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Join Dr. Jennifer Chmiel, Manchester School District’s Superintendent, at French Hall to hear the district’s goals for the 2025-26 school year.
he first meeting of the revived New Hampshire Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee, created by legislation this year, will hold its first session Thursday.
U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) talked with a group of downtown business leaders about the importance of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for New Hampshire small businesses during an event at Diz’s Restaurant on Elm Street earlier this week.
Manchester Neighbors Welcome, a coalition effort convened by 603 Forward and the New Hampshire Youth Movement, pointed to the success of At-Large Aldermanic Candidate June Trisciani and Ward 1 Aldermanic Candidate Bryce Kaw-uh as examples of how important the issue of housing is for Manchester voters.
Hosted by the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire (WACNH), the panel discussion was one part of a multi-day tour for the legislators as they sought to meet Americans and express the need for more support in the invasion of their country by the Russian Federation.
As mayor, I know Jess’s number one priority will be ensuring our public schools are fully funded. I am a product of the Manchester School District. I want my children to grow up with the strong sense of pride my family feels in the city. For this to happen, we must first invest in our schools.
James Woodlock is either a man who beat and choked a 16-year-old boy and acted as a lookout so his Youth Development Center co-workers could rape the teen, as prosecutors contend, or he is an innocent man accused of horrific acts that he says never happened, per the defense
New Hampshire is seeing a rise in whooping cough cases this year, stoking concern among healthcare providers in the state.
The town of Warner made headlines this summer that no town wants. The town administrator sought a restraining order against a selectman for alleged assault. Shortly afterward, the assault charges were dropped and she was put on leave. A firm hired to audit the town’s finances abruptly quit, citing concerns about the reliability of the town’s records, among other things.
All of it — and more — played out in public during selectboard meetings, where residents were allowed to ask questions and raise concerns. If not for the state’s right-to-know law, it could have played out behind closed doors instead and not led to public scrutiny of the town’s financial practices or conversations about adding cameras to town hall to address safety concerns.
Companies were dispatched to the location of Lincoln and Amherst streets for a reported building fire; caller stated they could see fire from their rear porch. Engine 11 arrived on scene and reported smoke showing from 385 Amherst St.
A six-month joint investigation culminated in the arrest of four people connected to a Lawrence-based drug trafficking organization (DTO) that supplied significant amounts of narcotics to Manchester.
State police have identified the victim of a crash early Wednesday morning as Alexander C. Smith, 25, of Auburn.
More than 200 veterans, community partners, and supporters gathered last Friday at Eversource Energy Park for the 21st Annual New Hampshire Veteran Stand Down, hosted by Harbor Care in partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor, and more than 50 community organizations.
The trial of James Woodlock, a former Youth Development Center youth counselor accused of being an accomplice to the rape of David Meehan dating back 28 years when he was a 14-year-old boy detained in the juvenile facility, opened Tuesday.
A Manchester woman has surrendered to Manchester Police in connection with a fatal accident last week on the city’s West Side.
Starting next week, paper check payments for Social Security, federal tax returns, and more, will be a thing of the past, a move that will have an outsized negative impact on low-income, elderly and rural Americans, as well as be a financial hit to the forest products industry, U.S. Sen Jeanne Shaheen said Monday.
Studies have shown a link between the decline in the kind of local news coverage the Bow Times offers and increased government spending, growing community polarization, a drop in civic engagement, and lower voter turnout.
On Sept. 17, members of the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen were invited on a tour of Live Free Recovery’s new facility on Lowell Street.
In what may feel like a solitary game of musical chair, Alderman-At-Large Joe Levasseur cannot take his chair back after previously vacating it.
Mayor Jay Ruais on Monday sent out a note to the full board of Aldermen advising them that they should plan to vote for a new chairman at their Oct. 7 meeting.
Hunter Nadeau, accused of killing a man having dinner with his wife and daughter at a local country club, waived arraignment Monday on a second-degree murder charge.