🌱 Hardwood Log Processing & Scaling and 11 more events

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Coming up on the calendar:

• Shelter Slumber Pawty! Fundraising is NOW LIVE!! Help the animals reach their $20k goal!
• Jon Butcher & Johnny A. in a Guitar Monsters Benefit Concert at The Park Theatre
• Hardwood Log Processing & Scaling at D.H. Hardwick & Sons, Inc.

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 67 and low of 45 degrees.
• Saturday: Considerable cloudiness, temps: high: 57, low: 44.
• Sunday: Showers; breezy in the a.m., with a high of 54 and low of 32 degrees.

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📸 Around Bennington

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Bennington

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday April 18

• Shelter Slumber Pawty! Fundraising is NOW LIVE!! Help the animals reach their $20k goal!
  12:00 pm
• Jon Butcher & Johnny A. in a Guitar Monsters Benefit Concert
  The Park Theatre, 19 Main St, Jaffrey
  8:00 pm

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Other local events

Friday May 15

• Hardwood Log Processing & Scaling
  D.H. Hardwick & Sons, Inc. , 301 Francestown Rd , Bennington
  1:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday April 17

• Made In NH Expo 2026
  Elm St & Manchester , Hillsborough
  1:00 pm
• Evening with the Spirits
  Blue Bear Inn | On Crotched Mountain , 534 Mountain Rd , Francestown
  6:30 pm
• Foreign Film Friday
  Whipple Free Library , 67 Mont Vernon Rd , New Boston
  7:00 pm
• HEN - free film screening
  Peterborough Community Theatre , 6 School St , Peterborough
  7:00 pm
• HEN: Free Film Screening
  Peterborough Community Theatre , 6 School St , Peterborough
  7:00 pm
• Evening with the Spirits and Dinner on Crotched Mountain
  Blue Bear Inn | On Crotched Mountain , 534 Mountain Rd , Francestown
  7:00 pm

Saturday April 18

• Safe Sitter Essentials
  The River Center , 9 Vose Farm Rd Suite #115 , Peterborough
  9:00 am
• Lion Sisters
  Harlow's Pub & Restaurant , 3 School St , Peterborough
  8:00 pm

Sunday April 19

• Concert and Contra Dance Celebrating Historic Piano
  Peterborough Town Hall , 1 Grove St , Peterborough
  3:00 pm

Monday April 20

• Monday Morning Mix
  Hancock Town Library , 25 Main St , Hancock
  9:00 am

Tuesday April 21

• Tech Tuesday - Audiobooks Made Easy
  Peterborough Town Library - Eben Jones Classroom
  1:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Survey posted a job opening for Reset Merchandiser - Coloma, MI (Frito Lay DG) in Bennington. Apply here.
• Contoocook Valley School District posted a job opening for General Science Teacher - Physical Science and Biology (2nd Semester starting in January 2026) in Peterborough. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Bennington here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Antrim

• Great Brook students open 'Bobcat Corner' (ledgertranscript.com)

Peterborough

• Electrical issue causes 1.5-acre brush fire in New Ipswich (ledgertranscript.com)
• Apollo Steel worker airlifted after steel beam injury (ledgertranscript.com)
• How to reduce wildfire risk this spring (keenesentinel.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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