Author Dennis Lehane to be featured guest at Manchester City Library fundraising gala on Sept. 23, 2014.
It was a brief but important ceremony for 50 people from 27 different countries, who gathered at the NH Institute of Politics on the campus of Saint Anselm College in Manchester Sept. 19, to be sworn in as U.S. citizens.
Hernan Rijos-Calderon, 26, and William Rivera-Calderon, 35, both of Manchester, were taken into custody after the Police Special Enforcement Division and multiple members of the Manchester Police SWAT Team executed a search warrant at 125 Mammoth Road.
Manchester ranks No. 5 among the country’s “best and brightest.” We are up there with the “intellectual elite,” according to research that ranks where the most degree-holding skilled workers.
The 2014 Taste of Downtown is happening Sept. 17 from 5-8 p.m. If you didn’t buy your tickets yet, fear not! You can purchase them today for $25 , available from 9 a.m.-4p.m. from the Intown Manchester office, and from 4-6:30p.m. from outside on the Plaza at 1000 Elm Street.
NH1 News and WBIN-TV will host debates for U.S. Senate, Governor and U.S. House.
If you’ve got a bike, that means you probably have bike issues – gear problems, loose chain, bent rim, persistent deflating tires. Well, Neighborworks Southern NH has the cure: A free community bike clinic, Sept. 13 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 373 Union St., at the corner of Spruce St.
This week’s featured “Pet of the Week” at Manchester Animal Shelter is a precious diva named Diamond.
Chestnut Street Combined Sewer Overflow project – great for our future, but tough times for local businesses in the path of this major construction project.
In an effort to maintain safe roads in Manchester, the Manchester Police Department will be conducting a Sobriety Checkpoint in the Manchester area on Friday, September 12, 2014 and Saturday, September 13, 2014.
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This week there are some meetings of interest, including discussion during the regularly scheduled Manchester NH Board of Aldermen meeting on Tuesday night about creating an ordinance to ban the sale of spice, and also review of the proposed “chicken” ordinance. That meeting is preceded at 7 p.m. by an open public comment session.
