The Walpole Unitarian Church will hold it’s annual Holiday Food Sale on Saturday, December 6, in front of the Walpole Post Office from 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. We will have our popular boxed holiday cookies ready for gift giving. There will also be holiday breads and desserts, along with savory items such as quiches, casseroles, lasagnas, and more. These items will be ready to take home and serve, or keep in the freezer for later. All of our offerings are home made. There are always unexpected surprises arriving on the day of the sale. Come early to get the best choices!
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Great Decisions at the Library – 11/10/25
Great Decisions meets this Monday at 6 pm, Main Library
Our next “Great Decisions” topic – “AI and our National Security” – elicits high anxiety among many of us as we consider the unprecedented risks and challenges of this rapidly developing technology. The threats to cybersecurity, national defense and personal privacy, the dangers of mass surveillance, use of unreliable AI technologies in law enforcement, social media bots and insufficient industry self-regulation are among many concerns. What is being done to address these risks? Is there enforceable global governance of artificial intelligence? So many questions surround these amazing developments that you would rather not think about it…but AI is a high tech tsunami that has already hit us.
We will meet in the Walpole Town Library on Monday, November 10, at 6:00 pm. The relevant reading from the Foreign Policy Association is “AI and American National Security,” by Julie George. A copy of this article can be emailed to you upon request sent to Library Director Jane Malmberg: jmalmberg@walpoletownlibrary.org If you are joining via Zoom, please request the Zoom link from Jane Malmberg prior to the meeting and join at 6:30 pm, after the “Master Class” video.
Mel Allen at the Walpole Town Library – 11/18/25
[Editor’s Note: Registration is not required for this event.]
Reminder: Rail Trail Maintenance Event
REMINDER: RAIL TRAIL MAINTENANCE EVENT
Saturday, 11/8/25, 9 am – 12 pm
There is still time to sign up for the fall trail work event this coming Saturday morning on the Cheshire Rail Trail. The Walpole Trail Committee needs volunteers for digging, raking and similar tasks to maintain culverts, drainage ditches, and water bars along our town’s section of rail trail.
Last fall’s similar rail trail maintenance work was clearly worthwhile. It helped the drainage features function through the winter and enabled the trail to emerge much drier in the spring.
The 2025 fall Rail Trail maintenance event will begin at 9 am on Saturday, November 8. Volunteers will meet at various designated locations along the rail trail and work in small teams until about noon. Advance registration is required. Please try to sign up by November 5 so that we have time to allocate volunteers to groups, locations, and projects. Late this week, we will email everyone who has signed up the details about what projects we’ll tackle, where to meet, and what to bring.
To sign up or to get more information, please send an email to Wendy Grossman at walpoletrailhelpers@gmail.com. Please join us at the Walpole Trail Committee’s Fall Rail Trail Maintenance Event on Saturday, November 8!
Scouting for Food Drive – 11/1 & 11/8/25
From Deb Pawelczyk:
Scouting for Food
On Saturday, November 1 from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon, Cub Scout Pack 299 and Boy Scout Troop 299 will be holding their Scouting for Food Drive. We will be handing out information tags for the annual ‘Scouting for Food Drive’ at the following locations: Walpole Post Office, Walpole Recycling Center, Tractor Supply, and the Savings Bank of walpole.
Then, on Saturday, November 8 from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon, we will be at the same locations collecting pet food, non-perishable food items, toiletry items, and monetary donations. Everything collected will go directly to the Fall Mountain Food Shelf. Last year we collected 800 items of food and $3,200.
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