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By JEANINE LESSER

After reading the Nov. 21 Ledger-Transcript article by Jerry Margolis, “School voucher program grows,” I would like to highlight some facts around education funding that our current New Hampshire Department of Education likes to ignore.First is the...

By TED LEACH

There has never been a better example of the need for term limits than demonstrated several weeks ago in the mud-wrestling over the federal budget. President-elect Donald Trump laid it out there for recalcitrant Republican representatives when he...

By BEN CONANT

No holiday tournament, no problem for the Wilton-Lyndeborough girls' basketball team, who didn't let a two-game skid and a two-week layoff slow them down in their return to action against Pittsfield Friday night. "We needed it coming off of the...

By EMERSON SISTARE

Every year, in late November, booksellers huddle around together in the offices of their stores to discuss the best books of the year, comparing notes with all manner of publications from The Economist, to the Boston Globe to the best-seller list your...

By COLLEEN ELLIOT

Crotched Mountain School in Greenfield is abuzz with excitement and growth as the calendar turns to a new year.With new staff joining our dedicated team and additional students enriching our school community, we are proud to begin this year with...

By MARK BECKWITH

“To Tell the Truth” was a popular TV game show that ran from 1956 to 1968, and then from 1969 to 1978. It had a long run.I watched it regularly as a boy. The show involved three contestants, each of whom would introduce themselves as the same person:...

By MARK BECKWITH

Every year at this time, the planet gives the Northern Hemisphere a promise that the days will get shorter, culminating at the winter solstice, Dec. 21. And from that darkest day, the promise continued that every day there would be a little more...

By BEN CONANT

Controlled chaos came to ConVal Saturday morning as wrestlers from 21 schools around New England competed in the Cougars' annual Early Bird tournament. With three mats going simultaneously, the all-day affair saw more than 400 matches wrestled, and...

By KENNETH DOBBS

Lionheart Classical Academy is in Peterborough and has a student body that consists of more than 300 students from kindergarten through seventh grade. It has been offering tuition-free, classical education since 2022.The school’s mission is to train...

By DON PERLO

“Easy Rider,” starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, inspired three young men to take a road trip from Greenville to the West Coast. Childhood buddies Ray Bourgault and Ray “Momo” Desrosiers, both from Greenville, joined a high school friend...

By BEN CONANT

Mascenic didn't start with its usual spark in the NHIAA Division IV boys' soccer quarterfinal game against Hinsdale Saturday, but in overtime, the slow burn turned to pyrotechnics in an instant, as the Vikings scored the sudden-victory golden...

By FRED FLORETH

The Derryfield Middle School girls’ field hockey team defeated Boynton Middle School Saturday afternoon 2-0 to claim the championship of Division 3 of the Tri-County League. The D-3 league is made up of the smallest schools from Hillsborough,...

By KRISTEN KIVELA

The 2024-2025 school year has started off strong at Mason Elementary School.  We have the highest enrollment numbers that we have had since becoming our own district in 2009. We added a second preschool session this year to meet the demand for...

By BEN CONANT

Mascenic's field hockey odyssey was cut short Monday, as sixth-seeded Bishop Brady upset the third-seeded Vikings in the NHIAA Division III quarterfinals in New Ipswich, "We knew they were going to be tough," Mascenic head coach Selena Shaw said after...

By DAVID BLAIR

Lina and I have joined a Community Peacemaker Team in Agua Prieta, Mexico, a large town directly across the border from Douglas, Ariz. We are here to learn about the situation at the border and also to see how CPT goes about its mission of “building...

By ELIZABETH MCGURK

Elizabeth McGurk of Lebanon, a former runner at Mascenic High School, recently ran a 100-mile race in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah. This is her recap of the event.I had this feeling that I needed to get something profound out of Wasatch, and yet when...

By DANIELLE MCCARTHY

 Jennifer Frost of Seabrook never saw it coming.As a standout field hockey player, she had powered through her entire senior season at Winnacunnet High School in the fall of 2023 without a hitch. A stalwart forward with a reputation for grit and...

By BEN CONANT

The Mascenic girls’ volleyball team is growing in fits and starts and still finding its identity halfway through their Division III season.For the better part of the last decade, the Vikings seemed to be title contenders nearly every season. This...

By BEN CONANT

The steadily improving Conant girls' soccer team gets better and better each year under head coach Devon Spirka, but after a 3-0 start, dropped its next three games before a tie with Trinity Sept. 23 and a 2-0 win over Belmont Saturday.In the second...

By BEN CONANT

The Conant boys' soccer team played its best ball of the fall against Sanborn Friday, but their early spark burned out quickly in the late September sun. Conant (0-8) played a solid first half that coach Heather Sawyer said was their best of the...

By ELIZABETH POGORZELSKI

Over the past few months, the Mascenic Regional School District has seen many transitions.There are multiple new board members, a new superintendent and business administrator and two new administrators at the high school. While staffing at both the...