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By ASHLEY SAARI

Manufacturer MilliporeSigma has delayed a request for a variance to permit paving a section of wetland buffer at its Jaffrey plant location until at least next month.MilliporeSigma representatives were scheduled to appear before the Zoning Board of...

By ROWAN WILSON

Tuesday morning’s weather hovered around freezing, creating black ice and slippery conditions on the region’s roadways.Between 7:25 a.m. and 8:39 a.m., Peterborough experienced a number of cars off the road, including two school bus accidents....

By ROWAN WILSON

After the holidays, when the gifts are unwrapped, the decorations are put away and the tree is thrown out of the house, life usually quiets down. But local recycling centers can’t just forget about Christmas trash.In fact, they prepare to be busy...

By ROWAN WILSON

The Peterborough Select Board and Budget Committee met together Tuesday night, kicking off the 2023 budget season.The general fund operating budget is projected to increase 9.54 percent to just under $12.27 million. Overall spending, which includes...

By ASHLEY SAARI

During the Mason Fire Department’s annual department breakfast in December, Chief Anthony Burns revived a department tradition of recognizing members of the department who were exemplary during the year, recognizing a firefighter, EMS provider, rookie...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Police responded to multiple incidents involving a total of six cars, including a three-car crash, at an icy curve of Route 202 on Tuesday morning.At 7:12 a.m., police responded to Route 202 by the manufacturer D.D. Bean for a report of multiple cars...

By ROWAN WILSON

Volkert Volkersz started as program coordinator at Dublin Community Center in 2017, sort of by chance.His wife is from Peterborough, but they had been living in Washington state, where he worked as a music teacher then librarian. One time, when...

By ROWAN WILSON

At noon on Friday, the Peterborough Town Library hosted an early New Year’s Eve ball drop.Golden streamers hung from the doorway leading into the 1833 Room, named for the year the library was established. Inside, music was playing and lights were...

By JOSH LACAILLADE

In 1958, newly discharged Navy serviceman Elmer Santerre entered trade school with the hopes of becoming a barber. As he toured the Monadnock region looking for a place to open his own barbershop, he stumbled upon Wilton’s Main Street. According to...

By BILL FONDA

Bernie Hampsey of Jaffrey said his best friend Robert Taft could be described in one word – “beloved.”“I was very proud to be his friend,” said Hampsey, who served with Taft as both a lawyer and a judge. “His whole thing in life was friends and...

By ROWAN WILSON

The third-floor landing at 20 Depot Square in Peterborough was found vandalized Wednesday morning.Larry Schwartz entered the building around 9:50 a.m. and noticed the damage. “As soon as I turned to the right and saw all the yellow powder, I didn’t...

By ASHLEY SAARI

After years of planning, the town of Jaffrey is celebrating its 250th birthday in the coming year, with a slate of events throughout the entirety of 2023, both leading up to and beyond Aug. 17, the actual day of Jaffrey’s incorporation.The town formed...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Neighboring towns will have the opportunity to weigh in on the possible regional impacts of a proposed drug- and alcohol-treatment facility proposed to be developed in the existing Chamberlin Mill in Greenville, which abuts the Souhegan River.The...

By ASHLEY SAARI

There are certain benefits to growing out a white beard.For Walter Holland of Lyndeborough, it gives a certain extra gravitas to his role as town and school moderator. It lends a bit of extra credibility in his role as commander of the town’s...

By ROWAN WILSON

Andrew Timmins, bear biologist at New Hampshire Fish and Game, said there are currently around 6,800 black bears living in the state.Bears exist in every part of New Hampshire except for the immediate Seacoast. The Lakes Region and White Mountains...

By ASHLEY SAARI

A second arrest has been made in Rindge related to dozens of tires piled on Cathedral Road in October, which caused a motor vehicle crash.On Monday, Nov. 21, police arrested Noel Saveall, 19, of Tellico Plains, Tenn. Saveall, a former Rindge resident,...

By SCOTT MERRILL

The Hancock ZBA denied an appeal request Nov. 9 by the owners of The Farm at Wolf Pine Hollow at 53 Middle Road for relief from an administrative decision.The administrative decision from the Select Board, according to farm owners Ariane and Tom Ice,...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Early in the morning on Feb. 24, while asleep in their condo in Kyiv, Ukraine, Kiril and Olha Necheporenko were awakened by a loud sound.It was a ways off, but not so far off that it wasn’t identifiable as an explosion.The couple had been watching the...

By ROWAN WILSON

A new gym opened Wednesday in the Peterborough Shopping Plaza at 19 Wilton Road. Mountain Fitness, located in the space where the Verizon store once was, is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and offers an independent workout experience. Brothers...

By ASHLEY SAARI

A new resident-only parking area has opened at the Sand Hill Reservoir in Wilton, along with new trails and an information kiosk.Now known as the Sand Hill Reservoir Recreation Area, the area is open to the public for hiking, fishing, swimming and...