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By BEN CONANT

There’s always an excuse not to go to the gym, but the new owners of Performance Fitness in Peterborough have eliminated at least one big one, as the recently purchased Route 202 gym is now open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. “You want people to...

By BILL FONDA and JULIA STINNEFORD

When people have medical issues, they assume they are going to get good care, said Sarah Bay of Peterborough, a nurse practitioner and midwife who works at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Nashua.“Everybody just thinks, ‘If I get in a car accident, people...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Rindge Police arrested a 20-year-old Franklin Pierce University student after responding to an automatic fire alarm in a dorm last week and beginning a drug investigation in one of the dorm rooms.Police arrested Christopher Guigni, 20, of Lowell,...

By ASHLEY SAARI

A zoning amendment on this year’s ballot would add a new section to the ordinance outlining regulations for accessory dwelling units.According to the New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning, a law which went into effect in the state in 2017...

By ASHLEY SAARI

A Massachusetts man has been indicted on four additional charges regarding actions he allegedly took related to the murder and disposal of the body of Brandon Chicklis, according to court documents.Jonathan Lind, 26, was indicted by a grand jury in...

By ASHLEY SAARI

After polling the community about its priorities, Wilton has put forth the frame of a community power agreement voters will see at Town Meeting this March, with multiple tiers of renewable energy usage.Wilton is one of several communities in the state...

By ASHLEY SAARI

For the first time in more than a decade of hosting local artists, this past weekend Sunflowers Cafe and Catering’s walls featured the art and photography of owner Carolyn Edwards – a last hurrah for the Main Street restaurant’s final weekend.Sunday...

By ROWAN WILSON

Walking along the Cranberry Meadow Pond Trail, a popular hiking path that starts in downtown Peterborough and connects all the way to the Raymond Trail that runs up Pack Monadnock, one may not realize a 64-lot development was once planned to be built...

By ASHLEY SAARI

A Wilton man died in a Dec. 1 auto accident on Route 31 in Greenville, and the other driver in the crash is facing charges of negligent homicide and driving while intoxicated.According to New Hampshire State Police, at approximately 7:39 p.m., the...

Travis Worth of New Ipswich, 37, was arraigned at Hillsborough Superior Court South on Thursday on charges of negligent homicide and driving while intoxicated in the Dec. 1 accident on Route 31 in Greenville that killed 35-year-old Kyle Tetrault of...

By EMARI TRAFFIE

In 2018, the former owners of the Hilltop, a farm-sustained cafe in Wilton, left a note on their tables notifying customers they had sold the restaurant and would be re-opening at an unknown point in the future in Temple.“I used to go to Hilltop a...

By ROSEMARY FORD

Nearly two months before she was shot in the head after leaving her job at a sail manufacturer in Salem, Massachusetts, a 33-year-old Hampton woman filed a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, a Wilton man who police say shot her and then...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Kin Schilling has shared the perfect fall recipe – a butternut squash soup recipe first conceived through collaboration with the children of the Cornucopia Project.Schilling was the most recent teacher for the Hancock Town Library’s “Cooking with...”...

By BEN CONANT

“When I die, how many...will weep for me? What difference have I made?”So wondered Tim Clark in his column “A Teacher’s Funeral,” published 20 years ago in the early stages of his teaching career. In the wake of his sudden death from a stroke last...

By ASHLEY SAARI

The Wilton Police Department has four new recruits, sworn in on Monday night, bringing the department to fully staffed for the first time in more than a year.Wilton, as with many small departments in the area, has long struggled with recruitment and...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Nearly 60 people came through the doors of the Chamberlin Free and Public Library Saturday during a free COVID-19 vaccination clinic, almost all of them seeking the recently approved booster shot.“I haven’t seen so many people in the library in a long...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Britany Barron of Jaffrey was sentenced to three and a half to seven years in prison Wednesday on charges of falsifying evidence in the murder of Jonathan Amerault of Keene, but could be released on parole as early as next spring.Britany Barron pled...

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 RAY DUCKLER

Joyce Maynard remains weary. The local author, whose own life has served as the core for much of her nonfiction and fiction work, has conquered mediums of every kind during her 50-year career.She’s written bestselling novels, magazine pieces and...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Several roads in Jaffrey and Peterborough remained partially closed into Monday, as road crews attempted to deal with storm damage, flooding, and major washouts from torrential rains on Saturday night into Sunday.Lee and Harvey Sawyer,...