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By JESSECA TIMMONS

Down a winding path, deep in the woods of Greenville, Kate Schimke’s and Aaron Derman’s contemporary cabin is built into the hillside, completely surrounded by the forest. At the foot of a mossy, rocky clearing which climbs the slope to the south, a...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Greenfield’s annual Fire and Ice celebration returned Saturday with a light parade through the center of town to Oak Park, where residents enjoyed a bonfire, fireworks, visits with Santa and Mrs. Claus, and homemade chili, chili dogs and macaroni and...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Greenville’s annual “Light Up Greenville” Christmas light and house decoration contest is currently open for people to register.The contest has three categories: Yankee Christmas, Winter Wonderland and Santa’s Workshop. Yankee Christmas is for homes...

The Greenfield Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee will hold a meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 10, at noon at the Greenfield Fire Station to provide information on the update to the town’s hazard mitigation plan. Lunch will be provided.The plan identifies...

STAFF REPORTS

The winter weather on Thanksgiving Day in the Monadnock region ranged from no snow in southern towns to upwards of 9 inches of snow reported in Antrim. Antrim Fire Chief Marshall Gale said vehicles slid off the road on the town’s three major routes:...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Highbridge Hill Elementary School is no longer designated as a Comprehensive Support and Improvement School, or CSI, a state designation identifying the lowest-performing 5% of elementary and middle schools in the state.The state identifies CSI...

The Greenfield Conservation Commission will host a presentation, “Black Bear Happenings in New Hampshire,” led by New Hampshire Fish and Game environmental educator Rich Masters, on Thursday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m. The event will take place in the Wensberg...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The Greenfield Covenant Church has received a donation of 19 solar panels  from the Hillsborough Area Renewable Energy Initiative, which volunteers will install on the congregation’s Slip Road building Dec. 7.The Rev. Daniel Osgood said at first, he...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

A missing Greenfield woman has been located and is safe, according to Greenfield Police Chief Brian Giammarino.Mickaell “Kale”  Currier, 32,  had been missing since Nov. 23, when she called her place to work to say she had car trouble. “We received a...

Milford Area Communications Center Director Ray Anderson and Greenfield Fire Chief Jeff LaCourse have announced that fire dispatching responsibilities for Greenfield will move to the Milford Area Communications Center. This change will take effect...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

New Hampshire saw its Republican majorities in the Legislature expand on Election Day, and that holds true in the Monadnock region, as well.Several Republican newcomers will replace retiring legislators, and one House seat in the area flipped red....

By ASHLEY SAARI

The Souhegan Lions Club is about to receive a third bench made of plastic from a recycling effort to reduce the amount of plastic bags and wrapping going into landfills.The program, run by NexTrex, which uses recycled materials to create composite...

On Nov. 22, New Hampshire storyteller Simon Brooks visited Greenfield Elementary School to share stories and laughs with the students in pre-K through fourth grade.Brooks received laughs from every classroom as he told  folk tales like “Anansi”,...

By ASHLEY SAARI

The St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry has the assembly of its annual Thanksgiving dinner baskets down to a science.In an effort involving dozens of volunteers, the pantry assembles baskets with everything from the turkey to handmade apple pies and...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Ben Anthony of Greenfield is a man on a mission – to bring more young people to skateboarding, one lesson at a time. “Skateboarding is not what people think,” he said. “Skating makes kids think linearly. It makes them focus; it forces them to be in...

It is definitely not looking a lot like Christmas in the Monadnock region. Two months of drought, endless sunny blue skies, blooming dandelions and brush fires are not typically what we see heading into winter in New Hampshire. But the holidays are...

I would like the reader to understand that I --and I hope my siblings would agree -- had nothing to do with the concept and most of the execution of our family’s adventure (“California, Here We Come”). I was simply a 10-year-old bratty child that went...

See previous installments here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9.Editor’s Note: The following is a diary written in 1963, and has been edited minimally to maintain the original spirit in which it was written....

By DAVID ALLEN

‘Principal” is a title that conjures up images of an office in school that students do not want to find themselves in.However, Jared Brown, a former teaching principal in the Monadnock region, has parlayed some tunes that former students may recognize...

Editor’s Note: The following is a diary written in 1963, and has been edited minimally to maintain the original spirit in which it was written. Included in the record are photographs taken by the family on the trip, as well as postcards saved by the...

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript

Recent dry, windy weather conditions have increased the fire danger to the point where Temple Fire Warden Mike Connolly said Monday that mowing a lawn could be hazardous.“If your mower’s blade hits a rock and makes a spark, there you go,” he said.The...