Hello Belmont! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How Belmont Elementary saved its artist residency when state funding vanished
Also on today's calendar: Campbell Varsity Baseball @ Belmont and 5 more events.
Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)
Weather forecast:
- Friday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 67 and low of 44 degrees.
- Saturday: Cloudy, temps: high: 58, low: 44.
- Sunday: Cooler with periods of rain, with a high of 48 and low of 33 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Belmont Elementary improvises to preserve artist residencies threatened by cuts to State Council on the Arts (concordmonitor.com) — Belmont Elementary students and families have rallied to keep an artist-in-residence program alive after deep cuts to the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, raising thousands through PTO support and a student read-a-thon. Their efforts funded sculptor Mark Ragonese’s collaborative puzzle-piece project, which has become a beloved creative experience but may be hard to sustain every year without restored state support.

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Wednesday April 22
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Campbell Varsity Baseball @ Belmont
Belmont High School , 255 Seavey Rd , Belmont
4:00 pm
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Trinity Varsity Softball @ Belmont
Belmont High School , 255 Seavey Rd , Belmont
4:00 pm
Thursday April 23
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School to Career Fair
Belmont High School
Belmont, NH 03220
8:00 am
Friday April 24
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Gilford Varsity Baseball @ Belmont
Belmont High School , 255 Seavey Rd , Belmont
4:00 pm
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Gilford Varsity Softball @ Belmont
Belmont High School , 255 Seavey Rd , Belmont
4:00 pm
Wednesday May 6
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Winnisquam Varsity Baseball @ Belmont
Belmont High School , 255 Seavey Rd , Belmont
4:00 pm
Wednesday May 13
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Belmont Varsity Softball @ Winnisquam
Winnisquam Regional High School , 435 W Main St , Tilton
4:00 pm
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🗓 Events Nearby
Friday April 17
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LIVE MUSIC AT DOX on Winnisquam
Dox on Winnisquam , 927 Laconia Rd , Tilton
6:00 pm
Wednesday April 22
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Houseplants Sugar Cookie Decorating Class
Smitty's Cinema & GameLAB Tilton , 630 W Main St , Tilton
6:00 pm
Thursday April 23
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Women Teaching Women: Create With A Community
Black Swan Inn , 354 W Main St , Tilton
6:00 pm
Friday April 24
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HENRY LALIBERTE LIVE, SOLO @Greenside Restaurant, Tilton NH, 6-9 pm!
Greenside Restaurant , 360 Laconia Rd , Tilton
6:00 pm
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💬 Chatter
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- Looking for recommendations for a landscaper who could come take a look at my yard and give me some guidance/estimate.
I’m hoping to clean up and define a garden bed along the side of my house, but I’m still figuring out the layout (we may be adding a shed too), so I… (Nextdoor Belmont)
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🗞 Nearby News
Tilton
Laconia
- Laconia Man Accused Of Strangling His Mother: Follow-Up (patch.com)
- BNH Wealth Management In Laconia Earns Best of NH 2026 Recognition (patch.com)
- New owner, new chef are familiar faces at Local Eatery (laconiadailysun.com)
Concord
- Weather Forecasters: It Is Expected To Be Stormy In New Hampshire For Most Of The Weekend (patch.com)
- Drug Dealer, Sexual Assaulter Wanted By New Hampshire Corrections Department On Probation Violation (patch.com)
- 2 Overdoses In Concord In An Hour: One Man Dies, Another Man Survives And Is Hospitalized: Video (patch.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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