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By ASHLEY SAARI

The Maple Station Market in Temple opened on Friday to a packed crowd, coming to see the offerings of the new storefront.The market is an offshoot of Ben’s Sugar Shack, also based in Temple, both owned by Ben Fisk. On Friday, the parking lot for the...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

ConVal School Board members voted Wednesday night to accept the report submitted by Prismatic Consulting evaluating reconfiguration options in the ConVal district, although the vote was not a decision on Prismatic’s recommendation to close...

By BILL FONDA

A passion for Little League runs in Nick Hill’s family.“My dad (Dick) started the Little League in Jaffrey when he was a junior in high school,” said Hill. “I look up to him. He’s my role model.”Hill, a 46-year-old Jaffrey resident, started coaching...

BY JESSECA TIMMONS

From the road, 20 Frothingham Lane in Dublin looks like the classic Gilded Age summer cottage. Built in 1880, the house is a sprawling, shingled house with elegant woodwork, fairy-tale diamond-pane windows and deep porches where a person can imagine...

By BILL FONDA

Longtime Wilton barber Elmer Santerre died in a single-car crash on Main Street in Wilton Friday evening.Santerre, 89, had owned Elmer’s Barbershop on Main Street for 64 years before retiring last December. During a celebration outside the barbershop...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Highbridge Hill Elementary School in New Ipswich is one of 19 schools throughout the state identified as one of the lowest-performing 5% of all schools in the state.As part of the Every Student Succeeds Act, every three years, the state...

By BILL FONDA

When someone needed to step up, Robyn Manley of Bennington was there.Manley made blankets for several years for the southwest New Hampshire chapter of Project Linus, which provides handmade blankets to children who are seriously ill, traumatized or in...

By ASHLEY SAARI

A motorcycle crash on 2nd New Hampshire Turnpike in Lyndeborough left the rider in critical condition last Wednesday night at about 8 p.m.The rider, Cameron T. Parris, 25, of Francestown, remained in critical condition as of Monday, according to...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Bill Coleman served during World War II in the Army Air Force, and on Thursday, at the age of 99, he returned to the air, this time as a passenger of Silver Ranch Airpark’s 1971 Cessna Skyhawk.Coleman and airpark owner Harvey Sawyer are long-time...

By ASHLEY SAARI

The New Ipswich and Greenville firehouses are pulling together for one of their own, Fire Capt. Jim Feldhusen, after his diagnosis of esophageal cancer, which is likely linked to his nearly 40 years as a volunteer firefighter.Feldhusen has been a...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Superior Court Judge Charles Temple heard arguments Tuesday from both sides in an alleged contempt case in which neighbors to the Silver Scone Teas business allege that owner Jane Elwell violated a court order by making improvements to a parking area...

By ASHLEY SAARI

The Town of New Ipswich and neighbors opposed to the Silver Scone Tea party event business in the town’s village district are scheduled to head to court at the end of the month, following allegations that the business has been moving forward with...

By ASHLEY SAARI

The Clinton Masonic Lodge stands out on Wilton Main Street, sitting atop a hill next to the library, with curving steps leading to the front door, framed by columns and a brick facade.Like many aspects of the lodge, pieces of its exterior are symbolic...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Alanis Obomsawin, a Canadian documentarian who has made 56 films focusing on the lives and concerns of First Nations peoples, was the first female filmmaker to be awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal on Sunday during the MacDowell artist residency’s...

By BILL FONDA

One of John Stone’s first memories of Jaffrey is an act of kindness.It was 1978, and he and his wife Helen were moving from Massachusetts to Jaffrey so he could begin teaching at Jaffrey-Rindge Middle School.As they were looking for a place to live,...

By ORIANA CAMARA

When Dave Morrison was in 8th grade, he would ride the schoolbus and along with his friends, try to recite the Uncle Sam Sign before it was out of sight.   he and his friends would try to recite the Uncle Sam Sign before it was out of sight. 

BY AIDAN BEAROR

Johno’s Greenville Market opened its doors July 3 at 74 Main St., and the owners are making the people of Greenville their priority. Jacki-Ann Roy and her son, John Lang, purchased the building in the spring of 2022. Renovating the building took...

By ASHLEY SAARI

The Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative High School established a Hall of Fame on Tuesday night, with three initial inductees, recognized not only for their accomplishments as students, but for their years of dedication to youth sports as coaches and...

By ASHLEY SAARI

A New Ipswich author has been honored by the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival competition for an excerpt of his new novel “Bikini Beach,” based in part on his own experience in Vietnam.Walter “Butch” Maki, 75, who was born and raised in New...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Fourth graders from Florence Rideout Elementary School got a tour through downtown Wilton on Thursday, learning bits of local history.The tour included stops at some of the town’s historic buildings, including the library, the Masonic Hall and the...