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The bridge over the Contoocook River on Route 202 at the intersection of Route 136 in the northern part of Peterborough needs to be replaced, according to Timothy Dunn, project manager for the New Hampshire Department of Transportation.The state-owned...

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Michael Rathbun of Greenville wishes he had gotten involved in the community sooner.“I find it interesting,” he said. “It’s volunteer work, and volunteer work is good. People should volunteer whenever they can.”However, running his own business...

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Brandon Kear, 32, of Rindge, a former teacher and boys’ basketball coach at Mascenic Regional High School, has been indicted by a Hillsborough County grand jury for allegedly sexually assaulting a student.According to Hillsborough County Superior...

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An Antrim man has been indicted for allegedly fraudulently receiving veteran disability benefits.According to an announcement Thursday from U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young of the District of New Hampshire, Christopher Stultz, 49, was indicted on one count...

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Ask Ra Eldredge who her role model is, and she says Toni Garland’s name is likely to be the first that comes up.“She was a senior person in my life who I absolutely looked up to,” she said. Eldredge was one of the original students at The Well School...

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Francestown Community Market hosts inaugural Children’s Market

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A resident of Fitchburg, Mass., was hospitalized with serious injuries after a crash at the intersection of Route 124 and Route 31 in Mason Wednesday.According to State Police, at approximately 8:01 p.m., the Troop B Barracks responded to the...

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This weekend’s events celebrating Jaffrey’s 250th anniversary have been more than five years in the making, as the first planning meeting was in April 2018.The final one was Tuesday night.“It’s all over but the crying now,” said Town Administrator Jon...

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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,...

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With an architect chosen and a building committee in place, work on the Elm Street fire station project is moving forward. The goal is still to present a project to voters at Town Meeting next year, which Assistant Town Administrator Seth MacLean said...

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Less than a week after the Liberty Farm Road bridge was closed due flooding caused by a water release from Island Pond Dam in Stoddard, nearly four inches of rain Sunday caused numerous additional problems in Antrim.“Obviously, that dark cloud is...

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After 32 years at Franklin Pierce University, including as head coach of the Ravens’ men’s basketball program since 1999, David Chadbourne has stepped down.In a statement released on the Franklin Pierce Athletics Twitter account, Chadbourne wrote that...

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Bob Bitterli is a recent convert to pickleball.It started after he moved to Francestown in April 2022, when the man who painted his cabinets, Bruce Dennis, told him about the game. He started playing in October, including in Peterborough, and called...

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Jacqueline Roland thought it would just be a summer internship as a 19-year-old college student at Southern New Hampshire University in 2016, working in marketing and social media at The Grapevine Family & Community Resource Center in Antrim.But that...

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When Linda Quintanilha’s daughter Mary was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum at age 2 after not hitting her milestones, she attended training from the University of New Hampshire’s New Hampshire Leadership Series, which provides information...

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With Peterborough residents set to vote in town elections Tuesday, a campaign flyer sent to some residents from Select Board candidate Andrew Osterman, states that “We are all about to see our town property taxes go up more than 27%.” It stated that...

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Former Monadnock Community Hospital CEO Peter Gosline first met Janet Reilly when she showed up at his door representing the Peterborough Chamber of Commerce not long after he became Monadnock Community Hospital CEO and moved to Peterborough in...

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Just inside the front door of the former Sharon Art Center is an office where Drs. Sara Featherstone and Edward Ellis have opened their naturopathic treatment practice.They had been in the Strand building in Peterborough before moving into what is now...

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A Lyndeborough man sustained non-life-threatening injuries Monday after his disabled vehicle was hit by another driver.According to a release from Troop A of the New Hampshire State Police, Cody Douglas, 23, of Lyndeborough got out of his 2006 Subaru...

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Lisa Witte of Peterborough will spend one more year as Monadnock Regional School District superintendent before retiring.Witte has announced that she intends to leave at the end of the 2023-2024 school year to focus on her health and spend time with...