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Vose Farm Residences, an affordable workforce housing community developed by Catholic Charities NH, officially opened on Thursday, January 15, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Applications are now being accepted, with the first tenants expected to move in February.
Liv Crete-Sayer of Boscawen Elementary School has been elected by fifth graders across the state as NH’s 2026 Kid Governor. She ran on a platform to educate her peers about the dangers of smoking, vaping and drugs.
Manchester is New Hampshire’s largest school district and serves many of the State’s most disadvantaged, and most vulnerable children. HB 1831 removes the cap on the State’s education aid – a cap that applies ONLY to Manchester. Under current law, this cap will strip at least $10 million annually in anticipated and fully warranted funding from our district beginning next year.
Republican leadership in New Hampshire, including the Governor, must decide whether it is appropriate for someone who has expressed support for segregating students for any reason to be the leading voice on education in the State House. That is not a rhetorical question. It goes to the heart of what public education is meant to be.
A year into Donald Trump’s second term, friends who live outside the United States still reach out in disbelief. Is it really that bad? Are you safe? I usually answer with a shrug. Not because things are fine — but because, like so many Americans, I’ve learned how quickly the unacceptable becomes routine.
The city has declared a Snow Emergency that will be in effect from 10 p.m. Sunday, January 18 until 6 a.m. Monday, January 19. This means no overnight parking on city streets.
A Maine man wanted in connection with a Jan. 14 homicide there was taken into custody by the New Hampshire State Police Saturday morning following a multi-state pursuit.
On Inauguration Day, Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais provided an outline on how he hopes to increase financial transparency and efficiency in the upcoming term. This week, he provided more details on how he hopes to work with the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen to make that happen.
Great food and fun will be on the menu as the Queen City Rotary Club hosts its annual comedy bowl fundraiser later this month. The annual event, which includes a buffet dinner, comedy show and cash bar, will take place on Saturday, January 31 at St. George’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Manchester.
The Manchester School District and the City of Manchester Department of Public Works Parks and Recreation Division are expecting to test a new partnership that help both groups as well as students and other community members gain access to new recreational programs.
American Medical Response (AMR) released it annual suspected opioid overdose statistical report today for New Hampshire’s two largest cities, Manchester & Nashua. Both communities experienced record low numbers.
Police seek public’s help in identifying a woman who robbed Hillsborough Market late Thursday night.
A fire at a Prospect Street apartment building early Friday morning was quickly managed by Manchester Fire Department.
Auburn Police Chief Charles “Chip” Chabot said he signed the agreement on Jan. 6, 2026. The issue was not put before the police commission, he said, because as “police chief it falls under my purview.”
For only the third time in 30 years, there will be no Manchester’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Nine days before Dr. David Vargas-Lowy was criminally charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl during an office visit last year, the New Hampshire Board of Medicine (BOM) lifted a temporary suspension of his medical license in connection with the same incident.
As the budget season for Fiscal Year 2026 begins to come into focus, a memorandum of understanding between the Manchester School District and the City of Manchester for an independent efficiency audit was recommended by the Manchester Board of School Committee’s Finance Committee on Wednesday night, part of a larger initiative by Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais to proactively find budgetary efficiencies in local government budgets.
Bringing back the death penalty is not justice, it’s the ultimate form of slavery. It is inhumane to believe that taking another life restores safety or peace. The New Hampshire legislature repealed the death penalty in 2019 by a bipartisan, two-thirds majority. Since then, there has been no rise in homicide. In fact, New Hampshire has the lowest homicide rate in the nation.
State revenue collections in December, a key month for State revenues, offered both good news for the State’s overall financial picture and more cautionary signs for underlying revenue strength.
McCormick, 72, applied for the elderly tax exemption last year and has saved over $1,000 on her tax bill. She said the exemption has “most definitely” been helpful, but she and many of her neighbors believe the exemption’s requirements are difficult to meet.