Preschool Openings!
Now is the time to think about enrolling your
child in preschool. The Center School in Northwood is
accepting registrations for the 2011-2012 school year. The
Center School is a parent cooperative preschool located next to the
Town Hall in Northwood, which provides a developmental program for
three, four, and five year olds of Northwood and surrounding towns.
There are openings in our two-day (T/Th) program and three-day
(M/W/F) morning programs. Call us soon and come to visit!
For information, please call director Karen Andersen at the school
at 942-7686.
Maundy Thursday Service will be held on
Thursday, April 21, at 6:30 pm at the First Baptist Church of
Northwood on Route 4 (next to Hannaford’s). All are welcome to
attend this service of remembrance.
Easter Morning
Sunrise Service will be held on Sunday, April 27, at 6:30 am in the
cemetery behind the First Baptist Church of Northwood (next to
Hannaford’s), followed by breakfast in the Fellowship Hall.
Cost is a free will offering.
CHANGE OF TIME
Easter
Sunday Worship Service at the First Baptist Church of Northwood will
be at 9 am for Easter Sunday morning ONLY. Come and worship
with us and celebrate the victory of Christ’s resurrection.
Chesley
Memorial Library News
The Chesley Memorial Library will offer
new hours beginning May 2, 2011.
The new hours are part of an
ongoing effort to offer accessible hours that are easy to remember.
The library will be open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and
Thursdays from 10:00 am until 7:00 pm and on Saturdays from 10:00 am
until 1:00 pm. The Board of Library Trustees balanced requests
for extended hours on Tuesday and more consistent hours along with
the need to provide better staff coverage without going over budget.
They also tracked attendance records before determining what the new
hours should be.
It takes time to get used to any schedule
changes so please let the library staff and trustees know what you
think about the new hours. We hope the new hours will meet the
needs of all community members from preschool to adult and look
forward to seeing you at the library soon!
Letter
As a mass of people gathered outside the State House today,
protesting bad bills already passed, and a Budget proposal that will
tear at the economic, social and environmental fabric of NH, I went
to a public hearing on a bill recently passed by the House that
would repeal the NH Rail Authority. As a planner, I’ve been
frustrated by this bill, which says NH doesn’t need to study whether
rail could work for Nashua and the towns and cities to the north of
it.
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Dan McGuire of Epsom, proposes to
send the $4 million for the study back to the federal government, -
as a waste of taxpayer money. Is he so well informed about
transportation planning and traffic issues facing this State that he
knows there is no need for railroad tracks and cars, whether for
passenger rail or freight rail ? Does he understand NH’s
economic future so well that he has determined that rail isn’t
needed to keep NH economically competitive?
Is Rep McGuire so
well informed about the needs of his neighbors, in Epsom, Northwood,
Concord, that he knows they don‘t want, and perhaps need another way
to get around, - a way they don’t have to buy for thousands of
dollars, put new tires on, buy insurance for, or pay $4 a gallon to
run?
Listening to Rep McGuire today before the Senate
Transportation Committee, criticizing rail as a subsidized
form of transportation (which all other forms of transportation are
as well, in one way or another), I wondered what his true agenda was
in seeing HB218 pass. And I wondered how much he cares
about the future of this State and its people, beyond his own narrow
agenda.
Victoria Parmele Northwood
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