Delayed Opening, Learn About Cemeteries and Read to a Dog

Paws for Reading. Do you have a beginning reader? Sign them up for a "reading appointment" with one of Amherst Town Library's guest certified therapy dogs, Leo and Anna? Reading aloud to a canine friend is a great confidence and fluency builder for kids who are just learning to read. Anna and Leo visit on the second Tuesday of each month, from 3:30 to 4:30.  Sign up in the Children's Room for a 15-min. appointment. Next visit:  Tuesday, Oct. 8.

Delayed opening. Tuesday, Oct. 8 will be a late start day for all students in the Souhegan School District. The school day begins at 9:30 a.m. for middle and high school students and 10:30 a.m. for elementary students. For elementary families who need to access child care during the late starts “New Morning” will provide care from 7:30 a.m. until the school day begins in the Wilkins School multipurpose room. There is no fee for child care on late start mornings, as long as your child is registered with the New Morning program. Additionally, morning preschool and kindergarten classes will not attend school that morning.

Resumes due. The Amherst Public Safety Communications Center is seeking applicants for the position of full time emergency services dispatcher. The Center provides an array of emergency communications services for police, fire, EMS and public works in the town of Amherst. Preference will be given to candidates with prior emergency service dispatching experience. Base pay range, dependent upon experience, is $18 to $21.92 per hour, in addition to an excellent benefits package. Interested parties should submit a resume to:  Amherst Public Safety Communications Center PO Box 703 Amherst NH 03031 or E-mail your resume to mreams@amherstnh.gov. Closing date for submission of resumes is Oct. 11.

Cemetery session. On Monday, Oct. 7, from 6:30-8 p.m., join speaker Glenn Knoblock in the John Room at the Amherst Town Library for a discussion on NH Cemeteries and Gravestones. Rubbings, photographs, and slides illustrate the rich variety of gravestones to be found in our own neighborhoods, but they also tell long-forgotten stories of such historical events as the Great Awakening, the Throat Distemper epidemic, and the American Revolution. Find out more about these deeply personal works of art and the craftsmen who carved them with Glenn Knoblock, and learn how to read the stone “pages” that give insight into the vast genealogical book of New Hampshire. This program is made possible through a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council’s Humanities on the Go Program.  Admission is free and open to the public.