MONDAY, Sept. 29
Sunday belonged to Clarence DeMar newcomers.
The winners of the men’s and women’s full and half marathons were all running the race for the first time.
The Keene Planning Board voted Friday to deny a motion to re-hear a controversial proposal from a local gravel company looking to expend its operations in the city.
The 5-0 decision allows G2 Holdings to move forward with the expansion in Keene without hearing an appeal from abutter Jim Manley.
The Keene Sentinel was named the 2025 Newspaper of the Year in its circulation class Friday by the New England Newspaper and Press Association.
It is the only distinction of its kind in the newspaper industry that is judged by audience members.
TUESDAY, Sept. 30
Despite pushback, the City Council passed a new regulation that allows developers to more easily build additional housing in certain parts of Keene.
The intent of the rule, and several others that accompanied it, is to encourage housing development amid a shortage that has driven up homelessness and affected businesses’ ability to hire enough staff.
Each year, pickle lovers gather in Winchester to munch on some dill-icious treats during the town’s annual Pickle Festival.
Of course, dill isn’t the only flavor of pickle, and revelers on Saturday could pick from six varieties provided by the town, in addition to a number of other options from vendors.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 1
A jury on Tuesday found that one Keene business owner intentionally harmed another during a dispute over trade names.
Jurors decided Jared Goodell’s actions were “wanton, malicious or oppressive” and assigned a value of about $100,000 to the harm he did to Brandie Wells Roof.
Keene Fire personnel recently helped bring baby Walker Weston into the world just outside the Vernon Street station.
Noah and Stephanie Weston were on their way to Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough on Sept. 23 when Noah said Stephanie quickly realized they wouldn’t be able to make it there.
With unanimous approval from Keene’s planning board, Revo Casino and Social House is one step closer to moving from Emerald Street into the Toy City space.
Dick Anagnost, a partner of Revo Casino and Social House, said the move would happen after Toy City’s lease ends in 2027, or possibly sooner.
THURSDAY, Oct. 2
Drug-related deaths in the Granite State are at their lowest level in more than a decade, according to a Tuesday report from the N.H. Fiscal Policy Institute.
Over the past decade, the report found, New Hampshire has experienced drug-related mortality rates above national averages, but between 2023 and 2024, these deaths dropped 33 percent.
Amid economic pressures, the Keene International Market will close its doors in December, the business announced Wednesday.
“I feel like in some way we achieved what we wanted to do,” co-owner Chuda Mishra said. “We wanted to bring people together — we did that. … [But] It’s getting to a point that things are getting difficult.”
FRIDAY, Oct. 3
All of New Hampshire is now under drought conditions, per the latest U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday.
The top roughly 60 percent of Cheshire County is in severe drought, with the bottom portion experiencing more moderate conditions.
All candidates who appear on the primary ballot next week for Keene’s upcoming city election are poised to move ahead to the general election on Nov. 4.
Nothing is set in stone, though — new candidates can still enter the race via write-in votes.