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By DAVID ALLEN

Dublin citizens took in a presentation Saturday morning about the town’s relationship with the ConVal School District. “That solution shouldn’t be that we pay more money to educate less students,” said Select Board member Carole Monroe to...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

An error in the ConVal fiscal 2025 proposed budget resulted in assessments for this tax cycle being higher than they should have been, according to ConVal Budget Committee Chair Jim Fredrickson of Sharon. “There was an error in the submittal of the...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Francestown’s and Dublin’s requests to leave the Contoocook Valley School District will go before school district voters in March, the state Board of Education decided Thursday.The two towns’ withdrawal requests – set in motion by a soundly rejected...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

ConVal, Dublin and Francestown are slated to present their opinions regarding withdrawal from the ConVal School District to the state Board of Education Thursday in Concord.The meeting, which is open to the public, will take place from 9:30 a.m. at...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

This weekend at the Lucy Hurlin Theater at ConVal High School in Peterborough, murder mystery fans are in for a show. “Murder for Dummies,” by ConVal junior Ben Michaud, is the first murder mystery theater production at ConVal to be written and...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal School Board discussed options for the proposed renovations to ConVal High School’s Career and Technical Education center and to the Lucy Hurlin Theater, including possibly postponing the proposed renovations to the theater, at Tuesday...

By DAVID ALLEN

Targeted passing and flooding ConVal’s end made the difference Saturday as Lebanon High School notched a 2-0 win over ConVal in the quarterfinals of the Division II boys’ soccer playoffs.   The Raiders ended the fourth-seeded Cougars’ season with one...

Apparently, everyone’s so focused on the Trump/Harris mess of an election that they missed the ConVal School Board entertaining the idea of spending $44 million on capital improvements to the high school.I’ve got to be honest – I had no clue they were...

ConVal High School William Simard won the state Division II boys’ 5,000-meter cross-country championship Saturday at Derryfield Park in Manchester, covering the course in 16 minutes, 49.6 seconds.His teammate, senior Joshua Decker, finished 24th in a...

By DAVID ALLEN

The ConVal School Board is considering a $44 million construction project for the high school. It will vote on the next step in the project on Election Day. The proposal would include adding to seating the school theater and updating the Career and...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The Peterborough Affordable Housing Committee will present the short film “What is Workforce Housing?” on Saturday, Oct. 19, at noon and 1 p.m. at Peterborough Community Theatre. Admission is free, and all are welcome.The film features students from...

By BEN CONANT

It has been a long, hard road for ConVal dozen senior football players, but Friday night in front of their raucous, pink-clad Homecoming crowd, the Cougars’ hard work paid off with a 52-8 blowout win over Hollis-Brookline that featured a litany of big...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal School Board took a moment of silence during Tuesday night’s meeting to remember a student and a former student who died in unrelated car accidents the weekend of Sept. 20. Damien Cronan, 17,  of Antrim, was a junior at ConVal. James Barna,...

I represented Hancock on the ConVal Feasibility Study Committee. As all are aware, we voted not to recommend the withdrawals of Dublin and Francestown from the ConVal School District at our Sept. 12 meeting.In my opinion, we, as a committee, failed in...

By CURTIS HAMILTON

The ConVal School Board would like to share the following information regarding the outcome of votes taken by the Withdrawal Study Committee. To the question of whether the full committee was ready to vote or if more time and information were needed...

By BEN CONANT

A tie in soccer can give a team the same lift as a win or the same deflation as a loss. The ConVal boys' soccer team was dealt the latter on Tuesday after surrendering an early 2-0 lead over Pembroke that turned into a 2-2 tie, the third deadlock of...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal School Board had an unusual guest Tuesday night when Charlie,  Peterborough Elementary School’s therapy dog, stopped by for a visit during the regular “Points of Pride” agenda item.  “I had wanted to bring a therapy dog into one of our...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal Feasibility Study Committee voted Thursday night against supporting either Dublin’s or Francestown’s bids to leave the ConVal School District.Six members voted in favor of Dublin withdrawing, while the remaining nine votes were against it....

By DAVID ALLEN

At Wednesday’s Dublin Education Advisory Committee open forum, committee member Blake Anderson emphasized a wish that the process regarding potentially withdrawing from the ConVal School District not create rancor locally.“Nobody wants to make ConVal...

By DAVID ALLEN

When players from both Conant and Derryfield School used the term “chippy” to describe the Orioles' 4-1 loss to the visitors from Manchester Wednesday, it was clear that both teams found the match to have more than its share of physical...

By BEN CONANT

The ConVal field hockey team projects to be a defensive-minded squad anchored from front to back with three strong senior captains. However, the Cougars have yet to see just how much they're capable of, as they're now 0-3 after a trio of games played...