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A massive map of North America hangs from the wall in Carol Connare’s office at Yankee Publishing in Dublin.

Second of a series of articles leading up to Monadnock Community Hospital’s 100th anniversary celebration June 3.On June 21, 1923, the front page of the Peterborough Transcript proudly proclaimed:  The Peterborough Hospital, which opens its doors to...

In 1902, there were 25 miles of paved road in the United States suitable for an automobile, but by 1930, 23 million cars were on the roads, and more than half of American families owned a car.Automobility took the country by storm, and New England was...

Most days of the week, Ken Wetherbee wakes up at midnight.While the rest of the region sleeps, Wetherbee starts his car and goes to pick up the day’s papers. He loads them up and drives through the morning, making stops, listening to music and...

“Nov 5- Admitted Dinah Freeman to full communion.” Scribbled in the margin, “She was a colored woman.”Peterborough minister Elijah Dunbar made this note in his church record for 1819. Two hundred years later, the Monadnock Center for History and...

On Jan. 13, 1968, 1st Lieutenant Alfred Bayard Russ was on patrol in Da Nang, Vietnam, when he was killed

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 12/28/2020 4:57:18 PM Dennis Cilley remembers the 1970 Christmas day fire that destroyed the Peterborough Consolidated School like it was yesterday, even though it’s been 50 years since the early morning blaze ripped through the school on High Street. Cilley, who was living at Upland Orchard when the call came in, said he was on one of the later trucks to arrive at the scene. Along with Jim Grant, Cilley was directed to enter the building on the Vine St...