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By JESSECA TIMMONS

The proposal ConVal operating budget of approximately $59 million represents an increase of slightly less than $1.8 million over 2024-2025, or 3.13% increase. 

On Saturday, residents across the ConVal School District gave hundreds of dollars in cash donations and nearly 1,000 food items during the End 68 Hours of Hunger Stuff an Ambulance event.

By BEN CONANT

The final tally on the scoreboard may have been ConVal 73, Wilton-Lyndeborough 54 at ConVal’s Robert Maguire Gymnasium Thursday afternoon for the Unified Basketball season-opener, but anyone who passed through those gym doors left with a smile on their face.

By ASHLEY SAARI

Carol Cleary fills a bag with food: a box of cereal, fruit cups, a large can of tuna fish, two types of soup, canned vegetables, canned ravioli, a sleeve of crackers and a juice box.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal School Board voted Tuesday to drop a proposed bond for renovations to the Region 14 CTE Center and the high school by a vote of 9-1, with only Janine Lesser of Peterborough voting to bring the bond forward in a March warrant article.

ConVal’s Unified Basketball team begins its 10th season at home Thursday against Wilton-Lyndeborough at 3:30 p.m.Unified Sports joins people with and without intellectual disabilities on the same team. According to coach Kevin Carne, it was inspired...

By BEN CONANT

The chip-on-their-shoulder ConVal Cougars are off to a strong start in their NHIAA Division II boys’ basketball season, with a winning record and a successful holiday tournament appearance. Last winter’s season only brought one win, but the matured...

The ConVal Music Department Winter Concert took place Wednesday in the ConVal gym.The Chamber Choir, Select Choir, Trouble Clefs, Room 301 rock band, Concert Choir,  Concert Band, and the Contained Ensembles, featuring ConVal alumni, all performed...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal School District will eliminate 11 teaching positions in the 2025-2026 school year in order to cut costs, interim Superintendent Ann Forrest said Tuesday night. Six of the positions being eliminated are in the district’s eight elementary...

By BEN CONANT

The ConVal girls’ basketball team was tantalizingly close to its first win since February 2023, but a late surge from visiting Sanborn turned Monday’s home opener sour in the final minutes. Tied at just 22 with three minutes left in the game, the...

By BEN CONANT

Controlled chaos came to ConVal Saturday morning as wrestlers from 21 schools around New England competed in the Cougars' annual Early Bird tournament. With three mats going simultaneously, the all-day affair saw more than 400 matches wrestled, and...

Five ConVal High School athletes were named New Hampshire Division II first-team All-State for the fall season, including volleyball player Ivy Armstrong-McEvoy. Armstrong-McEvoy, a middle hitter, broke the school record this season for kills, blocks...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Hiring superintendents, principals and nurses is not necessary to provide the state’s youngest residents with an adequate education, Solicitor General Anthony Galdieri argued at the New Hampshire Supreme Court on Tuesday.Neither is providing heat...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

About 40 community members attended Wednesday night’s public forum at ConVal High School to learn about the proposed renovation of the Applied Technology Center, parts of the high school, and the Lucy Hurlin Theater.ConVal’s Applied Technology Center...

By DAVID ALLEN

Dublin citizens took in a presentation Saturday morning about the town’s relationship with the ConVal School District. “That solution shouldn’t be that we pay more money to educate less students,” said Select Board member Carole Monroe to...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

An error in the ConVal fiscal 2025 proposed budget resulted in assessments for this tax cycle being higher than they should have been, according to ConVal Budget Committee Chair Jim Fredrickson of Sharon. “There was an error in the submittal of the...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Francestown’s and Dublin’s requests to leave the Contoocook Valley School District will go before school district voters in March, the state Board of Education decided Thursday.The two towns’ withdrawal requests – set in motion by a soundly rejected...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

ConVal, Dublin and Francestown are slated to present their opinions regarding withdrawal from the ConVal School District to the state Board of Education Thursday in Concord.The meeting, which is open to the public, will take place from 9:30 a.m. at...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

This weekend at the Lucy Hurlin Theater at ConVal High School in Peterborough, murder mystery fans are in for a show. “Murder for Dummies,” by ConVal junior Ben Michaud, is the first murder mystery theater production at ConVal to be written and...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal School Board discussed options for the proposed renovations to ConVal High School’s Career and Technical Education center and to the Lucy Hurlin Theater, including possibly postponing the proposed renovations to the theater, at Tuesday...

By DAVID ALLEN

Targeted passing and flooding ConVal’s end made the difference Saturday as Lebanon High School notched a 2-0 win over ConVal in the quarterfinals of the Division II boys’ soccer playoffs.   The Raiders ended the fourth-seeded Cougars’ season with one...