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Erika Alusic-Bingham is the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript’s Hometown Hero for January, but she said the credit should go to the youths and families she works with Community Action Partnership Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties.

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A 31-year-old Peterborough resident was rescued Monday morning after having gone missing the night before.

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If something needs to be done in Greenfield, there’s a good chance Karen Day will agree to do it.“Volunteers are hard to get,” she said. “As long as I’m able, I’m willing to do some things.”It’s that “can-do” spirit that led retired Greenfield Fire...

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Robert Gagnon, who murdered 83-year-old Robert Prest of Lyndeborough and shot 46-year-old Carlos Quintong of Brookline in November 2002, was sentenced Monday to a minimum of 40 years in prison.Attorney General John Formella’s office announced that...

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Justin Dole’s SWNH Alerts & Info Facebook page is a go-to site to learn about fires, car accidents or similar events in the Monadnock region, as he is frequently on the scene of incidents taking pictures or publishing scanner alerts.“He just spends...

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A tractor-trailer fire Thursday morning destroyed the vehicle and closed part of Peterborough Street.According to Jaffrey Fire Chief David Chamberlain, the department got a call at about 6:03 a.m. for a truck fire across the street from Rite Aid. When...

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Linda Draper’s younger daughter Katie had just started first grade, and she “was a mom who needed a job.”A Lyndeborough resident, she got one as a classroom aide at Florence Rideout Elementary School, where Katie and two-years-older sister Sara were...

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As she attempts to unseat a 38-year incumbent in Republican John Hunt, Democratic Cheshire County District 14 candidate Deni Dickler said the people she talks to love Rindge, but are concerned about issues that include property taxes, lack of school...

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Three people were hospitalized after a three-car crash at the intersection of Old Street Road and Route 101 in Peterborough on Sunday afternoon.According to Peterborough Police Department Capt. Ernie Belletete, 61-year-old Edward C. Olivieri of North...

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Antrim Town Clerk Diane Chauncey and Peterborough Town Clerk Linda Guyette are used to having state officials visit the polls to make sure all procedures are being properly followed, especially for federal or state elections.However, a different group...

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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...

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A Greenville resident was among three people killed in a crash on Route 101 in Candia Saturday afternoon that also injured two Peterborough residents.According to a release from New Hampshire State Police, Michael Wescott, 59, of Greenville, was...

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Police from Antrim and Peterborough were involved in car chases Monday that resulted in arrests.According to a release from the police department in Hillsborough, at 4:48 p.m., Antrim police were dispatched to T-Bird Mini-Mart for a report of a male...

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Malachi Yebba of Jaffrey started skating when he was about 1 1/2 years old; his hockey-playing father Anthony saw to that.“As soon as I could walk, he put me on skates,” Malachi said.Hockey followed at about 5 or 6, and Malachi, 13, is currently a...

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“I don't know how many lives he changed through his coaching, but I can tell you his coaching changed mine.”Those were the words of Elizabeth McGurk nominating her former coach at Mascenic High School,  Mike Smith of New Ipswich, as the Monadnock...

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Since she was a child, Cathy Lanigan has always loved to sing.She was a voice major in college, and thought she would be a music teacher. Instead, she wound up working in IT as a computer programmer and didn’t sing, even though she still loved it.But...

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A lawn tractor fire in a garage Friday afternoon on Cheney Avenue in Peterborough destroyed the garage, heavily damaged a house and sent a Jaffrey firefighter to Monadnock Community Hospital with a minor injury.Peterborough Fire Chief Ed Walker said...

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Although temperatures hadn’t hit their high of 90 degrees Tuesday morning, it was still warm enough and sunny enough that players waiting for their next game of pickleball at Adams Playground in Peterborough were taking refuge under umbrellas.Sessions...

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Chance Derosier of Jaffrey skipped playing basketball for Conant High School last winter in order to train for the baseball season, and it paid off, as he has helped anchor the pitching staff behind Franklin Pierce University-bound Lane LeClair and...

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The man whose body was found in Dublin Lake Friday has been identified as 51-year-old Timothy Aeschliman of Fitchburg, Mass.According to a release from Dublin Police Department, a couple who were paddle boarding found a man in his 50s unresponsive in...

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Dottie Bauer remembers when she first met Rose Novotny.After moving to the area in 2018, Bauer had gone to observe an event at The Grapevine Family & Community Resource Center in Antrim. Not long after, she went to the Bank of New Hampshire’s Antrim...