Making a change to your land or existing structure?
You may need a permit
BEGINNING FRIDAY JUNE 27th THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT WILL BE GRINDING THE FOLLOWING ROADS:
PEARL LAKE, VALLEY VISTA AND A PORTION OF BIRCHES ROAD.
PLEASE BE PATIENT AND ALLOW YOURSELF TIME.
ANNUAL JULY 4TH POTLUCK DINNER AND FIREWORKS
Please join your neighbors for the 25th annual July 4th Sugar Hill Potluck Dinner on Friday July 4th, 2025. Potluck Dinner begins at 6:30pm (rain or shine)Bring a main dish or salad, serving utensil and your own beverages. Please collect dishes and utensils prior to the fireworks.
DESSERT IS PROVIDED
FIREWORKS AT DARK WEATHER PRMITTING.
DON’T FORGET YOUR PICNIC BLANKETS AND LAWN CHAIRS
A TALK: DRAGONFLIES—EASY TO WATCH, EASY TO LOVE
A talk with Sugar Hill resident, Carl. D. Martland
NO FEE: Sponsored by the Carolina Crapo Education Fund, a Sugar Hill Improvement
Association Fund (no fee)
DATE: Thursday, July 10, 2025
TIME: 4:30 – 6:00 pm
SUGAR HILL LOCATION: Carolina Crapo Building, 1411 Route 117, Sugar Hill, NH 03586
People come to Sugar Hill from all over the world to see moose, lupine, even bears and their cubs wandering around in the North Country. They come with their apps to help identify birds, trees and flowers that they may not see in their home towns. People come to see the beautiful and the elusive here in Sugar Hill. But those of us who are residents are especially lucky. We are surrounded by the beauty and majesty of nature every day, on the way to the mail box, walking the dog, sitting on our porches.
In honor of those living in this spectacular spot on earth, the Sugar Hill Improvement
Association is sponsoring a talk about one of nature’s spectacular species….the dragonflies.
Our neighbor, Sugar Hill resident Carl Martland, has been a keen observer of nature for years, and has spent hours watching dragonflies, photographing them, and in keeping with his scientific background, cataloguing them and organizing them.
Carl writes:
“Why do I love dragonflies? …..Go to a pond or a stream any sunny day in the summer and you will see dragonflies and damselflies. Some will be posing for a few seconds on rocks, logs, wildflowers, shrubs or anything else that could serve as a perch. Others will just be flying back and forth, seldom if ever landing, in and out along the shoreline or in and around the cattails.
Most will be colorful, and some will have astounding patterns or splashes of color on their
bodies or their wings. Some will be flying in pairs, some will be laying eggs, some will be
hunting for their lunch, and one or two might be caught in a spider web.
I am just an amateur observer of nature, but I have a camera with a powerful zoom, I am
patient, I spend a lot of time watching dragonflies, and I take a lot of photos. And I have figured out how to organize my notes and photos so that I can quickly find whatever I am looking for. So, my presentation will be filled with photos of the more than two dozen species of dragonflies that you too could find in the fields and wetlands near wherever you live in the North Country. And I will add some photos of more exotic species that are common in other parts of the country, but, like many other flatlanders, never make it north of the notches.”
The Sugar Hill Improvement Association invites the public to this talk–free of charge–on
Thursday, July 10 at 4:30 pm. The talk will take place at The Carolina Crapo Building at 1411 Route 17 in Sugar Hill. Light refreshments will be served prior to the start of the talk.
Carolina Crapo Education Fund: This program is underwritten as a part of the Carolina Crapo Education Fund. This fund was established by Henry Crapo, in honor of his wife, Carolina shortly after the Sugar Hill School burned to the ground in 1948 The funds are administered by elected Sugar Hill Trustees for projects identified by the Sugar Hill Improvement Association for the betterment of the town of Sugar Hill. The Carolina Crapo Trust fund provides book awards for students pursuing their ongoing training or schooling in addition to bringing speakers to the town.
NHE911 C.A.R.E.S. Program
The NHE911 Office is reaching out to share information about the New Hampshire 911 C.A.R.E.S. Program. The Citizen Assistance Registry for Emergency Services program allows individuals to register medical conditions along with other important information that can impact the 911 call under their phone number. When911 receives a phone call from a registered telephone number of a C.A.R.E.S. Individual, the medical condition(s), home address, and other information submitted by the account holder is displayed on the 911 telecommunicator’s computer screen and can be shared with first responders so they can have a better understanding of the emergency before they even arrive on scene.
Attached is the 911 C.A.R.E.S. brochure, which we are sharing with residents through the town website, and newsletter. New Hampshire 911 CARES Brochure
New Tax Maps Online https://www.axisgis.com/sugar_hillnh
The town has not received the site plan and variance application for the tower. Once received the Planning Board and Zoning Board will have meetings and the dates will be posted.
BLUE SKY TOWERS IV LLC
The Town of Sugar Hill has been approached by Blue Sky Towers in regard to installing a cell tower off Route 117 on Map 216, Lot 4 owned by Presby Family Ventures. This property is located on the left side of Route 117 if you are headed towards Lisbon, just past the former Presby Construction Offices. The site is across Salmon Hole Brook and on a 68 acre parcel.
The Select Board had an initial meeting with a tower representative and last evening took the first step in the process by denying a zoning permit as a variance and site plan review will be required. Dates and time will be announced.
EVERSOURCE POLE REPLACEMENT INFORMATION
As part of our ongoing investments to deliver reliable energy to our customers and communities, Eversource will be replacing existing wooden pole structures in Campton, Thornton, Woodstock, Lincoln, Easton, Sugar Hill, Bethlehem, Dalton, and Whitefield, N.H. This work will be taking place within the existing right-of-way (power line corridor) of the X178 Line, a 115kV transmission line.
This transmission line is 49 miles long and is located between the Beebe River Substation in Campton and the Whitefield Substation in Whitefield, N.H. In total, 470 wooden H-frame structures will be replaced, and new conductor (power line) and fiber optic cable, known as Optical Ground Wire (OPGW), will be installed the length of the line. The project also includes replacing poles along the Streeter Pond Tap, a 225-foot-long power line that connects the U199 transmission line to the X178 line in Sugar Hill.
BEEBE RIVER TO WHITEFIELD (x178) LINE REBUILD PROJECT
GENASYS PROTECT Emergency Notification System
The Sugar Hill Emergency Management Director (EMD), Fire and Police Departments, in partnership with the Grafton County Sheriff’s Department, have changed to a new Emergency Notification System.
It is important that all residents and businesses within the dispatch area subscribe to the system to ensure proper notification can be made during an emergency. Subscription is quick and easy, and your information will remain confidential within our system and not be used for any other purpose.
PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE NEW ALERT SYSTEM
https://sugarhillnh.genasys.com/portal/en
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