Parish Newsletters

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Items for Future Newsletters

Please let Stephen Elmer have articles for the newsletter by email, phone or note. For other parish matters contact any councillor or the clerk.

Noticeboards

Parish Council noticeboards are located at the village hall and on the village green. A public-access noticeboard is located in the bus shelter opposite Pittfields Corner.

Scruton Information Signboard

A ‘Thankful Village’ signboard located on the village green near the Church, tells the story of Scruton from its ancient origins through to it becoming a Thankful Village.

Scruton Parish Council

Parish Council News – January 2023

6th January 2023

Dog fouling, trees, Queen Elizabeth II

Tractor

Farming News – January 2023

6th January 2023

As we leave the old year behind, I keep seeing online posts about what a horrible year 2022 was, but I think that in the next decade we may look back with nostalgia and accept that it wasn’t so bad after all.

Otter

Nature Notes – January 2023

6th January 2023

Ten years ago the sight or a photo of an otter on the Swale would have made the local newspapers. Today they are more common than kingfishers.

Scruton Parish Council

From the Parish Council – December 2022

1st December 2022

We thank Kevin Procter for leaf clearing on the Village Green and Trevor Howe for planting bulbs, donated by Kirkby Fleetham WI, on Pittfields Corner.

Benefice of the Lower Swale

From the Rectory – December 2022

1st December 2022

The Christmas hype has started. I doubt many people look to the weeks before Christmas with the word ‘quiet’ in mind.

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