Posts by Pat Grossmith
A city man is being held without bail after he “popped three rounds off into the ground” in an argument Wednesday night with a woman who was temporarily relocated to the city’s new homeless encampment on Crown Street, according to court documents.
This information is released monthly by the court to the media and is part of the public record.
A judge has agreed to continue the murder trial of Adam Montgomery because one of his attorneys has left the case.
A city man is facing 28 charges accusing him of beating a former girlfriend because of her sexual orientation and, in separate incidents, torturing a cat that he kicked downstairs and put in a dryer.
“We encountered roadblocks and obstacles at every corner,” Johnathon Miller said. “The heartbreaking fact is the courts, the lawyers and DCF never once considered…the significance of the sibling relationship.
Earlier this month, about 1,500 owners of a multi-family building with five or more units were told that as of Dec. 1 the city is no longer going to pick up their trash.
Adam Montgomery is asking a judge to continue his trial because one of his attorneys has taken a non-lawyer job with the New Hampshire Public Defender.
“If they’re going to provide me with less services, I think I should get a tax abatement,” said Bill Stergios who owns a 21-unit apartment building at 150 Bridge St. where Julian’s Breakfast Place was located. “They say tenants need more affordable housing and now they’re making it more expensive for the tenants because landlords will have an excuse to raise the rents even higher. They’re hurting the people they said they intend to protect.”
Those setbacks resulted in her being unable to pay her $800 a month rent (plus utilities) for two months in 2022 on her 474 Cartier St. apartment. Then her car broke down – twice – hitting her with two large repair bills to pay while making a monthly car payment.
MANCHESTER, NH – When the federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) ended last May, the number of people who showed up at the City Welfare Department seeking help in paying their rent more than tripled, climbing from an average of 70 a month in May 2022, to 222 in May 2023.