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When a Jaffrey police officer knocked on Armando Barron’s door one night in September 2020 to ask about his missing wife, Barron claimed he had dropped her off at a trailhead outside Peterborough around 2 a.m. the previous day.“She said that she had...

There was just enough woods behind Phil Brown’s Staten Island childhood home to get him interested in nature.He’d climb trees, catch frogs and snakes – the sort of activities that a lot of kids enjoy when given the freedom to roam around in the...

Walking along the Cranberry Meadow Pond Trail, a popular hiking path that starts in downtown Peterborough and connects all the way to the Raymond Trail that runs up Pack Monadnock, one may not realize a 64-lot development was once planned to be built...

Living in the oldest house in Wilton means the owners have to put up with a few quirks – but it’s worth it for the experience of living within a piece of history.The house has been in Wilton Selectman Matt Fish’s family since his great-grandmother’s...

Cindy Dunleavy never knows when her phone is going to ring. It could be during dinner, when she’s out for a short hike on Pack Monadnock or in the middle of the night. All Dunleavy knows is that when a baby is ready to make its way into the world,...

After a year and a half of blogging, Tory McCagg felt all that work could turn into something more.She saw her writings about chickens, off-grid living and the uncertainty of the world around her as the start of her next book, so she embarked on a...

New Hampshire Magazine shares its tips on where to find the best hills, NH's best tubing parks and more.

PUTNEY — It’s been a banner year for the ragtag, ad hoc group of people who count hawks atop Putney Mountain, with more than 18,000 sightings and still counting.

Hikers are wearing down parts of New England’s oldest intrastate hiking trail, the Wapack, especially since the start of the pandemic. “The trail has been very, very busy – a lot more hiking through the pandemic,” said Rick Blanchette, president...