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BUSINESS QUARTERLY: Developers work to increase housing stock
By ASHLEY SAARI
From its exterior, the former Catholic church on Maple Street in Wilton looks much the same as when it was built.On the inside, however, many of the accouterments have been stripped, readying the space for its next life as an apartment building.Owner...
Fiddleheads under new ownership, set to reopen Memorial Day weekend
By ROWAN WILSON
Eleanor Briggs of Hancock now owns Fiddleheads Cafe for the second time, and the restaurant is preparing to reopen on Memorial Day weekend.In the 1990s, Briggs first bought and started the downtown Hancock cafe, which Steve and Betty Zakon Anderson...
Haley named principal at RODE Architects
RODE Architects, a Boston-based collaborative design and architecture firm, has announced the promotion of Peterborough native Jessica Haley to principalThe company has grown to 35 employees since its founding in 2006, and has expanded its work...
Doctors make themselves at home in former Sharon Arts Center
By BILL FONDA
Just inside the front door of the former Sharon Art Center is an office where Drs. Sara Featherstone and Edward Ellis have opened their naturopathic treatment practice.They had been in the Strand building in Peterborough before moving into what is now...
Peterborough First Friday returns April 7
The merchants of Depot Square and downtown Peterborough will be open late for the first in-person First Friday of the year Friday, April 7, from 5 to 7 p.m. or later.Merchants include The Apothecary at its new location in Depot Square, where people...
Greater Keene & Peterborough Chamber of Commerce announces name change at gala
Nearly 400 people attended the annual Greater Keene & Peterborough Chamber of Commerce gala March 16 at the Keene State Zorn Dining Center. During the event, chamber board Chair Tim Pipp announced the rebranding of the chamber and its new...
Teleflex in Jaffrey breaks ground on expansion
By ASHLEY SAARI
Teleflex Medical, a medical equipment manufacturer in Jaffrey, broke ground Tuesday on an 8,200-square-foot expansion to its Plantation Drive facilities, with plans to have construction complete by the end of the year.The addition will be an expansion...
Bank of Walpole opening new location in Rindge
By ASHLEY SAARI
Bank of Walpole was scheduled to open a new branch in Rindge on Monday, in the former GFA Credit Union on Sonja Drive. This is the bank’s seventh branch in the Monadnock region.Savings Bank of Walpole purchased the building and began renovations last...
Summerhill names Kristie Greenwood executive director
Summerhill Assisted Living in Peterborough has named Kristie Greenwood as its new executive director.Greenwood earned a bachelor’s degree in health and human services with a minor in gerontology from the University of New Hampshire, and has a master’s...
Belletetes celebrating 125 years
Belletetes Inc, a family owned and operated lumber and building supply company, is celebrating its 125th anniversary in business. From its beginnings in 1898 as a general store, Belletetes has grown into one of the largest lumber and building...
Riley Lynch completes paraplanner program
Riley Lynch has completed the Financial Paraplanner Qualified Professional SM Program through the College for Financial Planning in Centennial, Colo.Lynch first joined the staff at Grove Street Fiduciary, a Peterborough fiduciary (fee-only)...
Greater Keene & Peterborough Chamber of Commerce gala is March 16
Greater Keene & Peterborough Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual gala Thursday, March 16, at Keene State College’s Zorn Dining Center.The chamber will present the Windsor Brooks Business of the Year, the Citizen of the Year and a new award, the...
Analysis finds more than half of Hancock and Lyndeborough residential real estate transactions were all-cash
By PAUL BRIAND
Cash was king in the purchase of at least 50 percent of residential real estate properties in the New Hampshire towns of Hancock and Lyndeborough during 2022.And in several other Granite State communities, at least 40 percent of the real estate...
Achille Agway to be acquired by Runnings
By JAMES RINKER
Local farm and garden-supply company Achille Enterprises Inc. will be acquired by Runnings Supply Inc. at the end of March, according to a news release from the latter company.Operating as Achille Agway, the family owned business has been growing...
NH Saves offers workshop for landlords
NHSaves will hold a free energy workshop for landlords via webinar Monday, Feb. 27, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.The Button Up Workshop covers building science, examples of weatherization measures and details about the energy-efficiency programs offered by New...
BUSINESS: Former Jack Daniels Motor Inn is now Riverhouse by Weekender
By BEN CONANT
It has been the Robbins Motel, the Heart O’ Monadnock Lodge, the King of the Road Motor Inn and most recently, the Jack Daniels Motor Inn.But as of last week, the hotel nestled along the Contoocook River at 80 Concord St. in Peterborough is now called...
HomeStead Property Watch and Management Services earns accreditation
HANCOCKHomeStead earns accreditationHomeStead Property Watch and Management Services of Hancock has earned accreditation from the National Home Watch Association for the third year.The NHWA was formed in 2009 in order to establish and maintain the...
Real estate transfers from Dec. 19, 2022, to Jan. 11, 2023
Real estate transfers from Dec. 19, 2022, to Jan. 11, 2023.ANTRIM91 Gregg Lake Rd.; land and building; $278,000; Barbara D. Hutchinson to Nicholas R. Dostaler.213 Keene Rd.; land and building; $275,000; William L. Humphrey and Doreen T. Kellogg to...
Peterborough developer Paul LaRoche III wins two Cornerstone Awards
By BILL FONDA
Starting with the wall of windows that provides people with a view of Mount Monadnock when they walk in the door, Realtor Sadie Halliday of the Halliday Group calls the four-bedroom, four-bathroom house owned by owned by Nathan and...
Toadstool Bookshops in Peterborough and Keene have new owners
By ROWAN WILSON
The Toadstool Bookshops in Peterborough and Keene are under new ownership.Emerson Sistare and his family have purchased the longtime independent bookstores from Willard and Holly Williams. The Williams family founded the Toadstool in Peterborough in...
