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By ISABELLA MESSA

A new Baby Time group at Jaffrey Public Library is looking to cater to new parents and babies in the community.The group is a joint effort between The River Center in Peterboroiugh, the library and the Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative School District, with...

By KEN CAMPBELL

Wetland in Jaffrey Center consists of 12.8 acres

By SARAH HIBBARD PYLE

Most of the articles on the 2024 Francestown Town Warrant Saturday passed with little debate, with the most-spirited discussion being over an article directing the the ConVal School Board to initiate a feasibility study of Francestown’s withdrawal...

By JARVIS COFFIN

All articles received unanimous support during Hancock Town Meeting Saturday, as the 120 residents went through the warrant in two hours.The Select Board was given high marks for submitting an annual budget of $3.5 million, only 3.85% over the prior...

By KATHLEEN NICHOLS

Dublin Town Meeting was held Saturday at Dublin Consolidated School.The school was saved from potential closure by rejection of an article March 13 that would have changed the ConVal School District’s Articles of Agreement, and after considerable...

By LISA MURRAY

Moderator Phil Lauriat opened Temple Town Meeting meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, with the first items including swearing in all town officials who had been elected March 13.Jim Kingston, chair of the Highway Garage Study Group, presented a report of the...

By KATHLEEN BAGLIO HUMPHREYS

Lyndeborough Town Meeting voted down a warrant article to adopt community power, which would have allowed the town to negotiate a new default electric supply and renewable energy supply options for residents, Saturday at Citizens’ Hall.Community Power...

By ISABELLA MESSA

On Monday, the Greenfield town clerk’s office opened in its new space on the lower level of the town office building.“The Police Department moved across the street to allow the other offices in the building more room, and we needed more storage so it...

By ISABELLA MESSA

ConVal High School students Chrystina Hall (who attended Pierce School), Logan Nadeau (Greenfield Elementary School) and Juliana O’Mahony  (Dublin Consolidated School) recently answered questions about their experience in elementary school and...

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,...

By BEN CONANT

Wilton-Lyndeborough's storybook season came to a close in the Mule Den Friday night, as host Newmarket pushed their way past the upstart Warriors 46-40 overtime win in the state Division IV quarterfinals. No. 3 Newmarket (16-4) had surrendered just 15...

By TIM GOODWIN

As the buzzer sounded at the conclusion of the NHIAA Division III championship game Saturday night, Conant boys’ basketball head coach Eric Saucier pointed to his chin.After coming up short in the pursuit of a 13th state title in the storied history...

By STEVE CHAMBERLIN

Casting a vote that will change the long-term trajectory of our region requires a foundation of objective, complete data, and a plan subsequently built from that data.Unfortunately, the Prismatic ConVal reconfiguration study does not provide the...

By ISABELLA MESSA

Although Rick & Diane’s in Antrim, Fiddleheads Cafe in Hancock and Del Rossi’s Trattoria in Dublin make different kinds of food, but the restaurants have plenty in common.Bill O’Mahony, one of the owners of Del Rossi’s, an Italian restaurant, said it...

By ISABELLA MESSA

Is tarot for real?Nancy Razza, a psychologist with a doctorate from Fairleigh Dickinson University, thinks so. On Tuesday, Razza held a workshop at Hancock Town Library on the education of tarot cards and tarot card readings.  Tarot cards are used in...

By BEN CONANT

The Wilton-Lyndeborough girls' basketball team is heading back to the Division IV quarterfinals for the first time since 2007 after a rousing 55-45 win over Franklin in Wilton Tuesday night. Adri Bausha led the No. 6 Warriors (14-5) with 30 points, as...

By TINA KRIEBEL

I am writing this viewpoint as an almost 20-year resident of the ConVal district. I have two students who graduated from ConVal High School after attending 13 years in the district. I volunteered in Peterborough Elementary School and South Meadow...

By ISABELLA MESSA

After getting her certification in hypnotherapy from the HypnoRegression Institute of Blankinship Communications in Wilmington, N.C., in 2023, Jeni Archer now operates her own hypnotherapy practice, Integrated Soul, at 20 Grove St., Suite 310, in...

By ALAN EDELKIND

On Tuesday, Feb. 6, the ConVal School Board held the annual budget deliberative session at the gym in ConVal High School. This is an annual event where we present the budget and warrant articles that are budget-related or require ConVal district...

By JEANNE DIETSCH

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent billions to determine how to best improve student achievement. Its conclusion was that its focus would be on improving teachers’ performance.The foundation director cites a Los Angeles district study which...