Memorial Day: Uncle Eddie recalls WWII

It’s Memorial Day in New Ipswich. The high school band is playing “Louie, Louie,” Boy Scouts are waving the town flag, and a police escort leads the way. In the middle of the parade, leading a line of New Ipswich veterans and service members, a convertible carries the town’s World War II veterans. Riding high in the front seat waving …0

Memorial Day: Buddy Blanchette: A casualty in Korea

Charles C. Blanchette Jr., known to his friends as Buddy, went off to war in January 1951, leaving his hometown of Peterborough and heading to Fort Dix, N.J., for basic training in the U.S. Army. Less than a year later, he was sent to Korea, where war was raging. The 17-year-old infantryman was assigned to the front lines and on …0

Jaffrey-Rindge School District: Playing the part to music

For one Conant High School drama class, celebrating the works of William Shakespeare and memorizing the Old English vernacular also means putting it to music. In a nontraditional performance of abridged Shakespearean plays, this group of drama students is applying their knowledge and love of musicals in an entirely new way. “I’ve never seen anything like this done before,” said …0

Rindge: ‘Ella’ Gibson: Breaking barriers

More than a century after her death, a Rindge woman is being remembered this Memorial Day for her service as the first woman chaplain in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. Elvira “Ella” Gibson, although born in Winchendon, Mass., spent much of her youth in Rindge, a place her family had called home for generations. Gibson moved to the …0

Rindge: DWI topic of workshop

RINDGE — As a part of a multi-part educational series cosponsored by the Rindge Police Department and Rindge Crime Watch, the Crime Watch meeting Tuesday night focused on DWI laws and impaired driving prevention. While people driving drunk or under the influence of illegal drugs on New Hampshire’s roads remain primary concerns, Assistant N.H. Attorney General Diana Fenton told residents …0