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By MEGHAN PIERCE

After 73 years of providing a place for artists and the public to come together to learn, work, shop and appreciate fine art, the Sharon Arts Center closed in the summer of 2019.The announcement was made in June and by the end of the summer the center...

By MEGHAN PIERCE

Throughout 2019 Monadnock Paper Mills celebrated its 200th anniversary as a business.Moody Butler founded the business – known as Paper Mill or Bennington Paper Mill – near the banks of the Contoocook River in 1819. When it first started the mill...

By MEGHAN PIERCE

Many people living and working in Peterborough today may not realize the office building 20 Grove Street was built specifically for the American Guernsey Cattle Club. With the iconic downtown Peterborough office building reaching its 100th anniversary...

By MEGHAN PIERCE

For some, the holidays can be the worst time of the year. With that in mind, the First Presbyterian Church in Antrim held its first Blue Christmas Candlelight Service Sunday night.“I think validating people’s feelings is one way of helping them move...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Bryan Cullinane was quick with a joke, a laugh, and wouldn’t have wanted to see his friends and family cry.“He wouldn’t want us to grieve or be unhappy, that’s all I can say,” his mother, Susan Cullinane said, following a celebration of life for her...

By TIM GOODWIN

If Ted de Winter was going to write a book about his life, figuring out where to start might be the hardest part. Having enough to write about would not be difficult at all.At 87 years old, de Winter, who has lived in Greenville since 1982, has seen a...

By MEGHAN PIERCE

On the heels of the first Peterborough Night Market, plans are already in the works for the next, organizer Roy Schlieben said Wednesday.Saturday night, School and Depot streets were closed and crowds flooded into the municipal parking lot in the...

By TIM GOODWIN

Most homeowners are lucky to have one breathtaking view to show off to visitors – David Jeffries has them everywhere he looks.At Jeffries’s 159-acre estate in Jaffrey, his 6,000 square foot mid-century modern home is impressive enough to get people...

By MEGHAN PIERCE

Downtown Peterborough will light up next month with its first-ever Night Market.“We have a great downtown in Peterborough, but nothing ever happens at night, why don’t we try to create a night market here,” said Roy Schlieben, executive director of...

By NICHOLAS HANDY

A local man has been indicted on charges that allege he strangled his “intimate partner” three times in the same day in Antrim. Robert Davidson, 35, of Hillsborough, was indicted on three class-B felony counts of second-degree assault at the...

By BEN CONANT

A Bennington man was indicted in Hillsborough Superior Court on eight felony charges alleging he sexually assaulted a minor over the course of two years and then threatened his victim with a firearm.Brandon Guillemette, 29, was initially arrested in...

By MEGHAN PIERCE

It was her Peterborough Players’ debut, but when Aliah Whitmore took to the stage in “Mahida’s Extra Key To Heaven” last week it was as a third generation Peterborough Player.The daughter and granddaughter of actors James Whitmore Jr. and James...

By ASHLEY SAARI

A year after a fire that all but destroyed the tools of her trade, Donna Rollins of Healing Touch Pottery is back on her feet and ready for the next step for her business – which includes moving the manufacturing to a new shop in Belize. In June of...

By NICHOLAS HANDY

Nestled in the woods of Rindge is an 11,000-square-foot solar-powered castle.The building – commissioned by John Hunt – offers many of the amenities commonly associated with a castle, such as secret passageways, granite fireplaces and chandeliers, but...

By MEGHAN PIERCE

They say variety is the spice of life. Physical therapist Lindsay Vago says it’s also the key to staying fit as we grow older.“I find that as we get older we seem to do the same routine activity,” said Vago, who is also an assistant professor of...

By ASHLEY SAARI

A Peterborough manufacturer could add 25 jobs in the next two years, with assistance from a Community Block Grant Loan.Peterborough is currently applying for a $500,000 community development block grant from the state’s Community Development Finance...

By TIM GOODWIN

Kelly Wheeler knows just about everybody who walks through the door of the RK Village Store in Lyndeborough – most of them by name and even more by face.Because for Wheeler, a longtime Village Store employee, it’s about the people as much as it is...

By TIM GOODWIN

After being closed for two weeks, Peterborough burrito house Cafe De Olla reopened Wednesday with a new owner and a new name, De Olla Burritos.The new owner, Ingrid Aho says she never really thought about owning a restaurant, but when the opportunity...

By MEGHAN PIERCE

Legend says the veil between this world and the next grows thin at this time of year.For Robin Payson the legend holds true with she and her family experiencing more encounters with the past residents of their home on Converse Meadow Road in the...

By TIM GOODWIN

After almost 25 years as owners of New England Forest Products, Dave and Debbie Buxton knew it was time for a change.The longtime owners have gone through a lot over the last year-plus and realized there was “more to life than this,” Dave said. They...