HOMETOWN HEROES – Craig Clark of Rindge leads the way

By BILL FONDA

This year’s Memorial Day was a rainy one, but the Rindge Veterans Association still hosted the annual parade and services to remember fallen veterans at the town’s cemeteries and war memorials.The final salute was at Veterans Memorial Park on the...

Lyndeborough celebrates the community

By KATHLEEN BAGLIO HUMPHREYS

A steady crowd of visitors attended Lyndeborough Community Day on Sunday afternoon to take part in the festivities with their neighbors.The outdoor event was held at Center Hall under a big tent where the band The Pop Farmers performed for the crowd,...

Monadnock Summer Lyceum concludes with yoga presentation

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, a professor of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School and a 50-year practitioner and longtime instructor of Kundalini yoga, has dedicated his life to spreading the word about the health and mental health benefits of yoga. “In...

PHOTOS: Greenville hosts Old Home Day

Greenville hosted its Old Home Day and town picnic Saturday at the Town Field. Children’s crafts, a flea market, farmers’ market, picnic and live music were part of the celebration.

Dublin, Francestown withdrawals from ConVal projected to increase town costs

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Tax assessments for ConVal’s remaining seven towns would go up if Francestown and Dublin withdraw from the district, according to preliminary financial projections presented by the ConVal Feasibility Committee’s financial subcommittee.At Thursday...

Move-in day welcomes Franklin Pierce Class of 2028

Franklin Pierce University’s Rindge campus welcomed the Class of 2028 for their move-in day Saturday.Students hail from 25 states, Guam and 11 countries, and were greeted by new President Peter Eden, marking his first move-in day at Franklin Pierce...

Dublin ZBA considering fee hikes and new rules

By TIM BRUNS

Dublin’s Zoning Board of Adjustment is looking at some of its fees, although not the application fee itself, and debating if it should rework the application process.Board Chair John Morris  said the newspaper notices and postage fees are up for...

Avenue A drill team takes lawn chairs on tour

By TIM BRUNS

Teens from Avenue A Teen Center in Antrim took to local parking lots to add their spin to military drills using lawn chairs Friday.The drill team made stops at Pheasant Wood Center, RiverMead Health Center. Summerhill Assisted Living and Scott-Farrar...

BUSINESS: Astrologer Tanja Short of Jaffrey offers personalized baby books and gift sets

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Tanja Short of Jaffrey, a certified astrologer, has created a gift for new parents – customized baby books created around an astrology chart from a baby’s time and day of birth.“Astrology is not what people think. It’s not ‘today is going to be a good...

Road closure affects Mason school bus routes

By TIM BRUNS

As the first day of school approaches for Mason students, including Wednesday at Mason Elementary School, some bus stops will be changing for the beginning of the school year due to the closure of Barrett Hill Road caused by bridge replacement over...

Brendon Fox named artistic director of Peterborough Players

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Director and producer Brendon Fox will be coming on board as the new artistic director of Peterborough Players.“I’m very excited for the future at the Players, to build on the past, and grow the future. It is a huge gift for an incoming leader to have...

Gail Hoar: Words About Wilton – Exploring the old and new

Thirty years ago, Marie Fortier wanted to try something new.She had already started a business, Earthward, over a decade earlier. Eventually, that business became a well-known organic health food and healthy living/holistic institution, later run by...

Jarvis Coffin: Off the Highway – Barbecue time

It is Old Home Day season in New Hampshire and in Hancock, the centerpiece is the Fire Department chicken barbecue. Fifteen dollars gets you a half chicken, potato salad and cole slaw, a roll, slice of watermelon and a can of soda.Fire Department...

PREP Talks: Michael Nadeau – Why now is a good time to consider solar panels

Costs for solar panels are down and incentives to install them are up, so now might be the right time to invest in solar panels for your home or commercial property. As an example of how much the end cost of a solar installation has changed in the...

Sat Bir Singh Khalsa will close Monadnock Summer Lyceum season

On Sunday, Aug. 25, Sat Bir Singh Khalsa will close out the 2024 Monadnock Summer Lyceum season with “Yoga for Today: The Science Behind How it Works.” His talk will focus on research concerning the mechanisms and benefits of yoga. The lecture begins...

Backyard Naturalist: Phil Brown – Paddling Powder Mill Pond and the pace of observation

Come late summer, you’ll find me out exploring one of the area’s many wetland waterways by kayak or canoe. This must-do destination at this time of year is a broad impounded section of the Contoocook River known as Powder Mill Pond, which straddles...

Historic covers – Peterboro Transcript: Nov. 27, 1884

The gathering of “a score of merchants, brokers, publishers, and reporters” at 67 Green St. spotlighted in the Peterboro Transcript of Nov. 27, 1884, were there to hear the “new acoustic telephone, operated without the aid of electricity.”The people...

Historic covers – Peterboro Transcript: Aug. 8. 1872

If, today, the state Legislature approved a bill allowing a portion of one Monadnock region town to split off from another to form its own municipality, there would be huge headlines splashed across the front page of the Monadnock...

GraniteLeaf Cannabis would like to expand Peterborough operations, but laws limit growth

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Keenan Blum would love to scale up his business. It has ample space to expand at its Peterborough location, and he could push out more products like Banana Bluntz flowers and Blueberry Fruit Chews at lower prices.As one of three companies licensed to...

Rindge looks to draft short-term rental ordinance

By ASHLEY SAARI

A subcommittee of the Rindge Planning Board is considering ways to regulate short-term rentals such as Airbnb or Verbo in town, after complaints of noise and overflowing parking from neighbors.During a subcommittee meeting on Tuesday, Planning Board...