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A longtime community organizer and first-time candidate, Jeff Taylor announced his candidacy to represent Ward 5 on the school board.
In a message to state education agencies last week that included the New Hampshire Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Education said it is putting on hold $6.8 billion across five funding programs that were supposed to be awarded to schools July 1. The federal department is reviewing the grant applications to ensure “taxpayer resources are spent in accordance with the president’s priorities and the department’s statutory responsibilities” before it makes final award decisions, the message states.
DOJ says it’s part of a broader effort to disrupt human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation in local communities.
As I prepared to move to Manchester to teach economics at Saint Anselm College, I was unaware of the extent of New Hampshire’s housing shortage. Despite having a job with a solid income, securing an apartment felt like winning a lottery. My husband and I scrambled to put down a deposit on a place within minutes of being notified and still, we lost out. Eventually, we got lucky. But that luck, and the ability to buy a condo later, was a privilege many don’t have.
HB 10 isn’t the Trojan Horse the editorial makes it out to be. Rather than a blunt instrument for censorship or a “search for blame,” it’s a practical, transparent framework that codifies what many New Hampshire schools already do.
Ward 6 Alderman Crissy Kantor has suspended her bid for mayor and will instead run for re-election for the board of aldermen.
With this identification, investigators are seeking the public’s help looking into Nancy Erickson’s death.
Domestic violence-related charges against a Hillsborough County prosecutor were dropped Monday on condition he undergo a drug and alcohol evaluation and be of good behavior for a year.
The City of Manchester Health Department announced today that the public beach at Crystal Lake remains closed to swimming due to a confirmed cyanobacteria bloom.
There are no calling hours. A graveside service with military honors will take place Wednesday, July 9, 2025, at 11 a.m. in New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery, 110 Daniel Webster Highway, Boscawen followed by a celebration of life.
As the final preparations for the city’s Independence Day fireworks were taking place just a few blocks away, some urban planning fireworks were taking place inside Manchester City Hall’s Aldermanic Chambers as residents living near the Manchester/Londonderry border returned to express opposition to a site plan application for a proposed townhouse development at the Manchester Planning Board’s early July meeting.
So what exactly goes into making a park or outdoor space accessible? Let us dive in!
nd as of July 2, about 9,000 families have either completed or started an application for an education freedom account, Kate Baker Demers, the executive director of the fund, said last week. Not all of those families will finish and turn in those applications, Baker Demers said. But the numbers suggest the program could exceed lawmakers’ estimates of 7,500 students in the program next school year.
New Hampshire is represented in the 119th Congress by Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan in the US Senate, Chris Pappas (NH-01), and Maggie Goodlander (NH-92) in the House of Representatives. Below are notifications about some of their legislative activities from the past week
The Zoning Board will meet on Thursday, July 10 at 6 p.m.
The Committee to Save the Derry Rail Trail Tunnel and Rails to Trails Conservancy celebrated a victory Jult 1 in response to their lawsuit against the New Hampshire Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration challenging construction of Phase 2 of the Exit 4A I-93 expansion in Derry in order to protect the Manchester & Lawrence Railroad Historic District and the Derry Rail Trail.
On July 4, 2025, at approximately 5:38 p.m. the Derry Police Department responded to report of a motor vehicle crash involving a motorcycle at the intersection of East Derry and Pond roads. Arriving officers found a female laying in the roadway.
A special meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen will be held later this month to deal with the topic of 39 Beech St. with funding for the facility set to expire at the end of August.
On Tuesday, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen confirmed Thomas Malafronte to succeed Ted Kitchens as the new Director of Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.
On Tuesday, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen agreed to modification in the Parking Department’s personnel complement that would allow Parking Department Director Faye Morrison to hire a Parking Operations Superintendent, something she has said can be done within the department’s current budget.