Started in 2022 by a group of queer and BIPOC people, Queerlective seeks to create and promote inclusive environments for the queer, BIPOC, and underserved communities with a focus on utilizing art for personal and community growth.
On Friday, New Hampshire’s Congressional Delegation announced $927,000 in grants to increase safety at houses of worship across the Granite State, including over $500,000 to houses of worship in Manchester.
We are in the last few days of August in the Granite State! After some much-needed rain this past week and with Fall upon us, there is still so much to enjoy in and around the Queen City.
On Monday afternoon, the Manchester School District announced that a Manchester student was the victim of a fatal crash in Albany, which also left several members of the family with serious injuries.
His new world continues to revolve around ayahuasca, a tea brewed from a combination of plants native to South America that its adherents say has healing properties. Januszewski, 46, with tattooed arms and a trimmed beard, is the pastor of Pachamama Sanctuary, a religious organization he founded off of a wooded road in Canterbury that serves ayahuasca to its guests several times each month. Since opening in 2019, Januszewski says he has welcomed close to 2,000 people to the three-bedroom house he rents for a weekend of psychedelic exploration.
Following a similar meeting earlier in the summer on the topic, community members and local non-profit leaders gathered at Parkside Middle School to share their thoughts at the proposed Mark Stebbins Community Center planned just a few hundred feet down the street.
The participants (cars and motorcycles) must visit five checkpoints, drawing a playing card at each one. This year is a “tasty tour” of some amazing NH donut shops! The Chichester Country Store, The Bakeshop at Northwoods Brewing, and Heav’nly Donuts will be participating. The object is to have the best poker hand at the end of the run. Having the best hand and winning is purely a matter of chance. The event is being held Sunday September 18, 2022. Begin at Manchester Harley Davidson after 9 a.m. and come “show your hand” at the Auburn Pitts in Auburn by 1 p.m.
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) announces that drainage work will require closing the northbound off ramp from the Everett Turnpike in Bedford to the I-293 southbound/Route 101 eastbound highway on Sunday evening, August 14, 2022.
Sen. Maggie Hassan has a new Democratic competitor as she gets ready for a tight reelection campaign in John Riggieri, the former Marlborough man convicted of animal abuse after 52 Labrador Retrievers were taken from his home.
On Wednesday night, community members gathered at the Currier Museum of Art for a neighborhood meeting discussing the topic of homelessness in the northeastern part of the city.
The New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Council recently switched over to a new record-keeping system that will track the race and gender of incoming police academy classes, allowing for statewide statistics for future police ranks that haven’t previously been kept.
On Tuesday night, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen deemed a piece of land just south of Parkside Middle School as surplus and then determined that it is in the best interest of the city to sell it for $600,000 to a group seeking to build a new community center named after late philanthropist and businessman Mark Stebbins on the site.
Local leaders and community members gathered at Parkside Middle School on Monday night to obtain neighborhood feedback on a proposed community center that organizers hope to build just a few hundred feet to the south. However, that feedback largely consisted of multiple concerns.
There seems to be a universal friendly gesture, or hidden code if you will, among Black people here in New Hampshire. It’s the eye contact and head nod. Whether shopping for food, weaving through the aisles in Walmart, or sitting in traffic, that head nod means acknowledgment.
For seven consecutive years, Members First Credit Union has sponsored the Friends of the Manchester Mounted Patrol. The Mounted Patrol has been an innovative part of the Manchester Police Department since 1999, patrolling downtown Manchester on horseback and appearing at public events, schools, and parades as an ambassador of the Manchester Police. The unit is funded by the non-profit Friends of The Manchester Mounted Patrol, which relies on donations and sponsorships from organizations like Members First.
It brought the first passenger air service to New England in the 1930s, played a crucial role in World War II, and in the 1960s transformed itself into the airline of the ‘Yellowbirds’ with pop art marketing promoting new service to Florida and the Caribbean. It was Boston-based Northeast Airlines, which served New England (and later, the nation) from 1933 until the summer of 1972, when it became part of Delta Airlines.
Several Manchester non-profits included in CDFA’s $5M in tax credits to strengthen community.
