BUSINESS: White Birch brings community store back to Bennington

By JESSECA TIMMONS

White Birch General Store in downtown Bennington, which opened on the site of the old Bennington Country Store in May, has already had a positive impact on the community, according to store manager April Apple.“We had some customers tell us that they...

THE GREENFIELD BEAT: Jesseca Timmons – Dixon talks working with Ukrainian refugees

This past June, Marsha Dixon of Francestown and her daughter Kirstie spent 10 days volunteering at a summer day camp for Ukrainian refugee children in Poland. Marsha’s trip to Poland started, in a way, in Tanzania. Back in January 2020, Marsha...

Peterborough Town Library hosting downsizing discussion

Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St., will host “Downsizing & Decluttering” in conjunction with the AARP New Hampshire’s Speakers Bureau Tuesday, Sept. 17 from, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. This program is for those who are ready to start preparing for the...

Jaffrey Library Friends schedule book donation

Jaffrey Friends of the Library’s next Book Donation Saturday is Sept. 14 from 10 a.m. to noon in the library’s main level Bean Room.People can bring up to 15 books in good condition, and volunteers will screen them for our sales. These Saturdays are...

Historic covers – Peterboro Transcript: April 12, 1917

The headline, small though it was, in the April 11, 1917, Peterboro Transcript marking America’s entry into World War I was simple – “War!”“America now faces the irrepressible conflict. After months and even years of nerve-wracking uncertainly, the...

PHOTOS: Greenville hosts annual French-Canadian heritage dinner

The Greenville American Legion hosted its third annual French-Canadian dinner on Saturday, celebrating the town’s immigrant roots.The event started as a way to commemorate the town’s 150th anniversary celebration, but was so popular, it became an...

Hanstock is Sept. 14

The Hancock Depot Association will presentHanstock, a one-day music and arts festival, at Moose Brook Park, 40 Bennington Road in Hancock, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14.Attendees are asked to make a $10 donation. The lineup is as...

New Ipswich Historical Society schedules annual meeting

New Ipswich Historical Society will hold its annual meeting Saturday, Sept. 14, at 1:30 p.m. at the New Ipswich Museum of History, 72 Academy Road.A brief business meeting will be followed by keynote speaker Patricia Kangas Ktistes, who will describe...

Bissex, Hsu, Leishman and Wheeler come out on top in Democratic legislative primaries

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

In two crowded Democratic primary races for state representative, four candidates pulled away with their party’s nominations to serve in Concord -- newcomers Hannah Bissex and Tom Hsu, and incumbents Jonah Wheeler and Peter Leishman.Bissex and Hsu won...

Democrat Karen Liot Hill faces off against Republican Kim Strathdee for Executive Council District 2 seat

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Democrat Karen Liot Hill edged out Mike Liberty, while Republican Kim Strathdee beat Mary Rose Deak for their respective District 2 Executive Council nominations.The final results, which were not called until around 12:30 a.m., saw Hill clinch the win...

Monadnock region residents make their choices for November election

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Campaigners were out under sunny skies on Tuesday, stumping for their candidates and talking to voters about issues including public education, the economy and housing.Gubernatorial candidates Kelly Ayotte and Joyce Craig, for whom the primary have...

Melanie Levesque wins Executive Council District 5 primary

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Melanie Levesque of Brookline won the Democratic primary for Executive Council District 5 and will face the Republican incumbent, Dave Wheeler, in November.Levesque won the district, which includes Antrim, Bennington, Francestown, Greenfield,...

Democrat Goodlander wins 2nd Congressional District nod, Republican race stays close

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY, SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN and JEREMY MARGOLIS

The race between Nashua native Maggie Goodlander and fellow Democrat Colin Van Ostern for the second congressional district nomination was never close.Even in Van Ostern’s hometown of Concord, Goodlander beat him in all 10 city wards with 63% of the...

Safety cited in request for Dublin skate park

By DAVID ALLEN

 “It’s dangerous,” Nancy Cayford said. “Children are skateboarding at the community center and the church right by the road.”“The road” is Route 101, and at Monday’s meeting of the Dublin Select Board, she introduced the idea of a skate park being...

Ayotte and Craig claim victory in governor primaries

By ALEXANDER RAPP, RACHEL WACHMANand MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Dennis Martin heard “Don’t Mass Up New Hampshire” and he was sold. The U.S. Coast Guard veteran moved to Londonderry 24 years ago from the “People's Republic of communism, Massachusetts.” He hasn’t looked back. “This was the best slogan I’ve heard in...

Historic covers – Peterboro Transcript: Sept. 1, 1910

The Page 1 news of the Sept. 1, 1910 Peterboro Transcript included news of Hancock’s Old Home Week Festival, in which “our friends returned, it seemed to the writer, in increased numbers, to look again into the faces, and to again feel the warm...

Peterborough food drive collects hundreds of food items, over $1,100 for End 68 Hours of Hunger

By ASHLEY SAARI

For Hunger Action Month, shoppers at Shaw’s in Peterborough on Saturday helped to benefit the ConVal Regional End 68 Hours of Hunger program by donating both food and dollars, in a event organized by Peterborough Fire and Rescue.Members of the squad...

Antrim Planning Board explores housing options

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Tiny homes, cottage courts, cluster housing and short-term rentals are all on the radar of the Antrim Planning Board as the town tries to combat the effects of the statewide housing crisis at the local level.“We are open-minded, and we are being...

Additional remediation efforts identified for Stony Brook development

By ASHLEY SAARI

The Jaffrey Conservation Commission has reached a consensus for a remediation plan for further violations found at the Stony Brook development, an approved 28-house development on Route 124 adjacent to the Shattuck Golf Course.The commission met Sept....