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Republican Maryland Governor Larry Hogan will be headlining a fundraiser for Manchester State Senate Candidate Rich Girard.
Barring the astronomically low chances of a tie, only one NHIAA Division III football team was leaving Friday night undefeated and that team turned out to be the Pioneers of Trinity High School.
Trinity defeated Campbell 36 to 22 in a contest that remained close for much of the night, as one would expect from two teams entering the day with matching 4-0 records.
On Thursday morning, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu was officially endorsed by the Associated Builders and Contractors of New Hampshire and Vermont (ABC-NH/VT) in a ceremony outside of the currently under construction 409 Elm St. apartment building.
On Thursday morning, New Hampshire First Congressional District Republican Nominee Karoline Leavitt stood outside the Manchester School District offices to speak out against a recent court decision upholding a district policy regarding transgender and gender non-conforming students, seeing it as an attack on parental rights.
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The Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration grant program funds the Lead Safe Manchester program in three-year increments. This program is overseen by the Department of Planning and Community Development. The grant amount reflects a 26% increase from what Manchester received in 2019.
On Tuesday, a local man turned himself into police after it was believed that he fired gunshots through his apartment floor.
On Monday night, the Manchester Board of School Committee (BOSC) approved the option recommended by the Manchester School District Athletic Department, one of three options provided to provide elementary school basketball this season.
Over 750 attendees attended the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s Eleanor Roosevelt Dinner at the Hilton Manchester Doubletree Hotel on Saturday evening, headlined by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig and other local activists at the Cashin Senior Center on Monday; expressing her desire to continue protecting Medicare and Social Security if re-elected as well as attacking her Republican opponent on that subject.
MANCHESTER, N.H. – U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig and other local activists at the Cashin Senior Center on Monday; expressing her desire to continue protecting Medicare and Social Security if re-elected as well as attacking her Republican opponent on that subject.
Hassan emphasized opposition from pharmaceutical lobbyists in her efforts to protect and strengthen the two programs used by millions of American senior citizens, asserting that portions of the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act will save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.
“The law we passed will not only put money back in the pockets of seniors, but will also help bring down drug prices for all Americans across the board,” said Hassan.
Craig praised Hassan for her efforts on that bill and others, focusing on Hassan’s reputation for bipartisanship.
“(Hassan) knows how to bring leaders from both parties together to get results and ensure that seniors have the care and support that they need,” said Craig.
The mayor also attacked Republican U.S. Senate nominee Don Bolduc for his comments regarding the privatization of Medicare and dissolution of social security, stating that it would harm the 15,000 Manchester residents who rely on social security.
Hassan also attacked Bolduc, building on recent comments attributed to Bolduc that his efforts to reform both programs would ultimately destroy them, leaving 300,000 elderly Granite Staters with difficult choices regarding health insurance and economic security. She also attacked Bolduc on efforts to walk back such comments now that he has won the Republican nomination.
“Let’s be clear, people work their entire lives for their social security, they pay into it with every paycheck, they depend on it to retire with security,” said Hassan. “That money is not Don Bolduc’s to take, that money was earned by every Granite Stater who spent their lives working hard and paying into it. If Don Bolduc had his way, our country would be a place where seniors are left to fend for themselves and where our parents and grandparents don’t get the care that they need.”
While Hassan expressed satisfaction with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, she said more work needs to be done, stating that she would pursue an insulin price cap for private insurance plans comparable to the one put in place for Medicare recipients that was put within the Inflation Reduction Act as one example.
American Medical Response (AMR), the ambulance service for Manchester, reported that suspected opioid overdoses declined from July to August, although opioid-related deaths remain high.
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined a panel of local healthcare providers on Friday morning to share their concerns over ongoing attacks on reproductive rights and the fallout of those attacks on women and doctors seeking to help women.
On Wednesday at approximately 4:40 p.m., Manchester Police arrested a man designated by the U.S. Marshalls’ Office as their “Fugitive of the Week.”
The suspect, 22-year-old Devyn Smith-Gutierrez, is believed to have taken the motorized wheelchair from the area of Cedar and Pine Streets on Sept. 4.
On Friday, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella issued a cease and desist order to the New Hampshire Democratic Party in regard to letters sent to voters.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg will headline the New Hampshire Democratic Party Eleanor Roosevelt Dinner on Saturday night at the Manchester Hilton Doubletree Hotel.
Beyond the headlines, the men and women of the Manchester Police Department respond to requests from local residents around the clock, with incidents the public may often find valuable or interesting going unnoticed.
In an attempt to help shed a light on those incidents and spur a greater discussion on what’s going on in our neighborhoods across the city, here are a few of those incidents that flew under the radar, as obtained from the Manchester Police Department Records Division.
Emulating annual State of the City and State of the State addresses, Manchester School District Superintendent Dr. Jenn Gillis held the first-ever State of the Manchester School District address on Friday afternoon at Manchester Memorial High School.
Officer Frank Dustin died from a heart attack on May 18, 1918 after responding to reports of an individual that was exposing himself and ran when Dustin approached him. Dustin pursued the suspect and suffered the heart attack near the entrance of the park.
A day after officially earning the Democratic nomination for governor, outgoing State Senator Dr. Tom Sherman joined Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig as they talked with a variety of people in Downtown Manchester.