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The front page of an early October 2025 edition of The Keene Sentinel features stories about city elections, the ongoing drought in New Hampshire and two Medicare Advantage providers leaving the state. It’s all local news.
New Hampshire has seen a 33.4 percent decline in drug-related fatalities between 2023 and 2024, the sharpest year-over-year reduction in 10 years, according to a report by the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute (NHFPI).
Governor Kelly Ayotte and the Governor’s Special Task Force on Highway Safety on Wednesday presented its report with recommendations to save lives and address pressing challenges on New Hampshire roads, including speeding, wrong-way driving, and distracted driving.
Manchester — Our city is caught in the crosshairs of a growing fiscal and constitutional crisis in public education. The state’s failure to fully fund its legal responsibilities is hurting students, taxpayers, and entire communities.
The City of Manchester on Thursday released its finalized Age-Friendly Action Plan: an initiative designed to build a more inclusive, accessible and livable community for older adults, as well as other Manchester residents.
One person was hurt after two vehicles collided with the same moose on both the east and westbound lanes of Route 101. The moose suffered life-threatening injuries and was euthanized.
After 16 years of dedicated service to Ward 3, Alderman Pat Long has endorsed Dana Dexter to succeed him on the Board of Mayor and Aldermen. Long, who is focusing his efforts as State Senator for District 20, praised Dexter’s understanding of the community and his readiness to lead from day one.
The ACLU of New Hampshire is suing the state over its decades-old loitering and prowling law, arguing it is unconstitutional and unfairly targets homeless people.
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) will be closing Exit 2 On Ramp from Route 101 Eastbound to Hooksett Road in Auburn, from Monday October 13, 2025, through Monday October 20, 2025.
I’ve come to share my concern about PFAS pollution at the Manchester Wastewater Treatment Plant. The cause is both personal and on behalf of the greater good. You see, I feel an obligation as perhaps any of you have who has been diagnosed with cancer as I was in 2022. Advanced thyroid cancer. Just one of the many documented health effects related to PFAS exposure.
The law, which took effect on Jan. 1, gives consumers more control over how their personal data is used and puts certain responsibilities on businesses. For instance, consumers have the right to learn whether a business is storing their data, and if so, to request access to it, to obtain a copy of it, to correct inaccuracies, and to request that the data be deleted.
Rich Girard’s recent defense of Alderman Joe Kelly Levasseur presents a false choice: either elected officials are free to hurl insults at city staff without consequence, or the city risks trampling the First Amendment. This framing oversimplifies the issue and ignores a basic truth: accountability and civility in public service are not unconstitutional, they are essential to good government.
A Manchester man is dead following a motorcycle crash Oct. 6 on Interstate 293 southbound.
Attorney General John M. Formella, New Hampshire State Police Colonel Mark B. Hall, and Derry Police Chief George R. Feole announce that arrests were made Monday in connection with the investigation into the murder of Gui Lin, 41, which occurred at 4 Peabody Annex Road in Derry, New Hampshire, on May 19, 2025.
The Manchester School District will be holding a job fair at their Welcome Center at 148 Concord St. on Tuesday, Oct. 7 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
A city man, arrested in June on felony charges connected to a crash that killed an 11-month-old toddler, is now facing upgraded charges of negligent homicide and reckless manslaughter.
Law enforcement officials, including Manchester police and the NH Cold Case Unit, have put out a renewed appeal for public assistance in the cold case homicide of Lynne Brennan, 53, ahead of the 15th anniversary of her death.
The Zoning Board will meet on Thursday, October 9 at 6 p.m.
Megan Philbrook, a teacher at Andover Elementary Middle School, was named New Hampshire’s 2026 Teacher of the Year during a surprise celebration on Oct. 2.
In recent years, though, the butterfly — which typically emerges from hibernation before the last patches of snow have receded — has become less common. Populations of mourning cloaks, or Nymphalis antiopa, have declined about 70% across the Northeast in the last 26 years, said Emily May, an entomologist with insect conservation nonprofit Xerces Society.