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"Get Golf Ready" at Eastman Golf Links

Let’s face it: it’s intimidating to watch professional golfers play. They make it look so easy. But at one time they were beginners. So how do you learn to play?

Eastman Golf Links is one of only two courses in New Hampshire to offer the PGA-sponsored, 5-lesson Get Golf Ready program for people who have never played or haven’t swung a club in a while. Beginning at $109 for all five lessons, Get Golf Ready is designed to teach you Continue reading…

Tournament benefits cancer center

For the 31st year, Eastman Golf Links will be the primary sponsor and host for the Eastman Classic Golf Tournament to benefit the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Golfers may sign up for the 10 a.m. June 28 outing either individually or in teams of two, three or four. Anyone not already in a foursome will be paired up by Eastman Head Golf

Pro Mark Larrabee. Cost is $130 per person and includes a Continue reading…

Successful Turkey Trot raises over $1,200

Food certificates totaling more than

$1,200 were donated to the towns of Enfield, Springfield and Grantham from the net proceeds raised at the annual Turkey Trot

Walk & Run in Eastman.

Runners and walkers participated in a 5K run or 2-mile walk starting

from the South

Cove Activity Center to raise funds to support those in need. Participants also filled

five bins with non-perishable food Continue reading…

Annual Turkey Trot is Nov. 10

The annual Turkey Trot Fun Run/ Walk at Eastman Community Association will be held Nov. 10 to benefit needy

families within the Upper Valley, providing turkey dinners for Thanksgiving and non-perishable food items for local food banks. The 5K run and two-mile walk begin from the community’s South Cove Activity Center, located at 25 Road Round Lake in Grantham.

The 5K is a scenic, hilly course on paved and unpaved roads. The two-mile walk Continue reading…

Eastman building is tops in New Hampshire

Eastman Community Association is first and foremost an environmentally friendly community, so it was with great pride that we learned that the New Hampshire Green Building Council named our South Cove Activity Center the 2011 NH Sustainable Building of the Year.

This LEED Gold Certified building was designed by

Eastman Loppet for David's House Feb. 11

Eastman Cross County Center will host the inaugural Loppet for David’s House Saturday, Feb. 11. What is a loppet? “Lopp” is the Swedish word for “race,” in this case a ski race. For some it means an intense competition; for others, a relaxing way to spend a day outside, taking in the beauty of nature.

The Eastman Loppet for David's House will be a day-long, fun-filled event for the entire family, featuring groomed loops of various distances for classic or Continue reading…

Turkey Trot provides food for needy

The annual Turkey Trot Fun Run/ Walk

at Eastman Community Association will be held Nov. 12 to benefit needy families within the Upper Valley, providing turkey dinners for Thanksgiving and non-perishable food items for local food banks. This year, the 5K run and two-mile walk will begin

from the community’s South Cove Activity Center, 25 Road Round Lake.

The 5K is a scenic, hilly course on paved and unpaved roads. The two-mile walk is an Continue reading…

Two loon chicks hatch on Eastman Lake

Two

loon chicks hatched on Eastman Lake in late June, making this the second year in a row we’ve had two chicks.

Eastman’s Lakes & Streams Committee issued the “birth announcement” the week of July 4, asking people to be respectful of the new family by keeping their distance. Using binoculars or a camera with a zoom lens will provide close up looks of these fascinating creatures.

Eastman Lake has a public boat launch and motors are allowed, Continue reading…

Eastman Committee cited for lake work

At the Volunteer Lake

Assessment Program’s 25th Anniversary Celebration in May, the Eastman Lakes and Streams Committee, representing Eastman Pond in Grantham, received a Volunteer Limnologist Award and the 2010 Secchi Disk Award.

Since 2004, the NH Dept. of Environmental Services has recognized at least one volunteer for dedication and commitment to volunteer lake monitoring. This award has been appropriately named the Volunteer Limnologist Award because each time a volunteer monitor collects a water sample from a lake Continue reading…

Eastman Benefit for cancer center

For the 28th year, Eastman Golf Links will be the primary sponsor and host for the Eastman Classic Golf Tournament and silent auction to benefit the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Golfers may sign up for the 10 a.m. June 25 outing either individually or in teams of two, three or four. Anyone not already in a foursome will be paired up by Eastman Head Golf Pro Mark Larrabee. Cost is $130 per person and includes a Continue reading…