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By JESSECA TIMMONS

About 40 community members attended Wednesday night’s public forum at ConVal High School to learn about the proposed renovation of the Applied Technology Center, parts of the high school, and the Lucy Hurlin Theater.ConVal’s Applied Technology Center...

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 DAVID BROOKS

In a long and storied journalism career, mostly at the Concord Monitor and its sister paper the Valley News, Mark Travis occupied just about every position available in local newspapers, from freelance writer to publisher. But it wasn’t those titles...

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 BEN CONANT

The Conant girls’ soccer team got its biggest win of the season Tuesday, striking three times off the foot of junior Riley Vitello to hand visiting Campbell just its second loss of the season. “We knew that Campbell was going to be a tough game,”...

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 BEN CONANT

Ryan Close and the ConVal boys’ soccer team simply believed they were going to win Tuesday’s game against visiting Kingswood.Even when they were down 2-0 in the first period, well before Close got ConVal on the board by heading in the Cougars’ first...

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,...

By BEN CONANT

The Conant volleyball team is a lot better than their straight-set loss to Fall Mountain Monday evening that head coach Kerry Linstad called a step back."I have higher expectations of them than what we are at right now," Linstad said after the game....

By BEN CONANT

The steadily improving Conant girls' soccer team gets better and better each year under head coach Devon Spirka, but after a 3-0 start, dropped its next three games before a tie with Trinity Sept. 23 and a 2-0 win over Belmont Saturday.In the second...

By BEN CONANT

The Conant boys' soccer team played its best ball of the fall against Sanborn Friday, but their early spark burned out quickly in the late September sun. Conant (0-8) played a solid first half that coach Heather Sawyer said was their best of the...

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...