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Keene committee advanced expanded tax relief proposals while reviewing a projected Fire Department budget deficit driven by overtime costs.

Keene’s MSFI Committee advanced a public project signage initiative, discussed plastic reduction efforts and received a major downtown construction update.

A Keene State College student is being held without bail after police allege he broke into a Brattleboro home and threatened the resident with a knife.

Free meal kits providing a week’s worth of breakfasts and lunches for children will be distributed Fridays in Keene from July 10 through Aug. 7.

Nova Arts has received a $20,000 Music in Action grant to expand outreach efforts and promote accessibility programs across the Monadnock Region.

Local historian Alan Rumrill joined WKBK’s Good Morning with Dan Mitchell to discuss the Monadnock Region’s role in the American Revolution.

A fast-moving basement fire at 21 Roxbury St. in downtown Keene early Wednesday morning was contained before it could spread through the building, though smoke damage pushed losses above $40,000.

Keene’s newly approved fiscal year 2027 budget includes an estimated 8 percent increase in the city’s property tax rate and funding for major infrastructure projects.

Update: Marlborough Police now have the subject in custody as of noontime Tuesday. Police were searching for a man who fled a traffic stop near the Troy-Marlborough town line who was last seen near a cemetery on Marlboro Road.

A Bedford investment company alleges it was misled about tenants, finances and construction conditions before buying a Keene apartment complex for $1.625 million.