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A large crowd gathered outside Merrimack Town Hall on Thursday night, protesting a proposed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility rumored to be coming to town.
Per Queen City tradition, following the conclusion of Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais’ inaugural address at the Palace Theatre, members of the newly sworn-in Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen and Manchester Board of School Committee walked a few hundred feet down Hanover Street toward City Hall for their biennial organizational meetings.
During the first term of Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais, he possessed a clock in his office counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until that term would conclude. With Tuesday’s inauguration ceremony at the Palace Theatre, Ruais’ clock has begun to countdown once again as a reminder of the urgency he hopes to have toward making Manchester better over the next two years. Â
On Thursday, Dec. 18, the Manchester Planning Board voted to approve a planned development and site plan application for a 4.66-acre five-building, 30-unit townhouse-style project on Mammoth Road.
A proposal to create the first Aldermanic pay raise in 48 years earned a negative recommendation from the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) Committee on Accounts during their Dec. 16, 2025 meeting.
As the Manchester Board of School Committee (BOSC) prepares for what will likely be a difficult budget season, they took up a potentially contentious money-related topic during their Dec. 22, 2025 meeting: a growing amount of student unpaid meal debt.
The Manchester School District has advised parents of Northwest Elementary School that they have begun efforts to exterminate mice and cockroaches in the building.
Manchester’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade is only a few months away, but how it might look or if it will even happen remains to be seen.
Homeowners on South Beech Street did not receive a variance to house up to six chickens on their property from the Manchester Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA) earlier this month.
The Manchester Board of School Committee (BOSC) is holding their final meeting of the year on Christmas week and one item in their action agenda could have an impact of the future of children’s basketball in the city.