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Dave Anderson joined the Ledger in February 2004 as assistant editor and became an editor in August 2004. He is a graduate of St. Lawrence University, and has lived in the Monadnock region since 1975. Prior to joining the Ledger-Transcript, he worked in editing or production jobs for several magazine publishers, including BYTE/McGraw Hill and Helmers Publishing in Peterborough and PennWell Publishing in Nashua. Dave and his wife, Kathy, live in Hancock. They have three grown children.

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Recent articles

Traffic-calming war of words

Selectmen and Transportation Committee members are at odds about the priorities of the traffic calming project on Route 101 and the fate of a memorial rock at the town’s center oval.

Police: Brother foils burglary

TEMPLE — Two men allegedly caught in the act of robbing a house on Webster Highway on Monday morning have been arrested.

Revival on the farm

“Greetings of 1908. Peterborough Grange has
entered upon its 34th year. Be known it has prospered, as the records show, financially as well as in membership. Success this year rests with each member. The word Forward is a tingling, blazing, fighting word. It’s every sound indicates victory.”

Rescuing a ‘little monster’

JAFFREY — A calf that was found roaming on Peterborough Street in June has found a loving home with the Baird family of Brook Street, where the animal is now a family pet.

A vet with a Bronze Star

Now in his 90s, Robert Capellaro, a resident at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, recalls being “Hell on Wheels.”

Nuisance or art?

JAFFREY — The line between freedom of artistic expression and the responsibilities of state park rangers to manage Mount Monadnock is at the center of a challenge the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union is taking on.

What a century

NEW IPSWICH — In 1909, four months after the publisher of the Boston Post began the tradition of presenting the Boston Post Cane to the oldest living resident in 700 towns across New England, Lily Pakkala was born in Finland.

Nearing 100, and still a force

‘Oh, my hat,” Doris Haddock says on an early October morning as she stretches her small and fragile frame to grab her straw hat. The wide-brimmed feathered hat that sits on top of a gray bust in the corner of her room has become the key to her signature look. She says she never leaves her Dublin home without it.

Stolen paintings sour holidays for artist

One still life is of five brown eggs, four of them resting on a white cloth, one sitting alone on a yellow-gray countertop. The second shows four red and green McIntosh apples on the same counter. On Tuesday last week, they were hanging in the Peterborough Art Academy and Gallery in Depot Square. On Wednesday, they were gone.

Divided by time, united by love

Though he and his wife survived the Dec. 11, 2008, ice storm, the anniversary of the storm Friday was bittersweet for Albert Sylvestre, 91, of Rindge.

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