Items for the Chichester Food Pantry will be collected throughout Old Home
Days. Just drop something in the collection box. Laundry soap and personal
hygiene items are especially in demand.
Happy Anniversary to Keith and Aja Davison on August 13.
Chichester Old Home Days begin on Thursday, August 13, at
6:30 p.m. with a Variety Show at the Chichester Congregational
Church in their new building. Admission is free, but please bring an
item for the Chichester Food Pantry. The Cub Scouts will be selling
drinks and snacks at intermission.
A new event this
year for Old Home Days is the Scavenger Hunt on Friday Night.
Register at Carpenter Park at 6 p.m. Pick up your list of clues and
drive around town to find them. If you solve the clues within the
time limit, you might win a prize! This could be a good family
activity.
The following titles were added to the Easy
Fiction section of Chichester Library in July: An Invitation To The
Butterfly Ball by Jane Yolen, The Quilt Story by Tony Johnston and
Tommie dePaola, America – A Patriotic Primer by Lynne Cheney, Owl
Moon by Jane Yolen, Dinosaurs Everywhere by Carol Harrison, The
Littlest Angel by Charles Tazewell, Chipmunk Song by Joanne Ryder,
The Barefoot Book of Princesses by Caitlin Matthews, If Kisses Were
Colors by Janet Lawler, and Dirt by Steve Tomecek.
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.
Chichester Central School News
The summer weeks have gone by quickly and
the staff is looking forward to welcoming back all of the students for the
2009-2010 school year. Summer school is over, the rooms are prepared,
supplies are in, new students are registering, staff members have taken part
in the Teacher Leadership Symposium in reading and math, and a whole host of
other activities have taken place over the course of the summer break. All
students should have received a “welcome back” letter from their homeroom
teacher which listed the necessary supplies for the start of the year.
August 26 is the first day of school! Parents who are dropping off are asked
to do so as close to 8:15 as possible, although there will be a supervised
area in the building between 8:00 and 8:15 for anyone arriving at that time.
Please make sure to check the bus routes as there have been some minor
changes to routes 1 and 4. The lunch price for this year will be $2.00;
$3.00 for adults wishing to enjoy a fine meal in the middle of the day.
Incoming kindergartners are invited to ride the bus to school on Monday,
August 24. The bus will leave the Town Hall at 9:00 (AM class) and 10:00 (PM
class) and students with a parent will be greeted at the school. After a
45-minute stay to get acquainted, the bus will return to the Town Offices.
All incoming first grade students may visit their classroom from 10-10:45 on
Tuesday, the 25th. The PTO will be hosting the Back to School Barbecue on
Wednesday, September 9 at 5:00. After everyone is well fed, families are
encouraged to meet the teachers, attend an information session on the new
technology tool called sakai, and tour the school as part of the annual Open
House.
We look forward to welcoming everyone back; enjoy what remains of the
summer!
Chichester Historical Society
Road Names
By Walter Sanborn
The Lane Road ends at the junction of the Short Falls Road. The picture of
the Lane shows the Ebenezer Lane Farm and barn in the upper right. The
Jeremiah Bickford Farm is in the upper left and the sawmill is the long
building in the center to the left of the dirt road. The Lane schoolhouse is
at right center of the center behind the telephone pole. The dirt road
showing is the Short Falls Road.
Traveling up Horse Corner Road the next road beyond the Towle Road is
the Lane Road. Several hundred yards beyond the Towle Road is the Knowlton
Cemetery. On the left and beyond the Cemetery on the left is the beginning
of the Lane Road. This road runs east for about one half mile. At a sharp
corner at the junction of the Smith Sanborn Road, the Lane Road turns right
and runs South to its end at the junction of the Short Falls Road, which
runs west to east connecting Horse Corner Road with Route 28 in Epsom,
eventually ending at the four corners in Short Falls.
At the junction of
Lane Road and Short Falls Road is what is called the Lane District from
which the road acquired its name. The Lane District had several homes built
by the Lane Family including a sawmill and the Lane Schoolhouse. The large
Lane Farm recently burned in 1994.
The Short Falls Road was used by
people in the Horse Corner Section of Chichester to get to the old grist
mill in Short Falls and also use the Short Falls Depot on the Suncook Valley
Railroad to ship milk to Manchester.
Although the Lane Road ends at the
Short Falls Road it continues further ending at the Pembroke Town Line, but
is called the Hutchinson Road because it ends at the old Asa Hutchinson Farm
at the town line. Here it becomes the Cross Country Road in Pembroke.
Below or East of the Lane Road off to the right of the Short Falls Road is
the Blackman Road which accesses several homes belonging to the Blackman
Family.
The history of the Blackman Road, Hutchinson Road, Short Falls Road, and the
Lane Road and history of the Lane District have been given in greater detail
in previous articles published in the book Chichester Articles available at
the Chichester Historical Society.
Old Home Days Schedule of Events
“Let Us Entertain You”, Thursday,
August 13, 2009, 6:30-9 p.m. Variety Show at Chichester Congregational
Church.
Friday, August 14, 2009, 3-8 p.m., Set up booths and exhibits at
Carpenter Park; 6-8 p.m., Cruise Night - River Band Performs, Scavenger
Hunt, Bean-Hole Beans go into the Ground.
Saturday, August 15, 2009, All
Day Events: Traveling Barnyard, Smoke House, Flea Market (under the big
tent), Tractor Pulls, NH Draft Horses; 7 a.m., Tractor Pull begins; 8 a.m.,
“Attic Treasures” Flea Market begins; 8:30-9 a.m., Drop off pies at
Park for judging; 9 a.m., Parade forms at Chichester Central School, Theme:
“Let Us Entertain You”; 10 a.m., Parade leaves for Carpenter Park, NH Draft
Horse Obstacle Course; 11 -12 a.m., Garage Band; 11:30 a.m., Opening
Ceremonies, Invocation by Rev. Arthur Savage, Flag salute; 12 Noon, Bean
Hole Beans and Roast Pig; 1 p.m., Horse Shoe Sign-ups (adults); Afternoon
Events: 1:30 -5:00 p.m., Folk Band, Granite State Cloggers, “Tricycle 500”,
Foul Shooting Contest; 6- 8:30 p.m., Band Concert (pavilion). Food available
from Firefighters Association; 8:45 p.m., Fireworks (Rain Date 8/16/09).
Please park in the field on the corner of Bear Hill Road and Route 28. There
are a few handicapped spaces in the upper parking lot. Parking space is
limited and carpooling is encouraged.