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Of all the excitement that year, one of the most memorable events for the town’s teenagers was a school musical called “The Fountain of Youth.”

April showers bring Storytime Saturdays at the Concord Library, Exeter Litfest and Celtic Woman at the Capitol Center for the Arts.

Voters in the Exeter area will head to the polls Tuesday, March 8 to elect municipal officials and decide the fate of town/school budgets.

Exeter area residents sound off on the upcoming election and Town Meeting.

Ben Anderson said renters not only helped defray the costs of the venue but also helped local businesses because they eat and shop in downtown Exeter.

On Saturday, July 3, 28 "readers" at Exeter Town Hall performed 54 paragraphs of the famous speech "What to the American Slave is Your Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass, first read in Rochester, New York in 1852. The message of Douglasss lengthy speech questions the celebration of Independence Day, when slaves in the United States were not free.  "Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us," Douglass told the crowd at the Corinthian Hall in Rochester on J...

Around Town: Here’s what’s happening in Exeter Portsmouth Herald Exeter Adult Education offering free summer courses EXETER — Exeter Adult Education will offer free summer classes in academic skills/HISET preparation and English (ESOL) beginning Monday, June 21.  Free academic skills classes will meet Monday and Wednesday mornings, 9-10:30 a.m. from June 21 to July 28. Free ES0L (English to Speakers of Other Languages) classes will meet Monday and Wednesday mornings, 9-10:30 a.m. from Ju...