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By TIM BRUNS

Teens from Avenue A Teen Center in Antrim took to local parking lots to add their spin to military drills using lawn chairs Friday.The drill team made stops at Pheasant Wood Center, RiverMead Health Center. Summerhill Assisted Living and Scott-Farrar...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Director and producer Brendon Fox will be coming on board as the new artistic director of Peterborough Players.“I’m very excited for the future at the Players, to build on the past, and grow the future. It is a huge gift for an incoming leader to have...

Costs for solar panels are down and incentives to install them are up, so now might be the right time to invest in solar panels for your home or commercial property. As an example of how much the end cost of a solar installation has changed in the...

On Sunday, Aug. 25, Sat Bir Singh Khalsa will close out the 2024 Monadnock Summer Lyceum season with “Yoga for Today: The Science Behind How it Works.” His talk will focus on research concerning the mechanisms and benefits of yoga. The lecture begins...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The Raylynmor Opera, which has been the Monadnock region’s opera company for nearly 30 years, will present “Star Spangled Opera,” a concert of American-themed classical opera, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25, at Bass Hall in the Monadnock Center for...

Fifty years ago this month, Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace as president of the United States, before likely being impeached in the wake of the Watergate scandal. The corruption at the highest level of the American government contributed to a...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Allison Aldrich Smith, founder of  Keene’s Animaterra Women’s Chorus, which ran from 1997 to 2020, told  Sunday’s audience at the Monadnock Summer Lyceum that “there will be more singing than talking.”“I have been asked to sing a lot, talk a little,”...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Anyone arriving at the Trowbridge home on the western edge of Peterborough will notice the gardens before anything else -- the varied colors, shapes, sizes, and textures of the plants and flowers in the gardens.“I love color,” Laura Trowbridge said...

By BILL FONDA

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...

Each of us who depends on our earned Social Security benefits stands in salute to Social Security's 89th anniversary Aug. 14. Thanks to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins’ diligence in working for Social Security for our seniors. She saw the problems...

The Monadnock Summer Lyceum features this season’s musical event, “How Can I Keep From Singing?” on Sunday, Aug. 18, at 11 a.m.Allison Aldrich Smith, best known locally as the founder and director of Animaterra Women’s Chorus, will demonstrate the...

The Monadnock Center for History and Culture will present “Visitors from the Past” Saturday, Aug. 17, with tours beginning at 10 a.m.Costumed actors will tell the life stories of some of this historic graveyard’s inhabitants at their final resting...

By ASHLEY SAARI

The Peterborough Players season finale of “Man of La Mancha” provides a glimpse into the need for hope, even when hope seems mad, and the hunger for art in the human soul. It is sure to be a hit among its already sold-out audience for its two-week...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Ainsley King of Peterborough has joined the coaching staff of Keene State’s first women’s varsity hockey program. As of fall 2024, the Owls women’s hockey team, formerly a club team, is now NCAA Division III.“I’m really excited about it. I love...

"Where is Galt's Gulch? It's in New Hampshire!" That was the message last month from former Maine state Sen. Eric Brakey to the Freedom Fest in Las Vegas. Brakey moved here to lead the Free State Project to the next level. Their 88-plus New Hampshire...

Soaking rains and severe humidity from the remnants of Tropical Storm Debby caused vendors, music and activities for Friday evening’s MAXT Makerspace Night Market in downtown Peterborough to move inside to the Peterborough Town House and the...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

A single photograph of Albie, a rescue dog from Louisiana, changed the course of journalist Peter Zheutlin’s life, not only converting him to a devoted dog-lover, but taking him into the front lines of animal rescue in the United States.Zheutlin...

Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St., will host two programs this August and September presented by the AARP New Hampshire’s Speakers Bureau.  On Wednesday, Aug. 14 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., AARP and the library present “Medicare 101: Understanding...

Electric Earth Concerts presents “Beethoven, Dvořák, Ginastera” on Thursday, Aug. 15, at 7 p.m. at First Church in Jaffrey, 14 Laban Ainsworth Way. Emilie-Anne Gendron will be on violin, with Todd Phillips on violin, Matthew Sinno on viola, Mihai...

The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources has announced that the State Historical Resources Council has added seven properties to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places – including Kyes-Sage House in Peterborough and First...