Tag: May 2024

• Fair volunteers wanted!

  We’re looking for help to watch over the What Not and Book Sale donations collection. Volunteers are needed at the 24 Ayers Road barn for a few hours on Saturdays. The hours are 1-3p or 3-6p, or the whole time of you can. (1-6p) The dates we need help are…

• 4H Rascals have been busy!

  4H Rascals club members have participated in Embroidery and Wood-Burning this spring, being spotted around town perfecting their crafts. Knitting, sewing and creating water-plant gardens are planned for May. Maple sugaring and beach cleanup were canceled due to weather. We will plan on rescheduling beach cleanup when water levels go…

• 

  Remembering Brian and Helena Titilah

  To the Canterbury community from Douglas & Ross Titilah: With great sadness we would like to inform the community of the death of our parents Brian and Helena on April 13. They were enroute to their home in Montana and died in a single motor vehicle accident.  Our parents met…

• 

  Meet the neighbors in Sherwood Forest

  Who are we and where are we? We are a small community nestled in Canterbury, north of the Shaker Village, right on the Northfield line. We have just under 3 miles of road and over 200 properties that wrap around New Pond (formerly Stump Pond) and Lyford Pond. We have…

• The newsletter needs help with our new website!

  With the help of the awesome Kal McKay, who built our website, the newsletter is now available anytime online at canterburynewsletter.org. Now all we need is a volunteer to manage the website! If you live in town, have some web or blogging experience, and are interested, please let us know…

• 

  Congratulations to Canterbury’s police chief!

  The swearing-in ceremony of Canterbury Police Chief Justin Crotty took place at the April 1 selectboard meeting. Chief Crotty is a familiar presence in town as he has been a valued member of our police force since 2018! We are proud to have him promoted after the retirement of Chief…

• Give ~ and get! ~ at the annual plant swap

  The Annual Canterbury Plant Swap will be held on Wednesday, May 1, from 6 to 7 pm at the gazebo in the center of town. Bring your labeled, divided perennials, bulbs, and natives, or extra flower and vegetable seedlings you might have. Due to the transmission of the invasive jumping…

• Please join in our Memorial Day observance

  Our Canterbury Memorial Day Service will be held in the Center on Monday, May 27. The parade starts at 10 am. Let us gather together to remember and recognize America’s veterans who died while serving in the United States armed forces. This year we will honor the fallen with our…

• At the Canterbury Church in coming days …

  Breakfast Church: Sunday, April 28, 10 am, in the Parish House, located behind the Country Store in the Center. Potluck! Bring some food or drink to share! Worship, every Sunday, 10 to 11 am in the church, followed by open fellowship upstairs in the Parish House at about 11:10. Children’s…

• How will you bring in May this year?

  How will you bring in May this year? I have happy memories of rolling up construction paper cones and attaching string handles with way too much tape. Then on the first of May we’d fill them with early spring flowers, and oh-so-sneakily hang them on our neighbors’ door knobs, ring…