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Longtime Wilton barber Elmer Santerre died in a single-car crash on Main Street in Wilton Friday evening.Santerre, 89, had owned Elmer’s Barbershop on Main Street for 64 years before retiring last December. During a celebration outside the barbershop...

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Jim Perigny of River Road has a 2-year-old son, and is worried that large trucks on his street make it unsafe, particularly during winter, when snow makes it even narrower.“He’s going to be 16 before I don’t carry him,” he said. “It’s precarious, to...

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Joseph McLellan of New Ipswich admits he didn’t sleep very well Thursday night.The reason? On Friday, McLellan went to the senior center in his hometown of Fitchburg, Mass., to receive a boot tag worn by his father, also named Joseph, in World War II....

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A Jaffrey woman died after being hit by a car Nov. 1.According to the Jaffrey Police Department, 88-year-old Mary Merrell was crossing Main Street at 8:03 p.m. after leaving St. Patrick’s Church, when she was struck by a 2015 Ford Explorer driving by...

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On Monday, Nov. 13, the Peterborough Planning Board is scheduled to hear a preliminary review application for 116 units of multi-family workforce housing on two undeveloped properties off Mercer Avenue and Goyette Drive. Fieldstone Land Consultants is...

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Police Chief Michael Abel said he fantasizes about having a department with officers who have 10 years of experience, and he has been working to rebuild the department since first becoming interim chief and then permanent chief in 2021 by hiring...

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Molly Ferrill has been a globetrotter ever since graduating from Tufts University in 2012.First, she went to Thailand to work for Freeland, an organization that fights wildlife trafficking and human slavery. Since then, as a as a National Geographic...

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When someone needed to step up, Robyn Manley of Bennington was there.Manley made blankets for several years for the southwest New Hampshire chapter of Project Linus, which provides handmade blankets to children who are seriously ill, traumatized or in...

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As part of its pilot program with energy technology and financing company BlocPower, the Peterborough Renewable Energy Project (PREP) was hoping to help 10 to 15 building-owners replace their fossil-fuel furnaces with electric heat pumps.Now that the...

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Catholic Charities’ variance request in front of the Zoning Board of Adjustment for its affordable housing development at 10 and 12 Vose Farm Road was continued Monday until Oct. 16 at 6 p.m.The request is to fill 2,570 square feet of wetlands in the...

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The bridge over the Contoocook River on Route 202 at the intersection of Route 136 in the northern part of Peterborough needs to be replaced, according to Timothy Dunn, project manager for the New Hampshire Department of Transportation.The state-owned...

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Michael Rathbun of Greenville wishes he had gotten involved in the community sooner.“I find it interesting,” he said. “It’s volunteer work, and volunteer work is good. People should volunteer whenever they can.”However, running his own business...

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Brandon Kear, 32, of Rindge, a former teacher and boys’ basketball coach at Mascenic Regional High School, has been indicted by a Hillsborough County grand jury for allegedly sexually assaulting a student.According to Hillsborough County Superior...

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An Antrim man has been indicted for allegedly fraudulently receiving veteran disability benefits.According to an announcement Thursday from U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young of the District of New Hampshire, Christopher Stultz, 49, was indicted on one count...

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Ask Ra Eldredge who her role model is, and she says Toni Garland’s name is likely to be the first that comes up.“She was a senior person in my life who I absolutely looked up to,” she said. Eldredge was one of the original students at The Well School...

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Francestown Community Market hosts inaugural Children’s Market

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A resident of Fitchburg, Mass., was hospitalized with serious injuries after a crash at the intersection of Route 124 and Route 31 in Mason Wednesday.According to State Police, at approximately 8:01 p.m., the Troop B Barracks responded to the...

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This weekend’s events celebrating Jaffrey’s 250th anniversary have been more than five years in the making, as the first planning meeting was in April 2018.The final one was Tuesday night.“It’s all over but the crying now,” said Town Administrator Jon...

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One of John Stone’s first memories of Jaffrey is an act of kindness.It was 1978, and he and his wife Helen were moving from Massachusetts to Jaffrey so he could begin teaching at Jaffrey-Rindge Middle School.As they were looking for a place to live,...

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With an architect chosen and a building committee in place, work on the Elm Street fire station project is moving forward. The goal is still to present a project to voters at Town Meeting next year, which Assistant Town Administrator Seth MacLean said...