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By DAVID ALLEN

A first-responder who was a candidate for Select Board in Peterborough is Wilton’s newest police officer.

The other day, I tuned to a program on NPR discussing the story of soap operas on TV. It made me laugh, as long-shelved memories began to reemerge and I realized this topic ties to why we settled in Wilton. Let me explain.

By DAVID ALLEN

Town employees in Wilton have secured health insurance for the balance of the calendar year, as the town resolved an issue created when their current risk pool decided to end coverage for them at the end of this month. 

The Town Hall Theatre in Wilton will launch a summer mini-series of silent-era boxing films with live music, beginning Sunday, June 8, at 2 p.m. with a screening of “The Shakedown” (1929). The theater is located at 40 Main St., Wilton.

By DAVID ALLEN

Five Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative Middle High School seniors have been awarded Winthrop L. and Bernice Blake Perry Scholarships. 

By DAVID ALLEN

The Wilton-Lyndborough Warriors found themselves in a seesaw battle during Thursday’s contest against Portsmouth Christian Academy, but in the end the visitors prevailed 9-6.

As a child, I lived at the south end of an island, seven miles from one of the two bridges that connected us to the mainland and almost equidistant from shopping and the nursery and elementary schools I attended.

By DAVID ALLEN

Memories made on playing fields and courts across generations were shared last week at Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative Middle High School, as WLC inducted seven athletic standouts to the school’s Hall of Fame.

By DAVID ALLEN

For the second year, Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative Middle High School hosted a Senior Project Extravaganza, where all seniors present their projects on the same day.

By DAVID ALLEN

After being informed that its health insurance for employees would end on June 30, the Town of Wilton has decided to go with Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan.

The other day, as I was returning to Wilton from Lyndborough’s Maple Lane Farm after picking up a pie, I was struck by the many signs that announce “fresh eggs.” But it wasn’t the signs that grabbed my full attention. It was an elaborate chicken coop that appeared to be a chicken’s housing dream.

A screening of the 1927 silent film “The Gaucho,” starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr., will take place Sunday, May 18, at 2 p.m. at the Town Hall Theatre, 40 Main St., Wilton.

United Way of Greater Nashua is calling on community members to help fight hunger by volunteering at the annual Kevin Slattery Memorial Food Drive.

By DAVID ALLEN

High Mowing School held its May Day celebration on the Wilton campus under skies friendlier than promised.

By DAVID ALLEN

A porcupine appeared in left field during the first inning of Friday’s baseball game between Wilton-Lyndeborough and Mascenic baseball game, delaying play for a while.

By DAVID ALLEN

Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative Middle High School recently welcomed inductees into the National Honor Society.

By DAVID ALLEN

Wilton’s Economic Development Leadership Team has heard what a lot of people in the town want -- or don’t want.

If you’ve lived in the Wilton-Lyndeborough area long enough, you know whenever there’s a parade you’ll most likely see Rhonda Watts-Hettinger participating with the Lafayette Artillery, seated on her grandfather’s cavalry saddle while dressed in appropriate military garb.

The Meditation Spiral at 31 Abbot Hill Acres, Wilton, will host a free walk Saturday, May 3, as part of the World Wide Labyrinth Walk for Peace.

Roots group Low Lily will perform  at Wilton Folk Café, 25 Gregg St., on Friday, May 2.

Cirque Us will perform “One Man’s Trash: A Repurposed Circus” in partnership with the Flying Gravity Circus at High Mowing School Tuesday, May 6, at 7 p.m. at Pine Hill at High Mowing School, 77 Pine Hill Drive, Wilton