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The inaugural Greenfield Spelling Bee will be Saturday, May 4, from 10 a.m. to noon, with doors opening at 9:30 a.m. The event will take place at Greenfield Meetinghouse, 776 Forest Road.Friends of the Greenfield Meetinghouse and the Stephenson...

100+ Women Who Care Monadnock, a local giving circle, will hold its next quarterly meeting Thursday, April 18, at the Peterborough Town Library in the 1833 Room, 2 Concord St.Registration and mingling with refreshments will begin at 11:45 a.m., with...

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript readers shared their photos from Monday’s eclipse. Some viewed the event from close to home, while others went further away. And one farm welcomed a special arrival.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Ella Cademartori, previously director of children’s programming at Stephenson Memorial Library in Greenfield, is the library’s new director, having been named to the position under difficult circumstances.Cademartori began in the new role Feb. 13...

By BILL FONDA

Martin Gitlin grew up near Cleveland, but a trip to Fenway Park in Boston as a 10-year-old in 1967 – the Boston Red Sox “Impossible Dream” season – proved life-changing.“It was such a treat. After that, I vowed I was going to move to New England,” he...

Coming up on Saturday, May 4, the Friends of the Greenfield Meetinghouse and Stephenson Library are co-sponsoring the inaugural Greenfield Spelling Bee at the Greenfield Meetinghouse. Children from ages 7 to 14 can register at the library – just stop...

By ASHLEY SAARI

The St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry in Greenville has received donations of Easter dinner main dishes to help ease the costs for residents in the area.Director Kevin Little said the donations were “significant” and came from local businesses and...

100+ Women Who Care Monadnock, a local giving circle, has opened nominations for a local nonprofit to receive more than $10,500 in donations.Being a member is not required to nominate a nonprofit. Nominations close April 3 at 5 p.m. The more-than-200...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Two years after its purchase was approved, the Greenville Fire Department accepted delivery of its new fire truck March 13.In 2022, the town approved $600,000 for the purchase of the vehicle, which has become the department’s new Engine 2. Fire Chief...

Greenfield Elementary School is participating in a school-wide reading initiative this March. The program kicked off with a visit from author and illustrator Marty Kelley, who shared his process for writing and illustrating books. Kelley told stories,...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Voters at Greenfield’s Town Meeting passed the proposed Capital Reserve Fund (CRF) warrant article Saturday, but only after an amendment to cut the proposed amount of CRF funds by two-thirds failed by just 11 votes. The original CRF article requested...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

Greenville residents voted in favor of retaining Keno games in town at Town Meeting on Saturday morning.The article, which was submitted by petition, called for a ballot vote to determine if residents wanted to withdraw the permission for Keno games...

On Thursday, March 21, the Greenfield Historical Society will celebrate the launch of its long-awaited book, “In the Shadow of Crotched Mountain: Revealing Greenfield’s Colorful Characters, Past and Present” with a New Hampshire Humanities Program...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Mascenic will have a default budget for the next school year – a move that the School Board was advocating for – after an operating budget that had been cut by $1 million during the district’s deliberative session failed at the polls Tuesday.A series...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Maggie Bickford will return to the Greenville Select Board, after being elected to complete her term, which she resigned earlier this winter.Bickford had been serving as a Select Board member when she stepped away from the board due to health reasons....

On Saturday, March 16, at 9:45 a.m., Monadnock Writers’ Group features editor John Knight at its monthly Speaker Series.The free event at Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St., is an opportunity to hear about the world of editing and how to make...

Chamberlin Free Public Library, 46 Main St. in Greenville, will present a program on preparing for the April 8 total solar eclipse.The program will be presented Wednesday, March 20, at 7 p.m.; Monday, March 25, at 7 p.m. and Friday, April 5 at 7 p.m....

By ASHLEY SAARI

Boynton Middle School student Brook Sallila won a special prize from the New Ipswich Museum of History as the first-place winner of the museum’s “Why is History Important?” essay contest – a genuine uniform worn by a World War I soldier.Scott Kraska,...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry President Kevin Little estimates that there will be about 18 different kinds of soup served at the pantry-sponsored Poor Man’s Supper Saturday.The Poor Man’s Supper is intended to be “a very simple meal,” according to...

By ISABELLA MESSA

On Monday, the Greenfield town clerk’s office opened in its new space on the lower level of the town office building.“The Police Department moved across the street to allow the other offices in the building more room, and we needed more storage so it...