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This year marks the 81st anniversary of D-Day; a day that marked the beginning of the end of Hitler’s Third Reich, the day Allied forces traversed the English Channel, landed on Normandy beaches in the north of France, and pushed and kicked their way to Berlin.
Get yourself over to the Rex Theatre on June 24 for a community meeting during which you can learn more about – and speak up on – the matter of downtown walkability and pedestrian/accessibility improvements.
A city man was indicted on first-degree assault and other offenses in connection to a Feb. 7, 2025 stabbing outside Bunny’s Superette on Elm Street.
On Tuesday, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved the City of Manchester’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget at a grand total amount of $201,366,017 with the general fund coming in at $196,511,261.
On Wednesday, International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) Local 856 and the Manchester Police Patrolmen’s Association (MPPA) endorsed Kevin Cavanaugh in his campaign for Ward 1’s Aldermanic seat.
Derek “Brooklyn” Jones, the 60-year-old man found dead last week in a Union Street apartment building, was stabbed at least a dozen times with the knife left behind, lodged in his ribcage, according to court documents.
On Tuesday, June 3rd, Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) approved the sale of portions of city-owned land on Hackett Hill to the Manchester-based Socha Company, following recommendations by the BMA Lands and Buildings Committee earlier in the night to make the land surplus and forego a request for proposals (RFP) process.
Crisis Intervention Training is a nationally-recognized model of helping law enforcement respond with empathy and communication skills to successfully interact with individuals who might be experiencing a mental health or substance misuse crisis.
As part of the ongoing work of its efficiency committee established by order of the Supreme Court on April 11, the New Hampshire Judicial Branch is seeking feedback from any member of the public with experience in the state court system through an online survey.
“As we heard this morning, as we were talking about what the impact of potential cuts to the AmeriCorps program would be, it’s not going to save money,” said Senator Shaheen. “What it’s going to do is downshift those costs to local communities, and it’s going to actually cost us more. So this is all a foolhardy effort.”
The NH Senate Finance Committee’s recent meetings are a great example of this. Among the many issues the Senate has been tackling regarding HB1 & 2, is a small, financially insignificant budget issue regarding the State Council on the Arts – where I work, until June 26th, 2025, according to this committee’s latest decisions.
Teens can get a summer pass to any Planet Fitness on the planet.
On June 2, 2025, at approximately 1:40 a.m., Manchester Police officers responding to a burglary alarm on Spring Street heard two loud bangs coming from the direction of Elm Street.
As part of Tuesday’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen packet, any referendum “turning back the clock” on the Manchester School District to its status in relation to the City of Manchester before the current City Charter came into effect in July 1997 would have a nominal impact at best.
New Hampshire is represented in the 119th Congress by Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Senator Maggie Hassan in the US Senate, Chris Pappas (NH-01), and Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) in the House of Representatives. Below are notifications about some of their legislative activities from the past week.
The founder and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a for-profit drug and alcohol treatment company, Granite Recovery Centers (GRC) in New Hampshire, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for allegedly orchestrating a conspiracy to stalk journalists employed by New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) in retaliation for unfavorable reporting.
“And the fact, I was hoping that she actually would be able to respond accurately to the question of what habeas corpus is and I was anticipating that we would have perhaps a difference of opinion about how easy it is for a president to decide to suspend it, what kind of process they have to do. And instead, I found that she was giving me a definition that was completely inverted.”
Earlier this month, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen forgave $35,443.80 of a $55,000 recapture assessed to a man after he moved out of a home early after he used federal funding to obtain a loan for its initial purchase.
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.
