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I replaced my gas-powered lawn mower with an electric one six years ago. I hated that gas mower and every other one I've owned. They were cranky and loud, and I did not enjoy breathing fumes as I mowed the lawn.I was aware of electric mowers but knew...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

The first time 18-year-old Valerie McDonnell voted, she voted for herself.She ran for the N.H. House of Representatives in 2022 during her senior year of high school, which gave her a front-row seat to witness many of her classmates’ apathy for...

By MEL ALLEN

I have been an editor and writer at Yankee for 45 years, and there has never been a writer with a more passionate readership in the magazine’s nearly 90 years than Edie Clark.Her essays, first “The Garden at Chesham Depot” and then “The View from...

The Monadnock Center for History and Culture’s current exhibition, “Nora S. Unwin: A Retrospective,” will finish its run at the end of September. A final curator-led gallery talk will take place on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 10:30 a.m. Admission to the...

This is the fourth in a series of articles on key foreign policy challenges for the next U.S. president. The articles will continue through the general election Nov. 5.In a 2023 essay in the journal Foreign Affairs, National Security Advisor Jake...

On Saturday, Sept. 21, at 9:45 a.m., Monadnock Writers’ Group begins its monthly speaker series at MacDowell’s James Baldwin Library, 100 High St. in Peterborough.MacDowell Fellows Diana Cao and Joanna Pearson will be featured speakers. The free event...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

On just her third day on the job, it took Aspen, a search dog on the NH Fish and Game K-9 unit, all of 10 minutes to locate a loaded handgun accidentally left at Miller State Park in Peterborough. The handgun was lost in the brush Sunday after...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Sue Chollet of Peterborough can remember being all alone in the Nubanusit Neighborhood & Farm in West Peterborough.“It was a little odd the first year or so,” she said with a laugh. “It was just me and the builders.”Chollet, who moved into her  home...

You are at home, your older children are at school and it’s either only you and/or you and your younger child. Maybe you are an empty-nester or never-nester, and while you have your own activities, you crave something more.Maybe you want something...

Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St., will host “Downsizing & Decluttering” in conjunction with the AARP New Hampshire’s Speakers Bureau Tuesday, Sept. 17 from, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. This program is for those who are ready to start preparing for the...

I am troubled by the lack of communication and transparency regarding the departure of the Peterborough recreation director. It has been over a month since their departure, yet I have seen no official announcement or explanation from the town.Why...

I am writing to highlight the critical role that direct support professionals play in our communities. These dedicated individuals work tirelessly to support people with disabilities, ensuring they can live fulfilling, dignified lives.They provide...

Electric Earth Concerts presents the Borromeo String Quartet Saturday, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m, at the Peterborough Town House, 1 Grove St.The group performs interpretations of the classical music canon and champions works by 20th- and 21st-century...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Pianist Virginia Eskin of Jaffrey and Keene will present “The Musical Willa Cather” Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m., at Bass Hall in The Monadnock Center for History & Culture at 19 Grove St. in Peterborough.Eskin describes the concert as a “tableau vivant” of...

Peterborough artist Kris Calnan recently exhibited his painting “Mitchell Rd. & 202, Peterborough, NH” at the Bowery Gallery in New York City.Calnan’s work was selected from approximately 1,000 entries to be included in the 33rd annual juried...

The Peterborough Town Library’s “Choose Your Own Reading Adventure” summer reading program for youth of all ages concluded Aug. 31. Highlights included weekly storytime adventures and crafts, weekly prize drawings, a summer hike adventure, an...

Matthew and Johnny Gaudreau, hockey player brothers who were riding bicycles Thursday night before their sister's wedding the next day, were killed in New Jersey by a driver who was passing a vehicle and hit their bicycles. This Thursday, as I was...

By ASHLEY SAARI

For Hunger Action Month, shoppers at Shaw’s in Peterborough on Saturday helped to benefit the ConVal Regional End 68 Hours of Hunger program by donating both food and dollars, in a event organized by Peterborough Fire and Rescue.Members of the squad...

By TIM BRUNS

After some discussion during Tuesday’s Peterborough Select Board meeting, town buildings and structures will soon be powered by 100% renewable energy.Since the current contract with Standard Power is ending soon, Select Board members looked at rates...

Merchants in and around Depot Square in Peterborough will host First Friday Sept. 6 from 5 to 7 p.m.Activities include a live musical performance in front of Baker’s Station in Depot Square by Eyes of Age from 5 to 7 p.m.MacDowell Downtown at...

Katie Holmes, Jim Parsons, Zoey Deutch, Ephraim Sykes, Richard Thomas and director Kenny Leon, along with the rest of company of the new Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” held their first reading in MacDowell’s Bond Hall.The cast and...