Thank you for scanning the QR code in the water bottle stuffed with swag from The River Center! Because you took the time to do so, you will have a chance to win one of 2 of our beloved Rio stuffies! Just leave your name and email address in the entry form below. For extra points, leave a comment to this blog post telling us what you are going to be for Halloween!

The giveaway ends at 12 AM on October 31, 2024. If you win, we will contact you via the information you provide. You must be able to pick up your Rio at The River Center Monday-Thursday between 9 am to 2 pm.

​You are at home, your older children are at school and it’s either only you and/or you and your younger child. Maybe you are an empty-nester or never-nester and while you have your own activities, you crave something more. Maybe you want something that will tickle the brain, give you the opportunity to think about parenting, money, yourself, differently. Enter The River Center’s Fall 2024 Program Line-Up.

Every year, in July, we celebrate The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) being signed into law. For many July 26, 1990 was a catalyst for slow change. Change that is still being forged today, 34 years later.  
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Today there is a much higher level of respect for disabled individuals. That is, if you can see their disability. If you see someone walking around assisted by a cane with a red tip, you can assume some level of vision challenges. If you see someone in a wheelchair, you can assume they have mobility challenges.  

The warming, flowering month of May is when the season truly changes here in the Monadnock region. Our community comes alive again; watching neighbors on long walks, children on bicycles, friends dining al fresco, and gardeners hard at work. The Children and the Arts festival marks the unofficial kickoff to these seasonal activities. 

As I write the sun is shining and the sky is clear and blue. Hard to realize that one year ago our region had three feet of snow in the middle of March.  
Welcome to March. My husband informed me early in our relationship in Bangor (Maine) that “where I come from, March is a spring month.” Despite this Connecticut boy’s observation, we opted to get married at the end of March in Bangor. That year, there was a New England-wide snowstorm that was actually called Snowstorm Nelson.