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By DAVID ALLEN

Sage Trudeau could perhaps be forgiven for seeming a bit “egotistical” walking the halls of the Florence Rideout Elementary School these days.

Wilton Main Street Association will hold WinterFest Saturday, Feb. 15. The event includes an ice carving demonstration from 1 to 4 p.m. at Wilton Town Park, 47 Maple St. A campfire with S'mores and hot cocoa will be available from 12 to 4:30 p.m.

By BEN CONANT

The improving Wilton-Lyndeborough and Mascenic teams met on the hardwood in New Ipswich Tuesday night for a hoops battle that showed both teams how far they’ve come and how much more work they have to do.

The Town Hall Theatre, 40 Main St., Wilton, will present the silent comedy “The Strong Man” with live music on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 2 p.m.

The Wilton Folk Café will present Off The Cuff on Friday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Wilton Collaborative Space, 21 Gregg St., Wilton.

By DAVID ALLEN

Editor’s note: This story has been changed from its original version. Police Chief Eric Olesen is retiring.

The storms, fires, and floods we are seeing are not God's wrath. Nor are they of any unholy origin. These have origin in nature, amplified by human activity.

I know a winter snow or ice storm has struck town when I hear the muffled sound of plows or sanding trucks working their way along the road outside our bedroom window long before the sun rises.

By DAVID ALLEN

Bringing some holiday moves to a post-holiday evening, the Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative Middle High School Dance Team performed “The Mini-Nutcracker” at the school last week. The event was rescheduled from December due to weather. 

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.

I’ve mentioned our dog, Maxwell, in several of my columns this past year. He turned 10 in July. I thought we would have many more years to wander the trails and swim in the ponds that have been part of our everyday Wilton experience.

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Anthony Foote has challenged the Bow School District twice in the past two years – once over a book he believed was inappropriate for schools, and now in a lawsuit over his pink armband protest at a girls’ soccer game.

By DAVID ALLEN

Wilton-Lyndeborough Co-operative Middle High School has gathered and donated 168 new pillows to Sleep in Heavenly Peace, an organization that provides beds and bedding to children in need of them.

As part of our 175th anniversary celebration, the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript asked 175 trivia questions about the Monadnock region. Of those 175, we picked the following 30 for our trivia contest.If you think you know the answers, send an email to...

The Wilton Public and Gregg Free Library will host “Animal Tracking with Jon Sargent” on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at 6 p.m. at 7 Forest Rd., Wilton.Sargent, a Wilton native with more than 30 years of tracking experience, will share his knowledge of...

By BEN CONANT

No holiday tournament, no problem for the Wilton-Lyndeborough girls' basketball team, who didn't let a two-game skid and a two-week layoff slow them down in their return to action against Pittsfield Friday night. "We needed it coming off of the...

By DAVID ALLEN

A local team recently scored big in Boston, but not on a soccer field or cross-country course. The Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative Middle High School dance team traveled to the Reggie Lewis Track and Field Center to compete in the New England Cheer &...

Families are invited to join the Flying Gravity Circus for its annual “Starburst Spectacle,” an event featuring performances by professional circus artists, special guests and students.The show will take place on Saturday, Dec. 28, at the Pine Hill at...

By DAVID ALLEN

The chair of the Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School Board has pushed back against criticism of the new teaching contract for the district. Dennis Golding said at Tuesday’s meeting that people are expressing disapproval of the contract in light of...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Earlier this year, New Hampshire lawmakers banned transgender girls from competing on girls’ school sports teams and prohibited some gender reassignment surgeries for minors.Those efforts will continue next year, as several Republicans have...