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On a 3-2 vote earlier this month, the Manchester Zoning Board of Adjustment granted a series of variances regarding to fence heights and frontage requirements for a property located between Mammoth Road and Melrose Street that its owner hopes will host of a 30-unit development.
On Tuesday, May 27, Insomnia Cookies held a ribbon-cutting ceremony in advance of its official grand opening on Saturday, celebrating the start of Manchester’s first-ever cookie-based restaurant, or at the very least, Manchester’s first late-night cookie-based restaurant.
In a 10-2 vote, the Manchester Board of School Committee (BOSC) voted to send a letter to New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte asking her to veto a bill that could ban books considered “obscene or harmful to minors” from schools.
Earlier this month, developers seeking to construct a seven-story, 51-unit multi-family mixed-use building at 1308 Elm St., the current location of the North End Superette, were granted variances from the city’s zoning ordinances from the Manchester Zoning Board of Adjustment for minimum buildable lot area and infringement on the required visual clearance area on a corner lot within the city’s Central Business District.
On Wednesday, May 21; the Manchester Board of School Committee’s Committee on Education Legislation held a discussion relating to an injunction around what has become known as the “Dear Colleague Letter.”
During their Tuesday, May 20th meeting, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) Committee on Accounts and Administration voted to recommend that a question be put to the voters this fall on whether the Manchester School District (MSD) should be a department of the city government. However, it remains to be seen what exactly that will mean.
During the new business period of the May 20th Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting, Ward 5 Alderman Tony Sapienza announced that he will not be seeking to run for a seventh term later this year.
On Monday, May 19th, the Manchester Fire Department gifted a sport utility vehicle to HOPE for NH Recovery to assist individuals living in the city with substance use disorder seeing recovery services.
The Board of School Committee gathered on Monday, May 19 for a special meeting to discuss budgetary next steps forward on what reductions should be made to bridge the approximately $9.5 million gap between the school district’s proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget bottom line they recommended to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen and the budget that the Board of Mayor and Aldermen ultimately approved.
If deemed surplus by the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen, the City of Manchester looks to sell three vacant parcels of land with the intention of adding the proceeds going into the city’s affordable housing trust.