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By JESSECA TIMMONS

Many couples looking to get married in the Monadnock region, attracted by the area’s natural beauty and stunning views, dream of an outdoor wedding, especially during September and October.

By DAVID ALLEN

Years ago, Bonnie Coll Cutter’s father said, “Prove to me there’s a need for it,” when she mentioned designing and creating florals.

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 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 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 ASHLEY SAARI

Following a mediation session, the landlord for the Walden Eco Village has settled out-of-court with a group of tenants who filed suit after being evicted from their homes only days before Christmas in December 2020 for multiple code violations.Akhil...

By ABBE HAMILTON

In October 1792, the Temple town fathers met to address a frightening development in the town, Monadnock Center for History and Culture Executive Director Michelle Stahl said. “Smallpox had broken out in a community that had grown up around the site...

By ABBE HAMILTON

Although there are ways for the seven cabins at the Walden Eco Village to get into compliance, former casita (or tiny house) resident Quinn Kelley acknowledged there was very little hope that he’d be able to return to his 140-square-foot...

By ABBE HAMILTON

The Michalak siblings had already been hiking for ten hours on the Presidential Traverse in the White Mountains last Wednesday when they realized something was terribly wrong. The Peterborough natives had just started their final descent when they...