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By JESSECA TIMMONS

Public health and community leaders from across the Monadnock region painted a picture of the state of mental health among today’s youth and adults and spoke positively about local initiatives enabling recovery during a Wednesday morning event at All...

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Peterborough voters will vote on five proposed zoning amendments at the town election May 14. “We are trying to simplify the zoning,  and also give people more flexibility,” said Peterborough Planning Board member Carl Staley. Amendment 1 proposes to...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Around the Monadnock Region, a number of new developments, some under construction and some still in the planning stages, could slowly bringing relief to the region’s housing shortage. In Peterborough, as of mid-April,  the Peterborough Planning Board...

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The Antrim Planning Board gave approval for a seven-lot subdivision proposed by Battaglia Foundations at Thursday night’s public hearing.The Planning Board also approved two lot-line mergers and a special use wetlands permit to enable a driveway to...

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Peterborough voters will decide on several proposed zoning amendments at the ballot on May 15, including rezoning the existing Family District to General Residence.Currently, more than half the lots in the Family District are nonconforming, so...

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According to Temple Brighton, one of the co-founders of Mountain Shadows School, the school’s Olympic Studies Night was inspired by the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. “There was so much energy around those Olympics, and all this excitement, and...

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A group of veterans from around the Monadnock region, led by Susie Spikol of the Harris Center for Environmental Education, learned the little-known history of Hancock’s Jack’s Pond Sunday as part of the Harris Center’s veterans hiking program.The...

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The Francestown Recreation Department hosted its second all-town science fair on Saturday at the Town Hall.About a dozen Francestown young people competed in the fair, with projects exploring everything from electromagnetic theory to the dominant paws...

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After competing in the FIRST Robotics District Championships in Springfield, Mass., Peterborough-based FIRST Robotics Competition Team Inconceivable is headed for the FIRST Robotics World Championships in Houston April 17 to 20.In Houston, the team...

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The former home of one Peterborough’s best-known institutions, The Folkway restaurant, is back on the market after almost 30 years. The Victorian home at 85 Grove St., built around 1860, was once the home of W.H.H. Pritchard, a Peterborough veteran of...

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Ella Cademartori, previously director of children’s programming at Stephenson Memorial Library in Greenfield, is the library’s new director, having been named to the position under difficult circumstances.Cademartori began in the new role Feb. 13...

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Newly elected ConVal School Board representative Jim Kingston of Temple said at Tuesday night’s meeting that he believed RSA 91:A, the public Right-to-Know Law, had been breached in recent email communications among the board and requested the board...

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Five years ago, the  MAXT Makerspace Dublin Ceramics Center was nothing more than tents in Kimberly Kersey Asbury’s backyard.  “We started out during COVID, all outside,  just as a way to bring people together,” Asbury said. “I installed a kiln in my...

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Patrick R. Cogan, music director at Great Brook School, said that after COVID, the ConVal district’s music teachers came together to try to figure out how to rebuild the music program.“When COVID happened, the music departments were completely shut...

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Tracymay Kalvaitis laughs when she thinks about her first impression of the house in Dublin that is now her family’s home.“It was the ugliest house I had ever seen. It was absolutely the last one I ever wanted to look at,” she said. “Driving by, I’m...

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Bennington voters re-elected incumbent James Cleary in a contested Select Board race against Bethany Manley Craig.Cleary, a longtime member of the Bennington Select Board,  has served many roles in town over the years.At the polls, Select Board member...

By JESSECA TIMMONSand CAMERON CASHMAN

An article that that could have resulted in Francestown Elementary School, Dublin Consolidated School, Pierce School in Bennington and Temple Elementary School closing failed at the ballot box Tuesday, receiving only 45.47% of the vote, when...

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The gym at Great Brook School was transformed into a buzzing, whirring miniature airfield Saturday as 19 teams from Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts competed in New Hampshire’s First Aerial Drones Competition.   The competition was...

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Francestown has been approved for funds from the state’s Broadband Matching Grant Initiative (BMGI) that will result in fiber internet being available to every address in town.  The town is working with Consolidated Communications (CCI), which...

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Discussion at Tuesday night’s Select Board and Budget Committee public hearing on the Peterborough fire station and municipal campus bond proposals centered on the pros and cons of using $1.1 million of the fund balance to lower the cost of the total...

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After many years living of in different parts of the country, Monique and Barry Tanner had always wanted to come back to New England, but renovating an antique home in the northeast corner of Hancock has exceeded their wildest expectations.“I have to...