safe Routes to School Committee, Middle School Basketball Coach (1 season), High School Base-ball (8 seasons), Hillsboro Youth Ath-letic Association Baseball Coach (3 seasons), After Prom Committee Hills-boro-Deering School District (4 years), and chaperone for the Hillsboro-Deer-ing Senior Trip (3 years).

In the military Mark is currently a Sergeant First Class with the NH Army National Guard. He is also the 1st Pla-toon, Platoon Sergeant with the 237th Military Police Company based out of Lebanon NH. Mark deployed twice to Afghanistan going in 2010 to Zormat Afghanistan with the 172nd Mountain Infantry and in 2013 he was sent to Shindand Afghanistan with the 237th MP Co.

Welcome new Deering Police Chief on Facebook Live

School District press release

This year’s Withington Award recipient is a perfect example of what we want our award winners to embody. “It’s never an easy task selecting an award winner from the many, very worthy nominations the committee receives, but Bob was a clear choice this year,” said Kathryn McGinn, Hillsboro-Deering School Board Chair and member of the Withington Award selection com-mittee.

Mr. Robert Hassett has been an ambassador of the Hillsboro-Deer-ing Community from the moment he began his tenure as Superinten-dent of SAU 34 over 8 years ago. He quickly made Hillsboro his home and was often a smiling face with-in the school walls and the commu-nity. He always was an individual who went above and beyond for the students and the community. Mr.

Hassett was always a visible face in the community willing to talk to any and everyone about all the wonder-ful things that were happening with-in the walls of the Hillsboro-Deering and Washington schools. You would find Mr. Hassett at many school events and was an active member of the community, often volunteer-ing or stepping in to assist when and wherever needed. He collaborated well with our community partners to raise the bar for our schools.

As the school leader, he made sure that staff felt comfortable ap-proaching him and established strong interpersonal relationships with much of the staff. The Hills-boro-Deering community was very fortunate to have Mr. Hassett as our superintendent for the last 8 years and that is why we are happy to award the 2020 Withington Award to Mr. Robert Hassett.

H-D Withington Award goes to outgoing superintendent

Mark Philibert, in camo, lives with his wife Brittany, 4th from right, and son Brody in Henniker.  Brittany is an 8th grade history teacher at the Weare Middle School.  Brody is a 2-year-old who loves dinosaurs.

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DOT gives Route 31 a facelift

According to the Washington Road Agent, Ed Thayer, the DOT’s District 4 out of Swanzey hired a contractor to do a one-inch overlay on Rt. 31 from the intersection of the corner store all the way up to the Goshen town line. They are shimming the rough and low spots millings of asphalt and will overlay over those areas. “We’ve just installed a couple of hun-dred feet of storm drainage and a catch basin to correct the runoff and saltation issues by the town common. The DOT gave us the catch basin to do this one, and the DOT did the same with a catch basin across the street,” Thayer added. The Highway crew, with Thayer operating the excavator, put the catch basin in place on Wednesday. (Michael Pon photo)

Press Release

One hundred years ago, on August 26, 1920, the 19th amendment was offi-cially ratified and adopted as part of the U.S. Constitution – finally giving wom-en the sought after right to vote. In 1971, Congress further commemorated the event by declaring August 26 “Women’s Equality Day.”

The Washington Historical Society is celebrating “Women’s Equality Day” with a special online event that begins at 7 p.m. on Monday, August 10th. Jen-na Carroll, Director of Education for the Cheshire County Historical Society, will spend an hour introducing you to “Jen-nie Powers: The Woman Who Dares.”

Jennie Powers was a strong New Hampshire woman fighting to bring about positive social change and pro-vide greater protections to children and

animals through her work as a Human Society Agent in Keene from 1903 – 1936. Jennie’s innovative use of a cam-era to document the cruelties she fought against, and her achievement in becom-ing a deputy sheriff, are just a couple of the impressive accomplishments that you will hear about. In 1906 the Boston Post cited her as having arrested more men than any other women in America. By the end of the presentation, you’ll un-derstand just what an amazing woman she truly was!

This is an online ZOOM event, and is free and open to the public. It begins at 7 p.m. and you can access it directly by going to https://zoom.us/j/92117025017.

Please email washingtonhistoricalso-ciety@wnhhs.org if you have any ques-tions, or, checkout our website wnhhs.org to learn more about the Washington Historical Society.

Woman’s Equality Day 2020: Washington Historical Society Online Event August 10

Jennie Powers gave New Hampshire women a voice. (Courtesy photo)

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The nuts and bolts of a tried and true business and family

On July 1st Richard Edmunds signed the official pa-perwork and turned the key ring over, so to say, to his son Rick, who has now taken the helm as owner of one of the area’s most beloved and relied-upon stores, Ed-munds Ace Hardware in Antrim and Henniker.

The first Edmunds was opened in Henniker in 1942 by Clarence Edmunds, Richard’s late father, and his mother Hattie, in the building where Sonny’s Main Street Restaurant in Henniker currently resides. The first floor as well as the basement made up what was then a department store. The Main Street, Antrim lo-cation opened in 1962 when it was rented from the Odd Fellows until the 70’s when Clarence was finally able to purchase the site. In 1977 the Henniker location, final-ly too small to be serviceable, was replaced by a new building at the current location. That building was ex-panded in 2002.

You would be hard-pressed, as a newcomer to town, though, to walk into either store and be able to tell apart Richard or his wife, Lorraine, and Rick and his wife Jeanine, from any of the other staffers at the store. Down-to-earth, always smiling and welcoming to everyone - most of who they know by name - the Edmunds family has been part of the bedrock of com-munities from Hancock to Hopkinton and then some for more than 78 years.

When you have “a thing” in your hand and you are not sure what it does or where to find a replacement, people in the area will tell you “just take it to Edmunds,” where you can walk in and hand it to the nearest em-ployee and they will fix you up.

“We try not to say no to a customer,” Rick says. “We always try to work with a customer.”

“We never say no,” his father echoes, as I am lead down a well-worn set of stairs into the basement of the Antrim store. We’re not meeting in a fancy office or around a conference table. We’re going to chat in the heart of the business the family has built over three generations. Surrounded by enormous shelves stocked with all sorts of cans and boxes and using an enormous paint shaker as a desk, I feel as though I’ve just been welcomed into a warm kitchen. It doesn’t hurt that these are people I have grown up knowing and admiring and whose children I went to school with.

Richard was drafted during the Vietnam war and chose to join the National Guard so he could stay closer to home and run the business with his father. From 1964 to 1970 he was part of the 744th Transportation Unit in Hillsborough and Peterborough. Just like his son, Rick, Richard grew up working in the store. In 1984 his father retired and he became owner of Edmunds Incorporated. Shortly afterward the business faced a catastrophe.

“It’s the community that’s really made us success-ful,” Rick says, with his mother, Lorraine adding, “We really realized it when we had our fire,” referring to the May, 1986 event which severely damaged the top two floors of the Antrim building.

Richard points to the lower cellar as we talk, ex-plaining that the water was at least two feet deep there and damaged equipment as well as stock, like paint cans, which are currently stacked to the ceiling around us as we talk. Even as they worked to clean up and rebuild, customers came in to buy from them, to make sure they could keep the business open.

The elder Edmunds have been married for 54 years and have two children and four grandchildren. Although she doesn’t live in New England, their daughter Margaret Palango remains a part of the fam-ily business. She’s the Executive Vice President for a company called Autoshop Solutions, which creates websites and arranges all aspects of digital marketing for car repair shop. But her company handles promo-tions for the family’s stores as well.

As a teen Rick worked at the store with his parents and grandparents. He attended UNH after graduating from Conval High School, and took a short break to hike the Appalachian Trail before coming home to work full-time. In 2003 he met his wife, Jeanine, and they have two sons, Andrew and Brody. Margaret has a son and a daughter, Thomas and Hannah.

Rick has been manager 20 years now, and since his grandmother Hattie passed last year at age 97 his wife, Jeanine, has taken over the bookkeeping his grand-mother did.

Rick’s children, Andrew and Brody, regularly work at the store just like he did and his father before him. The day I was there Brody, 14, was outside staining the rear deck of the store. Aside from his long hair, he’s the spitting image of his dad and has the inimita-ble Edmunds’ smile. Both children work there when they’re not in school and even Margaret’s kids, who live in another state, have come for a few weeks over the summers and spent time at work with their grand-parents, uncle, and cousins.

“We’re retired people after 40 years,” Richard says, although he can’t promise that he’s actually going to stop coming to work. The elder Edmunds have a place in Florida where they can spend winters, and they also have a completely off-the-grid home on Crotched Mountain in Greenfield that they’ve been vacationing at for four years now. Richard quipped that he’ll act as a “consultant” in the future, which was met with gig-gles from his wife and son, who don’t seem to expect him to stop showing up to work.

The Edmunds are humble people and are clearly grateful for their good fortune, so they give back to the community in many ways. Richard served more than 40 years as a member of Antrim’s volunteer

EDMUNDS: 78 years, 3 generationsBy Lucy PivonkaFEATURE STORYStone Bridge Post

Three generations of the Edmunds family celebrating the 50th anniversary of the business in 1992. Today Rick has taken over as owner of the stores as they reach their 76th year. Left-right: Clarence, Hattie, Rick, Margaret, Richard and Lorraine. (Courtesy photo)

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fire department as well as 18 years as an EMT. Rick, a boy scout, sits on the Board of The Grapevine center, is a Su-pervisor of the Checklist and a Water Commissioner. The store sponsors local sports teams and is a big supporter of the Antrim-Bennington Food Pantry, most recently having a pantry donation day during which patrons filled up four of the store’s wheelbarrows and gave hundreds of dollars.

“Good customer service doesn’t go out of style,” Rick says, which may ex-plain why Edmunds is such a staple in the area. “Helpful and friendly is our foundation,” Richard says, adding that the communities they serve “have al-ways been very supportive.”

No one has been laid off during the pandemic, although a couple of employ-ees with health issues have taken time off.

The Edmunds are understandably proud that their employees choose to stick with them and they have very little turnover.

“We have retired people after 40 years,” Richard notes, “you know, it’s how you treat your people.”

“It’s been busier than ever” Rick says, regarding activity during the pan-demic, explaining that with people at home they are finding DIY projects to stay busy.

Always trying to improve services, Rick says recently they’ve added equip-ment to “chip” keys - copy keys with transponders in them - which many cars require in order to start. Screen and window repair has become a specialty, and they offer equipment rentals. Ed-munds will even assemble and deliver a new grill to you, and at the Henniker location he’s just begun propane tank refills.

Looking toward the future, Rick says technology like smoke detectors and security features which connect to smart phones are something he wants to provide for customers. He’s also plan-ning to upgrade the point-of-sale sys-tem and continue with online purchases and curbside pickup.

“Thank you,” Rick says sincerely, “for the years that you’ve shopped with us and we are still going to take good care of you!”

Richard Edmund’s Main Street, Antrim store in the 1970’s. (Courtesy photo)

Hattie and Clarence Edmunds are showing off the new Henniker location, built in 1999. The previous store was opened in 1944 in the building where Sonny’s Pizza is currently housed. (Courtesy photo)

The Edmund’s family 1977. Left to right rear row: Richard and wife Lorraine and Richard’s mother Hattie and his father Clarence. Rick and Margaret are in the front. (Courtesy photo) 

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High Range, a high energy roots/folk/bluegrass group with a long list of super-lative reviews from national publications as well as raves from local attendees will return to Henniker to perform at the An-gela Robinson Bandstand in Henniker, Tuesday evening, August 4, beginning at 6:30 PM.

Lauded by critics from Portland to Nashville, they received a coveted high-light review in Bluegrass Unlimited, the premier bluegrass journal. “The vocals are tight and true; the instrumental work impressive, the songs a pleasure to hear repeatedly,” raves reviewer Dave Mc-Carty, adding “High Range has forged a tight, compelling ensemble sound that is highly musical and thoroughly entertain-

ing.” Lead by Master Fiddler Ellen Carl-son, High Range highlights original music with a mix of covers on guitar, upright bass, mandolin, fiddle, banjo and drums. Their songs, singing and harmonies bring you the soul of working-class New En-glanders.

High Range has appeared throughout the region including, the Stone Church, Newmarket, NH; Kennebunk Coffee-house, Great Waters Folk Festival, Wolfe-boro, NH; Stone Mountain Arts Center, Brownsfield, ME; with Lori McKen-na, Mark Erreli and Kate Redgate at the Prescott Park Folk Festival, Portsmouth, NH and alongside Bill Morrissey, Tommy Makem, and others at the New Hampshire Folk Festival, Portsmouth, NH.

The Henniker Summer Concert Series is sponsored by the town of Henniker. All

concerts are free (although donations are graciously accepted), begin at 6:30 p.m. and take place at the Angela Robinson Bandstand on the grounds of the Com-munity Center on Main Street. Due to restrictions caused by the COVID19 pan-demic, we will be limiting the number of attendees this summer, requesting that you observe good social distancing practices and bring and wear a mask. The park will be fenced in and once we have reached ca-pacity, no one else will be admitted.

There is no provision for moving in-doors this summer and if there is inclem-

ent weather the concert will be cancelled. Bring a chair, spread a blanket, visit a local restaurant or have a picnic supper on the lawn and join your neighbors and friends in this community-building event at our bandstand. The complete summer sched-ule is available on the Town of Henniker website: www.henniker.org. as is more information on changes in place for this summer’s series. For more information, contact hennikerconcerts@henniker.org. Check the website the day of the concert to receive updated information regarding cancellation.

Bluegrass & beyond – High Range arrives in Henniker

History Alive! Press release

History Alive! Is a free event for lo-cal people to take place in the old center of Hillsborough on Sunday, August 16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Everything will be outside, please wear masks, follow social distancing.

The program includes Hymn singing outside the Congregational Church (masks required) at 10 a.m., and also a regular service outside the old Methodist Church (masks required) at the same time, 10 a.m.

At 11 a.m. NH Humanities Speaker on Barns of NH by John C. Potter will take place outside the largest barn

At 12 noon, there will be a community picnic. Bring your own basket of food and beverages, and your favorite lawn chairs

or a blanket. No other food will be avail-able at the event.

At 1 p.m., Mary Kelly, NH Humanities speaker, will give a talk about Irish Immi-gration into NH outside the large barn.

There will be Irish music beginning at 2 p.m.

At 3 p.m., there will be a parade around the circle for those in costume led by an antique bicyclist.

Meanwhile throughout the day, sever-al reenactors will have a tent and exhibit about life as a revolutionary soldier. There will be tours of Cemetery, tours of the Lookout, and a walking tour of Hillsboro Center.

Come stretch your legs to this event to end the pandemic summer!

History Alive! approaching

Teens gathered for safe fun

By Ruth Zax

High Range performs in Henniker on Tuesday, August 4. (Courtesy photo)

Avenue A Teen Center in Antrim has planned some socially-distanced, masked activities like a Hiking Group and this recent Art Group on the lawn. Reportedly there was also a non-talent talent show which was “bonkers”. (Courtesy photo)

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A press release from Weare Fire Chief Robert Vezina describes a terrible moment in which a family was taken off-guard, re-sulting in severe burns.

On Tuesday at about 2 in the afternoon, Weare Fire Rescue was dis-patched to 112 East Shore Road for a person with burn injuries. Within three minutes, Fire Chief Vezina found three adults with

burns. The most severe-ly injured has burns over a large percentage of her body.

“The fire appears to have started when a pick-up truck ran over a gas can spraying gasoline into the open window of their house,” Vezina wrote in the press release. “The pilot light of the kitchen stove ignited the gaso-line vapors inflicting se-rious burns to one of the adult women. The two other adult relatives were

burned while rendering aid and extinguishing the flames.”

Vezina credits the quick action of the victims in limiting the burn injuries.

“Although extensive, the injuries do not appear life threatening,” Vezina added.

Two of the burn vic-tims were transported to Concord Hospital. No first responders were injured.

Mutual Aid was provid-ed by Goffstown, Henni-ker, Bow and New Boston.

Bad burns result from odd eventBy MichaeL Pon

Stone Bridge Post

included proposed amendments in-creasing the amount back to the origi-nal amount and /or to increase the bond to $5 million by Arnold Coda. On the other side of the fence were comments by Scott Zipke and Josh Kattef con-trasting the School District’s likely pared down budget with this proposal. Ultimately the Board placed the low-ered amount on the ballot which passed 710-267, well over the 2/3 required.

Article 4, the petitioned article to adopt the provisions of SB2, was pre-sented by Rita Blanchard. She dis-cussed the benefits to allowing people who can’t get to the traditional town meeting a chance to vote. The discus-sion included pros and cons and took place for about an hour and a half at Monday’s meeting, with the majority

of speakers opposing the article speak-ing of the advantages of the in-person traditional meeting. Rick McMillon spoke of the very large turn out for the School District’s drive-up voting. He also spoke of some business owners not voting at the traditional meeting in fear of offending potential custom-ers. Andrea Kane spoke of a perceived problem with ‘misinformation’ being spread between a deliberative session and voting. Ultimately the nays pre-vailed at the ballot 470-513 with the measure not even achieving a majority with a 3/5 ballot required for passage.

Ken Traum then spoke on Article 5 (Operating Budget), Article 6 (Appro-priation to Capital Reserve Funds) and Article 7 (Appropriation to Expendable Trust Funds). He noted that between further reductions in the Selectboard’s

proposals (Article 5 reduced to $7,520, 656 & Article 6 reduced to $676,500) as well as an increase in the amount of the Undesignated Fund balance used to off-set taxes, the tax rate will be the same as last year’s ($6.25 per thousand). All three Articles passed by 3-1 margins.

Sale of the Bates Building as pro-posed in Article 8 drew much atten-tion. Numerous comments were made opposing the sale primarily focusing on planning for Archives Storage and of-fice space for the Tax Collector, Town Clerk and Supervisors of the Checklist. In addition to discussion at Monday’s meeting and written comments, the Se-lectboard devoted considerable time to the article at Thursday’s meeting. The Board did some wordsmithing clari-fying the proposal that gave them sole discretion while specifying consulting with the Town Archives Committee and the Supervisors of the Checklist. None-theless the article was defeated by the voters 390-569.

Articles 9,10 and 11 increasing the Elderly and Disability exemptions re-ceived minimal comment and passed by wide margins. Article 12 proposing an increase in the Solar Exemption from its current $5,000 to $25,000. Gary and Candy Garvin proposed and seconded reducing the increased cap to $10,000, which the Selectboard agreed with. The amended article was handily passed by the citizenry 636-338.

Likewise, the proposed increase in the percentage of the Land Use Change Tax (LUCT) that goes to the Conserva-tion fund from 25% to 100% was sug-gested to be amended to 50%.by Mark Zankel. The Selectboard had discussed tabling the article but determined they couldn’t do so. They then agreed to the amendment and the voters passed the amended article 737-226. Articles 15 and 16 authorizing expenditures from Special Revenue Funds passed by wide margins as did a petitioned article sup-porting “Fair” redistricting.

Hopkinton, continued from page 1

Terry and Mary Wardrop chose the walk-up option to cast their ballots at Hopkinton’s Town Meeting voting last Saturday.

Assistant Moderator Tim Britain and Moderator Bruce Ellsworth man the Ballot Boxes at Hopkin-ton’s Town Meeting Drive -Up Voting.

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OngoingANTRIM — The Grapevine has reopened, by appointment on. Summer hours are Monday-Wednesday from 9 am to noon; call (603) 588-2620. ANTRIM — Residents and students age 18 or younger can pick up breakfast and lunch curbside at the Antrim Elementary School for free weekdays from 7:30-8am through August 21.ANTRIM — Every Monday from 2-5:30 pm and Wednesday from 3-5:30 pm Christo-pher is taking appointments at the Library to help you with your technology needs, from Excel to iPhones. Call 588-6786.BRADFORD — The Bradford Fire Department is planning a community-wide drill this fall (complete with fake blood and injuries) and needs 50 community members of all ages to serve as victims, families are welcome to take part. Email Regina, the EMS Captain at emtlion@gmail.comHANCOCK — Through the end of July the Hancock Town Library and the Harris Center are hosting a StoryWalk®: Lita Judge’s Flight School. To follow the story just walk along the town path behind the Hancock Meeting House and read Peter-borough author and illustrator’s whimsical story about a little bird who never gives up on a dream and the friends that help make it come true.

Friday July 31HANCOCK — Join the Family Frog Fest hosted by the Harris Center from 10-11 am. Naturalist Susie Spikol takes the group to a frog pond to see polliwogs and touch a frog.

Spaces are limited, COVID guidelines will be in place. Call 525-3394 or email spikol@harriscenter.org

Saturday, August 1BRADFORD — Visit the farmer’s market on 5 Acres on Route 103 from 9 am-1pm. For information or to get a space call 938-2497. CONTOOCOOK — The Contoocook Farmer’s Market takes place from 9 am-noon behind the depot. HENNIKER — Tucker Free Library is offering adult patrons the chance to win a prize – for each item checked out you will receive a raffle entry. Winner will be notified on Saturdays.HILLSBOROUGH — Farmsteads of New England farmstand is open from 10 am to dusk every day at 213 Center Road.HILLSBOROUGH — The Hillsborough Farmer’s Market happens Saturdays and Sundays from 9 am-1 pm at Mickle’s Pickle Farm at 279 Henniker Street. If you are interested in being a vendor call 603-391-4885. or email rjmickle87@gmail.com.WARNER — The Warner’s Farmer’s Market is open from 9 am-1 pm at the Town Hall. WASHINGTON — Washington’s Farmer’s Market is open from 10 am-1 pm on the town common, with social distancing.

Sunday, August 2ANTRIM — A free, ongoing grief support group meets every Sunday at 6 pm at The Cross Church at 223 Clinton Road in Antrim. HILLSBOROUGH — The Farmers’ Market is open from 9 am-1 pm at Mickle’s Pick-le Farm at 279 Henniker Street.DEERING — Join the Deering Community Church on Facebook at 11:30 am for a Facebook Live event to welcome Deering’s new police chief, Mark Philibert. https://tinyurl.com/PHBERT

Monday, August 3HILLSBOROUGH — The last Summer Reading box can be picked up between the hours of noon and 5 pm at the Library. If you have read half of the books you pledged to read this summer let us know so you can collect your mid-way prize.

Tuesday, August 4HENNIKER — Ellen Carlson and High Range perform original, refreshing, rootsy, bluegrass, country and rock inspired music on fiddle, banjo guitar and bass at the Hen-niker Summer Concert Series from 6:30-8 pm, at the Angela Robinson Bandstand. Free, although donations are accepted. Masks, social distancing. HILLSBOROUGH — How To’s Day at the Library starts at 6:30 pm. This week’s project is making hammered flower art. Bring your own hammer, flowers and greens, and mask. Register soon, limited spaces available, 464-3595.

Thursday, August 6HENNIKER — The Farmers’ Market is on the Community Center lawn from 4-7 pm throughout the season.HILLSBOROUGH — The Library will be making catapults outside. Reserve your spot for either 10 am or 11 am; 464-3595. Limited spaces each session. Children over 5 are asked to wear a mask.NEWBURY — This week’s Summer Concert Series band is Zak Trojano, Country Blues Traditional music. Pull up a chair at the Newbury Harbor from 6:30-8 pm.WARNER — The Henniker-Bradford GOP Committee is hosting an outdoor tent Republican “Meet and Greet” event from 8-9:30 am at 1 Melvin Mills Rd. There will be a continental breakfast served of coffee, juice and pastries. Candidates: Don Bolduc for US Senate; Steve Negron for US House; Karen Testerman for Governor; Tom Dunne for NH House; Dennis Crawford for Sheriff; Scott Maltzie for Register of Probate.

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Bradford’s new Bradford Area Community Center (BACC) Manager, Elizabeth Labbe has been here since April 13th. Although beginning at a very diffi cult time because of COVID-19 she is very enthusiastic about what is being accomplished and looking forward to once again being able to open the BACC doors to all previous pro-grams provided plus more.

At this time Meals on Wheels is the prime program and Labbe has four drivers who she says are very dedicat-ed to delivering to between 83 and 95 homebound patrons. These towns include Bradford, Henniker, Newbury, New London, Sutton, Wilmot, Contoocook, Warner, and Web-ster. Two days a week Monday and Thursday 5 frozen dinners, plus two Congregate meals consisting of cereal, juice and soup are given to those seniors who previously could eat at the Senior Center.

These frozen meals come from Birch Stream Farm in Bangor, Maine. Also small boxes of milk are provided 5 days a week. These meals may be picked up at the back door at noon time for a suggested $2.00 donation, which is not required. These meals are intended for anyone 60 years and older or with a disability. For additional infor-mation please call Elizabeth at 938-2104.

Elizabeth is of course anxious to get back to in-house senior dining as well as the quilting group, and exercise program and coming up with other activities. At this time the new kitchen sink is being replaced in the BACC kitch-en. There are also two large freezers and the BACC build-ing is being refurbished on the outside.

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A large box truck driven by a lucky Massachusetts man who wasn’t hurt ended up o� the road on Route 114 in Bradford at 9:00 last Saturday morning. The truck blew a front tire causing it to veer o� the right side of the road taking down many guard rails and ending up with the truck partially rolled onto its side, o� the road. Fortunately, no one was injured. (Photo courtesy of Bradford PD)

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At a recent Bradford select-men’s meeting, Electrician Mar-ty Newell questioned how long it should take to get a simple Build-ing Permit? Town Administrator Dennis Pavlicek replied less than a week.

Newell indicated he had two dealings with the Building In-spector, made two appointments, but the inspector did not appear at either one of them. Resident Scott Wheeler said that all nec-essary papers had been fi lled out that were required for the permit and that he was told it will be 5 weeks before they hear from the inspector.

Selectman Joy Nowell said this will be looked into.

Rudi Franklin of 2 West Prov-idence Road came before the selectmen to request that some Town Ordinances be made clear-er. Chairman Ed Thorson said that is a Planning Board deci-sion, which then must be voted on by the residents of Newbury. Franklin also said he is request-ing a $20,000 tax abatement over a 4-year period. Franklin also asked why he received another Cease and Desist order once the Planning Board had sent him to the Selectmen? Code Enforce-ment Director Ladd Kautz, some-times referred to as the Building Inspector, sent the letter after

talking with the Town Attorney. When the Town Attorney real-ized Franklin did have a Building Permit the Cease and Desist order was removed.

The selectmen signed the deed for the sale of property at 7 Lower Crest Road to Sunapee Hills As-sociation for $7,601.

Mention was made that 75 year member of the Newbury Fire De-partment Mike Croteau is retiring this year having started in 1945. He was also a Forest Fire Warden for 48 years. It is hoped that he will appear at the August 3rd Se-lectmen Meeting.

A Purchase Order for $105,600 was signed that will come out of

Newbury questioned about building permits

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See NEWBURY, Page 11

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This bread is CRAZY good! In fact, I can actually see myself bak-ing this during the summer, cut a huge slab while it is warm and top it with ice cream!

Apple mixture:2 apples2 tablespoons granulated sugar1 teaspoon cinnamonSpice Mix:1/3 cup brown sugar1 teaspoon cinnamon2/3 cup brown sugarBatter:1/2 cup oil(I used canola)2 eggs1(6-oz.)container vanilla or plainyogurt or use milk1 teaspoon almond or vanilla extract1 1/2 cup fl our1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder1 teaspoon cinnamon1/2 teaspoon nutmeg1/4 teaspoon ground cloves or all-spice, optional2 tablespoons butter or margarine

Grease a loaf pan; set aside. Pre-heat oven to 350-degrees F. Peel, core and dice apples very small and mix with sugar and cinnamon; set aside. in a small bowl, blend brown sugar and

cinnamon; set aside. In a large bowl, beat oil, eggs, yogurt and extract un-til smooth. Add fl our, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Con-tinue beating until well incorporated. It does not have to be lump free. Pour half the batter in prepared pan. then half the apple mixture evenly over the top, then half the spice mix evenly over the apples. Repeat , this time pressing the apples just slightly into batter. Dot with the butter and bake 75 minutes, or until the middle bounces back when pressed. Remove from oven to cool be-fore glazing with a mixture of 1/2 cup powdered sugar with 3 tablespoons milk or water.

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The Warner Selectmen have received word from Primex regarding the Worker’s Compensation Program. There is a pre-mium holiday for 2020 and the Town can either opt for leaving the $5,718.20 amount as a credit towards 2021 or taking the check at this time. This is being checked out further with the town auditor.

The Warner Town Hall, Library and Fire Station have census signs posted. On Saturday Au-gust 1 there will be cen-sus representatives at the Farmer’s Market available so citizens will be able to register.

The Horne Street prop-erty Map 11, Lot 15 has been discussed further with the town Attorney who indicated auctions could help the town. It was also stated that be-cause the town took the property for taxes it is not considered abandoned even though vacant for a number of years. At this time the Select Board are leaning towards selling this property by the bid process and a price does need to be agreed upon.

The decision has been made that this year’s An-nual Fall Foliage Festival will not take place.

Neighbors of 12 New-market Road are con-cerned about two trailers that are parked there but

are registered. These are not currently lived in ac-cording to Warner Health Offi cer Peter Wyman who has spoken with the own-ers. The owners did say their in-laws will be resid-ing there and were advised this is allowed for a maxi-mum of 90 days per year. Also some immediate upgrading for gray water needs to be addressed.

Pumpkin Hill Prop-erty originally known as Pumpkin Blossom, but now Lavender Fields had a day of pick your own lav-ender. A Site Plan Review needs to be presented to the Planning Board as it was thought that this proj-ect is not conforming to the Zoning Board of Ad-justment Ordinances and a letter shall be forwarded to the owners. The Planning Board may decide no Site Plan Review would be re-quired. Resident Martha Mical indicated she drives by this property on a daily basis and there are no cars parked on the road, as they are all on the property and the only impact would be to the farm itself.

The Selectmen’s Sec-retary Mary Whalen has given her notice to termi-nate her position effective July 30, 2020.

After many weeks of discussions and working towards a best solution, the Town of Warner offi c-es have all moved to their new locations within the Town Hall. The Town Ad-ministrator Diane Ricciar-

delli will be in the former Town Clerks offi ce. The Tax Collector is located just off the lower meeting room that has been newly renovated. The Select-men’s Secretary shall be upstairs where the Tax Collector’s offi ce was lo-cated, and used by the Se-lectmen as well. The two offi ces that the Selectmen used will now be the Town Clerk’s space, giving room in the back offi ce to use for storage.

Conversations contin-ue and there is much frus-tration regarding not being able to physically hold open public meetings. It appears Zoom is working well for everyone but the public. There are maps, documents etc. looked at that the public cannot see. Ricciardelli advised the Town Website has all pertinent information for the Planning Board and/or they have hard copies in front of the Town Hall.

At this time, the Town of Warner offi ces will re-main closed to the public until the Governor gives different directives.

Resident John Leavitt questioned how was the new property assessment calculated as no one ap-peared at his residence? The reply was he should contact the Assessing Of-fi ce for answers. Another suggestion is to put prop-erty information on the website so property own-ers can have ready access to it.

Warner saves thousands on insurance

the Expendable Trust Fund account to Pike Industries for hard pack for the Highway Depart-ment

The Newbury Se-lectmen appointed and swore in a new part time Police offi cer, Anthony Vaccaro, at their July 6 meeting.

In other code En-forcement news, after considerable conversa-tion with Jim and Joanne Lord regarding the use of their travel trailer, the fi -nal decision made by the selectmen was a motion

to give the Lord’s per-mission/waiver for the family of the Lord’s the use of the trailer during the emergency due to COVID-19. Discussion did mention if the Lord’s wanted to change the Or-dinance, they should go to the Newbury Planning Board.

Joanne’s dad has been coming and stay-ing about a week over the past several years be-fore traveling to Canada. This year he has been living in the trailer lon-ger due to the COVID-19

pandemic and not being able to cross state bor-ders. The current Ordi-nance indicates 30 days a year is the maximum time it can be lived in. Lord indicated they had received approval and a permit which electri-cian Marty Newell had at this meeting. It was pointed out that if you were building a house you could stay in the trailer for up to one year. Lord did say they had the inspector come to the property and had an electric permit, but that was by PSNH, and did not have anything to do with the town.

Newbury, continued from page 10

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Rick Dean FritzRick Dean Fritz 68 of Hillsborough, NH died Thurs-

day July 13, 2020 at his home.He was born in Bristol, Tennessee to the late James

W. and Viola (McReynolds) Fritz.

Rick was a property manager for Red Oak Company in Concord, NH for 10 years before he retired.

Rick was survived by his roommate Wayne H. Wag-ner of Hillsborough.

Service & burial will be held at a later date.The Holt-Woodbury Funeral Home & Cremation

Service of Hillsborough is assisting the family.For more log on to www.holtwoodburyfh.com

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Policy change for Letters to EditorDue to several recent letters to the editor being sent in

by untraceable names and addresses, the Stone Bridge Post must now insist that letters to the editor be sent by email with phone numbers. If you have something to say, please be willing to stand by it with your real name and what town you come from. Rest assured, we will not be printing anyone’s phone numbers, emails or physical addresses, which we only need for verifi cation.

***************************************Dear Editor;First I want to thank Michael Pon for his editori-

al, “Why wear a mask?” However, I fi nd it very dis-appointing that he even feels compelled to pen this message. With the current state of the COVID-19 ep-idemic, it seems to me to be plainly obvious that the wearing of a mask is just a simple and practical way to help protect yourself and those around you. It costs little or nothing to do, won’t harm you, and it has been proven to be effective in limiting the spread of disease. If you’re one of those who feel it is an inconvenience or infringement on your freedom, I’d like to mention a great message I read on the Internet recently:

“If wearing a mask is annoying to you, you’re really not going to like a ventilator.”

I commend Shaw’s Supermarket for instituting this week a mandatory mask policy, but walking around there I witnessed too many people not using a mask properly, from the gentleman using his to neatly cov-er only his chin, to the employee whose nose poked about in the open above her mask. Be sensible – this is like laying your seatbelt across your lap but not buck-ling it. Please remember, it’s not about you – it’s about the mother near you who has to go home to a young child; it’s about the 70+ year old man like me who has avoided going out knowing, if he contracts the virus, he would have a risky time surviving it; and it’s about your friends and neighbors who don’t want or expect to get sick, but just might be stricken down because of your selfi shness and carelessness.

Richard Block, Antrim

***************************************Dear Editor;At the time Post 78 issued the news release on the

restoration of the Memorial Plaques honoring Henniker Veterans George Hall and Duglas Rush we didn’t know that the Henniker Historical Society was the benefactor who paid for the restoration of the plaques.

We would like to acknowledge their generosity and thoughtfulness. The Historical Society does a lot of these types of projects without any of us knowing about it and that’s why we should all consider donating to their annu-al appeal. Again, thanks to all who helped in this project.

David P. Currier, Adjutant/Finance Offi cer Davis-Woodman-DurginAmerican Legion Post 78 Henniker

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I’m probably not going to be able to get through this whole column without ruffling someone’s feathers. But when I see things that are blatantly unfair, I get angry.

As predicted, the governor has been busy with his red pen. So far, he has vetoed 15 bills, but it is not yet Friday night so I’m sure there are more com-ing. I will get to some of them later.

I want to talk about a bill he did sign into law, however: HB 1264. A compre-hensive groundwater protection bill, it was one of the omnibus bills amended by the Senate and concurred to by the House at the June 30 session.

The original bill extended the com-mission investigating the cancer cluster occurring on the seacoast, believed to be caused by tainted drinking water. It was sponsored by seven seacoast Dem-ocratic lawmakers. There were no Re-publican sponsors.

Added to the bill were provisions of three Senate bills dealing with per and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) limits in drink-ing water and establishing a fund to help localities pay for its remediation. All of these bills were sponsored by Demo-crats. Not a Republican to be found.

This is an extremely important issue to many communities now, especially the town of Merrimack. So important, in fact, that in 2018, four Democratic women, dubbed the Water Warriors be-cause of their work on the PFAS issue in Merrimack, won half the seats in that previously very red town. These wom-en—Wendy Thomas, Rosemary Rung, Nancy Murphy, and Katherine Stack—have been tireless in working to get this legislation passed.

Minority Leader Dick Hinch, and Deputy Minority Floor Leader, Rep. Jeanine Notter, also live in and repre-sent Merrimack, but their names are not among the sponsors of any of the bills.

Here’s were blood pressure rises. When the governor signed this bill,

who did he chose to have by his side, and who did he praise for their leader-ship on this issue? The Water Warriors? The seacoast Democrats?

No. He praised Rep. Hinch and Sen. Morse—both Republicans who had not done much more than vote for the bill.

The vote to concur on HB 1264 was 210-116. It should be noted that Leader Hinch and Deputy Floor Leader Not-ter saw the writing on the wall and did vote to concur on HB 1264. Too bad, as leaders, they were only able to convince sixteen of their colleagues to go along.

I’m tired of being told Democrats are stoking partisan division. It would not have done the governor any harm to rec-ognize the hard work of the Democrats in getting this important legislation passed. To completely ignore them was uncalled for and divisive. One wonders why he felt the need. I’ll keep my guess-es to myself.

Two of the governor’s recent vetoes show that sometimes, talk is cheap.

All throughout the state coronavirus shutdown, we relied on “essential work-ers” to keep things going, so the rest of us could stay at home.

Every day these workers—health aids, grocery store clerks, bank tell-ers, fast-food restaurant servers, gas station attendants, convenience store and hardware store clerks, associates at Walmart—put their own health at risk to make sure the rest of us could have what we needed and stay safe.

Aside from being essential, employ-ees in these jobs have something else in common. The jobs they hold most likely pay the minimum wage.

NH’s minimum wage is $7.25/hour. We have the lowest minimum wage in New England by far. It’s time we caught up to our neighbors in the north, south and west. That’s why the legislature passed HB 731, establishing a modest

increase in the minimum wage, to $12/hour over the next three years. We’d still be behind our neighbors, but at least it is a start.

The governor has vetoed HB 731. So much for those essential workers.

HB 1166 put into place safeguards for employees currently provided for by provisions included in the federal CAREs act. It would extend eligibility for unemployment through December, 2020 (except for the extra $600 which is ending this week), contains stronger worker safety provisions in regards to COVID-19, continues paid leave for those caring for others, and provides funding for upgrades to the state’s un-employment system if needed. These steps would make sure those who are unemployed, or become unemployed, will have a strong safety net through this crisis.

It includes a severability clause, which states, “In the event the United States Dept. of Labor provides written notice to the NH department of employ-ment security that any specific statuto-ry change in this act will result in the loss of federal funding to NH, then that specific statutory change…shall be in-operative”

Evidently the governor’s staff did not read this bill too carefully, because he has vetoed it, saying it would cause the state to lose federal funds.

It’s easy to appear affable on TV, praising our essential workers with feel-good language. However, actions here speak much louder than words. Our es-sential workers deserve a decent wage,

and our working families need assur-ance they can continue to pay their bills if they become unemployed.

What’s good for business is always front and center for my Republican col-leagues. What’s good for workers, not so much.

And finally, a word about the state’s guidance for the re-opening of schools—also known as the “Swiss cheese model.” The commissioner of education wants it to be flexible, to be “nimble,” as he put it at a recent meet-ing.

Basically, every district is on its own. The state is not requiring anything.

And do you know why? Because if the state requires it, the state must pay for it.

If it is not required, the state is off the hook.

But of course, that means local prop-erty taxpayers are very much ON the hook to pay for what’s needed to make sure our public schools can open safely for students and staff. Extra technology, extra transportation costs, extra staff-ing, personal protective equipment—expenses you and I will see reflected in next year’s tax bill, I’m sure.

And, there will be no additional CAREs act money for public schools, according to the commissioner. We’re on our own.

So that is why I am so very angry to learn the governor is giving and addi-tional $1.5 MILLION to the state’s pri-vate and religious schools.

Unfair.

UnfairSTRAIGHT TALKby Marjorie Porter

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