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By JESSECA TIMMONS
Longtime Monadnock region resident Ed Mottau, who died at his home in Peterborough Nov. 3 at age 80, is being remembered as a musician, a craftsman, a mentor, friend, father and devoted member of the community.Mottau was a guitarist and songwriter who...
By JESSECA TIMMONS
In fall 2023, Matt Palmer, Jordan Sweet and Izzy McIntrye, the three high school students who are members of Under the Horizon, played together for the first time.
By DAVID ALLEN
In recent years, many public libraries have dispensed with fines for overdue books, but they would still like them back. However, some much smaller local libraries geared toward young people actually don’t expect books to be returned at all. “There’s...
By ASHLEY SAARI
Within 16 hours on Friday and Saturday, the Monadnock region was rocked by the loss of four young people in three separate motor vehicle crashes, with an additional three people injured.Damien Cronan, 17, of Antrim; Devin Lundgren, 21, of New Ipswich;...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Ophir Sternberg, a Miami-based real estate mogul who immigrated to the United States from Israel in 1993, proudly touts in his corporate biography that he founded and generously contributes to a charter school in Peterborough, New Hampshire.Sternberg...
By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY
The first time 18-year-old Valerie McDonnell voted, she voted for herself.She ran for the N.H. House of Representatives in 2022 during her senior year of high school, which gave her a front-row seat to witness many of her classmates’ apathy for...
By JESSECA TIMMONS
Sue Chollet of Peterborough can remember being all alone in the Nubanusit Neighborhood & Farm in West Peterborough.“It was a little odd the first year or so,” she said with a laugh. “It was just me and the builders.”Chollet, who moved into her home...
By JESSECA TIMMONS
Anyone arriving at the Trowbridge home on the western edge of Peterborough will notice the gardens before anything else -- the varied colors, shapes, sizes, and textures of the plants and flowers in the gardens.“I love color,” Laura Trowbridge said...
By AHMED KUTTY
Ahmed Kutty, MD lives in Peterborough. A recent paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association dated June 25 (page 2,067) reporting on a study in 2020 said one in five physicians in the U.S. intended to quit practice in the next two years,...
By JESSECA TIMMONS
According to author and environmental studies professor Leila Philip, who spoke at Sunday’s Monadnock Summer Lyceum at Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church, beavers could hold a key to environmental resilience in the face of climate...
By JESSECA TIMMONS
Chris DiLoreto and ZoëWroten-Heintzmann had a simple goal when they founded Monadnock Underground (M/U) in 2019 -- to create a platform for local writers, particularly new and emerging writers.Now in its fifth year, M/U has become a hub for area...
By ASHLEY SAARI
When John Lynch first became governor in 2007, he made increasing the mandatory education age part of his platform, stating in his inaugural address that “a high school diploma is the minimum price of admission for most jobs.”At the time, New...
By L. PHILLIPS RUNYON III
If you’ve made a will or created a revocable trust to organize your affairs, I applaud you. You’re ahead of about 50% of your fellow citizens. Still, keep in mind that some of the most important but often poorly considered estate planning decisions...
By ASHLEY SAARI
On March 29, John Burke of Peterborough marked his 82nd birthday.Now, he will have to come up with a way to top last year, when he challenged himself to celebrate his 81st birthday by hiking up Pack Monadnock in Peterborough every day for 81 days...
By JONAH ORION WHEELER
State representative Jonah Orion Wheeler lives in Peterborough. Even before the November decision in ConVal School District v. State of New Hampshire, I filed House Bill 1583 seeking to codify the base adequacy increase that the ConVal plaintiffs...
By AIDAN BEAROR
A busy travel season and a series of natural disasters left the Red Cross with a blood shortage in September. With the holidays and even more travel on the horizon, the organization is looking to combat another potential lack of donations. According...
By IAN ERIK JACKSON
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin will be at Peterborough’s MacDowell artist residency on Sunday, July 23, to accept this year’s Edward MacDowell Medal during a free public celebration.Obomsawin will be the 63rd person to win the award,...
By ASHLEY SAARI
There is no need to travel far to find an unique experience for a couple seeking ways to spend time together in New Hampshire this summer.While the region has plenty of opportunities for outdoor recreation, there are also destinations to explore and...
By ASHLEY SAARI
When it comes to remembering their big day, an increasing number of couples are investing not only in a photographer, but a videographer to capture the key moments of their wedding both at the ceremony and beyond.In 2022, there more weddings in the...
By ROWAN WILSON
After the holidays, when the gifts are unwrapped, the decorations are put away and the tree is thrown out of the house, life usually quiets down. But local recycling centers can’t just forget about Christmas trash.In fact, they prepare to be busy...
By ASHLEY SAARI
Hikers and walkers around the state were ringing in 2023 with the tradition of getting out on the trails on New Year’s Day. For Jaquelyn O’Connor of New Ipswich, who runs the blog Getting Lost Together, discovering New England trails has become a big...
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