The first Peterborough Transcript of 2000 included information on the year’s first baby in the region, Jaffrey-Rindge School Board members voting to conduct a study on the consequences if Rindge left the district and the lack of snow in the area.

One bit of news it did not include, other than a tease to a story on Page 3, was a story about problems caused by “Y2K” – the fear which largely did not come to pass that computers programmed to list the year as a two-digit number (“99” for 1999, for example) would crash and cause widespread calamity at the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1 because the year would be “00.”

Peterborough Fire Chief Steve Black reported that the town had checked its computers long before the end of the year and that there were “absolutely no glitches” as the new year arrived. Rindge Town Administrator Carl Webber said preparations were “an excellent drill” for emergency situations that might arise, but “no one seemed to take all the hype over Y2K seriously.”