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Less than a week after the Liberty Farm Road bridge was closed due flooding caused by a water release from Island Pond Dam in Stoddard, nearly four inches of rain Sunday caused numerous additional problems in Antrim.“Obviously, that dark cloud is...

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After 32 years at Franklin Pierce University, including as head coach of the Ravens’ men’s basketball program since 1999, David Chadbourne has stepped down.In a statement released on the Franklin Pierce Athletics Twitter account, Chadbourne wrote that...

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Bob Bitterli is a recent convert to pickleball.It started after he moved to Francestown in April 2022, when the man who painted his cabinets, Bruce Dennis, told him about the game. He started playing in October, including in Peterborough, and called...

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Jacqueline Roland thought it would just be a summer internship as a 19-year-old college student at Southern New Hampshire University in 2016, working in marketing and social media at The Grapevine Family & Community Resource Center in Antrim.But that...

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When Linda Quintanilha’s daughter Mary was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum at age 2 after not hitting her milestones, she attended training from the University of New Hampshire’s New Hampshire Leadership Series, which provides information...

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With Peterborough residents set to vote in town elections Tuesday, a campaign flyer sent to some residents from Select Board candidate Andrew Osterman, states that “We are all about to see our town property taxes go up more than 27%.” It stated that...

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Former Monadnock Community Hospital CEO Peter Gosline first met Janet Reilly when she showed up at his door representing the Peterborough Chamber of Commerce not long after he became Monadnock Community Hospital CEO and moved to Peterborough in...

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Just inside the front door of the former Sharon Art Center is an office where Drs. Sara Featherstone and Edward Ellis have opened their naturopathic treatment practice.They had been in the Strand building in Peterborough before moving into what is now...

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A Lyndeborough man sustained non-life-threatening injuries Monday after his disabled vehicle was hit by another driver.According to a release from Troop A of the New Hampshire State Police, Cody Douglas, 23, of Lyndeborough got out of his 2006 Subaru...

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Lisa Witte of Peterborough will spend one more year as Monadnock Regional School District superintendent before retiring.Witte has announced that she intends to leave at the end of the 2023-2024 school year to focus on her health and spend time with...

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As the April 27 deadline approaches for Peterborough residents to determine their community power choice, a scam is targeting them and residents of other towns that will be getting their power through the Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire.“I...

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The nice weather Tuesday had golfers like Andrew Marcin of Townsend, Mass., working on their swings at The Range in Mason on Tuesday.“It’s too nice to pass it up today,” he said. “It’s finally spring, got to go outside.”Before taking a look at the...

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Deanna Zilske is going back to her former school.The Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative School District announced Monday that Zilske had been named principal of Jaffrey Grade School, and will take over the position July 1, the official start of the 2023-24...

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Although she was aware of the effort on her behalf, Nancy Clark said it wasn’t her idea to run a write-in campaign for New Ipswich Planning Board.She was pleased to find out she had been elected March 28, though, stating her enthusiasm “stemmed from a...

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To Greg Blake, owner of South Pack Solar in Peterborough, it’s possible that the town’s community power plan will deliver lower energy costs and more renewable energy once it rolls out later this spring.“The proof will be in the pudding in terms of...

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Marianne Williamson shook hands with each of the approximately 20 people in attendance at Peterborough Town Library Friday before the recovery forum she participated in with Anena Hansen of Reality Check.Williamson, an author and spiritual adviser, is...

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The name “SB2” comes from the bill that created it, Senate Bill 2 in 1995, and it became the official name for the ballot referendum form of government in 2000.Under SB2, Town Meeting is done over two sessions. The first is the deliberative session,...

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A Hillsborough County Grand Jury-Southern District has indicted Robert Gagnon, 45, of Manchester, for first-degree murder in the death of 83-year-old Robert Prest in Lyndeborough last Nov. 23, as well as attempted murder in the shooting of Carlos...

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After Maxine and Matthew Behn got married last October, they went on a two-week honeymoon to Switzerland and Italy. “Traveling together, after our wedding, was an incredible experience,” stated Maxine, who is from Peterborough. “Matt took the lead in...

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Starting with the wall of windows that provides people with a view of Mount Monadnock when they walk in the door, Realtor Sadie Halliday of the Halliday Group calls the four-bedroom, four-bathroom house owned by owned by Nathan and...