News/Business
First Friday in Peterborough slow for most local businesses
By ROWAN WILSON
Local Peterborough businesses were hopeful that this month’s First Friday would provide an opportunity for the community to get out, walk around town and visit open establishments. B ut most places reported a low turnout and a slow evening.It was...
Performance Fitness under new ownership
By BEN CONANT
There’s always an excuse not to go to the gym, but the new owners of Performance Fitness in Peterborough have eliminated at least one big one, as the recently purchased Route 202 gym is now open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. “You want people to...
Sunflowers Cafe and Catering closes its doors after 14 years on Jaffrey’s Main Street
By ASHLEY SAARI
For the first time in more than a decade of hosting local artists, this past weekend Sunflowers Cafe and Catering’s walls featured the art and photography of owner Carolyn Edwards – a last hurrah for the Main Street restaurant’s final weekend.Sunday...
After nearly 50 years in business, Toadstool Bookshops up for sale
By TIM GOODWIN
After close to 50 years in the book-selling business, Willard Williams is ready to turn the page.Williams, the founder and co-owner of the Toadstool Bookshop and its locations in Peterborough, Keene and Nashua, was named the 2020 NH Retailer of the...
Connolly Brothers open farm store on Temple property
By TIM GOODWIN
Connolly Brothers Dairy Farm has expanded, adding a new 600 square foot farm store to its Temple property that officially opened on March 6.Chris Connolly, who owns and operates the dairy farm – founded by his parents Martin and Lynda in 1982 – with...
Veterans open military surplus store in Rindge
By ASHLEY SAARI
Two local veterans are opening up a military surplus store in Rindge, trying to bring back the kinds of stores they themselves explored when they were young – and love even now.“When you’re a kid, in these stores, you dream about playing Army,” said...
Business: Greenfield Inn under new ownership
By TIM GOODWIN
Jarvis Adams V is the new owner of the Greenfield Inn.The lifelong resident of Greenfield finalized the purchase of the eight-room bed and breakfast on Dec. 13.Adams was familiar with the property after all of his sisters worked at the inn and his...
Stories of 2019: Monadnock Paper Mill turns 200
By MEGHAN PIERCE
Throughout 2019 Monadnock Paper Mills celebrated its 200th anniversary as a business.Moody Butler founded the business – known as Paper Mill or Bennington Paper Mill – near the banks of the Contoocook River in 1819. When it first started the mill...
Healing Touch Pottery in Temple prepares to move operations to Central America
By ASHLEY SAARI
A year after a fire that all but destroyed the tools of her trade, Donna Rollins of Healing Touch Pottery is back on her feet and ready for the next step for her business – which includes moving the manufacturing to a new shop in Belize. In June of...
Northeast Products seeks to add 25 jobs in Peterborough
By ASHLEY SAARI
A Peterborough manufacturer could add 25 jobs in the next two years, with assistance from a Community Block Grant Loan.Peterborough is currently applying for a $500,000 community development block grant from the state’s Community Development Finance...
Lyndeborough Village Store is the heart of downtown
By TIM GOODWIN
Kelly Wheeler knows just about everybody who walks through the door of the RK Village Store in Lyndeborough – most of them by name and even more by face.Because for Wheeler, a longtime Village Store employee, it’s about the people as much as it is...
Business: New name and new owner for Peterborough burrito house
By TIM GOODWIN
After being closed for two weeks, Peterborough burrito house Cafe De Olla reopened Wednesday with a new owner and a new name, De Olla Burritos.The new owner, Ingrid Aho says she never really thought about owning a restaurant, but when the opportunity...
New England Forest Products in Greenfield has a new owner
By TIM GOODWIN
After almost 25 years as owners of New England Forest Products, Dave and Debbie Buxton knew it was time for a change.The longtime owners have gone through a lot over the last year-plus and realized there was “more to life than this,” Dave said. They...
