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In recent years the Alton Society has organised the annual litter pick jointly with the Alton and District Youth Council, but since the sad demise of that organisation the Society had to go it alone this year. Luckily, Di and Ray Wood came forward from the membership to take on the organisation of the...
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The Alton Society are calling for volunteers to join them on Saturday 24th March for a litter pick around the town. Starting from the old Post Office on the High Street at 10am, everyone is welcome to come along until midday and patrol the town picking up litter to keep our town tidy! Litter...
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Volunteers from two Alton groups have been planting trees around the town to complement the Town Council’s programme of planting 11 trees in Anstey Park, St Lawrence Churchyard and the Public Gardens to mark National Tree Week. As the Woodland Trust have launched an appeal, ‘to plant a tree for the Jubilee’ and indeed...
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This is Alton editor Martin Saban-Smith went to meet Alton Society Chairman, Dr. James Willis in the first in a new series of interviews with key figures in organisations in and around Alton. For more information about the Alton Society, what they do, how they do it and how to join this proactive group,...
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An innovative promotion of a long distance footpath should give passengers waiting for buses in Alton’s busy High Street something other to read than bus timetables from now on. Five bus shelters in the thoroughfare have been brightened-up with maps and text depicting St Swithun’s Way, a 70 mile long distance footpath linking...
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The Alton Society is an organisation for people who care about Alton. For many years, the Society members have been keeping a watchful eye on the town and have made many positive moves to protect it from ‘activities’ that may not be entirely complementary to the town as well as promoting all that there...
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