Community members share ideas on how to invest $2 million SMART grant

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Earlier this year, the City of Manchester earned a $2 million Strenghtening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. This week, members of the community gathered in the cafeteria of Manchester Central High School to provide their opinions on how that money should be spent.

The Weekender, Nov. 13-15: Pickle Party, People’s Potluck, Real Talk, Craft Fairs + more

read more…: The Weekender, Nov. 13-15: Pickle Party, People’s Potluck, Real Talk, Craft Fairs + more

Does your tween’s Labubu need a fresh look? If your answer is ‘yes!’ and not, ‘a La-what-y?’, well then, you’re in luck this weekend! Still confused? Just go ask the nearest tween what a Labubu is…

But if you’re not hip to the Labubu jive, maybe you can hit up the People’s Potluck, the National Pickle Day Party, or get ahead of your holiday shopping at one of the many holiday craft markets instead of putting it all off ’til the last minute again this year!

U.S. Service Personnel Profiles: Specialist E-5 Wayne Mitchel, U.S. Army

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“Did you ever see the movie, Forrest Gump?” asked Wayne Mitchel during the course of our interview for this piece. “Watching Forrest Gump’s experience in Vietnam was like watching myself on-screen. As an inexperienced 19-year-old kid, just like Gump, everything was new, every event was especially vivid. Some days, like Gump, I just hoped I would make it through the day. Oddly, my biggest fear wasn’t getting killed – my biggest fear in Vietnam was becoming disabled, mentally or physically.”

Many hands make light work at West Side food pantry, where demand has tripled

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Last Friday West High School football coach Andrew Provencher saw to it that the small group of volunteers at the food pantry got some helping hands. When Provencher learned that the pantry had been inundated with requests for food – increasing the number of deliveries from the Food Bank and the number of trips up and down the pantry steps to drop the thousands of pounds of food earmarked for the community, he enlisted the help of some of his players, as well has his family.

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