During last week’s Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen Committee on Human Resources and Insurance Meeting, Ward 6 Alderman Crissy Kantor expressed concerns regarding a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) video required for new city employees in Manchester.
The Planning Board will meet on Thursday, December 5 at 6 p.m.
Yes, the Cats came back, they just couldn’t stay away. Back in 2019, Liz Hitchcock and the team from Orbit Group, worked with the City of Manchester to meet code and add an artsy twist to the pedestrian crosswalk just outside The Bookery. It didn’t wear well but entrepreneurs aren’t fazed by minor setbacks. Lessons learned, warm days, reformulation of a product with a three-year warranty and the Cats came back yesterday to Elm Street.
At a time when shrillness and discord seem to dominate politics, Manchester came together to welcome its first female mayor Joyce Craig to a second term in office yesterday.
Winterfest is nine days (Feb. 23-March 3, 2019) covering the school February vacation where organizations, businesses, and local non-profits offer free and reduced cost events, programs, and activities for youth and families throughout Manchester.
A detailed report on the topic of severance payments to city employees following an ordinance amendment from the Board of Aldermen on Tuesday night.
Next meeting is set for April 30 – location yet to be determined.
The city is putting together a plan to redevelop Rock Rimmon Park to better meet the needs of area residents. Take the 10-question survey now.
I’m no legal expert. But when I hear “act of God,” I think about hurricanes and tornadoes, Noah-level floods, plagues of frogs, stuff like that. Especially here in New Hampshire, snow and cold temperatures don’t strike me as an act of God. More like the cold hard latitude and longitude of living in the northeast. We prepare for it. We allow for it when it comes to things like buying a year’s worth of road salt, or setting aside enough money to pay plow drivers overtime during a snow storm.
Affected residents Monday were encouraged to go to a Multi-Agency Resource Center (MARC) at the Manchester Public Health Offices at 1528 Elm St. in Manchester, NH.
Assignments have been made and work is ready to begin in earnest for 2018 at City Hall.
Students from Hallsville Elementary School joined 100 volunteers to plant garden to increase access to fresh produce for New Hampshire families.
“I connected with so many women in this business that felt compelled and comfortable enough to share their most private and traumatic experiences with me. I realized that the store wasn’t just about helping people have healthy sexual relationships, or women especially being more comfortable with their sexuality, but that it provided a platform to help connect women to the help they need for their own healing,” says Sophia Raymond.
Tow companies interested in contracting with the city for the next two winter seasons should read this.
Weather permitting, painting work is set to begin on the welcoming West Side steel arches that extend across the main thoroughfares in Rimmon Heights.
If you’re enthusiastic about bicycles and the need for safe riding routes around the city, you will likely be enthusiastic about the Bicycle Master Plan proposal, an 83-page document assembled by the Department of Public Works. You can read it here.
Just a month after putting it up, Manchester says it will now spend $25,000 to move the gate that blocks access to the new Walmart from Upper Gold Street.
Mayor Ted Gatsas delivered his seventh budget address on Tuesday night at City Hall, starting off by calling out the state for “downshifting” expenses to municipalities, and pointing out a funding increase in the proposed school budget.
After two towing emergencies so far this year, the city has towed twice as many cars, on average, as last winter – 185 per event this year, compared to 97 per event for the 2014-2015 season.
Looking for a job or that next opportunity? Manchester Police are hiring a police services specialist, a full-time job with benefits. Details below: