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Blondemoose3 t1_j82angu wrote

I currently live in Newbury and absolutely love it. It’s very agriculturally based, and there’s definitely a small village-like feel. I love walking to the post-office, village store, and library on my days off, and the green in front of the elementary school is the center of town. I work at a local business and everyone makes an effort to help out at a community level. The surrounding towns are somewhat economically depressed and you’ll have to go to Woodsville (15 mins) for any big shopping. There’s very limited public transportation. The schools are decent from what I hear, and Newbury Elementary is rated well. Big art scene. Lots of overlap with community events in Bradford as well. Very happy to have ended up here!

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peachboot828 OP t1_j856yv7 wrote

Ahhhh, awesome! I’m so glad to hear this! Everyone making an effort to help out on a community level says more about a town than the amenities it has, IMHO. I’m so glad that there’s a library…a good library can be life-changing (I know it was for me).

We don’t do much “big shopping” since we tend to buy in bulk and grow/raise a lot of our own food. And public transportation isn’t a huge deal for us…we’re a one-car/two-motorcycles/two e-bikes family, and I WFH full-time.

And I’m SO glad to hear there’s a good arts scene! I’m a printmaker, former college art professor, and I used to own/run an art gallery and community workshop space in Atlanta. I’d love to bring something like that to life again wherever we finally put down permanent roots. The arts infrastructure in Randolph is so good that they don’t need me, lol (which is awesome in its own way).

Where do you work, if you don’t mind my asking? We’re going to see this property in Newbury tomorrow afternoon and maybe we can swing by where you work and say hi if you’ll be there!

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Loosh_03062 t1_j85yvab wrote

One thing to consider about Newbury (the town) is that which part you live in determines the school. Newbury (the village) uses Newbury Elementary and Oxbow (the combined junior/senior high school), and Wells River (another village within the Town of Newbury) uses the PreK-12 Blue Mountain. When Act 46 was in flight there was talk about folding Blue Mountain into Oxbow but what was in the state meeting minutes amounted to "let's wait and see if Bradford and Newbury actually start to like each other before adding BM to the cluster and figuring out which buildings to close and how to split the grades"

I have a niece and nephew at Oxbow HS and another niece graduated last year. There's an active drama club, but the music program barely remains. There are definitely the usual "small school" issues with finding ways to challenge the potential superstars.

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