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By EILEEN O’GRADY

The John Stark School District will hold a public hearing Friday on the proposed school budget for the 2023-24 school year. The hearing is an opportunity for members of the public to weigh in on the proposed school budget before the deliberative...

By DAVID BROOKS

Henniker voters will be asked whether to expand the preschool program to pre-pandemic levels in this year’s annual meeting and will face a proposed school budget that would raise the tax rate by about 4%.The preschool expansion is proposed in a...

The public portion of the annual meeting kicks off for the Henniker School District on Tuesday when a public hearing will be held on the proposed budget for the 2023-24 school year.The $9.56 million proposal is 1.7% higher than the current budget.The...

DUNBARTONHistorical Society anniversary■Congratulations to the Dunbarton Historical Society, established in 1963, on its 60th anniversary.■The DCC Book Club has a new name, Beyond the Book. This month the club is reading No Time Like the Future by...

By RAY DUCKLER

Don’t tell Jean Durgin of Henniker that the War on Terror in Afghanistan was a failure.In fact, don’t try to convince any Gold Star Mother, or anyone else for that matter who’s suffered a loss over there, that the recent chaotic, deadly scenes from...

By RAY DUCKLER

Martha Taylor, the official Henniker town historian, believes ghosts may exist.Not this ghost, though. Not the ghost named Mary Wallace – once connected to her hometown – despite visual evidence to the contrary, shown on a recent documentary on the...

By DAVID BROOKS

New England College is officially starting to absorb the New Hampshire Institute of Art, which will give the Henniker college a campus extension in Manchester as well as more art-related courses, and expanded course options for art students.The...

By ELIZABETH FRANTZ

Towns in central New Hampshire have been turning 250 years old for decades, but few can count their namesake’s great, great, great, great, great, grand daughter as a celebrant.“It’s lovely. I’m thrilled,” the honorable Jane Elizabeth Henniker-Major of...

By ELIZABETH FRANTZ

Barely a year old, Tiny Living Spaces, a new home construction business in Henniker, is still getting off the ground, but there’s no shortage of interest in the niche market it aims to serve.“Oh, cool. You’re building tiny houses,” Michael Charron...