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By ASHLEY SAARI

A small robot makes its way through a cleared space in the children’s section of the Jaffrey Public Library, filled with scattered blocks.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Francestown’s George Holmes Bixby Library has launched a new way to get town residents out exploring cultural destinations around New England.

By ASHLEY SAARI

All local Monadnock region public school districts, including Mascenic, ConVal, Jaffrey-Rindge, Wilton-Lyndeborough and Mason, as well as the Lionheart Classical Academy charter school in Peterborough, have complied with an order from the United States Department of Education to certify that they don’t utilize “diversity, equity and inclusion” or DEI practices in their hiring.

By ASHLEY SAARI

Conant Middle High School has been named the 2025 New Hampshire High School of Excellence by the New Hampshire Excellence in Education Awards, which honors one elementary, middle and high school each year with the title.

By ASHLEY SAARI

New Ipswich runner Tory Wight joined thousands of other participants in the Boston Marathon on Monday – her first attempt at the iconic race.

By BILL FONDA

Kristen Seitz of Peterborough started running during COVID.

By CIARAN NAGLE

Choosing to move to the United States from Ireland in 2012 was the most-difficult and painful decision of my life.

By DAVID BLAIR

My mother was an immigrant.

By BILL FONDA

Sherry Miller has been interested in emergency services since childhood.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

New Hampshire residents navigating the state’s judicial system could face delays as a result of budget cuts to the courts.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Patrons out for a drink who’d like to refill their glasses without waiting for the server might have their wish come true.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Republican Sen. Daniel Innis holds a long record of supporting marijuana legalization. But after a split vote among his conservative colleagues placed bills regulating the plant’s medical use in limbo, Innis said he won’t be leading a charge to pass them this year.

By ASHLEY SAARI

On April 21, Tory Wight, 48, of New Ipswich will be standing at the start line for her latest marathon, wearing the bib number 28,322 – a symbol of just how big a race she is about to run: the Boston Marathon.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

The battle over the state budget underscores the partisan divide in the New Hampshire Legislature, with most conservative priorities prevailing and Democrats warning that critical programs and services will be harmed.

By ASHLEY SAARI

The New Ipswich Select Board approved several bids for work to be done at the town’s ballfields in Memorial Park, with a decision about work to the town pool put off to next week.

By ASHLEY SAARI

After gaining variance approvals from the Zoning Board, Jaffrey’s Hope Fellowship Church is now in front of the Planning Board for final site approvals for a new sanctuary building, expanded parking and a widened exit for the church.

By ASHLEY SAARI

Editor’s note: This story includes descriptions of violence, including domestic assault.

By ASHLEY SAARI

Nine-year-old Lincoln Worth, a first-time chili maker (and first-time stove-user) walked away with the $100 grand prize at the New Ipswich Town-Wide Chili Cook Off on Saturday.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Republican budget writers advanced a policy change April 5 that would place a prohibition on all diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in New Hampshire.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

When Kamala Harris didn’t win the White House, four women from the Monadnock region who campaigned for her decided to rebrand.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

From a ban on cat declawing to designating the state’s official marsupial, New Hampshire lawmakers thought outside the box when filing legislation this year.