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By JESSECA TIMMONS

Not many people can say they live in a house built by their great-great-great grandfather, but Andy Morison of Peterborough and his sons, Nate and Aaron, are the sixth and seventh generation of Morisons to live at Terrace Hill Farm on Old Jaffrey...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Among rising need, community organizations are stepping up to help assist families across the Monadnock region facing a rising cost of living and an ongoing struggle with housing and food needs.January is National Poverty Awareness Month, and while...

Post & Beam Brewing hosted a “Pop-Up Policy and Pints” event for New Hampshire Stay Work Play on Jan. 10. Residents gathered to share needs and concerns of younger people in the Monadnock region, including child care, housing and  property taxes. Stay...

Grand Monadnock Youth Choirs are accepting online applications for the spring semester.Students can register for the Cecilia Ensemble (grades nine to 12), Choristers and Elm City Singers (grades four to eight), Rise Up in Keene or Peterborough...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Hancock Community Conversations on Race (HCCR) hosted its sixth annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration Monday at Reynolds Hall at All Saints’ Episcopalian Church in Peterborough. Last year’s event was at Hancock Congregational Church.Jennifer L....

By ANNIE CARD

Heather Cox Richardson discussed her new book, “Democracy Awakening” in front of a full house at the Peterborough Town House Saturday morning during a Toadstool Bookshop event."Democracy Awakening" was published in September and made the New York...

By BILL FONDA

Kathleen Johnson isn’t fully moved in at her new Central Gold Key Realty office overlooking Main Street on the second floor of the Centertown building in Peterborough.Although it’s on the list of businesses people would see if they walked by on the...

By the time you read this column, you may have already abandoned your New Year’s resolutions.What sounded like a great idea on Jan. 1 has become simply wishful thinking, or you may be fully resolved to be successful in your plan for positive change...

By BILL FONDA

Noting the number of people who have had longstanding associations with Peterborough Players, Sevanne Kassarjian said it’s the kind of place that’s hard to leave.“”We can’t just quit the place,” she said. “We keep coming back.”Kassarjian is a case in...

Lionheart Classical Academy in Peterborough has added three new trustees to the charter school’s board: Jason Nero, Lori Finn, and Kristie Greenwood.All three have children who are students at Lionheart Classical Academy.“I am delighted to welcome...

Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St. in Peterborough, will host a winter lecture series titled “Naturally NH, Conversations about wildlife and landscape.”Each lecture will feature an expert working in the New Hampshire environmental fields. The...

The River Center Family and Community Resource Center, serving Peterborough, Jaffrey, New Ipswich and surrounding towns, recently received funding awards.The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, Keith M. Sullivan Foundation and Oleonda Jameson...

Community Volunteer Transportation Company has been selected as a beneficiary of the Hannaford Bloomin’ 4 Good Program for January.Bloomin’ 4 Good launched in August 2021, where every bouquet sold with the red circle sticker supports a nonprofit...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Nearly 30 abutters and neighbors from the Burke Road and Contoocook Lane neighborhoods, as well as Peterborough Planning Board members, heard about design changes to the proposed Equestrian Village development Monday night.Plans for the existing...

By AIDAN BEAROR

This article has been changed since the original version to correctly identify the name of the business.Tucked away in Peterborough’s former one-room schoolhouse, Hayfields Antiques seeks to bring quality, Federal-style antiques to the Monadnock...

By JESSECA TIMMONS

In the backstage area of the Peterborough Town House, with holiday decorations sitting on top of it, is one of Peterborough’s historic treasures, an antique Chickering piano “Until about eight or 10 years ago, were will still using that piano at least...

By L. PHILLIPS RUNYON III

What's your New Year's resolution? Maybe you've made a lot of them and hope you'll have the resolve to stick with at least one. That's always been my game plan.  Actually, I'm not here to discuss or put pressure on yours, mine or ours. No, I'm focused...

Local Beautycounter independent consultants recently donated a collection of all-natural body products to the Oncology and Infusion Therapy Center at Monadnock Community Hospital.The consultants, in collaboration with European Esthetics, donated...

The Film Club at Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St., will screen “Green for Danger,” a 1946 detective drama set during a German bombing raid on rural southeast England during World War II, Tuesday, Jan. 9, at 6:15 p.m..Postman Joseph Higgins...

The Town of Peterborough participates in FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS), where the town receives points for certain floodplain management activities and in return, residents and businesses receive an...