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By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal School Board has named three new administrators for the 2025-2026 school year, including a new assistant superintendent.

By BEN CONANT

The ConVal girls' lacrosse team had a surprise boost in numbers this spring, as several athletic seniors decided to try their hand with a new sport in their final season.

By BEN CONANT

The ConVal boys’ lacrosse team had a slow start to the season due to the rainy weather, but they poured it on against Laconia on Monday for a big win.

The ConVal boys’ and girls’ track teams participated in a meet at Hollis-Brookline on Tuesday, May 6, and the Clipper Relays at Portsmouth High School on Thursday, May 8. The boys’ team won at Hollis-Brookline with 109 points, followed by the hosts with 78, Timberlane with 42, Tilton’s 24 and Derryfield’s 11.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal School Board has created a new withdrawal feasibility study committee at the request of Francestown and Temple.

ConVal High School students will exhibit their artwork at the Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St., as part of the 30th annual Children and the Arts Festival.

ConVal’s William Simard finished eighth in the boys’ Elite Mile at the New Hampshire Distance Festival May 2 at Souhegan High School.

By DAVID ALLEN

Eighth-graders in the ConVal School District took part in week-long historical trips that reached Washington, D.C., on the week before the spring break.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Eight members of the ConVal girls’ varsity and JV volleyball teams keep their skills sharp by playing travel volleyball throughout the winter and spring, competing in tournaments as far away as Las Vegas and going up against teams from all over the country.

By BEN CONANT

Records fell at the ConVal track team’s only home meet of the season Tuesday as the Cougars showcased why they have their eyes on postseason hardware this spring.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

New laws being considered by the New Hampshire Legislature are spurring the ConVal School District to try to determine how potential changes could affect the district in the next few years. 

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal Theater Department spring musical, “Hadestown,” will be performed April 17 to 19, at 7 p.m. at the Lucy Hurlin Theatre at ConVal High School.

ConVal Regional High takes on defending champion Merrimack High on Thursday, April 17, at 8:30 p.m. on New Hampshire PBS in the third quarterfinal game of “Granite State Challenge.”

ConVal’s boys’ and girls’ track and field teams competed in their first meet of the season Thursday at John Stark. The boys won their meet with 76 points, while the girls finished fourth with 23 points.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The Francestown Select Board unanimously approved a petition for a special Town Meeting requesting a second feasibility study for withdrawal from the ConVal School District, as well as a second warrant article requesting the formation of a planning committee at ConVal to study the benefits of Francestown leaving or remaining in SAU 1. 

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Students at Cornucopia Project’s after-school cooking club at South Meadow School ended the season with a special treat, making wood-fired pizza in Blackfire Farm’s mobile pizza oven in front of the school April 1.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal School Board has put revisiting potential scenarios for reconfiguration of the district back on the agenda for 2025.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

In the locker room of the Concord YMCA some 35 years ago, Andru Volinksy was changing following a jog when a member of his running group approached him with a proposition: How would he like to join a trial team being assembled to sue the State of New Hampshire?

By JESSECA TIMMONS

After more than 50 years with the ConVal School District, Dick Dunning – former teacher, principal, School Board member and for the past two years, chair of the ConVal School Board – stepped down for good on March 11. 

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The Monadnock Valley Patriots Battle of the Badges fundraiser returned to ConVal on Friday night, with hundreds of community members turning out to watch members of the Peterborough Police Department and five local fire departments take on each other in basketball, along with members of the Monadnock Valley Patriots Special Olympics team.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Dozens of parents and players representing the ConVal football program attended Tuesday night’s School Board meeting to speak on behalf of assistant coach Brad Davis, who they believe should be a candidate for head coach.