Help the Town of Hanover plan for recreation and management at the future Mink Brook Community Forest (off Greensboro Road) by participating in this 5 minute survey. The survey is open through November 29th, 2020.
We’ve got mail!
This fun mailbox on the summit of Balch Hill is filled with pens and postcards so visitors can write a note with their favorite memories of this natural area, whose summit we protected 50 years ago.
Some notes so far: “I am 7 1/2 years old and my Dad brought me here today for the first time! Thank you for keeping this place open. I love the butterflies.”
“This hike is magical. I do it weekly. We are privileged to life in such a beautiful place as this.”
“In honor of Dr. Susan Harper; a mentor and beautiful spirit whose legacy will flourish in the Upper Valley forever.” For more about Susan, visit the News page of our website.
Hanover Lottery for Special Hunting Permits
The Town of Hanover has applied for 150 Special Deer Management Permits. These can be used in the Town’s Special Deer Management Area only according to NH Fish and Game Hunting Rules for Management Unit G-1.
The Special Deer Management Permits will be awarded to qualified hunters via a lottery system. A qualified hunter is one who has a valid NH hunting license and a photographic identification such as a driver’s license or passport. Youth hunters who do not have a photographic identification must provide a copy of their birth certificate to enter the lottery.
Each hunter may submit one entry to the special deer management permit lottery. Here is our lottery calendar:
July 1- August 13 – Submission of entries for lottery to Town Offices- applications (including email and phone #) must be submitted by US mail or email with copy of valid NH Hunting License and photographic identification. No early birds!!! Town Offices are located at 41 South Main Street, Hanover, NH. Lottery entries may be submitted in person via the front foyer, Mon.- Fri., 8:30- 4:30 pm.
August 14- Lottery draw- The Town Clerk will oversee the lottery.
August 17-18 Notification- By email, or phone, if email is not available
August 18-September 2- Hunters come to Town Offices to pick up their permits- Hanover Town Offices are located at 41 South Main Street. The town clerk’s office is open 8:30- 4:30. Hunters must bring valid NH Hunting License and photographic identification when they pick up their permit.
September 3-13- Wait list is activated to give away permits which were not claimed and given to hunters who were not selected in the lottery first round. Hunters on the wait list will be contacted and must bring valid NH Hunting License and photographic identification when they pick up their permit.
Lottery entries are available on-line at www.hanovernh.org, or by coming to the Hanover Town Offices to pick one up. The front foyer is open and entry forms will be available there July 1 through August 13th, Monday- Friday, 8:30 am- 4:30 pm.
Vicki Smith
Planning and Zoning Department
41 South Main Street
Hanover, NH 03755
603-640-3214
Mary Brown Elected to Board Vice President
Mary Brown, Hanover Conservancy Board Member since December 2019, has been elected to the role of Vice-President of the Board. Mary is a court-appointed guardian for children in state custody. She has worked in admissions at Bates College, Geisel School of Medicine and the Tuck School of Business, and in alumni relations at Harvard Business School. Mary is a longtime board member of The Family Place and served as chair of its board. Brown has been a member of HC’s community engagement committee since 2016. An active outdoorswoman, Mary is an officer of the Dartmouth Class of 1978. She and her husband, Scott, live near the Connecticut River and are the parents of four grown children.
We are so grateful to Karen Geiling, who is stepping down as VP after over 3 years of service. Read more about Karen and our Board members here.
Hanover Votes to Fund Mink Brook Community Forest
At last night’s Hanover Town Meeting, residents voted to approve a $500,000 contribution towards the purchase of the Mink Brook Community Forest from reserve and conservation funds held by the Town. From the Valley News, “Plans to turn 260 acres of woods and old farmland along both sides of Greensboro Road into a town forest also were OK’d on Tuesday. Residents voted by a show of hands to spend $500,000 to help purchase land which crosses Mink Brook and includes a brick farmhouse from 1850. The Trust for Public Land, assisted by the Hanover Conservancy, hopes to spend $2.5 million acquiring the property from the Leavitt family. So far, an anonymous donor has footed $500,000 to help the project, which also received a $600,000 community forest program grant from the U.S. Forest Service. None of the town’s share will come from new taxes, and will instead be taken from existing reserve and conservation funds. Officials also hope to sell the property’s farmhouse to help finance the overall project, and a separate four acres could be used by Twin Pines Housing Trust to build “a small cluster of affordable cottage-style homes targeted to new homeowners,” according to an April news release.”
We want to hear from YOU!
| Please Tell Us What You Think
The survey should take about 10 minutes to complete. Your answers will be kept confidential. If you provide your contact information at the end, you will be entered into a drawing to win a basket of goods and services from Hanover businesses. This will not affect the confidentiality of your responses. Thank you for your help! Heidi Trimarco, President Hanover Conservancy We encourage you to forward this to your friends and neighbors. The more we hear, the more we’ll learn, and the better we can serve our community. |
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