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Girls’ SoccerBow 5, Kingswood 1Key players: Bow – Lexi Insana (2 goals), Lexana Farr (goal, assist), Ashley Wallen (2 assists), Brylie Gelinas (goal), Marissa Reyes (first varsity goal), Anna Zerba (midfield), Vivi Madden (defense), Abby Foote...

By DAN ATTORRI

Pembroke Academy experienced some low moments last season. Coming off back-to-back championship game appearances, the Spartans experienced some poor results in 2023, sinking as low as 14th place in the Division II standings.Hampered by multiple...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

While facing unemployment can be scary and challenging, Rustic Crust employees were given the tools to bridge the gap from losing their jobs over the last couple of weeks to when they settle into a new job.Hosted by officials with several state...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

The Department of Business and Economic Affairs will hold a Rapid Response session in Pittsfield on Monday for the dozens of employees laid off by Rustic Crust following the company’s closure last week.Rapid Response sessions aim to connect...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Pittsfield’s Rustic Crust, the town’s third-largest employer, closed its doors last week after nearly three decades of business, laying off dozens of workers.Employees received a letter notifying them they were being let go “due to economic and...

By SOPHIE LEVENSON

The way a hot air balloon floats on the wind isn’t scary at all.“It’s not like you went up high,” balloon pilot Rick Jones said, several hundred feet in the air. “It’s like they pulled the world away so that you could get a better look at it.”Balloons...

By SOFIE BUCKMINSTER

Seemingly every graduation speech throws around the word “family.” For the 35 graduates of Pittsfield Middle High School, the term is more than a cliché.“This town, this school, these people will forever be ingrained in our personality,” said...

The following list was created from entries from community members who submit content for our weekly Talk of the Towns. Please check your town website for updated information, or if your town is not listed.Allenstown; May 27; Memorial Day Mass; St....

By RAY DUCKLER

You might have seen some of Stacy Duffy’s Girl Scouts standing in front of grocery and convenience stores in recent days, selling those yummy cookies like Do-Si-Dos, Tagalongs and Samoas.She runs Troop 10162, and her lineup of girls has fanned out as...

By RAY DUCKLER

He walked into the local convenience store loaded with the protective gear that he uses to defend himself and the residents of Pittsfield.He wore a bulletproof vest and carried a taser, two magazine cartridges, a service pistol, pepper spray and a...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

As Pittsfield athletic director Jay Darrah looked around the gymnasium on a somber Monday night, he felt a sense of comfort. Friends and family had gathered together to remember Gabe Anthony, a 2017 Pittsfield High graduate who died in December. The...

Boys’ BasketballPembroke 77, Kennett 45Key players: Pembroke – Joe Fitzgerald (35 points), Evan Berkeley (12 points), Devin Riel (7 points), Andrew Fitzgerald (7 points)Highlights:  Fitzgerald needed 34 points entering Friday night’s home game to...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

The same three factors cited by local school districts for driving up budgets – increased insurance costs, investment in special education and raises for workers – are behind the same trend in Pittsfield.At the annual school district deliberative...

By RAY DUCKLER

The deliberative session of the Pittsfield Town Meeting last Saturday attracted less than two dozen residents, who flew through 30 articles in an estimated 30 minutes.“We knocked them right out of the park,” Pittsfield Select Board Chairman Carl...

By RAY DUCKLER

Select Board Chairman Carl Anderson knows the word “taxes” might cause an uneasy feeling Saturday at the deliberative session of the annual Pittsfield Town Meeting.He also knows that taxes are unavoidable, a way to better serve towns throughout the...

Boys’ BasketballFranklin 53, Pittsfield 35Key players: Franklin – Zeke McCoy (17 points)Highlights:  McCoy now sits just four points shy of 1,000 for his career, scoring 17 against the Panthers and getting the Tornadoes back into the win column after...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Ryan Ashley of Gilmanton – accused of shooting two people outside a Citizens Bank in Pittsfield this weekend – was held without bail after an outburst in court on Monday.State Police say Ashley shot two people, Jesse Bartlett and Phillip Mullen, in...

By RAY DUCKLER

Kevin Steed was inside Citizens Bank in downtown Pittsfield just before it closed at noon on Saturday when one of the other customers grew upset about a transaction, shouted obscenities and stormed out.Minutes later, Steed and everyone else in the...

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

Gabe Anthony’s senior basketball season ended in heartbreak.Pittsfield had finished the 2016-17 regular season 16-2 but lost its first-round playoff game to Portsmouth Christian in a major upset. Anthony had desperately wanted to end his high school...

A 24-year-old Pittsfield man was killed in an accident on Interstate 93 Friday night involving an impaired driver from Franklin, police said.Gabriel Anthony was pronounced dead at the scene of the two-vehicle crash in the southbound lanes of the...

By RAY DUCKLER

In what was labeled a precautionary move, the town of Pittsfield has issued a ‘boil water order’ after officials discovered a loss of water pressure on Monday, which could result in the formation of E. coli bacteria in the Pittsfield water...