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Josh Bond joined the Ledger-Transcript in May of 2008 as a part-time reporter. He has since become a full-time reporter and provides photography and news coverage in the towns of Antrim, Bennington, Greenfield and Francestown as well as the ConVal School District. Josh grew up in Swanzey and is a graduate of Keene State College’s journalism program. He and his wife Lorri live in Peterborough with their daughter.

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A return to work

GREENFIELD — While visiting New England Forest Products in Greenfield on Friday, Gov. John Lynch met with two employees who had been unemployed for more than one year before they found jobs through the state’s new Return to Work program.

Cutting his energy footprint

When Richard Ames decided to embrace earth-friendly living, he did not wade slowly into the shallow end of home efficiency improvements. Instead he embarked on an aggressive seven-year campaign to retrofit his 96-year-old home — an effort he says cut his annual energy costs by nearly $6,000 and reduced his fossil-fuel consumption by more than 80 percent.

History felled

PETERBOROUGH — Nearly 40 years ago, Bob Weathers worked all day to save one of the last American elms in the region from Dutch elm disease. On Friday, he watched a tree company work all day to chop down that tree, which had grown to 80 feet tall at nearly 200 years old.

Focusing on his abilities

PETERBOROUGH — For Randy Pierce, who has been blind since 2000, each footfall in the woods of New England brings the possibility of serious injury.

A lasting impression

After more than a year of planning, fundraising, fine carving and heavy lifting, Luke Johnson has completed his Eagle Scout project: a soapstone and granite monument in the little-known Goodell Park on Main Street in Antrim.

Vacant motel may get new life

BENNINGTON — After sitting vacant for more than seven years, the Highland Inn across from the Crotched Mountain Ski Area on Route 47 may be ready for customers in time for winter.

Hats off

As ConVal High School inducted its 40th graduating class beneath a cloudless sky on Saturday, it also said goodbye to its leader of 16 years, Principal Susan Dell.

Teachers reunite, with stories to tell

More than 40 educators with a combined 930 years of experience in education traveled from as far as Florida to attend a ConVal teacher reunion Saturday.

‘This is why she was such a whirlwind'

Nearly 500 mourners from Antrim and surrounding communities gathered Saturday to celebrate the life of Rebekah Warren, the 16-year-old ConVal High School freshman who was killed in a car accident on May 8.

Ride share program gets a major boost

PETERBOROUGH — The Contoocook Valley Transportation Company recently received more than $140,000 in federal grants to expand its volunteer driver and carpool networks.

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