Beginning next month, a new marketplace combining locally grown produce with handcrafted goods will be taking place every Monday afternoon, rain or shine, in the area of the northeast parking lot at Monadnock Community Hospital.

When my parents died years ago, friends and neighbors brought ham, coffee cakes and casseroles. Platters and fruit baskets arrived for days, along with hugs and tears. More recently when a friend was convalescing after surgery, our family of friends filled the fridge with quiches and soups, pasta and salads. This food was more than a meal, it was love — pure and simple.

Each spring thousands of daffodils push their way up through mud and snow in the open spaces around Antrim. By mid-April, no matter the weather — Antrim is awash in sunny yellow. Daffodils welcome people at every roadway entering town, and wave from planters in front of Town Hall. They line sidewalks and decorate lawns and gardens around the library, churches and parks.

‘Practice...perfection...performance.” This mantra engulfed the lives of two young boys growing up in Canada. Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra both had pursued the dream of becoming world-class piano virtuosos. Working together in a production after they had abandoned their original goal and had become actors, they discovered that they had lived “parallel lives.”

With the school year having come to a close, the ConVal School District is saying goodbye to one of its most beloved teachers, Ray Sweeney.

Yankee Magazine, the publication that continues to be, in words penned by founder Robb Sagendorph in 1935, “for Yankee readers, by Yankee writers, and about Yankeedom,” turns 75 this year.