Sunday services at the Baptist Church are Sunday School at 9:15 a.m., morning worship at 10:30 a.m. and evening service at 6 p.m. Mid-week service is at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Also meeting at the same time on Wednesday is a group for girls, ages 13 to 18, called Bloom and a boys’ group for ages 15 and older called Foundations.

Today, Thursday, April 23, at 2 p.m. Whitman Memorial Library will have a program. Gary Gallant from Rumford will give a demonstration on making wooden pens. He will also have some wooden pens to show. This is open to the public at no charge and there will be light refreshments.

Judith Grover Tent 17, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, met at the grange hall for a regular meeting.  Plans for Memorial Day were discussed as were what to do for the 200th celebration of the town and the setting of the monument and new flag pole. Vicky read about the beginning of the Civil War with the surrender of Fort Sumter in 1861.  Twenty-two calls were reported.  It was good to see Sally Sawyer back to the meetings. The next meeting will be Monday, May 11, at the grange hall.

Sympathy is extended to the family of Marcel Palak on the passing of his mother.

The Woodstock-Greenwood Senior Citizens will meet on Thursday, May 7,  at the Locke Mills Church with dinner by the Ladies Circle and a program by Valerie Billings.

Franklin Grange 124 will meet on Monday, May 4, at the grange hall for a regular meeting. Don’t forget the “Mock Hee Haw Show” on Saturday, May 2, at 7 p.m. at the grange hall.