NPR has an article on Farnum Hill Cider. If you are not partaking in the Thirsty Thursday Growler opportunity, I highly recommend it. It’s $12 to buy the half-gallon jug and get it filled, then $10 on Thursdays to get it refilled.

Saturday, October 31, 6pm @ Main Street Museum, All Over Downtown & Tip Top Café & Tip Top Pottery

The 8th Annual Gory Daze Parade & Eight Ball Dance Party & Psychic Fair! Nobody does Halloween quite like the secret society of the Rio Blanco Social Club, and this year’s festivities are off the hook complete with the CCS sponsored Monster Petting Zoo, Neon Butterflies from Fantasy Technicians, a body bending dance party (aka The 8 Ball) hosted by the Tip Top Café, and, introducing a psychic fair with readers & seers from far & near taking place at Tip Top Pottery.

October is just around the corner. October is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

And since I have a vested interest in raising awareness about domestic violence (as should we all) as well as the password to get into this blog, I will use my power for good.

Check out the upcoming events in the community, then attend said events, raise your (and a friend’s!) awareness, and support a cause that counts! Read the rest of this entry »

In case you’ve been wondering what all the transition buzz is all about, here’s a chance to attend one of the open forums to give you more insight on the initiative.

Transition Town Forum, Monday, September 14 @ 5:30pm

And… Tomorrow night, Sept 15 @ The Hotel Coolidge, a Convergence of Personal & Social Transformation:

In order to highlight the global nature of the social and environmental issues society now confronts, Transition Town White River Junction is co-hosting a speaker all the way from North Western India. (Don’t worry, he was already in the neighborhood.)

For the past 24 years, Sandeep Kumar has been a full-time volunteer of a social movement in India that is, among other things, building village autonomy and reducing environmental degradation in India. Gayatri Pariwar, (www.awgp.org) though founded less than 50 years ago, has spread throughout India and is carrying out a plan to have volunteers in each of India’s 630,000 villages by the year 2012. How can this organization achieve such a broad impact? They take no short cuts. They refuse to deviate from their philosophy that the broader social change now required can only emerge from the inner transformation of individuals.

When: Tuesday September 15th, 5:30 to 7:00 pm

Where: The Vermont Room of the Hotel Coolidge

Backpacker magazine lists their top cities for raising an outdoor kid. The #10 city?

Lebanon, NH

Short news article but good video with local interviews on White River Junction:

Business Booming in Local Town.

Where’s the pool hall?