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The Oak Park Committee in Greenfield will hold its second Easter egg hunt Saturday, April 8, at 9 a.m. at Oak Park, 971 Forest Road.The event had been scheduled for April 1, but was postponed due to weather. It is free and open to the public. Free...

By ROWAN WILSON

Heath Mitchell spoke to the Greenfield Select Board at their meeting on Thursday on behalf of 775  Forest Road LLC, comprised of a small group of people who purchased the downtown Greenfield property.The LLC had initially inquired about...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Greenfield Historical Society (GHS), and the group has a lot planned to celebrate.The GHS was founded in 1973, and the first board included officers Bruce Brenner, Anna Chute, Ann Carpenter and Florence...

Plowshare Farm, 32 Whitney Drive in Greenfield, will present a reading of "Fire in the Temple: a true story, of the death of Rudolf Steiner" Tuesday, March 21, from 7 to 9:30 p.m.Crafted from actual events and discourse, “Fire in the Temple”...

Greenfield Recreation Department will hold a family Spring Fling Dance Saturday, April 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Greenfield Meetinghouse, 776 Forest Road.Children can bring a special adult – for example, a parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle – as a...

Friends of the Greenfield Community Meetinghouse will host a lunch with the architects of the meetinghouse renovation project Saturday, April 1, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.The meetinghouse has served Greenfield for 228 years, and it is still where...

Grand Monadnock Rotary Club is offering scholarships to middle-school-age youth from Antrim, Bennington, Dublin, Francestown, Greenfield, Hancock, Peterborough, Sharon and Temple.These two-week scholarships are for Brantwood Camp for both the boys’...

Greenfield Recreation Department will host paint nights with Paula from Dancing Wind Studio April 18 and 25 and May 2, 9, 16 and 23 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Greenfield Meeting House, 776 Forest Road.The cost is $35 per class or $170 for all six...

By BEN CONANT

The lights in the Greenfield Meeting House dimmed and flickered as former Selectman Bob Marshall stood to speak, drawing a murmur from the 60 or so gathered townspeople, most of whom had experienced a power outage at their own houses during the past...

ConVal schools will reopen Friday, March 17, two hours late and with limited bus routes. According to a statement from Superintendent Kimberly Rizzo Saunders, many roads are too narrow for buses to travel after Tuesday’s snowstorm, so the district...

STAFF REPORTS

During the nor’easter that dropped more than two feet of snow across the region Tuesday, knocked out power for thousands and postponed elections for two weeks, Monadnock Community Hospital stayed open.The power was out at the hospital, so it ran on...

By ASHLEY SAARI

On Monday, March 6, the Milford District Court ruled that former state Rep. Chris Balch was not guilty of four counts of criminal mischief and four counts of timber trespass.Balch, a Wilton resident, served as a Democratic state representative from...

Staff Reports

Due to the storm projected for Tuesday, towns have postponed their elections to March 28.Antrim, Bennington, New Ipswich, Greenville, Greenfield, Lyndeborough, Mason, Rindge, Jaffrey, Wilton, Sharon, Dublin, Francestown, Hancock, Peterborough and...

There is a lot going on at Stephenson Memorial Library. New events for teens include a book group the last Saturday of every month from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and teen study nights with Children’s Librarian Ella Cadematori.April 15 is Teen Video...

By BILL FONDA

The name “SB2” comes from the bill that created it, Senate Bill 2 in 1995, and it became the official name for the ballot referendum form of government in 2000.Under SB2, Town Meeting is done over two sessions. The first is the deliberative session,...

Last week, I caught up with one of Greenfield’s creative “power couples,” Sebastian Lockwood and Nanette Perrotte.Nanette and Sebastian moved to Greenfield in 2001, restoring a 1792 house on Rand Brook. Sebastian , originally from England, is a...

Kaitlyn McGill of Peterborough and Heather Gonyea of Rindge were named to the president’s list for the fall 2022 semester at Western New England University.McGill is working toward a bachelor’s degree in psychology, while Gonyea is working toward a...

By ROWAN WILSON

The Greenfield Select Board held a public hearing Thursday night to discuss the town’s proposed 2023 budget. The proposed total expense budget is approximately $3.31 million, a 13.5 percent increase over the current budget. Greenfield votes on its...

Last week, I sat down with Suzanne McGettigan and Larry Gilbert, known professionally as McGettigan & Gilbert, who are getting to be a well-known musical duo in the region.Last summer, when I saw Larry and Suzanne playing together at Oak Park, I had a...

Seize the day, or "carpe diem" as it is said in Latin.Do you know who your legislators are? Or do you know on which  committees they serve? What are their ideas and opinions and what are their plans for voting on particular bills? A democracy allows...