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By JESSECA TIMMONS and DAVID ALLEN

A petition warrant article calling for a budget cap of $29,000 per student in the ConVal School district failed in most ConVal towns, receiving just 36% of votes across the the district. 

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Construction on the Greenfield Meetinghouse community center project will start as soon as the town has finalized the contract with Milestone Construction, the Select Board reported Thursday night.

By CURTIS HAMILTON

For the past 58 years, our nine ConVal towns have partnered together to educate our children and ensure our greater Monadnock region continues to thrive for the generations that follow us.

To quote Benjamin Franklin, the father of our public libraries, “These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries.”

By DAVID ALLEN

Growing pains are, by definition, painful, but when a business outgrows its existing space, that suggests success.

Once a month, come rain or shine or howling wind and freezing temperatures like we had a few weeks ago, former members and descendants of members of the Greenfield Women’s Club get together to catch up and remember the old days.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Two years after expanding Medicaid coverage for pregnant women and mothers, a bipartisan group of senators is ready to take the next step.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal School Board continued its series of hearings on a budget cap petition warrant article on Monday and Tuesday in Antrim and Greenfield. 

Greenfield is a town with its share of ghost stories. 

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Greenfield residents weighed in on warrant articles proposing the town study the potential for a regional police force with Hancock and becoming an SB2 town at Thursday night’s annual budget hearing.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

A group of New Hampshire senators wants to tighten rules around cellphone use in schools.

Walking into the kitchen  at Plowshare Farm on any given morning, you will find the “kitchen crew” hard at work, making lunch from scratch.

A Greenfield man sustained minor injuries in a head-on collision with a tree Thursday.

Last of a series of excerpts from Gerry Miller’s book “Crotched Mountain Ski Area in Francestown, New Hampshire,” a history/biography about the original Crotched Mountain Ski Area in Francestown, developed by William C. (Bill) MacAdam and syndicate. Miller grew up in Francestown. Much of the material for the book was from the Monadnock Ledger or Peterborough Transcript.

The Greenfield Historical Society has a lot of exciting news. GHS just launched its first newsletter, “The Zephyr,” named for Greenfield’s Zephyr Lake. GHS sent the first edition out to members of the society on Jan. 12, and the newsletter will come out quarterly.

Tenth of a series of excerpts from Gerry Miller’s book “Crotched Mountain Ski Area in Francestown, New Hampshire,” a history/biography about the original Crotched Mountain Ski Area in Francestown, developed by William C. (Bill) MacAdam and syndicate. Miller grew up in Francestown. Much of the material for the book was from the Monadnock Ledger or Peterborough Transcript.

By BILL FONDA

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

As part of our 175th anniversary celebration, the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript asked 175 trivia questions about the Monadnock region. Of those 175, we picked the following 30 for our trivia contest.If you think you know the answers, send an email to...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Greenfield residents came prepared with questions and suggestions at a preliminary town budget hearing Thursday night.  The Select Board meeting room was standing-room only, with about 30 residents attending. “We are thrilled that so many people came...

By ELLA CADEMARTORI

Hello from the Stephenson Memorial Library. Winter is upon us with more great news. We’ve received 91 out of the 97 CLiF grant books we’ve ordered, and the last six will hopefully arrive soon. We are so excited for you to check out the new books and...

It was quite thrill to drive by the Greenfield Community Meetinghouse last week and see an excavator parked up front! After nearly five years of effort by the Friends of the Greenfield Community Meetinghouse and the Town of Greenfield, and with help...