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Legislative solution to Peterborough scam fund recovery unlikely

Rollout of booster shots skewing state’s data on first and second vaccine doses

One injured in Wilton welding fire 35h ago

Special Election: Maneval pushes to keep District 9 blue 79h ago

Special Election: Mattson calls in GOP’s big guns 78h ago

Feds OK ‘mix-and-match’ approach for COVID-19 booster shots 59h ago

High School Soccer: ConVal boys, girls lock up playoff spots 35h ago

Cynthia Jewett named NH Library Director of the Year at James A. Tuttle 59h ago

Peterborough Players officially name Tom Frey as artistic director 59h ago

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Graduation Magazine 2021 2,962h ago

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Greenfield: Pumpkin festival at Oak Park Saturday

By ROWAN WILSON - 10/22/21

The first-ever Greenfield Pumpkin Festival will be held at Oak Park this Saturday, Oct. 23. Starting at 4:30 p.m., the event welcomes kids...

Proposed legislation places focus on Indigenous affairs

By AMANDA GOKEE - 10/22/21

A handful of proposals would create legislation to address issues of importance to New Hampshire’s Indigenous residents: among them are adding a...

Kids age 5 to 11 next in line for COVID-19 vaccines as White House rolls out plans

By LAURA OLSON - 10/22/21

Smaller needles. Redesigned shipments to ease the storage needs in pediatricians’ offices. And enough vials of the COVID-19 vaccine to inoculate...

COVID-19 and the workplace

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH - 10/22/21

What can my employer require?The pandemic has raised various legal questions for employers navigating through state health guidelines and differing...

Zest For Food: An apple a day will make life delicious

By MARIE CASSADY - 10/22/21

One of the best things about Fall is a trip to the apple orchard. Even though friends gifted me with apples from their trees, we will make a trip...

National Drug Take Back Day this weekend

By JULIA STINNEFORD - 10/22/21

National Drug Take Back Day is this weekend, and many local police departments are gearing up to participate.The Drug Enforcement Administration...

Local groups receive arts grants

By JULIA STINNEFORD - 10/22/21

Local arts groups have been awarded grants from the New Hampshire Council on the Arts to help promote access to art-based activities and...

Civil War reenactment, Haunted Mile in Mason

By ROWAN WILSON - 10/22/21

This weekend, Barrett Hill Farm in Mason will be transformed into a scene straight from the Civil War. At least 40 historical reenactment actors...

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High School Soccer: ConVal boys, girls lock up playoff spots

By BEN CONANT - 10/22/21

ConVal and Coe-Brown played 100 minutes without a single goal Thursday night in a thrilling senior night contest that featured stellar goalkeeping...

Soccer Roundup: WLC boys get biggest win of the year over rival Sunapee

By BEN CONANT - 10/20/21

The Wilton-Lyndeborough boys’ soccer team got its biggest win of the season – and for some players, the biggest win of their career – over No. 1...

Mascenic’s Hakala wins state golf championship

By BEN CONANT - 10/18/21

Most golfers who participated in Saturday’s NHIAA individual golf championship at Beaver Meadow shot much higher rounds than their qualifying total...

PHOTOS: ConVal football stymied by Kearsarge rushing attack

By BEN CONANT - 10/18/21

ConVal’s football team showed some spark once again Friday night against Kearsarge, but after jumping out to an early lead, the home Cougars found...

Opinion

8/9/21

Fair goes off without a hitchThe 104th Summer Fair in Jaffrey Center was a big success in so many ways! Financially, preliminary figures show about...

8/9/21

‘Our Town’ is awesomeFolks: Perhaps, currently, the most overused word in the English language is “awesome” and that is the only word I can use to...

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Amid arrests, Executive Council votes 4-1 to reject federal funds for COVID vaccines

Salinger aside, after 50 years and 18 books, Joyce Maynard of Bennington has earned her own literary fame

If you think it’s a really bad year for ticks, you’re not alone. But are you right?

PHOTOS: Election Day 2020 around the region

PHOTOS: Fourth of July in Antrim

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Arts & Living

Peterborough Players officially name Tom Frey as artistic director

By TIM GOODWIN - 10/21/21

Tom Frey credits the Peterborough Players with giving him new opportunities that brought his career to new heights. From portraying parts that were...

Monadnock Art celebrating 25th annual art tour

By TIM GOODWIN - 10/8/21

Artists around the Monadnock region will open their creative worlds to the public this weekend, as the Monadnock Art Tour celebrates its 25th...

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Obituaries

Lois Kenick

10/21/2021

Lois E. Kenick Lyndeborough, NH — Lois E. Kenick died on October 16, 2021. The daughter of Pauline F. and Joseph L. Kenick, Sr., she leaves two siblings, Joe Jr and Ann Carlson, and nieces and...

Dolores Sanchioni

10/21/2021

Dolores (Adamkowski) Sanchioni Francestown NH — Dolores Sanchioni, 86, passed away at Hanover Hill Health Care Center in Manchester, NH on Friday October 15, 2021 following a lengthy illness....

Josephine Deschenes

10/19/2021

Josephine Deschenes Jaffrey NH — Josephine (Jo) M. Deschenes, 98, of Jaffrey passed away on October 4, 2021 in the comfort of her daughter's home with her children by her side. Josephine was...

Atheleah McCullough

10/19/2021

Atheleah Ann (Hutchinson) McCullough Bennington, NH — Atheleah ("Lani") McCullough, 91, of Bennington, New Hampshire, passed away peacefully on October 10, 2021. She was born in Peterboroug...

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