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Manchester Fire Department Chief Ryan Cashin has announced stats from the first weekend of emergency shelter operations at the William B. Cashin Senior Center over its first three nights of operation.
On Monday, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig and other local mental health and substance abuse experts at the Farnum Center to discuss the impact of medication assisted treatment toward fighting the state’s opioid epidemic.
On Friday night, the U.S. House of Representatives finally chose Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-20) finally became speaker after the 15th round of voting. In turn, that enabled other members of the house to be officially sworn in, including New Hampshire’s two representatives: Democrats Chris Pappas and Annie Kuster.
Manchester Memorial picked up its third straight boys’ basketball win on Friday night, defeating Goffstown, 60-57.
Suspected opioid overdoses increased 22 percent during 2022 compared to 2021 and deaths were up 41 percent on a year-by-year basis. Those annual figures were the highest in Manchester since 2016 and 2018, respectively. The total figure for deaths is subject to change per confirmation from the Office of the Chief New Hampshire Medical Examiner.
On Saturday, 600 Manchester students will begin to get dental care thanks to help from the New Hampshire Army National Guard (NHARNG).
Anyone with additional information on these incidents is welcome to share their accounts of what happened by emailing andy@manchesterinklink.com
On Thursday, the Manchester School District received responses to its request for proposals in implementation of its “3-4-12” model.
On Wednesday, New Hampshire Senate Republicans held a press conference releasing their legislative agenda for the next two years. A Democratic agenda is expected to be released next week.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has set a deadline of January 6 for New Hampshire to comply with its demands regarding the First in the Nation Primary. New Hampshire’s response? Maybe you should reconsider.
With initial organization for the session out of the way, the House got to work codifying the set of rules they will use over the next biennium on Wednesday morning, with several proposed amendments to list of over 100 current House rules established by previous sessions of the House. Here are a few of the highlights.
The Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) Committee on Community Improvement recommended ten proposals on Tuesday night, including approval to pursue a grant that would extensively renovate Sheehan-Basquil Park.
The Board of Directors of the Mark Stebbins Community Center has unanimously voted to seek a new location to place their proposed facility for children and families on the West Side.
Manchester Memorial earned Queen City bragging rights on Tuesday night, taking a pair of basketball wins against cross-town rival Trinity.
Discussion got heated on Tuesday night Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) meeting as the topic returned once again to homelessness, this time largely around residents and business owners in the vicinity of the Families in Transition Shelter on Manchester Street.
As the 118th Congress begins, U.S. Representative Chris Pappas (D-NH-01) is urging House Democratic and Republican leadership to include a ban on trading stocks by members of Congress in the upcoming rules package.
Within the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that recently passed in Congress and later signed into law, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) noted that bill included 105 New Hampshire-specific projects, including several Manchester-related items.
On Tuesday, New Hampshire Senate President Jeb Bradley (R-Conway) applauded the 76 percent increase in revenues distributed to cities and towns under the state’s Rooms and Meals Tax.
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) was sworn in for her second term, once again taking her oath of office, joining 34 other U.S. Senators elected in recent elections across the country.
Anyone that follows the Manchester Ink Link Facebook page knows that I like to take cell phone pictures just outside of Margaritas on Elm Street looking southward toward City Hall.
One of the reasons for that is this year-end video of all those pictures, showing the changes that occurred throughout the year.