Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 5:51AM We've been following NH Electric Coop on Twitter. Last night they posted that 27,000 customers were still without power--a bit less than half of the total who went down a bit after midnight yesterday.
The crews headed home at 10 last night for mandatory rest, and plan to return at 6 this morning.
Monday, October 30, 2017 at 12:45PM Sandi reports that as of 11:20am today (Monday), Burnt Hill Road is closed from a washout. Scott Sanborn, our road agent, hopes to have it passable before the afternoon commute.
At the same time, Cardigan Mountain Road was flooded at the intersection with 118. Only vehicles with high clearance can get through.
In the East Neighborhood, River Road through Grafton was impassable this morning. The only way out is by Gifford Hill to Wild Meadows--"precarious but passable," Sandi says.
122 of the 124 NH Electric Coop customers in our town remain without power.
Monday, October 30, 2017 at 10:29AM NH Electric Coop says it will take a day or two just to assess the damage. Its website says 60,000 people in the state are without power. Meanwhile, our dirt roads have been hit hard by the storm.
If you hear any reliable news, please email Jay to put it up on this site.
Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 3:06PM We're seeing a big uptick in the use of the town's website, thanks to the new forms page. Some users were having problems with the Intent to Cut form, so we did new scans of the instructions and the form itself.
And the history page has a great new addition. Andrew Terhune offered the September 10, 1969 Mascoma Week newspaper commemorating the Orange Bicentennial. He is donating the original paper to the Orange Historical Commission. The issue has plenty of great stuff about the mountain, the town, and the people. You can read the whole thing here.
Finally, we've gotten caught up with Select Board minutes. This page contains official records of meetings going back four years. While it doesn't all make great bedside reading (Sandi does do a brilliant job of it!), we think it's important to have an online archive, just for the record.
If you have any ideas, information, or photos for the site--or just want to tell us what we're doing wrong--you can email Jay here.
Monday, October 16, 2017 at 3:29PM Winston, Dumbledore, Luv, Zen and Yoga pose in front of the Old Schoolhouse across from Orange Pond, on the Collins-Laines property. Paula Bergeron, owner of the Good Dogma Canine Rehabilitation and Training Center on Orange Pond Road, took this picture and gave us permission to use it.
Jim Collins has been preparing to move the schoolhouse back from the road to protect it and give it a good foundation.
