There's a cool Frisbee golf course if that your style. Nearby is Sunapee, remember the lake too! Claremont has some cool recreation spots and market basket. Also maybe join vc listserv for local doings and shiz. Seems like an pretty nice place if you like downtime and cozy. I think they might have a concert series or two in the summer. Also Krazy chicken at the gas station can be 👌

They smell something bad in the air and dont have reddit.

OP, good choice! I like The Moat for post-outdoor activity BBQ and beers, Ledge Brewing for beers, and Red Parka Pub for live music. All those are a close drive. I like to have a beer at the pub at the Cranmore or Bear Peak bases, it’s easy parking and fun to soak in the ski scene; it’s normally pretty low key though. Delaneys is also good, Horsefeathers is hit or miss but I like to hang out on the second floor on Sundays as most people are heading out. Check out Zeb’s General Store, and shopping/strolling on Main Street. If you have a house, the butcher shop going into town has great products! I suggest the brekkie sausage and smoked bacons, also pick up farm fresh eggs. Another fun activity is checking out day time love music at Tuckerman Brewing in Conway; super fun during the warmer/sunnier days in fall/winter/spring. Sherman Farm can be a nice trip to walk around. Black Cap Trail is a good short hike with easy parking. Drive out to the Glen House hotel in Jackson and have a beer while looking up to the alpine country. My wife and I are starting to try the restaurants at all the local Inns — Oxford is next, but there are so many!

Edit: also love Cigar Shenanigans! Great cigars, cocktails, and whiskeys. Also, it’s dog friendly… there are typically dogs hanging around.

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what a strange post… it’s 2023

Dude cut the shit with the racism. People are generally good …. Racism exist but not to the extent you are laying out. You are basically saying that you are worried that a entire part of a state is racist? Cut the shit. “ White make” lol …. Go live your life and stop focusing on that bullshit. And even if racism is presented …. I really hope you are not going to call out of work and hold a sign on a street corner.

Ehhh, I disagree. My roommates have been on many teams at this point, and none of them have been unreasonably competitive. I'm sure some teams are, but I wouldn't say the majority.

I absolutely despise FSP, am absolutely not a Republican... But this guy's take on zoning is not wrong...

Their isn’t much to do in the area but if you like to be located in a small town with basic necessities it’s the area to live.

It’s a fair comparison. The Founding Fathers put their lives on the line so people could have democratic freedoms. Some of those people today are too lazy to even vote.

Given that the current candidates are a Q-Anon and a Free Stater, a candidate whose qualifications are minimal could easily be elected.

As for the lack of pay, Amherst should consider changing that. State representatives get two (2) Benjamins per term. Maybe Amherst could spare a few nickels (or even dimes!) for its Planning Board members?

>Sanctuary Dairy makes amazing ice cream. They also have donkeys and goats, be nice to them.

I don't care if the ice cream is terrible, I want to go here and be excellent to the donkeys. Thank you for this.

OP is probably referring to the two declared candidates in this race (neither of whom is named Wilkins).

Phew I was gonna say, the families like them, been here long as hell like the Pomeroy’s in MV, the Trows, the Lamson Descendants, in my opinion are the types of people we should be listening to. I don’t agree with all of their politics (who does agree 100% with anyone these days anyway), but they have as long as I’ve seen, always just wanted what’s best for the town and its folks.

I mean, that’s a pretty wide comparison. Yeah, it’s a much easier job compared to putting down your barber scissors and picking up a stinger missile to shoot down a Russian Jet. But that’s like telling someone who just had a broke limb to quit whining because people in Africa get their limbs cut off or Syrian children are getting gassed. Is it true? Sure.. is it a fair comparison? No even remotely.

The fact is that just caring about your town zoning will not prepare you for this role. As with any government entity, there’s much more to It then just going in and fixing things or changing things, hell a president can’t get fuck all done if they don’t control the house. You have to be willing to give up large amounts of your time, deal with knuckleheads, big developers with money and lawyers, all sorts of pains in the asses, for no pay, and often disappointing results. Most people who would be good candidates for these positions are also family people, working people, who between work and family can barely scrape together enough time to make dinner, let alone do the work required to prepare for each weekly meeting.

I’m not saying this to discourage possible valid candidates, for Amherst and towns across NE. I hope more people do take active roles in small government. I just want to really point out the silly comparison that you used. Like, I’m sure you get mad when you stub your toe or someone cuts you off in traffic, but have you ever considered that in Afghanistan women aren’t allowed to drive at all and will be killed if they’re eyebrows are seen?

Yeah, not super relatable is it?

No not them. There's other people in Amherst who back the free staters and they are the nut jobs.

You are incorrectly assuming that I could be a candidate, which isn’t possible due to the requirement that all candidates must currently be Amherst residents.

Not sure, but it isn’t a glorious position so I wouldn’t be surprised. It’s a position that’s great for two things, preserving and ensuring the beauty and traditional values of our land, or perverting it to your own personal wills (in my opinion). I think I speak for many NH residents when I say I don’t oppose people moving to NH, as much as I oppose people moving to NH and trying to change it to their own desires. We aren’t a perfect state by any means, but we certainly don’t need big, new changes happening here to “fix” us. We ain’t broke, don’t try and fix us.

Not a Wilkins but I know them, and more down to earth people you’d be hard to find, except a few other of the old families in Amherst, MV area. You consider the Wilkinses to be nut jobs?

Absolutely, zoning, planning, and especially here in NE conservation boards are the utmost importance, what keeps much of our rustic glory in its prime and preventing swaths of land being bulldozed and devolved like those endless developments in Texas

These goons can pound sand

That’s cool to know!

I think she was joking Hahhaa

Yeah it is. I’m from Jamaica and came here in 2018

I don’t want to live in Qatar for similar reasons, if it makes you feel any better. I don’t really give a shit what you believe. It’s when you use the government to make everyone else believe it that I have a problem.