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By BILL FONDA

Mason will pursue a community power program, after Town Meeting voted to approve the town’s plan Saturday morning.Community power allows municipalities to purchase power in bulk for residents, with the intent of negotiating lower rates and the...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Debate about re-establishing a Tax Increment Financing (TIF)  district in downtown Antrim dominated discussion at Town Meeting Thursday night before both articles related to the district passed, as several residents cited a previous district in town...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Mascenic will have a default budget for the next school year – a move that the School Board was advocating for – after an operating budget that had been cut by $1 million during the district’s deliberative session failed at the polls Tuesday.A series...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Thomas Coneys unseated Select Board incumbent Marybeth Quill during Tuesday’s voting.In the three-way race, Coneys came out ahead with 422 votes to Quill’s 313, with Roberta Oeser coming in third with 228 votes.Coneys was campaigning at the polls on...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Andrew Lawn will taking a seat at the Jaffrey Select Board table after winning a contested race on Tuesday.Lawn was up against Nathan Flowers for the seat, and received 477 votes, compared to 138 for Flowers.Lawn was campaigning outside of the Jaffrey...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Maggie Bickford will return to the Greenville Select Board, after being elected to complete her term, which she resigned earlier this winter.Bickford had been serving as a Select Board member when she stepped away from the board due to health reasons....

By ASHLEY SAARI

All Jaffrey-Rindge district articles passed at the polls on Tuesday, including the proposed $31.86 million budget, and Nathan Flowers lost his School Board seat from Jaffrey.The proposed budget came in slightly under the default, which reflects last...

By ASHLEY SAARI

On Tuesday, New Ipswich voters rejected a proposed new full-time position that would have combined the duties of the fire chief, code enforcement officer and building inspector, positions which currently are part-time duties that pay a stipend.There...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

Author and New Hampshire PBS host Rebecca Rule highlight the 10th annual “Stories About This Place” storytelling event presented by Monadnock Conservatory on Friday, March 22, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Peterborough Town House.The event will...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

All warrant articles passed unchanged with overwhelming support at the Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School District meeting Saturday morning.Residents of the two towns approved the operating budget of approximately $14.27 million, along with the...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Discussion of proposed 33-lot subdivision plan at the intersection of Maki Road and Appleton Road was continued again by the Planning Board Wednesday, though the last-minute request to continue by the applicant resulted in a split decision, with some...

By ASHLEY SAARI

A previously approved event business on Greenville Road may be seeking an expansion before it gets off the ground, adding short-stay cabins to a planned event venue.Ben and Chelsea Hatcher, owner of Old Homestead Farm in New Ipswich, appeared before...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

ConVal High School senior Andrea Mattson signed a letter of intent to Keene State College on Friday.Mattson, a member of the ConVal swim team and the Keene YMCA Dolphins (KYD), said she began swimming competitively when she was 9, after a swim...

By ASHLEY SAARI

The Jaffrey Chamber of Commerce has announced MilliporeSigma as its Business of the Year, the Jaffrey Public Library as the Nonprofit of the Year and Anne Moore Griffin as Citizen of the Year.MilliporeSigma was chosen for its dedication to the...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Boynton Middle School student Brook Sallila won a special prize from the New Ipswich Museum of History as the first-place winner of the museum’s “Why is History Important?” essay contest – a genuine uniform worn by a World War I soldier.Scott Kraska,...

By ISABELLA MESSA

On Thursday, March 14, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., the Harris Center for Conservation Education will hold a workshop for people who are interested in pursuing and gaining knowledge of amphibians and the center’s salamander brigade event.Each year, the Harris...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry President Kevin Little estimates that there will be about 18 different kinds of soup served at the pantry-sponsored Poor Man’s Supper Saturday.The Poor Man’s Supper is intended to be “a very simple meal,” according to...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

An issue that has arisen prior to Tuesday’s vote on an article that could lead to Francestown Elementary School, Dublin Consolidated School, Pierce School in Bennington and Temple Elementary School closing is what may happen to any empty...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

Six candidates attended a candidate night Thursday night at Temple Town Hall, and one resident threw his name into the ring as a last-minute write-in.Noting that Temple’s ConVal School Board representative, Elizabeth Swan, is not on the ballot and...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Hillsborough Superior Court, South, has lifted a previously imposed stay on the Silver Scone Teas tea party event business in New Ipswich, which has been embroiled in appeals of approvals to operate in the town’s Village District.Silver Scone Teas is...