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  • Betty Vandersluis, former psychology professor at Franklin Pierce University, takes in the moment as she watches more than 600 graduates file into their seats at the start of Saturday’s commencement ceremony in Rindge. Vandersluis taught Temple Grandin — a 1970 graduate of Franklin Pierce College and 2012 Doctor of Humane Letters honorary-degree recipient.
    RINDGE

    Meeting life

    RINDGE — More than 600 Franklin Pierce University graduates and the university’s College of Graduate and Professional Studies sat beneath picture-perfect skies Saturday morning as they bid farewell to a place they had come to call home.

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  • Janet Simonds Sweetland, left, and Lisa Simonds Coulombe unveil a bronze horse head sculpture that’s part of the restored Peterborough horse trough during a ceremony on the Town House plaza on Wednesday.
    PETERBOROUGH

    A reflection of Peterborough’s past

    PETERBOROUGH — The pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters were flowing into the town’s new wishing well Wednesday night.

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  • Ramsay Thomas, the son of Select Board candidate Liz Thomas, chats with former Executive Councilor Debora Pignatelli of Nashua as they campaign outside the Main Street side entrance to the Town House on Tuesday.
    PETERBOROUGH

    Voters approve $11.7M budget

    PETERBOROUGH — Voters approved an $11.7 million operating budget by a substantial margin at the polls on Tuesday, while rejecting two petition articles calling for appointment of the Planning Board and Zoning Board of Adjustment, which are now elected positions. Incumbent Liz Thomas won re-election to the Peterborough Select Board, beating. . . (read more)

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  • AT&T Attorney William Dodge of Downs Machlin Martin, sitting at left facing the Planning Board, and Attorney David Tower of Tower & Crocker — who represented David H. Jeffries Living Trust — listen in as the board takes public comment on the proposed wireless communications facility at 617 Mountain Drive in Jaffrey during Tuesday’s hearing.
    JAFFREY

    Proposed cell tower in debate

    JAFFREY — A proposed 125-foot AT&T communications tower on Mountain Road that developers say would improve cell phone service in the area received mixed reviews at a public hearing before the Planning Board on Tuesday night.

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  • Olivia Horton-Gregg, right, playing Marmee in “Little Women — the Musical,” teaches her daughter Meg, played by Arianna Zrzavy, how to dance.
    ARTS

    Staging Civil War homefront

    Continuing its year-long focus on great works of literature, ConVal High School Theatre will present “Little Women — the Musical” this week in the school’s Lucy Hurlin Theatre.

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