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By JESSECA TIMMONS

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...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

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...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

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...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

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...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

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...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

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...

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State Sen. Denise Ricciardi paid a visit to Greenfield Saturday to present volunteers from the Friends of the Greenfield Community Meetinghouse with two checks totaling over $16,000 from the group’s recent partnership with New Hampshire Charitable...

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The March 12 Town Meeting will be the first held at the Bennington Town Hall upstairs meeting room for nearly four decades. The space, which formerly doubled as the town gymnasium, is now Americans With Disabilities Act-compliant thanks to the...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Multiple attempts to amend or strike the warrant article that would close Francestown Elementary School, Dublin Consolidated School, Pierce School in Bennington and Temple Elementary School failed at the district deliberative session Tuesday...

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The Bennington Select Board presented a proposed operating budget of just over $2 million Monday night at the Town Hall.The proposal is $177, 278 higher than the current budget. Town Administrator Deb Davidson said that other than a 4% cost-of-living...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

When Kerry and  Scott Christophers sold Hancock’s Seven Maples campground in 2021, they weren’t totally sure what they were going to do with more free time in their schedules.But Kerry had one definite goal in mind – to devote more time to her...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The availability of high-speed internet has become one of the driving factors in attracting new residents to  settle in the Monadnock region, giving some towns a competitive advantage for people who work or attend school remotely. “People expect it,”...

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No members of the public attended the Greenfield Community Power Committee public hearing Tuesday night due to weather, but a second hearing is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 28, at 2:30 pm at the Greenfield Meetinghouse.Community power allows...

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Peterborough’s Boy Scout Troop 8 will be making house calls to pick up used Christmas trees on Jan. 6 and 13.  The troop will collect trees in Peterborough and neighboring towns and bring them to the Peterborough Recycling Center to be chipped or...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Francestown has joined the growing number of New Hampshire cities and towns launching a community power program.Community power allows towns to pool residents’ buying power to purchase electricity from a supplier at a discounted rate, potentially...

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Of the 120 American artists and crafters invited to the 2024 Smithsonian Craft Fair, Lulu Fichter of Peterborough might be the only one who will have to dig her work out of the ice before she can pack it up to take to Washington, D.C.For the past nine...