“It’s been a great journey of 74 years. At the end of the journey, you accept, ‘I’ve had my term.’ It’s been a great term.” That’s how Jim Grant summed up his life of service to his friends and neighbors in Peterborough and the Monadnock region in a.
Former Peterborough Town Administrator Pam Brenner was honored Saturday with the town’s new footbridge dedicated in her name.“It is thrilling to be here and to celebrate the culmination of so much hard work by so many visionary people. One of those.
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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 Street side to help cut off the fire from spreading to the rest of the structure, mainly the newer areas of the school.