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A fire severely damaged a new home on Cranberry Meadow Drive in Peterborough Monday night.“Literally, they moved in Christmas weekend,” Peterborough Fire Chief Ed Walker said.Walker said firefighters were dispatched at 7:41 p.m., and the fire was...

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NuDay, a Windham-based refugee-assistance organization which has worked with multiple local organizations, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph N. Laplante to five years of probation and a $25,000 fine for export offenses, after...

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The ConVal School District and its co-plaintiffs, which included Mascenic Regional School district, won a court victory in November when Rockingham County Superior Court Judge David Ruoff ruled that the state’s funding formula violates students’...

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After a career in sales and marketing for various companies, Richard Miller “supposedly” retired in 2006.However, since moving to Greenville in 2004, Miller has served on the town’s recreation and economic development committees, been a substitute...

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As the Crotched Mountain ski area gets ready to celebrate its 60th anniversary, it opened for the 2023-2024 winter season Dec. 1, its earliest in five years, according to Abigail Allen, New Hampshire spokeswoman for owner Vail Resorts.Crotched will...

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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said a lot of people in his business complain about young people – that they don’t vote or aren’t involved or don’t care. But Christie, who was at Franklin Pierce University Thursday to take part in the school’s...

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A Sullivan man faces numerous sexual assault charges over incidents that allegedly occurred in Antrim with a minor between 1995 and 1999.Robert Barry, 59, whose last known address was 246 South Road in Sullivan, was indicted Nov. 15 in Hillsborough...

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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...

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When Rockingham County Superior Court Judge David Ruoff ruled Monday in favor of the ConVal Regional School District and its co-plaintiffs that the state’s system for funding education is unconstitutional, he wrote that the current base adequacy...

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Rockingham County Superior Court Judge David Ruoff ruled Monday that the state’s funding formula violates students’ constitutional right to an “adequate education,” a victory for the ConVal Regional School District and its co-plaintiffs in the...

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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...

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Jim Perigny of River Road has a 2-year-old son, and is worried that large trucks on his street make it unsafe, particularly during winter, when snow makes it even narrower.“He’s going to be 16 before I don’t carry him,” he said. “It’s precarious, to...

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Joseph McLellan of New Ipswich admits he didn’t sleep very well Thursday night.The reason? On Friday, McLellan went to the senior center in his hometown of Fitchburg, Mass., to receive a boot tag worn by his father, also named Joseph, in World War II....

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A Jaffrey woman died after being hit by a car Nov. 1.According to the Jaffrey Police Department, 88-year-old Mary Merrell was crossing Main Street at 8:03 p.m. after leaving St. Patrick’s Church, when she was struck by a 2015 Ford Explorer driving by...

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On Monday, Nov. 13, the Peterborough Planning Board is scheduled to hear a preliminary review application for 116 units of multi-family workforce housing on two undeveloped properties off Mercer Avenue and Goyette Drive. Fieldstone Land Consultants is...

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Police Chief Michael Abel said he fantasizes about having a department with officers who have 10 years of experience, and he has been working to rebuild the department since first becoming interim chief and then permanent chief in 2021 by hiring...

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Molly Ferrill has been a globetrotter ever since graduating from Tufts University in 2012.First, she went to Thailand to work for Freeland, an organization that fights wildlife trafficking and human slavery. Since then, as a as a National Geographic...

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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...

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As part of its pilot program with energy technology and financing company BlocPower, the Peterborough Renewable Energy Project (PREP) was hoping to help 10 to 15 building-owners replace their fossil-fuel furnaces with electric heat pumps.Now that the...

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Catholic Charities’ variance request in front of the Zoning Board of Adjustment for its affordable housing development at 10 and 12 Vose Farm Road was continued Monday until Oct. 16 at 6 p.m.The request is to fill 2,570 square feet of wetlands in the...