On Tuesday night, the Manchester Board of School Committee voted for initial approval toward $290 in bonding toward the first phase of the Manchester School District’s facilities plan.
On Tuesday night, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) received an update from Manchester Director of Housing Stability Adrienne Beloin on the Beech Street Shelter as well as an overview on homelessness in the city.
It’s anticipated that tonight’s presentation by Director of Housing Stability Adrienne Beloin during the Nov. 21 Board of Aldermen meeting will show that the pathway is slow-going and filled with all sorts of tangible challenges. The board earlier this year approved maintaining the shelter through June of 2024 with funding for the engagement center to come from the initial $1.14 million Fiscal Year 2023 money allocated to the shelter.
Following the announcement of January 23, 2024, as the date of the New Hampshire First-in-The Nation Presidential Primary, the Write-In Biden grassroots effort announced that over 1,000 NH voters from 162 different towns across the state have already signed-up to help spread the word about the importance of writing-in Joe Biden for President on the NH Democratic Presidential Primary.
On Thursday. the New Hampshire House of Representatives’ Criminal Justice Committee advanced four pieces of legislation addressing bail reform.
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu joined Will Ruger and Jason Sorens of the American Institute for Economic Research and the Cato Institute at Stark Brewery on Thursday to celebrate New Hampshire’s #1 rating in the latest “Freedom in the 50 States” study.
The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 35 (IUPAT DC 35) on Thursday announced their endorsement of Joyce Craig for Governor of New Hampshire, as the momentum grows for Joyce’s campaign. IUPAT DC 35 represents over 4,000 workers including painters, drywall finishers, glassworkers, glaziers, public employees, and more across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
The New Hampshire Partnership for Schoolyard Action is now accepting grant applications from educational organizations with students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 to help fund nature-based learning projects. Schoolyard Action Grant applications are being accepted now through January 26, 2024.
After weeks of speculation it’s official: the next New Hampshire Presidential Primary will be held on January, 23, 2024.
Following last week’s election, Manchester elected a new mayor and also saw the election of several new aldermen. Although the Board of Mayor and Aldermen is officially non-partisan, there has always been an unofficial partisan influence in Manchester’s municipal politics and the new board has an assumed new balance of seven Democrats and seven Republicans. Manchester Ink Link reached out to each of the aldermen-elect chosen by voters last week to get their thoughts on how the board will operate over the next two years.