Happy 20th wedding anniversary to Frank and Darlene Cavanaugh on August 19.
Happy Birthday to Kara Jarvis and Sandra Millette on August 21.
A hot day is a good time to sit in front of a fan and read a good book.
Try one of these adult fiction books recently added to the shelves at the
Chichester Library: Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik, Bone Man’s Daughter by Ted
Dekker, The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates, Hawke’s Cove by
Susan Wilson, Sunrise by Karen Kingsbury, Matters of the Heart by Danielle
Steel, Night of Thunder by Stephen Hunter, Tsar by Ted Bell, Bone Lake by
Priscilla Campbell, or Molokai by Alan Brennert.
Is your birthday in September? If you would like to have it acknowledged
in this column, please contact Hannah West at 798-5783 or e-mail
[email protected]. Family birthdays for the
year can be submitted at one time.
Chichester Heritage Commission
The next meeting of the Heritage Commission will be on Thursday, August
20th at 7 p.m. at the town library. Chichester residents interested in the
preservation of historical and cultural resources are always welcome to
attend.
Mary Kate Ryan, State Survey Coordinator from the N.H. Division of
Historic Resources, will meet with the Commission on the 20th. She will
offer information and suggestions that will help guide our newly formed
Commission.
To find out more about the Heritage Commission visit us on the Town of
Chichester Website or call Lucille Noel, 798-5709.
Bus Route Schedule for 2009-2010
Chichester Central School
Bus Route Schedule for 2009-2010
Chichester Central School
BUS 1
7:33 End of Canterbury Rd. (Loudon end).
7:39 Main Street/ Right onto
Cross/Granny Howe.
Right onto Rte 4W, Left at lights.
7:45 Corner of
Horse Corner/Towle Mason.
L onto Lane Rd.
7:47 Right onto road marked
“To Hutchinson Rd.”
7:52 Turns around in Pembroke.
7:56 Right onto
Short Falls, Left onto Lovers’ Lane
7:57 Right onto Burnt Hill.
8:00
Right onto Smith Sanborn.
8:03 Right onto Highland, Right onto Smith
Sanborn.
8:08 Right onto Dover Rd. E to traffic circle
8:14 Left on
Deermeadow Rd.
BUS 2
7:28 Main St. to W on Dover Rd.
7:36 Turns around in Concord end of Dover
Rd. to go E.
7:40 Left onto King Rd.
7:46 Turns onto Ricker Rd to
Harvest Rd., Holstein, Guernsey
7:53 Left onto King, R onto E. Ricker.
7:58 Right onto Bear Hill.
8:03 Left onto Ferrin, continues to Durgin.
8:07 Left onto Bear Hill.
8:12 Right onto Rte. 28 S.
BUS 3
7:22 Dover Road W.
7:30 Main Street to Center.
7:35 Right onto Bear
Hill
7:45 Right onto Rte. 28 to Main St. to Horse Corner.
7:55 Left
onto Higgins, turn at Preve.
7:57 Right onto Horse Corner, Left onto
Connemara.
Turn at cul-de-sac, Left onto Horse Corner.
8:02 Staniels
and Horse Corner.
8:03 Left onto Bailey.
8:05 Right to Dover Rd. E,
Atlantic Traders, Mobile Home Park.
8:11 Left onto Main St
BUS 4
7:33 Webster Mills to S on Suncook Valley Rd.
7: 41 Picks up heading N on
Suncook Valley Rd (Depot Rd.).
7:46 Suncook Valley Rd. and Martel.
7:48 Turns in Pittsfield comes S on Suncook Valley Rd.
7:50 Right onto
Kelly Corner.
7:53 Right onto Pleasant St.
8:02 Turns at end back down
onto Kelly Corner, toward Suncook Valley Rd.
8:03 Right onto Suncook
Valley Rd. S.
8:05 Right onto Swiggy Brook.
8:06 Turns R onto
Hilliard, turns at Perry Brook.
8:11 Right onto Suncook Valley Rd S.
To Pembroke Academy Stops (one bus only)
6:14 Rte. 28 and Martel Rd.
6:17 Ring Road and Kelly Corner.
6:17
Kelly Corner and Pleasant.
6:19 Rte. 28 and Swiggey Brook (upper end).
6:20 Rte. 28 and Swiggey Brook (lower end).
6:22 Bear Hill at Carpenter
Park.
6:25 Bear Hill and Center Rd.
6:31 Chichester Central School
6:33 Congregational Church
6:34 Methodist Church
6:38 End Canterbury
Rd. (Loudon end).
6:40 King and Harvest Rd.
6:41 King and Rte. 4
6:43 Abundant Life.
6:46 Horse Corner and Connemara.
6:47 Horse Corner
and Staniels.
6:48 Horse Corner and Bailey.
6:49 Bailey and Rte. 4.
6:51 Atlantic Traders/Mason Rd.
6:52 Mobile Home Park
6:54 Hess/Horse
Corner Rd.
6:55 Horse Corner and Lane.
6:57 Lane and Hutchinson.
6:58 Smith Sanborn and Burnt Hill.
6:59 Smith Sanborn and Highland.
Hunter Education Now Offered Online
Submitted By: Evelyn Pike, Chichester Town Clerk
There is a whole new way
to take Hunter Education in NH - with a computer. The NH Fish and Game
Department is now offering a Basic Hunter Education Course online, for those
who simply prefer learning at their own pace. The course entails online
study and testing (there is a $15 fee), plus a written exam and mandatory
field day. Participants must be at least 15 years old to take the online
course.
NH has joined many other states in offering this online Hunter Education
Course, however traditional classroom courses are still available. The
online course covers all the important lessons of Hunter Education such as
firearm safety, hunter responsibility and ethical hunting practices.
The online course replaces the former “home study” option for Hunter
Education and is an alternative to traditional classroom hunter ed courses
taught by trained instructors.
The online course has two required parts:
1. Complete the study portion online at your own pace, in the comfort of
your home, town library or computer lab. The course may be completed by
studying a few hours a day over a couple of weeks or in a few days of more
intensive study. When you are ready to take the online exam there is a fee
of $15.
2. After passing the online exam, you must register to attend a field
day by calling the hunter ed office, 271-3214. You cannot register for the
field day until you have passed the online exam, and if you fail to attend
your scheduled field day, you automatically fail the course. The field day
includes both a written exam, field test and reviews of NH Hunting Laws and
regulations from a conservation officer, take part in a firearms handling
session, map and compass lessons and a live fire activity.
After successful completion of the tests you will be a certified hunter
ready to buy your license and enjoy a great hunting season. By state law,
anyone planning to buy a hunting license in NH, must complete a Fish and
Game Hunter Education Course or show a proof of a previously issued license.
A work of caution: Don’t wait until Hunting Season to try and get
certified, as there are an ample number of field days on schedule, but class
sizes are limited to maximize the learning experience and student success.
After you become a certified hunter, bring your proper paperwork and
purchase your Hunting License at the Chichester Town Clerk’s Office. Please
call 798-5908 for hours.
Chichester Town Library
The Chichester Town Library is bringing the Hampstead Stage Company to
town as the last event in our Summer Reading Program. They will be
performing the play Pinnochio, which will take place at 6:30, Thursday,
August 20th at the Chichester Central School on Main St. Although this event
is part of our summer reading program the play is open to all. The Hampstead
Stage Company is theater group based in Barnstead and if you haven’t seen
them you deserve to treat yourself to an evening of fun and entertainment.
You will be inspired by their talent and wit. They have been touring the
country all summer and we are privileged to have them perform for us.
Chichester Historical Society
Chichester Roads
By
Walter Sanborn
Traveling up Horse Corner Road the next road beyond the Lane Road is the
Short Falls Road on the left off the Horse Corner Road. I have
described this road previously as running from the junction of Horse Corner
Easterly to Short Falls in Epsom. This road has been closed subject to
gates and bars to the junction of the Lane Road as mentioned in my last
article. About five years ago seventeen hundred feet of the Horse
Corner end of the Short Falls Road was reopened to a Class V road by the
town leaving only about 2000 feet now closed.
About 200 feet from the Horse Corner Road is another road running South
off the Short Falls Road called the Leavitt Road. This road runs about
a mile to where the farm of Augustus Leavitt once existed and then runs
Southwest about a quarter mile where it meets the Garvin Hill Road. There
were only two homes on this road; the home of Jeremiah and Joseph Staniels
recently the home of Ted Bailey and the Augustus Leavitt farm. The
Augustus Leavitt farm has been gone since the 1930’s so the Leavitt Road is
only open to the Bailey home and from there to the Garvin Hill Road is
closed subject to gates and bars.
Augustus Leavitt was a prosperous farmer and prominent member of the
town serving as a selectman and record keeper. He kept a daily diary
between 1871 and 1885 of which 11 are in the archives of the Historical
Society. These diaries record many items of farm prices, town history
events and weather conditions and records of deaths and funerals of town
people. The farm consisted of many acres of fields and woodland and
the homestead of the farmhouse, barn, carriage shed and blacksmith shop.
When Betsey Leavitt, the wife of Augustus Leavitt, died she left the farm to
my father.
In the 1930’s most of the buildings were still there and in 1934 the
barn of Hiram Frost at the corner of Horse Corner Road and Garvin Hill Road
burned to the ground. My father, who then owned the Leavitt Farm, gave
Hiram Frost the old Leavitt barn which was moved to the Frost Farm only to
burn again a few years later.
When I start to write the history of a town road I seem to get carried
away with its occupants but still this pertains to town history in naming
these roads. I could still write more on these subjects but my time is
running out.
NH Route 28 Corridor Safety Study Project Advisory Committee Meeting
The NH Route 28 Project Advisory Committee (Route 28 PAC) will be
meeting from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM on Thursday, August 27, 2009. The meeting
will be held at the Chichester Town Hall, located at 54 Main Street,
Chichester, NH. The meeting will focus on the draft NH Route 28 Corridor
Safety Study report and NHDOT policies related to the implementation of
specific study recommendations. The meeting will also include findings from
a field assessment in the area of Kings Grant in Epsom, which is a location
of public safety concern. The study consulting engineers, Vanasse Hangen
Brustlin (VHB), will be present to answer questions about conceptual design
recommendations. Members of the public who are concerned about
transportation safety within the NH Route 28 corridor study area from the
Alton traffic circle south to the Epsom / Pembroke town line are encouraged
to attend and provide their input. For additional information about
this meeting please contact Michael Izard, Principal Planner at the Lakes
Region Planning Commission at 279-8171 or Rodrigo Marion, Principal
Transportation Planner at the Central NH Regional Planning Commission at
226-6020.
