This year’s toy and gift drive aims to reach 180 families, those living on the economic edge. The initiative is a partnership between Manchester Housing and Redevelopment Authority, Helping Our Pupils Excel Inc., and WMNH FM radio.
Give the gift of joy and pay no join fee this holiday season!
In a 4-1 vote, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen’s Committee on Public Safety recommended receiving and filing a proposal to end the Safe Station program on June 30, the end of the current fiscal year.
Join Media Power Youth online and meet filmmaker and physician, Dr. Delaney Ruston.
New gift card packages available this holiday season!
Kids, families are welcome to meet Saint Nick in free Covid-adjusted outdoor event.
Here is a map providing a list of locations investigated for a temporary winter homeless shelter by the Emergency Operations Center. The list was up-to-date as of approximately 6 p.m. on Nov. 25, 2020.
Manchester officials are planning a summit with the non-profit that runs the local needle exchange before the end of the year, in an attempt to resolve its differences, align their quality standards and improve coordination, even as the city works to set up its own syringe services program with a different non-profit.
As the weather gets colder and concerns remain around the COVID-19 pandemic, local business owners have a message to anyone doing their holiday shopping: help us now or we might not be here in the spring.
The state-owned property at the county courthouse was being cleared of campers and their belongings Friday, and a fence erected around it. The campers had been growing in numbers all summer, with more than 40 tents on both sides of the building.
On Tuesday night’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting, Alderman Mike Porter asked Mayor Joyce Craig why only $300,000 of $2.9 million given to non-profits since April 2019 on the issue of homelessness had been spent as of October.
Gov. Chris Sununu responded Wednesday to a letter sent by 13 New Hampshire mayors on Nov. 6 appealing to the governor to map out a coordinated statewide plan to address the state’s lack of emergency shelter and long-range solution to homelessness.
Now, with the pandemic, the issue of camps at the Hillsborough County North Superior Courthouse and upcoming winter months potentially exacerbating homelessness in the city, things boiled over regarding the subject at what was a heated Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting on Tuesday night.
The state is considering allowing Manchester to set up a large climate-controlled tent at the Armory on Canal Street to get the homeless out of the cold.
Members First Credit Union continues its partnership with the Manchester Police Athletic League (MPAL) by being a proud sponsor of last month’s 2020 MPAL Footrace for the Fallen with its $7,500 donation. MPAL is a non-profit afterschool organization that matches cops with kids to provide coaching and mentoring through athletic, educational and enrichment activities.
There are lots of industrial buildings for sale around the state right now because, hey, times have been rough. Some of them seem ideal for a longer-term solution to stabilizing the unsheltered. In advance, I want to say that I’m working off a commercial properties Real Estate listing site called LoopNet, and maybe some of these properties are already in negotiation or spoken for. These are just some obvious examples.
When asked on Thursday, Gov. Sununu did not directly respond to what will happen Monday when the state’s notice of eviction expires, or the day after tomorrow to those people, and hundreds of others living unsheltered around the state as the winter weather settles in.
Members First Credit Union is continuing its support of the Manchester Police Athletic League (MPAL) by sponsoring the 2020 MPAL Ball with a $15,000 donation as presenting sponsor. MPAL is a non-profit afterschool organization that matches cops with kids to provide coaching and mentoring through athletic, educational and enrichment activities.
