Peterborough: 80 Years of magic

Chuck Morey first saw the barn at the Peterborough Players when he came to town in the spring of 1969, looking for a summer job. “It was a fluke, really,” Morey says. “I was about to graduate from Dartmouth up in Hanover. I thought I might be going to Columbia for an MFA in acting, or I was going to …0

Peterborough: Off to Africa, after 42 years on the job

By the time this story hits the street, Bill Burt will be in  Africa. On Friday, the only store manager that Little Roy’s convenience store has ever known spent his last day on the job as he usually does, checking stock, running the cash register and most importantly, talking to both the regulars and customers he was meeting for the …0

Jaffrey-Rindge: Time abroad is time exploring

Yellow school buses, student yearbooks, after-school clubs and sports teams were the subjects of many stories about America that Isadora Martins Amaral Castro of Minas Gerais, Brazil, heard about as a child. Castro’s father had studied in the U.S. as a young man in the 1980s and stayed with a host family in Seattle, Wash. More than 30 years later, …0

CONVAL: Paving costs higher than expected

PETERBOROUGH — Bids came in considerably higher than expected for the revamping of the ConVal High School parking lot. As a result, the School Board is looking into breaking the project into two phases, in the hope of getting new bus lanes, a drop-off lane for parents, walkways and a new traffic pattern done this summer. That would delay the …0

Wilton: Town down 1 ambulance

WILTON — When one of Wilton’s ambulances was involved in a collision late last month, it left both drivers uninjured. The same cannot be said, however, for the ambulance itself, which will be out of commission as of Monday while it goes into the shop for repairs, which could leave Wilton short an ambulance for the duration of next week. …0