Posts by Ryan Lessard
Pumpkin beers and Oktoberfests continue to take up tap lines as summer comes to a close. Derry After Dark is officially cancelled, but don’t worry, we can commiserate over a commemorative beer and pint glass and pour one out for the festival year that was not to be.
While naturalized citizens for whom English is a second language do pass an oral English test to obtain their citizenship, Council member Sue Corby pointed out Friday, that is usually possible with rudimentary conversational English and not literacy or a grasp of the more complex words used to describe the minutiae of election rules.
A number of factors have stacked against them, according to recruiting officers; the state police academy has limited seats for each of its classes, the state’s retirement system has been less competitive than Massachusetts’ system since it changed in 2011, and fewer candidates are applying, particularly since tensions between police and Black communities have heightened nationwide over the past five years.
One of two men arrested at a gathering of Donald Trump supporters in Londonderry Friday allegedly punched a man in plain view of Londonderry Police and the U.S. Secret Service shortly after allegedly grabbing a woman by the neck and telling her he was going to kill her.
Fall beers are coming out as local breweries are releasing their Oktoberfests, pumpkin ales and stouts. Also be on the lookout for collaboration beers and outdoor fire pits.
Social services groups and city agencies are continuing their outreach to a swelling number of people experiencing homelessness in the Queen City, but as shelter use increases, so does the number of outside camps.
Police say the three people disposing of a sofa in the dumpster weren’t doing anything illegal.
Darryl Erickson, the husband of Red Arrow Diner owner Carol Lawrence, and their nephew Eliot Lawrence purchased the business on July 3 from Jennifer Liane, who had owned it for the past seven years.
How are southern New Hampshire breweries doing? That’s the question I sought to answer when I paused the regular Mash-Up column that usually features new beer releases and special events, and started the Brew News Spotlight series back in April.
