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By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A beloved art gallery will close at the end of the year after a 10-year run in Boscawen.Twiggs Gallery at Cornerstone Design opened in 2014 and came to serve as a hub of the capital region’s arts community, featuring both exhibits and classes in art...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

John Silver wandered through the carefully curated rows of peppers, squash, watermelon, cucumbers, and green beans, all grown by him. He leaned over, plucked a hot pepper from a bush, and took a bite.“I learned this from my father,” he said. “This is...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Salisbury Selectman Brett Walker believes his town of 1,500 residents is being overcharged.Five years after Salisbury signed on to an unusual agreement to share emergency medical services with Boscawen and Canterbury, Salisbury is footing nearly...

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Since the farm at the intersection of Routes 3 and 4 in Boscawen was bought by the Crete family in 1958, they have expanded the operation steadily to over 500 acres to support cattle, soybean, wheat, and notably, corn.Highway View Farm is renowned for...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

After several months of sifting through community feedback and tinkering with designs, Boscawen now has an official town flag.The town’s Select Board voted last week to approve the flag, which is the work of town resident Josh Crawford. Crawford first...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

When Linda Sarette laid her father to rest at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen in 2019, the section where he was buried had no garden.It was an omission that bothered the Sanbornton resident so much she asked the cemetery to...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

After spending a week in Concord Hospital, Allan Clark transitioned to Merrimack County Nursing Home’s reopened short-term rehabilitation unit, where he was greeted by the home’s resident cat, Skeeter.Skeeter’s daily visits reminded Clark of his own...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Boscawen police are looking for a teenager who has gone missing.The 15-year-old girl, Trinity, was last seen in the area of Tremont Street wearing black and white flannel pants and a black top, according to a Boscawen Police Department post. She may...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Boscawen embarked on a major evaluation of the future of its town infrastructure, including its fire station, emergency medical service site and public works building.A five-member building task force will spend the next two years studying and...

By DAVID BROOKS and GEOFF FORESTER

The hot, dry summer hasn’t put the brakes on New Hampshire’s farmers.“Berry season has gone really well,” said Madison Hardy, president of the New Hampshire Fruit Growers Association. Strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries all had excellent...

By SOFIE BUCKMINSTER

Joe Colby was jolted awake in the middle of the night by a nearby lightning strike and the crack of thunder. It sounded so close that he got out of bed and trudged across Route 4 in the dark to check on his sawmill.Nothing seemed amiss, so he went...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Boscawen police are seeking the driver of a dark-colored sedan who hit and injured an 8-year-old girl on Queen Street Tuesday night.The driver was traveling toward Penacook above the speed limit when he or she hit the girl in the back outside 334...

By DAVID BROOKS

When the Monitor ran a story recently that some residents in Boscawen were disagreeing about the design of a town flag, it produced this reaction among an awful lot of readers: “Wait – towns have flags?!? Who knew?”Not many people, it turns out,...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A Boscawen resident is objecting to potential designs for a proposed town flag.Boscawen currently does not have a flag, but at a Beautification Committee meeting earlier this month, resident Josh Crawford proposed the idea. Crawford is a...

By RAY DUCKLER

When Randy and Holly Silver saw their chance two years ago to open a business they’ve always wanted, they wasted no time moving forward.They went to the bank almost immediately after an offer was made to buy the Bittersweet Fabric Shop, a staple in...

By RAY DUCKLER

A proclamation read at the Boscawen Town Meeting last week, celebrating a man’s selfless acts dating back four and five decades, could not be announced quickly to voters on Election Day.Roger Sanborn, 76, had simply done too much. So wrote Elaine...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Boscawen voters approved a 1.1% increase to the town operating budget, a plan to join the Community Power Coalition, the creation of a town forest along Walker Pond and the sale of two historic town buildings at their town meeting Tuesday night. With...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

After the moderator read the results of the Merrimack Valley School Board elections Friday night, Julia Jones dabbed away a few tears.Though she is the president of the Salisbury parent-teacher group, she relied only on word of mouth to promote her...

Boscawen voters will be asked to establish an 82.5 acre town forest along Walker Pond, primarily on land acquired in 2021 from a sale with the water district.The town-owned land offers residents an opportunity to access the 200-acre pond, a former...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Merrimack Valley School District voters will weigh a 5.9% budget increase and decide two contested school board races on Friday. The proposed operating budget for the five-community district is $48,298,106, up almost $2.7 million from last year. The...