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By JESSECA TIMMONS

Greenfield Select Board member Mason Parker, who has served on the board since 2021, resigned at a special Select Board meeting immediately after Town Meeting on March 15. 

The Greenfield Conservation Commission will host a presentation by loon expert John “The Loonman” Rockwood on Thursday, March 27, at 7 p.m. at the Stephenson Memorial Library, 761 Forest Road, Greenfield.

The Monadnock Valley Patriots Special Olympics team will host the Battle of the Badges basketball game at ConVal High School Friday, March 21, at 6 p.m.

Last year, I wrote a vacation column about my trip to the strange planet of San Diego. This year, I was lucky enough to spend a week on the beautiful island of Guadeloupe!

By JESSECA TIMMONS and DAVID ALLEN

A petition warrant article calling for a budget cap of $29,000 per student in the ConVal School district failed in most ConVal towns, receiving just 36% of votes across the the district. 

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Construction on the Greenfield Meetinghouse community center project will start as soon as the town has finalized the contract with Milestone Construction, the Select Board reported Thursday night.

By CURTIS HAMILTON

For the past 58 years, our nine ConVal towns have partnered together to educate our children and ensure our greater Monadnock region continues to thrive for the generations that follow us.

To quote Benjamin Franklin, the father of our public libraries, “These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries.”

By DAVID ALLEN

Growing pains are, by definition, painful, but when a business outgrows its existing space, that suggests success.

Once a month, come rain or shine or howling wind and freezing temperatures like we had a few weeks ago, former members and descendants of members of the Greenfield Women’s Club get together to catch up and remember the old days.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Two years after expanding Medicaid coverage for pregnant women and mothers, a bipartisan group of senators is ready to take the next step.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal School Board continued its series of hearings on a budget cap petition warrant article on Monday and Tuesday in Antrim and Greenfield. 

Greenfield is a town with its share of ghost stories. 

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Greenfield residents weighed in on warrant articles proposing the town study the potential for a regional police force with Hancock and becoming an SB2 town at Thursday night’s annual budget hearing.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

A group of New Hampshire senators wants to tighten rules around cellphone use in schools.

Walking into the kitchen  at Plowshare Farm on any given morning, you will find the “kitchen crew” hard at work, making lunch from scratch.

A Greenfield man sustained minor injuries in a head-on collision with a tree Thursday.

Last of a series of excerpts from Gerry Miller’s book “Crotched Mountain Ski Area in Francestown, New Hampshire,” a history/biography about the original Crotched Mountain Ski Area in Francestown, developed by William C. (Bill) MacAdam and syndicate. Miller grew up in Francestown. Much of the material for the book was from the Monadnock Ledger or Peterborough Transcript.

The Greenfield Historical Society has a lot of exciting news. GHS just launched its first newsletter, “The Zephyr,” named for Greenfield’s Zephyr Lake. GHS sent the first edition out to members of the society on Jan. 12, and the newsletter will come out quarterly.

Tenth of a series of excerpts from Gerry Miller’s book “Crotched Mountain Ski Area in Francestown, New Hampshire,” a history/biography about the original Crotched Mountain Ski Area in Francestown, developed by William C. (Bill) MacAdam and syndicate. Miller grew up in Francestown. Much of the material for the book was from the Monadnock Ledger or Peterborough Transcript.

By BILL FONDA

A 31-year-old Peterborough resident was rescued Monday morning after having gone missing the night before.