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Jaffrey couple arrested in connection with Keene man’s murder

Newfoundland Pony Conservancy moving from Jaffrey to Maine

18-year-old Antrim man charged with first-degree murder for allegedly killing father last November 20h ago

Temple native fighting west coast wildfires while many stand down due to COVID-19 42h ago

Drive Electric event going virtual Monday NEW

High School Roundup: Conant, WLC battle to tie; Jacob scores five goals; Hayes gamewinner beats Keene 21h ago

ConVal decision appealed by state in Supreme Court Thursday 17h ago

New plans for complex near ski site 21h ago

Veterans open military surplus store in Rindge 21h ago

Hancock’s COVID-19 refugee is an 80 pound tortoise named BJ 42h ago

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N.H. woman and son kicked off plane because toddler refused to wear a mask

By TAT BELLAMY-WALKER - Today

In the wake of a Portsmouth mother getting kicked off of an American Airlines flight after her toddler refused to wear a mask, some public health...

Initial jobless claims in NH barely budge as nearly 2,300 file for unemployment

By BOB SANDERS - Today

Some 2,276 Granite Staters filed initial unemployment claims during the week ending Sept. 19, indicating that the economic recession, like the...

New Hampshire health care officials look to lessons learned to prepare for a flu season coupled with COVID-19

By ADAM URQUHART - Today

Health care officials in New Hampshire are expecting a resurgence of COVID-19 moving into flu season.In response, some hospitals will be testing...

COVID tracker: New case counts keep rising but clusters seem to be contained, so far

By DAVID BROOKS - 9/22/20

With small clusters of COVID-19 popping up at schools and perhaps elsewhere, including the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, New Hampshire’s pandemic...

Keene State athlete tests positive for COVID-19, over two dozen quarantined

By OLIVIA BELANGER - 9/22/20

An athlete at Keene State College has tested positive for COVID-19, resulting in more than two dozen others affiliated with the college being...

Granite State fall festivals find solutions

By MEGHAN PIERCE - 9/22/20

Pumpkin carving, jack-o-lantern towers, hayrides and costume parades -- fall foliage or pumpkin festivals are a staple of autumn in New Hampshire...

Wilton hair stylist opens doors on new shop

By ASHLEY SAARI - 9/21/20

It’s a chaotic time to be opening a new business, but Lorelei Sullivan said she saw the chance to realize her dream, and took it.Sullivan, owner of...

Francestown congregation to sell church

By ABBE HAMILTON - 9/21/20

The Community Church of Francestown voted to sell their building last Sunday, citing a dwindling congregation unable to support the cost of...

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Sports

High School Roundup: Conant, WLC battle to tie; Jacob scores five goals; Hayes gamewinner beats Keene

By BEN CONANT - Today

Wednesday’s Wilton-Lyndeborough/Conant boys’ soccer showdown featured new coaches and new faces, but the result was the same chippy, competitive...

High School Roundup: Mascenic field hockey shuts out Keene, Conant boys fall in double OT

9/23/20

FIELD HOCKEYMascenic 3, Keene 0The Vikings got their season off to an auspicious start Tuesday with a 3-0 shutout win over Division I Keene.Emma...

High School Roundup: Seasons underway for Conant, Mascenic and Wilton-Lyndeborough

By BEN CONANT - 9/21/20

COVID-19 cut the winter high school sports season short, canceled the spring season and caused a summer full of uncertainty about what was going to...

Vail Resorts anticipates full ski season in New Hampshire

By Kelly Burch - 9/4/20

Amid all the chaos and uncertainty brought about by the pandemic, Vail Resorts, which operates four ski areas in New Hampshire, has a message of...

Opinion

Be The Change: How To Grow Up

By THEODORE N.E. CROSS - 9/4/20

When does a person become an adult? It happened for me when I got my first job as a dishwasher at Cooper’s Hill Public House in Peterborough.Not...

We can change for the better

By BILL TAYLOR - 7/14/20

Let me preface this viewpoint by saying that I am writing here to express my own individual concerns and hopes as a lifelong resident of this town...

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PHOTOS: Fourth of July in Antrim

PHOTOS: Protest against racial injustice in Dublin Saturday

WLC seniors celebrate graduation at drive-in theater

PHOTOS: Protest against racial injustice in Peterborough Saturday

PHOTOS: Memorial Day observances in Jaffrey

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Arts & Living

House & Home: The Oliver Whiting Homestead is full of historical significance

By TIM GOODWIN - 9/22/20

It was a little over five years after Fred and Katharine Roedel purchased their Wilton home on Old County Road that they began thinking about the...

Anthologies document early feelings of coronavirus pandemic

By TIM GOODWIN - 9/16/20

The coronavirus pandemic has evoked all sorts of thoughts and feelings in just about everybody – from uncertainty and fear to anxiety and...

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Obituaries

Rosalys Wilson

9/23/2020

Rosalys B. "Rosie" Wilson passed away on Sunday, September 13, 2020, in Peterborough, NH at the age of 89. Rosie was born on March 28, 1931, the third child and only daughter of John George Buckles...

Pauline Halfpenny

9/21/2020

Pauline R. Halfpenny, 91, a lifelong resident of Jaffrey, NH, died peacefully on September 16, 2020 at the Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, after a brief period of failing health. Paulin...

Lauria Hasdorff

9/21/2020

Born in Greenville, NH to Robert and Rose Anna Thibault, Lauria passed at 5 pm on September 3rd, 2020 at home in the company of her family. Before there was Facebook to remind us of birthdays and othe...

Videos

The Granite State News Collaborative has been working with New Hampshire media throughout the COVID-19 crisis to coordinate shared content, provide laid-off journalists with freelance jobs, and create freelance... - Read Story

The Peterborough Players’ latest production, “Dumas’ Camille” examines where truth and memory meet and how a longing and grief of lost love can be transformed by art and how we really want to see the past and the... - Read Story

On the heels of the first Peterborough Night Market, plans are already in the works for the next, organizer Roy Schlieben said... - Read Story

Recent ConVal graduate Kylie Procita’s foray into documentary filmmaking turned out as fresh as her subject matter. Procita, who’s studying film at Savannah College of Art and Design, directed “Read Story