This week, the Manchester School District broke ground on expansions at Hillside Middle School and McLaughlin Middle School in separate ceremonies marking significant steps in Priority One of the district’s facilities plan.
On June 9 the Manchester School District held a special ceremony to recognize seniors from all city schools who plan to enter military service after graduation. Superintendent Jenn Chmiel was joined by Mayor Jay Ruais and NH National Guard Brig. Gen. Allen Aldenberg to address the students and their families, and recognize their commitment to serve.
On Monday night, the Board of School Committee approved the hiring of James Frier as the new principal of Southside Middle School. Frier will succeed current Principal Kelly Espinola, who was named the District’s new Assistant Superintendent of High Schools and Operations.
Little Green reporter sits down with U.S. Congressman Chris Pappas to talk about his time at Central, his reasons for running for U.S. Senate and his advice to current students.
The Newport School Board announced last week that Forrest Ransdell will be the next superintendent of Newport.
The Manchester New Hampshire Music & Jazz Festival is back. The Palace Theatre’s Warren O’Reilly made the announcement that the 2025 Manchester music and Jazz Festival was a partnership with the City of Manchester and the Manchester School District during a joint press conference held at The Palace Theatre offices earlier this week.
With more than 60 young female athletes now competing on four teams, the Manchester Thunder are starting to make some noise in the Queen City.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte on Tuesday announced she will nominate Director Caitlin Davis of the New Hampshire Department of Education for the state’s next Education Commissioner. Ayotte will present her nominee to the State Board of Education on Thursday.
In celebration of excellence and innovation in student journalism, the prestigious Brodsky Prize has announced its 2025 winners, spotlighting the state’s most promising high school journalists.
I still think of Rachel every year around this time, as my Facebook feed fills with mortar-board hats, acceptance letters, and congratulatory yard signs, and I wonder how many of those gleeful graduates have their next several decades mapped out, and how many are secretly terrified by their lack of a map. I was terrified at graduation, and for decades afterwards; but I can say now that loved the journey, and I love where it brought me.
The Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) on June 3 decided against moving forward with a referendum making the Manchester School District into a department of the city’s government.
Teens can get a summer pass to any Planet Fitness on the planet.
Forty young people will need homes by June 6 after the Trump administration announced it was eliminating the Jobs Corps program nationwide, including Manchester’s on Dunbarton Road.
In a 10-2 vote, the Manchester Board of School Committee (BOSC) voted to send a letter to New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte asking her to veto a bill that could ban books considered “obscene or harmful to minors” from schools.
On Wednesday, May 21; the Manchester Board of School Committee’s Committee on Education Legislation held a discussion relating to an injunction around what has become known as the “Dear Colleague Letter.”
The New Hampshire Department of Education made the announcement Friday. The teachers were selected from a total of 105 nominees and 29 applicants.
Despite objections from civil libertarians, educators and librarians, the N.H. Senate has passed a Republican-backed bill aimed at prohibiting “obscene or harmful sexual material” from being disseminated at public schools.
The Board of School Committee gathered on Monday, May 19 for a special meeting to discuss budgetary next steps forward on what reductions should be made to bridge the approximately $9.5 million gap between the school district’s proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget bottom line they recommended to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen and the budget that the Board of Mayor and Aldermen ultimately approved.
“I’d just like to say that as public educators, our number one commitment is to do what is best for our students. And we achieve that through federal funding. So, largely our federal funding. goes to our most at-risk kids. It is students from low-income families. It is students who are homeless. It is students with social and emotional needs.”
It’s boxy, angular, and typically yellow. And when it lights up on a car dashboard, the next step is often hundreds of dollars in repairs.
But some in New Hampshire believe the “check engine” light is not always reliable, and that its presence can cause vehicles to fail their state inspection even when everything is working fine.