Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 5/12/2021 12:10:55 PM
Peterborough’s Article 2 – and a Planning Board candidate who backed it – both won out at Town Meeting Tuesday, as voters passed all warrant articles and elected new members to the Planning, Zoning and Select boards while reelecting Town Clerk Linda Guyette.
New Planning Board member Stephanie Hurley said she hopes to work well with her colleagues after being driven to run for office by unpleasant experiences working with the board as a citizen, after petitions to repeal and/or modify Peterborough’s Traditional Neighborhood Overlay Zones I and II two years ago eventually led to a pair of lawsuits.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 5/10/2021 2:15:34 PM
Karen Hatcher has dropped out of the race for Peterborough Select Board, citing a previously undiscovered passage in the Peterborough town employee handbook that precluded her from serving on the board and as Peterborough’s Community and Economic Development Coordinator.
“It came to my attention a few minutes ago that there is an explicit line in the Town of Peterborough employee handbook that prevents a town employee from being a Select Board Member,” Hatcher wrote in a statement posted on social media Sunday afternoon. “I was unaware of this when I filed to run for office.”
A year into the pandemic, metro Atlantaâs real-estate and development industry is.
A year into the pandemic, metro Atlantaâs real-estate and development industry is damaged, uneven, relatively strong, and absolutely killing it
Yeah, strange times.
Photograph by Ben Rollins
Itâs a sunny afternoon on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Atlanta, and a walk through the Westside is a study in contrasts, a microcosm of a restless city caught between light and dark.
Howell Mill Road teems with construction workers in bright yellow vests finishing major projectsâStar Metals (both residences and offices), plus the initial facets of a new mixed-use development, the Interlockâtogether worth well over half a billion dollars. But just two blocks away, the carcass of longstanding social hub Octane Coffee is neighbored by vacant retail spaces that used to be 5 Seasons Brewing and Hop City. Along the Marietta Street corridor, âComing Soonâ signs for the likes of up
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 4/19/2021 3:40:36 PM
Three candidates are vying for Peterborough’s open three-year seat on the Select Board this year. The position is currently held by Ed Juengst, who was appointed temporarily in September after Karen Hatcher resigned, citing conflicts with her paid position as Peterborough’s Community and Economic Development Coordinator, which she took in April 2020. Hatcher is in the race to reclaim her seat, and intends to keep her job with the town as well, she said. “I believe that my work in the community both as a volunteer and as a town employee … provides a deep understanding of what needs to be considered to solve the complex issues before us,” in the post-pandemic world, she said.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 3/3/2021 12:31:38 PM
Jo-Ann Gustafson of Jaffrey knows there are people out there who need more help than her family does.
The last time Gustafson used a food pantry was before the COVID-19 pandemic began. But by mid-February, she found herself in a situation where she felt the need to ask for help.
Both Gustafson and her granddaughter, who she and her husband are raising, contracted COVID-19 and were forced to quarantine for two weeks.
“It’s been a rough road,” Gustafson said. So she connected with Mandy Carter, Community Resource Specialist/Kinship Navigator at The River Center. Carter began delivering food to the Gustafsons from the Community Meals To Go program on Tuesday and Thursday nights and as Gustafson put it, “it made a huge impact.”