Peterborough News

The editorial of Dec. 15 regarding libraries is disconcerting for many reasons. First, the language: "Although property owners in many communities pay for the libraries through taxes, they're utilizing their services more than ever." Huh? Later, there are the "facts:" "More than 200 years ago, when many communities in this part of the country were ...

The piano piece AD 1620 has been played and used for exams for many years. Its composer , Edward MacDowell, was born in New York on 18 December 1861.

The wife of a Manchester soldier home from war, a Concord mother recovering from a rare, life-threatening illness, a Groveton man reinventing himself after the local paper mill closed.

While we've all spent the last year trying to forget the unprecedented ice storm of 2008, Dave Eisenstadter has been writing about it.

Roland A. LaRoche, 84, of New London died of cancer on Dec. 4, 2009, at Summerhill, in Peterborough, surrounded by his loving family.

Sunday, December 13, 2009 The Met: Live in HD a ' Saturday, December 19th Peterborough, NH a ' Les Contes Da TMHoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach, will be simulcast live onto a 10a TM X 16a TM screen at the Peterborough Players on Saturday, December 19th at 1 PM.

The Harvard professor killed along with three other people in an October crash on Route 202 was passing another vehicle when his van crashed head-on into another car, said Peterborough Police Chief Scott Guinard.

Many businesses are still struggling to recover from damages caused by last year's ice storm.

Sara Dumas of Hinsdale, N.H., daughter of David Burleigh of Greenfield, N.H., and the late Teresa Burleigh, was married to Robert LaShay Jr., also of Hinsdale, on Oct.

PETERBOROUGH a ' Mary M. Proctor, 89, of Peterborough died Dec. 1, 2009, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon.

The Army needs you now. I always thought the black combat boots looked cool, but how do you run in them? And while camouflage might be fun once in a while, every day? That and the whole Don't Ask, Don't Tell are just a few of the reasons I never seriously considered joining the Army.

JAFFREY a ' Sheila L. Chamberlain, 75, of Gilmore Pond Road in Jaffrey, died Friday, Nov.

James Palmer Huston, 79, of Peterborough passed away quietly on Nov. 26, 2009, in Peterborough.

Police arrested a Bennington man on a burglary charge, accusing him of threatening a woman with a knife in a home invasion last month on Hunt Road.

The Friends of the Nichols Memorial Library are sponsoring their seventh annual Cookie Walk on Sat., December 5, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at the library.

A Peterborough teen who was trapped in his car after crashing into a telephone pole is in stable condition following surgery.

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Peterborough Police Chief Scott Guinard said investigators are making progress in identifying the armed, masked man who broke into a woman's Hunt Road home just before 2 a.m. on Sunday.

A Peterborough man remains hospitalized in satisfactory condition this morning after he and his brother were injured in a crash on Route 101 at Old Peterborough Road in Temple.

Next weekend at the Peterborough Historical Society will be the Winterlude Holiday Exhibit and Sale by the Monadnock Artistsa Guild, a group of artists that traces its own history to the region.