BERNIE'S BEAT
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Just As Winter Ended, It Began Again.
April 02, 2026Button -
Haverhill Annual Town Meeting Was Lightly Attended (150+/-) And Enjoyed Smooth Sailing
March 26, 2026Button -
Community Bank Donates $3000 For After-School Cooking Program
March 19, 2026Button -
THE POSSIBILITY OF A COHASE REGIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (CDC) FORMING HERE GETS CLOSER WITH ANOTHER FORUM HELD
March 12, 2026Button -
BIG SEASON AHEAD FOR SUMMERTIME MARCHING BAND. MARY CHOATE TELLS ME THAT NEW MEMBERS ARE BEING SOUGHT
March 05, 2026Button -
WINTER DEER DAMAGE TO YOUNG FOREST GROWTH RESULTS IN AN EXPERIMENT TO CREATE NATURAL BARRIERS TO KEEP THE DEER OUT OF TENDER YOUNG TREE SHOOT AREAS
February 26, 2026Button -
DAVID MOODY OF PIKE WAS FETED LAST WEEK BY CO-WORKERS, NEIGHBORS, AND FRIENDS. HE HAS BEEN AN ASSET FOR THE BECKET SCHOOL GROUP AND THEIR PROJECTS FOR OVER 40 YEARS
February 19, 2026Button -
PIERMONT'S FOOTBALL SUPER BOWL CELEBRATION INCLUDED A FOODEE'S SOUPER BOWL CONTEST, WITH 11 INCREDIBLE SOUPS THAT WERE AMAZINGLY GOOD. UNLIKE THE FOOTBALL SUPER BOWL WITH ONLY ONE WINNER, THE PIERMONT SOUPER BOWL HAD THREE WINNERS!
February 12, 2026Button -
IN THE EARLY DAYS OF MARVIN GARDENS, TO PROTECT OUR ANIMALS DURING WINTER SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES, WE BROUGHT SOME OF THEM INSIDE TO THE KITCHEN AND LIVING ROOM AREAS WHERE WE ALL LIVED TOGETHER QIACKING, AND YAKKING AS ONE HAPPY FAMILY
February 05, 2026Button -
PARENTAL RIGHTS BILL INCLUDED ANOTHER PHOTO BAN AT NH SCHOOLS. IT SHOULD END SHORTLY, AS IT DID BEFORE
January 29, 2026Button -
WITH THE LONG DAYS OF WINTER WEEKENDS HERE, I HEAD FOR THE FLOUR BAG AND BENCH KNIFE. IT'S TIME FOR BREADMAKING. HOPEFULLY THOSE NOSEY BEARS ARE STILL ASLEEP IN THEIR DENS
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THE SUPER BOWL EXTRAVAGANZA APPROACHES. I HAVE NEVER WATCHED ONE. I AM TOLD THE FOOTBALL ACTION IS SUPERB, BUT THE HALF-TIME SHOWS REMAIN TOTALLY HORRID, AWFUL
January 15, 2026Button -
LOCAL ORGANIZER, SINGER, ACTRESS, AND FRIEND, BARBARA ASHLEY, DIED RECENTLY. SHE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST WOMEN TO JOIN THE GOOD OLE BOYS CLUB IN WOODSVILLE. SHE WAS PROUD OF THAT!
January 08, 2026Button -
FOR THE FINAL BERNIE’S BEAT COLUMN OF 2025, I OFFER MY ANSWER TO THOSE READERS ASKING IF THEY SHOULD WRITE THEIR OWN BOOKS. MY ANSWER IS “YES, DO IT NOW.”
January 01, 2026Button -
DESPITE IT ALL, SANTA CAME THROUGH FOR US, HEALED A SICK KID, AND IT WAS A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR ALL!
December 25, 2025Button -
WILDCAT MICROSCHOOL STUDENTS PLACED HIGH IN LEGO LEAGUE ROBOTICS AT FIRST ROUND QUALIFIERS, THEN AT THE STATE FINALS, THE NERDS WON FIRST PLACE FOR CORE VALUES. A GREAT HONOR FOR THEM!
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WHEN MASSACHUSETTS NATIONAL GUARD MILITARY POLICE TROOPS WERE ACTIVATED FOR RIOT CONTROL AND BLIZZARD OF '78 DUTY, I WAS WITH THEM. THEY WERE BOTH DIFFICULT ASSIGNMENTS, BUT NECESSARY FOR THE PUBLIC SAFETY
December 11, 2025Button -
AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR, IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE PREMIERE OF THE PILGRIM PROGRESS EVENT, YOU 'LL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL AUGUST. I WAS PART OF IT IN THE PAST, AND IT IS WORTH THE WAIT
December 04, 2025Button -
AS THANKSGIVING APPROACHES, I AM REMINDED ABOUT SUCCESSFUL TURKEY PROGRAMS IN BOTH NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT.
November 27, 2025Button -
LAST WEEK, THE SCHOOLS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS DID A SUPERB JOB HONORING VETERANS ON THEIR DAY AND FOR THE MARINES ON THEIR 250TH BIRTHDAY!
November 20, 2025Button -
INVASIVE EURASIAN WATERMILFOIL HAS BEEN IN VERMONT FOR OVER 60 YEARS. THE FOLKS AT THE HALLS LAKE ASSOCIATION HAVE BEEN FIGHTING IT HARD SINCE IT FIRST SET OUT ITS UGLY ROOTS IN THEIR LAKE IN 1991.
November 13, 2025Button -
EACH OF US STANDING IN THE LONG LINE AT THE BASE OF CANNON MOUNTAIN HEARD THE FAMILIAR ORDER THAT WE HAD HEARD SO MANY TIMES LONG AGO: YOU PEOPLE GO THROUGH THAT HATCHWAY THERE AND GET YOURSELVES IN THAT TRAM CAR. GET IN THERE, NOW!!
November 06, 2025Button -
SOME HALLOWEENS OF THE OLD DAYS WERE SCARY, WITH LOTS OF SPLATTERED EGGS AND T-PAPER STRUNG AROUND. THERE WAS EVEN AN EGG-WASHING STATION SET UP FOR THE HAVERHILL POLICE CRUISERS
October 30, 2025Button -
ALTHOUGH WE DID NOT PLANT A VEGETABLE SEED OR SET THIS YEAR, OUR HARVEST HAS BEEN ABUNDANT, WHOLESOME AND DELICIOUS. THANK YOU FRIENDS, RELATIVES AND NEIGHBORS
October 23, 2025Button -
AFTER 22 YEARS OF PADDLING THE BORDER EACH SPRING AND FALL, THE POPULAR PROGRAM HAS BEEN CALLED OFF ONLY FOUR TIMES BECAUSE OF DANGEROUS SPRING OR FALL RIVER WATER
October 16, 2025Button -
IT WAS 38 YEARS AGO THAT A GROUP OF HAVERHILL RESIDENTS JOINED TOGETHER TO START THE HAVERHILL GARDEN CLUB. THEY HAVE BEEN BUSY EVER SINCE.
October 09, 2025Button -
WE WERE INTRODUCED TO A FAIRY HOUSE IN PIERMONT WHEN WE SAW ONE BEING CREATED AND BUILT THROUGH OUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN'S IMAGINATIONS. WE WILL PRESERVE THE HOUSE FOREVER!
October 02, 2025Button -
FIREWOOD FOR THIS YEAR IS IN! IT HAS BEEN CUT, SPLIT, TRANSPORTED, AND STACKED, BUT IT IS STILL 50 YARDS AWAY FROM THE WOODSTOVE.
September 25, 2025Button -
A HANOVER AUTHOR DROVE TO WOODSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL ONE MORNING SEVERAL YEARS AGO TO SPEAK WITH STAFF AND STUDENTS ABOUT HER HIT BOOK, "NINETEEN MINUTES." SHE WAS A GUEST OF THE RACHEL'S CHALLENGE GROUP AND IT WAS AN IMPORTANT TIME FOR THE ENTIRE SCHOOL
September 18, 2025Button -
RUBY! THEY… TITLED SONGS AFTER YOU
September 11, 2025Button -
A RECENT BERNIE’S BEAT COLUMN RECEIVED A RESPONSE FROM JEAN AMADON PAQUETTE, 1960 WELLS RIVER HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE AND FRIEND OF THE DEAN ROWDEN FAMILY OF WELLS RIVER.
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WITH HUGE PROFIT SCHEMES DANCING IN THEIR HEADS, SPECULATORS AND LAND DEVELOPERS WERE ABOUT TO INVADE THE LAKE TARLETON AREA IN THE LATE 1960s. BUT TODAY, NOTHING REMAINS OF THEIR PLANS TO DESTROY THE AREA AND FABRICATE A DEVELOPMENT OF NOISE, AND YEAR-ROUND CHAOS.
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AS FALL APPROACHES, I AM STILL DRAWN TO THE FUN DAYS OF OUR “WHOLE HOG BBQ AND MUSIC FESTIVAL” HELD IN BRADFORD AND NORTH HAVERHILL
August 21, 2025Button -
IT STARTED WITH TWO SHORT WORDS, "GO IT," AND WITH THEM FIRMLY DOWN ON PAPER, MY FIRST-EVER EDITORIAL WAS LAUNCHED. AFTER NEARLY A LIFETIME OF WRITING, I AM STILL SEARCHING FOR SIMILAR SHORT WORDS THAT CAN MEAN SO MUCH WHEN WRITING A STORY
August 14, 2025Button -
WOUNDED KOREAN WAR VETERAN, FARMER, BANKER, AND FRIEND, DEAN ROWDEN, HAS PASSED AWAY
August 07, 2025Button -
LAST WEEKEND, THE FANELLI FAMILY WAS BACK IN TOWN AS PART OF THE NORTH HAVERHILL FAIR. I MET FEW OF THEM IN BACK IN THE EARLY 1980S WHEN THEY WERE HERE TO PROVIDE RIDES AND AMUSEMENTS FOR THE FAIR.
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