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A Jaffrey town well has been closed since April, after exceeding limits on a contaminant that causes serious health complications with long-term exposure.The contaminant, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), when consumed over many years, can affect...

Perpetrators of a $2.3 million fraud against Peterborough taxpayers over the summer initiated the criminal enterprise by compromising the email of one town employee, according to a timeline prepared by local officials.While simple human failure to...

Denver gets a taste of the Great Outdoors

‘I’ve never seen so much water all at once’ "> "> Heavy rains washed out one side of Old Town Farm Road in Peterborough on Sunday morning. Staff photo by Ben Conant— "> Heavy rains washed out one side of Old Town Farm Road in Peterborough on Sunday morning. Staff photo by Ben Conant— "> "> "> Published: 7/19/2021 5:19:21 PM Several roads in Jaffrey and Peterborough remained partially closed into Monday as road crews attempted to deal with storm damage, flooding, and major washouts ...

“Pretty much, Zoom is out”: Most area towns discontinuing virtual meeting participation "> Published: 7/1/2021 5:13:11 PM Virtual meetings became ubiquitous for town boards and committees over the past year. For some towns, the expiration of the state emergency order heralded a return to the pre-pandemic status quo, while other towns don’t want to give up the virtual format – and the wider access it provides. The State stopped allowing exclusively virtual municipal meetings on June 11....

Rab named Stephen Nance and Corbin Biehler of the Colorado-based Freestone Sales Group as its new sales reps for the Rocky Mountain Region. Nance and Biehler have served as the principals of the Freestone Sales Group since its inception in 2019, and both have extensive familiarity with Rab’s product line and network of regional sales reps. They will oversee sales in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming. “We’re excited to be working with Corbin and Nance, because their professional re...

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 5/17/2021 4:15:29 PM The town of Jaffrey has been awarded $300,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfield Program grants to assess sites with potential hazards, and prepare them for redevelopment. First on the list are the former St. Patrick’s School and the former W.W. Cross building. “Brownfield” properties are sites where there is potential for expansion or redevelopment, complicated by the presence – or just potential presence ...

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 5/13/2021 1:46:54 PM The Jaffrey and Rindge Select Boards came together this week to float several ideas to allow Rindge residents access to parking at Contoocook Beach. Last year, the Jaffrey Select Board and Recreation Department began to explore a parking pass for out-of-town residents, after the beach was inundated with out-of-state visitors. In the process, the deed for the parking lot was reviewed, and the board discovered the restrictions on the gif...

Written By: News Tribune | × Seeking The Arrowhead Library System (ALS) joins libraries throughout the state in announcing the call for entries in this year’s Minnesota Author Project statewide contest for independently-published Young Adult and Adult Fiction. This is the contest’s fourth year. The Minnesota Author Project Communities Create category, introduced last year, is also inviting entries for its second year. Communities Create seeks creative written work by Minnesota organizati...

Written By: News Tribune | × Seeking The Arrowhead Library System (ALS) joins libraries throughout the state in announcing the call for entries in this year’s Minnesota Author Project statewide contest for independently-published Young Adult and Adult Fiction. This is the contest’s fourth year. The Minnesota Author Project Communities Create category, introduced last year, is also inviting entries for its second year. Communities Create seeks creative written work by Minnesota organizati...