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By EMERSON SISTARE
Every year, in late November, booksellers huddle around together in the offices of their stores to discuss the best books of the year, comparing notes with all manner of publications from The Economist, to the Boston Globe to the best-seller list your...
Monadnock Community Hospital will launch a series of free health and wellness seminars starting in January. These sessions will cover health topics on spine surgery, cardiovascular wellness for women and colorectal cancer prevention.Seminar schedule...
The South Korean president, frustrated by an obstreperous, opposition-led legislature, declares martial law in an almost “Keystone Cops”-like attempt at dictatorial rule. The attempt falls apart immediately, resulting in nationwide demonstrations and...
The Monadnock Center for History and Culture will host a candlelight open house in the Phoenix Mill House on Friday, Jan. 3, from 5 to 7 p.m. at 19 Grove St., Peterborough.Admission is free, with donations encouraged.Costumed interpreters portraying...
By DAVID ALLEN
Recalling a half-century of coming to Nonie’s on Grove Street in Peterborough, Lillian Grant of Peterborough pointed to the bakery case.“I want to be laid out on the doughnut shelf,” she said.On Friday at Nonie’s, longtime patrons enjoyed their final...
By JESSECA TIMMONS
Since 1999, a group of Peterborough residents have come together to create a space for people reflect on the year that has passed and the year coming ahead.The New Year’s Labyrinth will return to the Peterborough Town House on Tuesday, Dec. 31. The...
By JESSECA TIMMONS
Peterborough’s Boy Scout Troop 8 will be picking up live Christmas trees for disposal again this year.The event is a fundraiser for the troop. “We are not sure if there will be a bonfire this year, so the trees will either be taken to local farms for...
By DAVID ALLEN
Something other than food can be found on some tables in a new restaurant in Peterborough – sets of dominoes.The game is a deep part of Caribbean culture, and the new Domingo’s Puerto Rican restaurant on Grove Street in Peterborough is bringing the...
By DAVID ALLEN
People’s sweet tooths recently had a positive impact on food security for others, courtesy of the Dublin Community Center.The organization hosted its cookie market Dec. 7 and donated all the proceeds from it to the Peterborough Food Pantry. This was...
By MARTHA GUNN EICHLER
Maria Brown of Lyndeborough and Ellie Gunn of Winsted, Conn., have something in common, though they’ve never met.They are both prior winners of the “Dinner for Two Anywhere in the World” raffle, an annual fundraiser run by the Peterborough Unitarian...
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...
Kiwanis of Peterborough recently donated a total of $6,600 to local food programs, including the Peterborough Food Pantry, the Jaffrey Food Pantry, the Antrim Food Pantry and the Sunshine Fund.“These organizations do outstanding work in helping our...
The Peterborough Recycling Center will begin collecting No. 6 plastic, including expanded polystyrene (Styrofoam), on Friday, Dec. 27, at 500 Sharon Road, Peterborough. This initiative is a collaboration between the center’s staff and its advisory...
Heat pumps are becoming the residential heating and cooling technology of choice. In June, 3.6 million heat pump systems were installed in the United States versus 2.9 million gas-fired furnaces, according to research from the Rocky Mountain Institute...
By JESSECA TIMMONS
Every year during the holidays, Peterborough’s Sunshine Fund toy room helps local families who may need a little help providing gifts for their children. The toy room program is an all-community effort. Each year, volunteers from the Peterborough Fire...
According to the New Hampshire 2024 Residential Rental Cost Survey Report, only 13% of the two-bedroom rental units are affordable to the median-income renter household, for whom an affordable rent is $1,420. Their 2024 survey found rents have...
Peterborough Fire Chief Ed Walker has been appointed to the Monadnock Family Services Board of Directors for fiscal 2025.MFS, a community-based mental health care organization, provides services to more than 2,000 children and adults annually...
Peterborough Concert Series will present "An Irish Christmas with Ishna" at the Peterborough Town House, 1 Grove St., Peterborough, on Friday, Dec. 20, at 8 p.m.This annual performance features a mix of Irish music, dance and stories celebrating...
What do you use for 12 minutes but lasts for 500 years? Answer -- a plastic bag.Why is this a holiday riddle? Because at holiday times we create 25% more household waste, much of it unnecessary plastic packaging. And this is not a gift to our...
A great big huge thank you to all of the people who made this year's lantern event a magical success. Thanks to everyone who made a lantern or who repaired a damaged lantern. Thanks to the children who marched in the parade and to their families for...
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