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At their budget hearing Tuesday night, the Peterborough Select Board and Budget Committee approved all proposed warrant articles to go on the ballot in May.The total budget residents will be voting on is approximately $14.8 million, a $1.1 million...

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On Monday night, the Peterborough Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA) unanimously approved a variance for Catholic Charities’ 93-unit, mixed-income, multigenerational development in the Business/industrial zone at 10 and 12 Vose Farm Road. Catholic...

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Nicole Waite has been studying marine biology since she was a student at ConVal High School. She participated on the school’s Ocean Bowl team and went on to study marine biology in college. Now she has a master’s degree in oceanography and just...

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Unlike a traditional Town Meeting, in which voters discuss and make changes to the warrant at the meeting itself, deliberative sessions give voters in SB2 towns and school districts the ability to discuss, amend and approve the proposed warrant before...

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Peterborough Planning Board members agreed Monday night to hold a public hearing on rezoning all Family District lots and lots with portions zoned as Family District to General Residence zoning before voting whether to make the proposed change a...

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Due to the winter storm forecast for Friday and Saturday, the Meet the Candidates event scheduled for Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at Dublin Public Library, 1114 Main St., has been postponed to Saturday, March 11, also from 10 a.m. to noon.The event...

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Megan Sharkey is a senior at Boston College, and for years, she has been studying the Antrim wind turbines. Now, she’s in the process of completing a thesis project on her research.One of Sharkey’s professors, seismologist Alan Kafka, has a high...

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This is the 11th year that Jane Richards-Jones and Phil Jones have set a replica of the Hancock Meetinghouse out on the ice on Norway Pond to run their annual iceout contest. People participate in the contest by purchasing tickets and guessing what...

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In November, the Hancock Historic District Commission (HHDC) voted not to approve new Hancock Inn owner 33 Main Street LLC’s proposals to build an 8- by 24-foot brick wall to replace a wooden wall of the same dimensions on the parking-lot side of the...

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On Tuesday morning, parents and bundled-up babies explored the outdoors around the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock during one of the organization’s Babies in Backpacks and Toddlers in Tow events. Led by Community Programs Director...

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The Cornucopia Project is running monthly after-school cooking clubs at both South Meadow School and Great Brook School to give middle-schoolers the opportunity to explore flavors and cook with locally produced ingredients.On Tuesday afternoon, SMS...

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Maura McCann, a representative from the New Hampshire State Lottery, spoke to the Bennington Select Board about Keno 603 Tuesday night and answered questions from the public about what it would mean for the town if the warrant article proposing Keno...

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The Peterborough Select Board will sign a contract with BlocPower for renewable energy services, and accepted a $5,000 donation from the Peterborough Renewable Energy Planning (PREP) committee toward administrative costs.BlocPower is a climate...

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Route 101 over Temple Mountain was closed for a little more than an hour-and-a-half Tuesday morning after multiple vehicles struggled with poor road conditions. Peterborough Police Chief Scott Guinard said six vehicles were stuck or slid of the road...

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On Sunday afternoon, 98-year-old Madelyn Klose was awarded The Boston Post Cane, an honor bestowed upon the oldest citizen in town. Antrim received the ebony and gold cane in 1909. It was one of 700 canes The Boston Post gave to towns in New England...

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The bridge that passes over Great Brook on High Street is in poor condition and needs to be replaced, according to a presentation from Quantum Construction Consultants to the Antrim Select Board Wednesday afternoon.QCC President Rick Wolf Jr. and Vice...

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Some people left Antrim’s community supper on Thursday with more than a full belly. They left with Narcan, the medication that can potentially save lives by reversing the effects of an opioid overdose.John Letendre of Be the Change, a local nonprofit...

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It’s not uncommon for Sarah Chadzynski of Lyndeborough to be in a meeting at 5 a.m. or 1 a.m. She’s working with people around the world and communication is constant. Chadzynski is the U.S. executive director of nongovernmental organization (NGO)...

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Shaw’s in Peterborough raised $18,800 for the Peterborough Food Pantry through the store’s holiday Nourishing Neighbors campaign, and on Monday store manager Eli Rajaniemi handed a big check to Peterborough Food Pantry President Glo Morison.All Shaw’s...

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Based on proposed zoning and code amendments they unanimously approved for residents to vote on at Town Meeting after a pubic hearing Monday night, Peterborough Planning Board members hope to rezone buildings whose function does not correlate with...