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By JESSECA TIMMONS

The Bennington Recreation Committee has been officially been relaunched by three volunteers: Melissa Clark, Justin Drew and Shelley Griswold.   Clark, who grew up in town and is now raising her family in Bennington, reached out to the Select Board...

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On Tuesday, the Jaffrey Planning Board unanimously approved the mitigation measures and revised site plan for the Stony Brook development adjacent to the Shattuck Golf Course off Route 124.Josh Joslin of Graz Engineering presented the mitigation plans...

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Longtime organizer Carol Prest Barr said this year’s Francestown Labor Day celebration arts and crafts fair includes a mix of highly skilled local professional artisans, including juried glassblowers, woodworkers, a textile artist, painters and...

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Tax assessments for ConVal’s remaining seven towns would go up if Francestown and Dublin withdraw from the district, according to preliminary financial projections presented by the ConVal Feasibility Committee’s financial subcommittee.At Thursday...

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Tanja Short of Jaffrey, a certified astrologer, has created a gift for new parents – customized baby books created around an astrology chart from a baby’s time and day of birth.“Astrology is not what people think. It’s not ‘today is going to be a good...

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Young artists, crafters, bakers and entrepreneurs will be displaying their talents at the second Children’s Market at the Francestown Community Market Friday, Aug. 23, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Francestown Town Hall. The event takes place outside in the...

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The Raylynmor Opera, which has been the Monadnock region’s opera company for nearly 30 years, will present “Star Spangled Opera,” a concert of American-themed classical opera, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25, at Bass Hall in the Monadnock Center for...

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Allison Aldrich Smith, founder of  Keene’s Animaterra Women’s Chorus, which ran from 1997 to 2020, told  Sunday’s audience at the Monadnock Summer Lyceum that “there will be more singing than talking.”“I have been asked to sing a lot, talk a little,”...

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As a severe storms expert, meteorologist Cyrena Arnold of Francestown has been busy providing real-life expertise on the movie “Twisters” – the 2024 sequel to the 1996 movie “Twister” – as the film has been released around the world.“I’ve been on...

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A little piece of New Orleans will be coming to the Monadnock region Sunday, Aug. 18, at Fred Simmons’ and Leslie Vogel’s 16th annual Folksoul Music Festival in Greenfield. “Folk and soul combine the two richest traditions of American music, the folk...

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Greenfield’s recent changes to the town’s zoning bylaws regarding accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, will provide increased opportunity for affordable housing as well as financial opportunity to residents, according to members of the town’s Zoning...

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Composer Katie Semro of Sharon will debut an original piece of acoustic music, “Let It Sound,” on the main stage at the  2024 MAXT Makerspace Night Market Friday night in Peterborough.The piece, which Semro describes as “new classical acoustic,” will...

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The Town of Peterborough has announced it must reschedule a planned all-town property value reassessment due to a unforeseen delays with an upgrade to the town’s database software.The reassessment, which had been scheduled to take place in the summer...

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According to American Sign Language/English interpreter Laurie Shaffer, years ago, when she was teaching at a school for the deaf, a young deaf person asked her “What does the sun sound like?"“I was so stunned by the question. I told her it was so far...

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The Francestown Democratic Committee will host a meet-and-greet for Executive Council District 5 Democratic candidates Shoshanna Kelly and Melanie Levesque Friday, Aug. 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the Bitterli family barn at 1 Main St.  The barn,...

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Tricia Rose Burt of Hancock wants people to be brave. Her podcast, “No Time to Be Timid,” which just wrapped its third season, tells the stories of people who have taken the leap to embrace their creativity full-time. “As we get older, we take less...

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Members of the Francestown School Committee reported to residents Wednesday night that the group supports withdrawing from the ConVal School District and creating a new, independent Francestown School District – although a new opinion from ConVal’s...

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Sociologist Michael Kimmel, author of “Angry White Men,” offered an optimistic approach to combating “white male rage” at Sunday’s Monadnock Summer Lyceum at Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church, arguing the case that gender equity holds the key...

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After 30 years of teaching young actors how to perform the works of Shakespeare, Deborah Thurber says she is still learning things from her students, and from The Bard. This year, for the 30th anniversary of Project Shakespeare, Thurber chose two...

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The planned move of the Grapevine Family Resource Center’s Avenue A Teen Center took a step forward Thursday night, when the Planning Board approved the site plan for a 2,200-square foot expansion to the Aiken Barn building.The addition to the Aiken...

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As a child in war-torn Japan, Yoko Ono remembers looking at the sky and feeling it was her only connection to her former life.“There were days when Yoko and her brother were so weak from near-starvation, all they could do was lie on the ground and...