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Dick Dunning grew up Dublin, attended school in Dublin and Peterborough and was a teacher and then the longtime principal at South Meadow School in Peterborough. In total, he has spent 54 years in the ConVal School district.Dunning spoke to the...

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Nine candidates appeared at the annual Antrim Grange candidates night Wednesday evening at the Town Hall Theatre.Four candidates are running for the two open spots on the Planning Board. Dennis Young spoke about how his background in technology,...

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David Bridgewater, who had been the director of Stephenson Memorial Library in Greenfield since 2020, is being remembered for his boundless energy, his determination to take on and solve problems, his kind nature and his unflagging good humor, along...

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After a lengthy debate on Monday night and two previous public hearings on the issue, the Peterborough Planning Board passed a motion to rezone all properties in the Family District to the General Residence District.Planning Board members Stephanie...

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As of Friday, Bennington’s town election ballot had an equal number of vacancies and candidates. The deadline for filing for candidacy has passed, but residents may wage write-in campaigns for the March 12 town election.The Bennington Zoning Board...

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When Well School Theater Director Bronwyn Sims realized that in nearly 60 years of theater, the school had never performed Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” she knew she had the next seventh- and eighth-grade play.  “I’m not sure at what point ‘Our Town’...

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Book-banning, PFAS contamination and expanded school lunches were among the issues voted on last week in the New Hampshire legislature, state Rep. Molly Howard (D-Hancock) reported Monday night in an open house with a group of constituents at...

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As ConVal School District voters prepare to vote on a warrant article that would give the School Board the power to consolidate the district’s eight elementary schools into four, the district has released a complete list of the budget cuts affecting...

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After many years living of in different parts of the country, Monique and Barry Tanner had always wanted to come back to New England, but renovating an antique home in the northeast corner of Hancock has exceeded their wildest expectations.“I have to...

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The Peterborough Police Department has a plan for restructuring which will lower the department’s budget for next year and “strengthen the department’s resiliency,” Town Administrator Nicole MacStay said at Tuesday night’s Budget Committee...

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Antrim will start the process of creating a downtown Tax Increment Finance (TIF) district if voters approve two linked warrant articles to be presented at Town Meeting on Thursday evening, March 14.TIF districts earn revenue for towns by capturing tax...

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The Francestown Select Board voted Monday night to include a warrant article requesting the ConVal School Board initiate a feasibility study evaluating the possibility of Francestown withdrawing from the ConVal School District. The Francestown School...

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Team Inconceivable, a Peterborough-based FIRST Tech Challenge team, is headed for the FIRST Tech Challenge state robotics competition at NHTI in Concord on Saturday with their 30-pound robot “Inconceivable.”“We love making robots,” said team member...

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State Sen. Denise Ricciardi paid a visit to Greenfield Saturday to present volunteers from the Friends of the Greenfield Community Meetinghouse with two checks totaling over $16,000 from the group’s recent partnership with New Hampshire Charitable...

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Discussion at Greenfield’s annual budget hearing centered on planning for large upcoming expenditures in the next several years, including a new road grader, a dump truck, replacement windows in the Town Offices, repairs to the town ball field and a...

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The Francestown Select Board will meet Monday night to discuss whether a recent addition to the town warrant, which was submitted one day past the deadline, will go on the ballot in March.The petition warrant article, submitted by Laura Mafera and...

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The March 12 Town Meeting will be the first held at the Bennington Town Hall upstairs meeting room for nearly four decades. The space, which formerly doubled as the town gymnasium, is now Americans With Disabilities Act-compliant thanks to the...

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Multiple attempts to amend or strike the warrant article that would close Francestown Elementary School, Dublin Consolidated School, Pierce School in Bennington and Temple Elementary School failed at the district deliberative session Tuesday...

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Assistant Town Administrator Seth MacLean reported at the Jan. 30 meeting of the Peterborough Select Board that the proposed new fire station project can meet the budgetary and programmatic goals set by the town, and that the Building Committee has...

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The Francestown Select Board has endorsed a proposed warrant article created by the town’s Community Power Committee to authorize the town to move forward with establishing community power. Community power is a model that allows municipalities to pool...