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🌱 How Dot’s Market aims to bring back Grafton’s missing town hub

Grafton, New Hampshire Patch AM: a 3 min read

Good morning Grafton! We're back again in your inbox, keeping you updated with what's happening in and around town. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How Dot’s Market aims to bring back Grafton’s missing town hub
  • How a new grant could expand free services for Grafton seniors

Also on today's calendar: Wesley McNair poetry reading.

Today's riddle: Why do some employees hide as soon as they arrive at work? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 88 and low of 63 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Friday: Humid with a thunderstorm, temps: high: 80, low: 58.
  • Saturday: Sunny and less humid, with a high of 80 and low of 52 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Grafton's Dot's Market: A community hub in the making (vnews.com) — Grafton residents will soon regain a local general store when Dot’s Market opens this fall in the renovated Grafton Center Meetinghouse on Route 4. Run by two longtime Grafton community members, the shop will offer everyday essentials, prepared foods, and local artisan goods, while also serving as a much-needed gathering space in a town that’s been without a store since 2018.
   

• Grafton County Senior Council receives federal grant (vnews.com) — Older adults in Grafton and across Grafton County will benefit from a new $110,000 AmeriCorps Seniors grant awarded to the Grafton County Senior Citizens Council. The funding supports free volunteer-led exercise classes, home chore help, and daily check-in calls, and the group is actively seeking more volunteers to expand these long-running services.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Saturday July 11
  • Macrame Plant Hangers →
    Craft and Found Exchange, 249 Rte 10 N, Grantham
    10:30 am
  • Party in the Park! →
    Huse Park, 331-301, US-4, Enfield
    11:00 am
  • Chris Gendron →
    Huse Park, 331-301, US-4, Enfield
    4:00 pm
    • Monday July 13
  • Monday Makers – Spinners →
    Craft and Found Exchange, 249 Rte 10 N, Grantham
    11:00 am
  • Tween and Teen Writing Workshop
    Minot-Sleeper Library 35 Pleasant Street, Bristol, NH 03222
    1:00 pm
    • Tuesday July 14
  • Presentation in partnership with the Bristol Historical Society"Sho
    Minot-Sleeper Library 35 Pleasant Street, Bristol, NH 03222
    6:00 pm
    • Thursday July 16
  • No Cookbook Club for July
    Minot-Sleeper Library 35 Pleasant Street, Bristol, NH 03222
  • Children's painting class aged 6-10
    Minot-Sleeper Library 35 Pleasant Street, Bristol, NH 03222
    1:30 pm
  • Justin Federico →
    Forbes Tavern & Events at The Center at Eastman, 6 Club House Ln, Grantham
    6:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Dunkin' posted a job opening for Dunkin' Shift Manager in Grantham. Apply here.
  • Colby-Sawyer College posted a job opening for Dean for the School of Nursing and Health Sciences in New London. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Grafton here.

🗞 Nearby News

Enfield

Canaan

  • Canaan Meetinghouse readings: A summer arts highlight (vnews.com)
  • U.S. Army STEM camp empowers students in New Hampshire (vnews.com)

Hanover

  • Room available in a 2Bed/1.5Bath Apartment on Campus for $1,400 (dartmouth.edu)
  • Community building through Upper Valley Girls Walk (vnews.com)

Ok Grafton! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Good employees are hard to find! (Thank you Patricia P. for sending it in!)
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