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Sponsored by the Francestown Old Meeting House, the Tour de Francestown bicycle ride is back on Saturday, May 20. Starting time is 9 a.m.Melissa and Ed Dishong designed the 2023 event as a “gravel grinder.” The circuit includes a mixture of surfaces,...

By ROWAN WILSON

Friday was the opening day of the Francestown Community Market, and at the end stall, the Francestown 4-H club was squeezing lemons and selling lemonade with flavors they made using locally grown ingredients like rhubarb, dandelion and thyme. The 4-H...

By ROWAN WILSON

It was warm and sunny for Fracestown’s annual Tim Samuelson Memorial Kids Fishing Derby held at Bixby Pond on Sunday morning, and participants were reeling in rainbow trout all around the pond.“This year was beautiful,” said Recreation Commission...

The Francestown Academy Coffeehouse invites will hold its fourth first Saturday coffeehouse May 6, starting at 7 p.m.The featured act will be Decatur Creek, along with Tyler Allgood, Jen and Dan Klardie, Gabriel Garcia and Jonas Taub. Marcy Tripp...

By ORIANA CAMARA

Francestown held its fourth annual Art Fest Saturday at Town Hall, with 17 different artisans displaying their work, ranging from pottery to quilting to woodworking.Organizer Marcy Tripp Graham expressed her excitement for being able to have a...

By ORIANA CAMARA

Laura Abrahamsen, director of George H. Bixby Memorial Library in Francestown, hosted a genealogy workshop April 20.Using various strategies and online resources, Abrahamsen taught participants ways to identify missing information about a photograph....

Volunteers are the secret sauce of the nonprofit world. Volunteers do so many things that are essential to the functioning of our nonprofits.Let’s look at the volunteer board of trustees. They give of their time, their skills, their wisdom. The board...

By ROWAN WILSON

Members of Francestown’s 4-H club – a group of girls ages 9 to 12 – will be able to sell freshly squeezed lemonade at the Francestown Community Market this coming season.The group had applied to sell lemonade at the market, but the Francestown...

By ROWAN WILSON

At the Francestown Select Board meeting on Monday, Town Administrator Jamie Pike started a discussion about the March 14 snowstorm and “what went right and what went wrong.” He suggested that the emergency operation plan needs an update. “There’s...

ConVal Theatre Arts will present its spring musical, Alain Boublil’s and Claude-Michel Schonbergg’s “The Pirate Queen,” Thursday, April 13, through Saturday, April 15, at 7 p.m. at the Lucy Hurlin Theatre at ConVal High School, 184 Hancock Road,...

100+ Women Who Care Monadnock, a local grassroots giving circle serving Antrim, Bennington, Dublin, Francestown, Greenfield, Hancock, Harrisville, Jaffrey, Nelson, New Ipswich, Peterborough, Rindge, Sharon, Temple and Wilton, will meet on Wednesday,...

Three local students earned dean's list honors for Emerson College's fall 2022 semester. The requirement to make dean's list is a grade-point average of 3.7 or higher for that semester.Aidan Harper of Francestown is majoring in media arts production...

Grand Monadnock Rotary Club is offering scholarships to middle-school-age youth from Antrim, Bennington, Dublin, Francestown, Greenfield, Hancock, Peterborough, Sharon and Temple.These two-week scholarships are for Brantwood Camp for both the boys’...

By SARAH HIBBARD PYLE

“Be it resolved that Francestown has the best road crew in the State of New Hampshire.” That was the opening remark of Town Moderator Paul Lawrence at the 2023 Francestown Town Meeting. With the meeting only a few days after more than two feet of snow...

ConVal schools will reopen Friday, March 17, two hours late and with limited bus routes. According to a statement from Superintendent Kimberly Rizzo Saunders, many roads are too narrow for buses to travel after Tuesday’s snowstorm, so the district...

STAFF REPORTS

During the nor’easter that dropped more than two feet of snow across the region Tuesday, knocked out power for thousands and postponed elections for two weeks, Monadnock Community Hospital stayed open.The power was out at the hospital, so it ran on...

By ASHLEY SAARI

On Monday, March 6, the Milford District Court ruled that former state Rep. Chris Balch was not guilty of four counts of criminal mischief and four counts of timber trespass.Balch, a Wilton resident, served as a Democratic state representative from...

Staff Reports

Due to the storm projected for Tuesday, towns have postponed their elections to March 28.Antrim, Bennington, New Ipswich, Greenville, Greenfield, Lyndeborough, Mason, Rindge, Jaffrey, Wilton, Sharon, Dublin, Francestown, Hancock, Peterborough and...

By BILL FONDA

The name “SB2” comes from the bill that created it, Senate Bill 2 in 1995, and it became the official name for the ballot referendum form of government in 2000.Under SB2, Town Meeting is done over two sessions. The first is the deliberative session,...

Slater Roosa, education coordinator at New Hampshire Audubon, will speak about the relationships between plants and their pollinator pals, beetles, ants, moths and butterflies Thursday, March 30, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Francestown Elementary...