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An online petition circulating in Bloomington has raised questions about at least 29 books in the district’s elementary, middle and high schools that petitioners label as “sexually explicit.”

An online petition circulating in Bloomington has raised questions about at least 29 books in the district’s elementary, middle and high schools that petitioners label as “sexually explicit.”

Occasional parent concerns about a book have morphed into confrontations with groups and parents coming in with long lists of titles they see as inappropriate. It’s happening across the nation and in Minnesota, where Bloomington schools face pressure to remove dozens of titles.

PETERBOROUGH — Monadnock Community Hospital is a critical-access health care provider, major employer and active community partner. And on Wednesday, it laid claim to another title: centenarian.

Due to low staffing and lack of work availability, Peterborough Fire and Rescue will not handle ambulance transfers from Monadnock Community Hospital (MCH) to nearby facilities such as Catholic Medical Center in Manchester for non-life-threatening...

Bucking the state and national trend of cutting librarian positions amid budget crunches, MPS proposed budget includes a part-time librarian position for each school.

Police arrested a Hancock man Thursday after he allegedly had a gun inside Monadnock Community Hospital.According to a statement from Peterborough Police Chief Scott Guinard on the department’s Facebook page, at approximately 1 p.m. on Feb. 9, the...

In June, Delanie Cook got a job offer from Peterborough manufacturer Microspec.Living in Connecticut at the time, she jumped on real estate sites and ran into a reality faced by many young workers looking for housing – places that were affordable, in...

Bernie Hampsey of Jaffrey said his best friend Robert Taft could be described in one word – “beloved.”“I was very proud to be his friend,” said Hampsey, who served with Taft as both a lawyer and a judge. “His whole thing in life was friends and...

For more than two years, GraniteOne Health, the parent company of Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, and Dartmouth Health worked on a merger.Monadnock Community Hospital President and CEO Cyndee McGuire said the merger received approval...