3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (468+ words) Hanstock, Hancock’s all-day music, food, and craft festival, returns for its eighth year on Saturday, preceded by a special preview concert Friday evening. The main festival runs from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Moose Brook Park, with a $10 donation per person…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (534+ words) Sharon’s historic one-room Brick Schoolhouse has been listed on the Country Schools Association’s National Registry as only one of five “Landmark” school buildings in New Hampshire, and the first in the Monadnock region. Susan Fineman, a founding member and director…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (150+ words) Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Wilder Comeau, of Bennington, was selected as the winner of this year’s Masonic Bikes for Books drawing at the GEP Dodge Library following the conclusion of its 2026 Summer Reading Program. Comeau received a Summer Reading Program certificate, a…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (123+ words) Emergency crews responded to a two-vehicle collision on Route 202 Friday afternoon that sent multiple ambulances to the scene and required mutual aid from neighboring towns. Rindge police were dispatched to the intersection of Route 202, Perkins Road, and Hunt Hill Road…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (144+ words) Emergency responders from Dublin and Peterborough responded to a three-vehicle collision on Route 101 on Monday afternoon, according to police. The Dublin Police Department, Dublin Fire Department, and Peterborough Fire and Rescue were dispatched to the intersection of Main Street (Route…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (777+ words) Monadnock Ledger-Transcript A favorite paddle features a palette of green: watery, pickerelweed-lined channels chock-full of spatterdock. Its promising beginning – deep enough water from which to launch – quickly gives way to an impenetrable wall of aquatic vegetation, seemingly a dead end....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (74+ words) Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Over 120 people participated in the long-time tradition of The Run for the Honey at Hancock Old Home Day. This 5K road race starting on School Street and ending at the Meetinghouse on Main Street has been part of Old…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (754+ words) According to her friends and co-workers, Terri Nolte is one of the shining lights of the Rivermead LifeCare community in Peterborough. Mary Proulx, who worked with Nolte for many years before leaving the region to care for her own father,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (408+ words) Ten years ago, while coaching youth football in our community, I stood outside a local gas station with three 9-year-old players for a team fundraiser. About an hour in, a woman approached our table. Visibly upset, she confronted me, declaring…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (123+ words) Monadnock Ledger-Transcript The Amos Fortune Forum will host songwriters Tom Smith and Cosy Sheridan on Friday, Aug. 21, at 7 p.m. at the Meetinghouse. Titled “Two Songwriters at the Kitchen Table,” the presentation features a discussion and performance on the art and process…...