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By ISABELLA MESSA

According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), females ages 16 to 19 are four times more likely than the general population to be victims of sexual violence. In the Monadnock region, the End Sexual Violence on Campus organization is a...

By JAY SCHECHTER

On Wednesday, April 10, the Monadnock Center For History and Culture and Monadnock Ledger-Transcript sponsored a Community Conversation. Several members of the Dublin Education Advisory Committee attended.The presentation was billed as an event to ask...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

ConVal School District attorney Dean Eggert answered questions from School Board members regarding the upcoming withdrawal feasibility studies at Tuesday night’s meeting.  On March 12, voters rejected a warrant article proposing the district make...

As the ConVal School District contemplates the next steps to take after a proposed reconfiguration failed at the polls, School Board members and officials should heed comments from participants in Wednesday’s Community Conversation. When the Monadnock...

By BEN CONANT

The ConVal boys’ tennis team comes into the season with almost no experience and a lot of work to do, but coach Mike Young relishes the challenge of building a full roster of players from the ground up. “You’ve got to start from the basics, which...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

Temple residents will have a chance to share whether they would be interested in holding a special Town Meeting on a potential feasibility study to withdraw from the ConVal School District.At the Temple Select Board meeting Tuesday night, Jim...

By BRADLEY DAVIS

The light is on. Long after the cheering stops, the fans depart, the referees are cleaned up and headed home and the visiting team buses turn on to Route 202, headed back to their respective towns, the light in the northwest corner office window is...

Antrim Elementary School has launched a new program, Lunches with Lions, in collaboration with the Antrim/Bennington Lions Club. Lunches with Lions kicked off March 5, and volunteers from the Antrim Lions Club visited AES and had lunch with students...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

An overflow crowd of more than 100 parents, community members and students filled the SAU1 conference room during Tuesday night’s ConVal School Board meeting to protest the non-renewal of ConVal Athletic Director Kevin Proctor’s contract.On Friday,...

By ISABELLA MESSA

Conval Performing Arts is preparing to present “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” on Friday, April 12, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 13, at 2 and 7 p.m.The musical follows six adolescents competing in a spelling bee run by three adults, and...

By GARY GORSKI

The high cost of operating our small elementary schools is driven by an imbalance between capacity and enrollment. We’ve voted on cutting capacity by closing schools, and voters have made clear that’s not where they want to go.  It’s time to focus on...

By BETHANY CRAIG

Where do we go from here? We go back to the drawing board, but honor the original Articles of Agreement.Instead of repeatedly attempting to change the rules, we work within those rules to find solutions and make a reconfiguration plan. The Articles of...

By TOM BURGESS

On March 12, the residents of the nine ConVal towns went to the polls to vote on the proposed school budget and 11 other articles related to the operation of the school system. The voters approved 11 of the 12 articles. Let's focus on three articles...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

More than 1,600 ConVal parents, students, alumni and community members had signed a change.org petition by Monday afternoon, protesting the non-renewal of ConVal Athletic Director Kevin Proctor’s contract at the end of the school year.Proctor, who has...

The ConVal softball team only has five returning players this season, so head coach Amanda Hinton stated that hard work and dedication to learning new positions will be a main focus.Hinton stated that junior Avery Moore will be commanding the field...

A former bus driver for the company that serves the ConVal School District, along with his wife, who were arrested March 20 for allegedly producing child sexual abuse material were indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday.According to a statement...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

To prepare for the upcoming feasibility study into Dublin’s withdrawal from the ConVal School District, members of the Dublin Education Advisory Committee (DEAC) will contact surrounding school districts and local private and charter schools to gather...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

 After earning a third-place finish at the FIRST Robotics New England District Pine Tree Event March 15-17 in Lewiston, Maine, the high school division of Peterborough-based 4-H FIRST Robotics Team Inconceivable is headed to the University of New...

In a recent letter to the editor (“ConVal board members should resign”), a writer harshly criticized the ConVal School Board for its attempts to control costs (and our taxes) by diligently investigating an option to consolidate schools. I disagree...

By BILL FONDA

One of the two Keene residents charged in connection with the alleged production of child sexual abuse material was a bus driver for the transportation company that serves the ConVal School District.According to a statement from U.S. Attorney Jane E....

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Patrick R. Cogan, music director at Great Brook School, said that after COVID, the ConVal district’s music teachers came together to try to figure out how to rebuild the music program.“When COVID happened, the music departments were completely shut...