Posts by Ryan Lessard
The church complex was created as a marriage between a 112-year-old mansion on a bucolic Elm Street property called “The Brook” and a transplanted congregationalist church located near city hall called the Franklin Street Church.
Since nearly all in-person Veterans Day ceremonies held in local communities are cancelled this year due to the pandemic, a group of current and retired police officers created a video which they posted on YouTube Wednesday for residents to pay their respects remotely.
This is the second significant delay of results reported during NH’s Election Day.
It’s harvest time, with beers made with local hops, local honey and local pumpkins and local apples. This week’s Brew News counts not one, but THREE bevies made with apples and pumpkins from Sunnycrest Farm in Londonderry. Other places such as Mack’s Apples, Elwood Orchards and Wild Way Farm contributed to even more locally-sourced goodness.
The Manchester School District announced Thursday that Hillside Middle School will transition to fully remote learning starting Friday through at least Nov. 16, after identifying two positive COVID-19 cases at the school.
Check out some more autumnal ales, state-of-the-art sours and imperial stouts at southern New Hampshire breweries. A couple breweries are also raising funds for cancer research with some of their beers.
Police are investigating two unrelated armed robberies that recently occurred in Salem. One robbery of Newbury Comics in the Mall at Rockingham Park Friday is under investigation, while another man has been arrested for a robbery at gunpoint during a personal sale of shoes that was arranged online over a week ago.
Pumpkin ales and Oktoberfests aren’t the only thing on the menu. Sour ales are making a big showing in southern New Hampshire breweries, with fruity blends that include raspberries, blueberries, peach and cherries.
Testing methods and results can vary significantly from one police department to another and from one clinician to another, even within the state, despite the fact that the IACP provides standard guidance for psych testing for police applicants. And until a new law which took effect this summer, not all officers in New Hampshire were tested.
The $50,000 trailer was donated to the organization by New England Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft through his Kraft Family Foundation. Kelleher said he worked with Manchester Alderman Bill Barry on bringing the trailer to Manchester.
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.
