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By ASHLEY SAARI

In June, Delanie Cook got a job offer from Peterborough manufacturer Microspec.Living in Connecticut at the time, she jumped on real estate sites and ran into a reality faced by many young workers looking for housing – places that were affordable, in...

What lies ahead for the real estate market in 2023? How will the economy, interest rates, and consumer behavior affect the real estate industry in the months to come? Is the market about to crash? Are we in another bubble?There is certainly a lot of...

By BILL FONDA

The Grapevine Family & Community Resource Center in Antrim was founded in 1996, and Executive Director Melissa Gallagher said, “We have sort of this donor base of people who have supported The Grapevine for a very long time.”However, Gallagher said it...

As the winter landscape graces our region and we march forward into 2023, many will pause and wonder, “What will the New Year bring?”As real estate professionals, we work daily to realize buyers’ and sellers' dreams and visions. This can result in a...

By ROWAN WILSON

Local employers faced challenges attracting and retaining employees in 2022, and this year, employers are forced to consider what it will take to stay staffed.Mark Cilley, vice president and owner of American Steel & Precast Erectors in Peterborough,...

By ROWAN WILSON

Hornburg Brewing Company will open its doors, or more accurately its “hobbit door,” – the owners are “The Lord of the Rings” fans – to the public Jan. 6 and 7.A decade ago, Dean Gervin and his uncle Rick Gervin decided that opening a brewery together...

By ROWAN WILSON

A new gym opened Wednesday in the Peterborough Shopping Plaza at 19 Wilton Road. Mountain Fitness, located in the space where the Verizon store once was, is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and offers an independent workout experience. Brothers...

By SCOTT MERRILL

Peter Sirois, co-owner with Cliff Thornberry of American Steel in Greenfield, is a local business leader who stays tuned in politically.  American Steel in Greenfield is a full-service steel shop that produces the structural steel framing and...

By ROWAN WILSON

“We’re both athletes,” said Becka Lyons, motioning to her husband and business partner Reuben, “And we talk all the time about how being an athlete is more of a mindset than anything else.” Becka has a doctorate degree in physical therapy and Reuben...

By ROWAN WILSON

“You could sort of sum it up as a boutique pharmacy,” said Gloria Shkolnik, owner of The Apothecary, a new store opening soon in Depot Square in Peterborough. Shkolnik is a trained and licensed pharmacist, and she specializes in compounding. She...

By ROWAN WILSON

Golf season is underway, and Monadnock Country Club in Peterborough has opened its greens and sold its first memberships.Bob Taylor is operating the business on the High Street property that the MacDowell artist residency owns.Taylor was a member at...

By ROWAN WILSON

Local Peterborough businesses were hopeful that this month’s First Friday would provide an opportunity for the community to get out, walk around town and visit open establishments. B ut most places reported a low turnout and a slow evening.It was...

By TIM GOODWIN

After close to 50 years in the book-selling business, Willard Williams is ready to turn the page.Williams, the founder and co-owner of the Toadstool Bookshop and its locations in Peterborough, Keene and Nashua, was named the 2020 NH Retailer of the...

By TIM GOODWIN

Connolly Brothers Dairy Farm has expanded, adding a new 600 square foot farm store to its Temple property that officially opened on March 6.Chris Connolly, who owns and operates the dairy farm – founded by his parents Martin and Lynda in 1982 – with...

By TIM GOODWIN

The Cranberry Meadow Farm Inn in Peterborough officially opened for guests on Oct. 1, but the bed and breakfast is just the latest chapter in the property’s long and storied history.Charlie and Carolyn Hough had “been talking for a while about what we...

By MEGHAN PIERCE

Throughout 2019 Monadnock Paper Mills celebrated its 200th anniversary as a business.Moody Butler founded the business – known as Paper Mill or Bennington Paper Mill – near the banks of the Contoocook River in 1819. When it first started the mill...

By ASHLEY SAARI

A Peterborough manufacturer could add 25 jobs in the next two years, with assistance from a Community Block Grant Loan.Peterborough is currently applying for a $500,000 community development block grant from the state’s Community Development Finance...

By TIM GOODWIN

Kelly Wheeler knows just about everybody who walks through the door of the RK Village Store in Lyndeborough – most of them by name and even more by face.Because for Wheeler, a longtime Village Store employee, it’s about the people as much as it is...