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BOWScholarship ■A $1,000 Bow Garden Club (BGC) Scholarship is available for a graduating Bow High School (BHS) senior who is pursuing an education in any of the plant sciences. An application may be acquired through the BHS counseling office or by...

BOWScholarship■The next meeting of Bow Young at Heart is on Feb. 8 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Old Town Hall, 91 Bow Center Rd. Our speaker is Paul Wainwright of NH Humanities Council. He will give a presentation on “New England’s Colonial...

Tech Ed and Family and Consumer Science have returned to the middle school experience at the Henniker Community School at the hands of one versatile and creative teacher.Henniker teacher Todd Storro teaches Tech Ed and cooking classes to students in...

BOW Speaker presentations ■Bow Young at Heart on Jan. 25 at 12:30 pm, Old Town Hall, 91 Bow Center Rd., will feature Bruce Treat with a presentation on Maple Sugaring. Bow Young at Heart is a social club open to all residents 55 years of age and older...

Skiers and riders from around the area flock to Pats Peak for lessons and night skiing this time of year, even on rainy nights like Tuesday night. A winter storm is set to bring in snow Thursday evening into Friday.The storm is expected to begin as...

By Monitor staff

New England College will use a $2 million grant to triple the size of its nursing program, and it is adding a third partner hospital to the program.The Henniker college announced Tuesday that Elliott Hospital will become a partner in its three-year...

BOWBow Young at Heart■Bow Young at Heart meets the second and fourth Wednesday of each month from January to October. Membership is open to everyone 55 and older, everyone is invited to attend meetings and presentations. We meet at the Old Town Hall,...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

The school budget will take center stage for John Stark School District voters on Election Day in March, as it’s the only big cost item that voters are being asked to consider.The district’s proposed school operating budget for 2023-2024 is $14.66...

By EILEEN O’GRADY

The John Stark School District will hold a public hearing Friday on the proposed school budget for the 2023-24 school year. The hearing is an opportunity for members of the public to weigh in on the proposed school budget before the deliberative...

By DAVID BROOKS

Henniker voters will be asked whether to expand the preschool program to pre-pandemic levels in this year’s annual meeting and will face a proposed school budget that would raise the tax rate by about 4%.The preschool expansion is proposed in a...

The public portion of the annual meeting kicks off for the Henniker School District on Tuesday when a public hearing will be held on the proposed budget for the 2023-24 school year.The $9.56 million proposal is 1.7% higher than the current budget.The...

DUNBARTONHistorical Society anniversary■Congratulations to the Dunbarton Historical Society, established in 1963, on its 60th anniversary.■The DCC Book Club has a new name, Beyond the Book. This month the club is reading No Time Like the Future by...

By RAY DUCKLER

Don’t tell Jean Durgin of Henniker that the War on Terror in Afghanistan was a failure.In fact, don’t try to convince any Gold Star Mother, or anyone else for that matter who’s suffered a loss over there, that the recent chaotic, deadly scenes from...

By RAY DUCKLER

Martha Taylor, the official Henniker town historian, believes ghosts may exist.Not this ghost, though. Not the ghost named Mary Wallace – once connected to her hometown – despite visual evidence to the contrary, shown on a recent documentary on the...

By DAVID BROOKS

New England College is officially starting to absorb the New Hampshire Institute of Art, which will give the Henniker college a campus extension in Manchester as well as more art-related courses, and expanded course options for art students.The...

By ELIZABETH FRANTZ

Towns in central New Hampshire have been turning 250 years old for decades, but few can count their namesake’s great, great, great, great, great, grand daughter as a celebrant.“It’s lovely. I’m thrilled,” the honorable Jane Elizabeth Henniker-Major of...

By ELIZABETH FRANTZ

Barely a year old, Tiny Living Spaces, a new home construction business in Henniker, is still getting off the ground, but there’s no shortage of interest in the niche market it aims to serve.“Oh, cool. You’re building tiny houses,” Michael Charron...