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MacDowell has awarded the equivalent of more than $2.3 million in spring and summer fellowships to 155 artists from 30 U.S. states and 14 countries.The incoming artists-in-residence were awarded fellowships from a pool of 2,417 applicants for an...

peterboroughGambetta opens Peterborough Folk Music seasonPeterborough Folk Music opens the 2024 series with Beppe Gambetta Friday, March 8, at 7 p.m. Bass Hall at Monadnock CenterTickets are $25 in advance, and $30 at the door. Doors open at 6:30...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Three people were injured, but none had life-threatening injuries, after a head-on collision involving two vehicles Monday evening on Route 101 in Peterborough.The accident occurred 500 feet west of Condy Road and Route 101, between Cunningham Pond...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Since June of 2023, the ConVal School District has been gearing up to the upcoming vote March 12 on whether the district will be allowed to consolidate schools to save costs and expand program offerings – with a proposal on deck to close four of the...

Tuesday, March 12. Put it on your calendar and set a reminder. It’s the ConVal voting day.Historically, low numbers of Peterborough voters show up. Peterborough’s town vote is in May and new, unaware or distracted folks (some years, me) don’t come...

By CAMERON CASHMAN

Monadnock Community Hospital patients should expect a delay in accessing online lab results, according to a notice that went out Wednesday.The delay is a result of a recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a part of Optum, Inc, which handles pharmacy...

The following is from a statement from New Hampshire Ball Bearings concerning work it is doing in front of its location at 175 Jaffrey Road in Peterborough:“As recent travelers on Route 202 South have observed, there has been substantial tree-clearing...

The Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St., announced they will host Craig Altobello’s exhibit of marquetry.“Astonishing Moments in Nearby Nature: Marquetry by Craig Altobello” will be on view in the library’s Community Art Gallery from Friday,...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

After a lengthy debate on Monday night and two previous public hearings on the issue, the Peterborough Planning Board passed a motion to rezone all properties in the Family District to the General Residence District.Planning Board members Stephanie...

Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St., will host a lecture from Gene Jonas of Hungry Bear Farm in Mason Saturday, March 2, at 1 p.m.Jonas will be discussing industrialized food production systems and the benefits of buying from local farmers. Jonas...

First Friday returns to downtown Peterborough March 1 from 5 to 7 p.m. and later.Activities will include a Firelight Theater workshop on Main Street in the Guernsey Building. Participants will explore the power of the hat to invite play,...

The editors of “Smoky Quartz,” a journal of literature and art, are hosting a reading of poetry and prose from the “Smoky Quartz Tenth Anniversary Anthology” Sunday, March 3, at 2 p.m. The public is invited to attend this free online event. Those...

The Peterborough Players’ next National Theatre Live screening will be William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, at 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 2.While “Hamlet” showcases the struggles of Danish royals, it illuminates...

By JONATHAN GOURLAY

MacDowell Downtown’s 21st season opener will be Friday, March 1, at The Monadnock Center for History and Culture with performance artist Allison Akootchook Warden.An Inuit tribal member of the Native village of Kaktovik off Alaska’s north slope,...

The Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church, built in 1825 and on the National Register of Historic Places, has created seating accessible for wheelchairs in its sanctuary.Working with Dublin carpenter/craftsman Sterling Abram, the church removed...

The fourth of five Winter Chiller series races kicked off in Peterborough Saturday with its largest field of 48 runners to date.Division III all-star Gunner Currier from Enfield dominated the hilly 3.5-mile race, winning by 19 seconds with a time of...

Funding state education almost entirely on the back of property taxes is moronically myopic, yet for decades Republican-dominated New Hampshire legislatures have continued to adhere to it.In the 1990s, the state Supreme Court concluded that funding...

Two years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the largest military conflict in Europe since the end of World War II. Unleashing the Red Army from three directions -- the north (Belarus), south (Crimea) and east (Russia proper), Russia...

There’s nothing like cold weather to make us acutely aware of energy costs.Weatherizing our homes and replacing old appliances, boilers or furnaces with Energy Star devices or modern, cold-climate heat pumps are proven ways to save energy and money,...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

When Well School Theater Director Bronwyn Sims realized that in nearly 60 years of theater, the school had never performed Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” she knew she had the next seventh- and eighth-grade play.  “I’m not sure at what point ‘Our Town’...