Lyme

Town Offices: P.O. Box 342, Lyme, N.H. 03768; 795-2535

Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Town Clerk: Patricia G. Jenks, 795-2535

Treasurer: Andrea Colgan, 795-4639

Administrative Assistant to the Selectmen: Carole Bont, 795-4639

Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Selectmen: Richard G. Jones, 795-2870; Charles Ragan, 795-2072; Judith Lee Shelnutt Brotman, chairwoman, 795-4545 (meets every Wednesday at 8 a.m. in the fire station conference room)

Selectmen's Secretary: Dina Cutting, 795-4639

Health Officer: Dr. Charles Sawyer, 795-4639

Tax Collector: Joanne Coburn, 795-4416

Hours: Monday 10 a.m. to noon

Moderator: William H. Waste

Road Agent: Fred Stearns III, 795-4042

Overseer of Public Welfare: Nancy Elizabeth Grandine, 795-4853

Chief of Police: Pauline Field, 643-2222

Fire Chief: Michel C. Hinsley, 643-3610

Budget Committee: Barney Brannen, chairman; Mike Smith; Freda Swan; Josh Kilham; Elizabeth Glenshaw; Wayne Tullar; Gibbons G. Cornwell III; Jeff Lehmann; Judith Lee Shelnutt Brotman, selectman representative; Dave Caffry

Planning Board: Freda Swan, chairwoman, 353-9834; Jack Elliott, 795-2447; Jeanne McIntyre, 795-4705; John Billings, 795-2435; Don Dwight, alternate, 795-4995; Stephanie Clark, alternate, 795-2661 (meets the second and fourth Thursdays of each month at 7:30 p.m.)

Planning and Zoning Administrator: Victoria Davis, 795-2661

Zoning Board of Adjustment: Walter Swift, chairman, 795-2908; George Hartmann; Alan Greatorex, 795-4519; O. Ross McIntyre, 795-2904; James Poage, 795-2106 (meets the third Thursday of the month at 7:30 p.m.)

Zoning Board of Adjustment Alternates: Brenda Glass, Margot Maddock, Marcia Armstrong

Conservation Commission: Lee Larson, 795-2014; Miriam Weinstein, 795-2074; Vicki May, 795-4451; Matt Stevens, 795-4639; Adair Mulligan

Lyme Town Library: Betsy Eaton, librarian, 795-4622

Hours: Monday 1 to 5 p.m.; Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Supervisors of the Checklist: Elise Garrity, 795-4639; Katherine Larson, 795-2014; John Franklin, chairman, 795-4532

Cemetery Commission: Jean Smith, 795-2970; Michael Hinsley, 795-4403; Jennifer Cooke, 795-4662

Sexton: William LaBombard, 795-4517

Recreation Commission: Catherine Cramer, Kerry Beck, Kathleen Henriques, Tor Tosteson

School Board: Mary Beck, Margaret Rose Minnock, Tom Yurkowsky, Audrey Brown, Kevin Kerin, Julie McCutheon, Peter Glenshaw (meets the second Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m.)

School District Moderator: William Waste

School District Treasurer: Dina Cutting, 795-4639

Barnes-Plain Elementary School: Jeffrey Valence, principal, 795-2125

Superintendent of Schools: Gordon Schnear, 795-4431

School Business Manager: Theresa Thurston, 795-4431

Places of Interest

A line of 27 contiguous horse sheds on the green is one of the longest in New England.

Covered bridge on River Road, built on the green between 1885 and 1887, and later carted to its final destination.

Residents of Lyme enjoy a variety of recreational options, including Post Pond, which offers fishing year round and swimming in the summer. Near the pond are a rink for skating in the winter, softball fields, tennis and basketball courts and the Robert Chaffee Wildlife Sanctuary.

Smarts Mountain has hiking trails, and the Dartmouth Skiway maintains two lifts and numerous trails for downhill skiing.

Lyme's green is used for community church suppers, concerts performed by the Lyme Town Band, craft fairs and flea markets.

The Converse Free Library is open six days a week and serves both the town and the school.