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Kwanzaa 2025: Celebrating self-determination in the context of community and culture

Monday, December 29, 2025Sunday, December 28, 2025

The celebration began with a social hour and community meal at the downtown YWCA, which became a hub of fellowship, learning and gratitude. As it has, off and on, for the past 30 years in Manchester, the annual Kwanza celebration serves as a way to education the public about the history of the cultural celebration of the harvest while becoming a focal point of renewal for strengthening community in the coming year.

Holiday vibe: Radio station partners with local laundromat for Christmas toy giveaway

Monday, December 22, 2025

The Christmas vibe was strong last Thursday at Laundry Lake laundromat – for two hours families were welcomed into the laundromat where there were tables filled with toys and games. It was part of a community collaboration between Domenic Marte of Latino Vibe 94.9 FM radio station and Laundry Lake owner Rafael Lora – the first of what both men hope will be many more community gatherings to come in the new year.

Update: ‘Person of interest’ found by police after making threat at MPD headquarters

Sunday, December 21, 2025Sunday, December 21, 2025

Police are seeking the public’s help in locating a man who on Dec. 21 entered the police station and made a threat before driving off in a silver truck.

Autopsy: Suspect in Brown University shooting died by suicide days before he was found

Friday, December 19, 2025

Autopsy results were released Friday for Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, formerly of Miami, Florida, identified as the suspected gunman in the Brown University shooting last weekend.

Officials: Brown University suspect found dead at Salem storage facility

Thursday, December 18, 2025Thursday, December 18, 2025

Federal agents converge on storage facility in Salem, NH, as manhunt for Brown University shooter extends into New Hampshire.

Sowing Seeds for Hope: Shop with a purpose this holiday season

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Sowing Seeds for Hope is a NH-based initiative that helps Afghan women who are transforming and rebuilding their lives as they use their sewing skills to earn some income.

Vote for your favorite holiday painted window display in downtown Manchester

Sunday, December 14, 2025Saturday, December 13, 2025

Downtown Manchester is once again glowing with creativity this holiday season as Mosaic Art Collective’s Holiday Painted Windows project transforms storefronts into festive, hand-painted works of art. Local artists teamed up with downtown businesses to create colorful window displays that celebrate the season while showcasing the city’s vibrant arts community.

Profiles in Merrymaking: One big sweater, 2 batons and a couple of kindred spirits

Sunday, December 7, 2025

Meet Karen Rosenberg and Tara McGee – hard to miss this dynamic duo if you attended Sunday’s Merrymaking on the Merrimack as their distinctive headgear was second to their Siamese Twin-sweater which was rivaled by their intermittent but quite intentional baton twirling.

Making merry: 3rd annual holiday block party brings out the best in community

Sunday, December 7, 2025

How these West Merrimack St. neighbors built an annual street party for all.

It’s Official: ‘Creepy Santa Day’ is on the city calendar

Thursday, December 4, 2025Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Nobody is lukewarm when it comes to “Creepy Santa.” And for the most part, the beloved iconic holiday figure that for 35 years has towered over the Rheaume family’s Christmas tree stand on Elm Street, has gained a growing mob of followers, not to mention celebrity status.

Snow Day: City Hall closes early, Board of Alderman postponed until Dec. 3 and how not to get towed during winter parking emergency

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

A nor’easter has descended on the region, bringing several inches of snow to the city and surrounding area – the first big snow of the season.

Executive Councilor John Stephen hospitalized following ‘cardiac event’

Tuesday, December 2, 2025Monday, December 1, 2025

Former Manchester Mayor Bob Baines wasn’t sure how to react to the news circulating Monday night, that Executive Councilor John Stephen had been hospitalized.

Manchester Youth Services Director resigns after audit cites misuse of funds, safety risks

Thursday, November 27, 2025

The director of Manchester’s Office of Youth Services resigned earlier this week ahead of the release of an internal audit that identified extensive misuse of public funds, missing financial documentation, and lapses in youth supervision standards.

Palace Theatres’ Peter Ramsey announces retirement after 27-year stellar performance at the helm

Saturday, November 22, 2025Friday, November 21, 2025

The man credited with turning the Palace Theatre from a debt-strapped local stage into a thriving multi-venue cultural institution will step down in 2027. Peter Ramsey, President & CEO of the Palace Theatre, confirmed his retirement plans to the board last week, concluding a 27-year era that reshaped downtown Manchester’s arts and economy.

Make Manchester Ink Link a ‘preferred source’ in your Google searches

Monday, November 10, 2025

Want more authentically local news in your Google search results? Tired of AI summaries that aren’t quite right (and sometimes very, very wrong), and clickbait that isn’t even about New Hampshire? You can set Manchester Ink Link as one of your “preferred sources” to make sure more of our independent reporting tops your list!

Shaheen, Hassan help broker bipartisan agreement to reopen government

Sunday, November 9, 2025Sunday, November 9, 2025

In a statement released Sunday by U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, the deal would also reinstate thousands of fired federal workers and restore the appropriations process that includes funding for SNAP, WIC and health care for veterans.

Dean Kamen makes ReGen workforce training center announcement at ARMI

ReGen Valley: ‘The future of our country — really, the future of humanity — is being written right here in the Millyard’

Friday, November 7, 2025

The next phase of Manchester’s transformation into the nation’s “ReGen Valley” is underway as Kamen, founder of the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI), welcomed city, state, and federal leaders to celebrate the present – and the future.

How not to get towed: Read our road closure/parking guide for Manchester City Marathon and Veterans Day Parade

Monday, November 3, 2025

Downtown activities can be the best of times and the worst of times – the best happens when the city is full of activity for special events, and people come early and stay late to eat and shop and enjoy what makes Manchester special. The worst happens when you have your fill of it all and then you attempt to find your car, which isn’t where you left it. Because it got towed. Because you parked in the wrong place.

Lines grow longer at Beech Street School as Food for Children feeds hundreds in need

Monday, November 3, 2025Monday, November 3, 2025

People lined up Nov. 1 outside Beech Street School where each Saturday anyone can come to receive food Food for Children, a local ministry that provides weekly outreach to 250-350 families. Although there was no official comment on the increase in demand, this particular Saturday lines were notably longer than usual.

Ruais and Spillers field questions on housing, decorum, and more at Ink Link News free public mayoral forum

Thursday, October 30, 2025Thursday, October 30, 2025

Mayor Jay Ruais and challenger, School Board Committewoman Jess Spillers, met Oct. 28 at the Manchester City Library auditorium for a spirited, issue-driven forum moderated by Manchester Ink Link Assistant Editor Andrew Sylvia, covering topics from homelessness and housing to school funding, decorum at City Hall, and property taxes.

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