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By JESSECA TIMMONS

New laws being considered by the New Hampshire Legislature are spurring the ConVal School District to try to determine how potential changes could affect the district in the next few years. 

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal Theater Department spring musical, “Hadestown,” will be performed April 17 to 19, at 7 p.m. at the Lucy Hurlin Theatre at ConVal High School.

ConVal Regional High takes on defending champion Merrimack High on Thursday, April 17, at 8:30 p.m. on New Hampshire PBS in the third quarterfinal game of “Granite State Challenge.”

ConVal’s boys’ and girls’ track and field teams competed in their first meet of the season Thursday at John Stark. The boys won their meet with 76 points, while the girls finished fourth with 23 points.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The Francestown Select Board unanimously approved a petition for a special Town Meeting requesting a second feasibility study for withdrawal from the ConVal School District, as well as a second warrant article requesting the formation of a planning committee at ConVal to study the benefits of Francestown leaving or remaining in SAU 1. 

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Students at Cornucopia Project’s after-school cooking club at South Meadow School ended the season with a special treat, making wood-fired pizza in Blackfire Farm’s mobile pizza oven in front of the school April 1.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal School Board has put revisiting potential scenarios for reconfiguration of the district back on the agenda for 2025.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

In the locker room of the Concord YMCA some 35 years ago, Andru Volinksy was changing following a jog when a member of his running group approached him with a proposition: How would he like to join a trial team being assembled to sue the State of New Hampshire?

By JESSECA TIMMONS

After more than 50 years with the ConVal School District, Dick Dunning – former teacher, principal, School Board member and for the past two years, chair of the ConVal School Board – stepped down for good on March 11. 

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The Monadnock Valley Patriots Battle of the Badges fundraiser returned to ConVal on Friday night, with hundreds of community members turning out to watch members of the Peterborough Police Department and five local fire departments take on each other in basketball, along with members of the Monadnock Valley Patriots Special Olympics team.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

Dozens of parents and players representing the ConVal football program attended Tuesday night’s School Board meeting to speak on behalf of assistant coach Brad Davis, who they believe should be a candidate for head coach.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

The ConVal School Board met Tuesday for the first time following district elections on March 11.

The Monadnock Valley Patriots Special Olympics team will host the Battle of the Badges basketball game at ConVal High School Friday, March 21, at 6 p.m.

By BILL FONDA

A Keene man who formerly drove for the bus company that serves the ConVal School District faces at least 15 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday in connection with a child pornography case.

By JESSECA TIMMONS and DAVID ALLEN

A petition warrant article calling for a budget cap of $29,000 per student in the ConVal School district failed in most ConVal towns, receiving just 36% of votes across the the district. 

Emmanuel College freshman Aida Davis of Peterborough, a 2024 graduate of ConVal High School, recently won the 400 meters at the Great Northeast Athletic Conference indoor track and field championship meet at the Boston University Track and Tennis Center.

ConVal wins in first round of Granite State Challenge

By CURTIS HAMILTON

For the past 58 years, our nine ConVal towns have partnered together to educate our children and ensure our greater Monadnock region continues to thrive for the generations that follow us.

The ConVal School District was built for 3,000-plus students and has less than 2,000, with predictions for even fewer.

By JESSECA TIMMONS

During Tuesday night’s meeting, the ConVal School Board rebutted public statements from the Francestown School Committee and the Dublin Select Board alleging the board presented “inflated”  numbers at a recent community forum about the two towns’ proposals to withdraw from the ConVal School District.

By JANINE LESSER

In my opinion, the withdrawal of Dublin and Francestown would be a bad idea for all nine towns of the ConVal School District.