Search Results

By Credit search: Monadnock Ledger-Transcript 

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Antrim residents will have access to a new accessible bathhouse and facilities this summer at the town beach at Gregg Lake.The new 450-square-foot bathhouse, which is under construction, will replace the old restrooms and maintenance building. The new...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Kim Mooney, outgoing President of Franklin Pierce University (FPU), was awarded the first  “Thrive Recognition Award”  by the Greater Monadnock Collaborative Wednesday morning at Monadnock Country Club. Mooney, who is the first woman and the first...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

In 2023, the Town of Antrim received $75,000 in GOFERR (Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery) funding from the State of New Hampshire to improve the public boat launch at Gregg Lake Beach Park. Matching funds were approved at the Antrim...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

While apprehending a suspect in the Monadnock Community Hospital parking lot following a chase through downtown Peterborough, Peterborough police officers found an unharmed a toddler in the back of the driver’s car. The suspect, Mario Cruz, 29, of...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

During its second meeting on Thursday night, the ConVal Feasibility Study Committee (FSC) mapped out a plan for the next few months to begin the process of  determining whether it would be feasible for Francestown or Dublin, or both, to withdraw from...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Tim Conway, principal of South Meadow School, Great Brook School Principal Adam Caragher and ConVal Assistant Principal Richard Simoneau put forth a proposal to create a single ConVal athletic director position encompassing the Great Brook, South...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Peterborough voters will decide on candidates for town offices and weigh in on six proposed zoning amendments during town elections Tuesday, May 14.Voting takes place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Peterborough Community Center on Elm Street.The zoning...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Peterborough residents will vote on six proposed zoning amendments May 14.Article 1 proposes that properties in the Family District be rezoned to General Residence. A yes will approve changing all Family District Properties to General Residence...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

More than 30 town organizations took part in the second Antrim Community Fair on Saturday in the Antrim Town Hall Theater, an event organized by the Antrim Newcomers Club. “Being here and listening to the constant chatter and laughter all around us...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Public health and community leaders from across the Monadnock region painted a picture of the state of mental health among today’s youth and adults and spoke positively about local initiatives enabling recovery during a Wednesday morning event at All...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Peterborough voters will vote on five proposed zoning amendments at the town election May 14. “We are trying to simplify the zoning,  and also give people more flexibility,” said Peterborough Planning Board member Carl Staley. Amendment 1 proposes to...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Around the Monadnock Region, a number of new developments, some under construction and some still in the planning stages, could slowly bringing relief to the region’s housing shortage. In Peterborough, as of mid-April,  the Peterborough Planning Board...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The Antrim Planning Board gave approval for a seven-lot subdivision proposed by Battaglia Foundations at Thursday night’s public hearing.The Planning Board also approved two lot-line mergers and a special use wetlands permit to enable a driveway to...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Peterborough voters will decide on several proposed zoning amendments at the ballot on May 15, including rezoning the existing Family District to General Residence.Currently, more than half the lots in the Family District are nonconforming, so...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

According to Temple Brighton, one of the co-founders of Mountain Shadows School, the school’s Olympic Studies Night was inspired by the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. “There was so much energy around those Olympics, and all this excitement, and...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

A group of veterans from around the Monadnock region, led by Susie Spikol of the Harris Center for Environmental Education, learned the little-known history of Hancock’s Jack’s Pond Sunday as part of the Harris Center’s veterans hiking program.The...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The Francestown Recreation Department hosted its second all-town science fair on Saturday at the Town Hall.About a dozen Francestown young people competed in the fair, with projects exploring everything from electromagnetic theory to the dominant paws...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

After competing in the FIRST Robotics District Championships in Springfield, Mass., Peterborough-based FIRST Robotics Competition Team Inconceivable is headed for the FIRST Robotics World Championships in Houston April 17 to 20.In Houston, the team...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The former home of one Peterborough’s best-known institutions, The Folkway restaurant, is back on the market after almost 30 years. The Victorian home at 85 Grove St., built around 1860, was once the home of W.H.H. Pritchard, a Peterborough veteran of...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Ella Cademartori, previously director of children’s programming at Stephenson Memorial Library in Greenfield, is the library’s new director, having been named to the position under difficult circumstances.Cademartori began in the new role Feb. 13...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Newly elected ConVal School Board representative Jim Kingston of Temple said at Tuesday night’s meeting that he believed RSA 91:A, the public Right-to-Know Law, had been breached in recent email communications among the board and requested the board...