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On Wednesday, May 21; the Manchester Board of School Committee’s Committee on Education Legislation held a discussion relating to an injunction around what has become known as the “Dear Colleague Letter.”
The New Hampshire Department of Education made the announcement Friday. The teachers were selected from a total of 105 nominees and 29 applicants.
During their Tuesday, May 20th meeting, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) Committee on Accounts and Administration voted to recommend that a question be put to the voters this fall on whether the Manchester School District (MSD) should be a department of the city government. However, it remains to be seen what exactly that will mean.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte on Thursday signed into law NH House Bill 511 and NH Senate Bill 62 which ban sanctuary cities and support cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.
Police are asking the public’s help in finding the driver of a vehicle – possibly a silver SUV – that left a man unconscious and injured on Tuesday.
According to a police narrative of the incident, on May 2, 2025, at approximately 1 a.m., a ShotSpotter aler — an acoustic gunshot detection system used by the city — was triggered in the area of 429 Wilson Street. As officers responded, dispatch received a separate 911 call reporting that a person had been shot.
The public session had a diverse array of approx. 20 speakers, from age 7 (with her father) to 65 (at least), who spoke in favor of the Pine Street paving with the addition of a bike lane.
Derry Police along with the state Attorney General’s office are jointly investigating a homicide.
Chief Daniel Douidi reports that the Bedford Police Department successfully returned $17,500 to an elderly resident after an investigation into a report of computer fraud.
During the new business period of the May 20th Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting, Ward 5 Alderman Tony Sapienza announced that he will not be seeking to run for a seventh term later this year.
On Monday, May 19th, the Manchester Fire Department gifted a sport utility vehicle to HOPE for NH Recovery to assist individuals living in the city with substance use disorder seeing recovery services.
Despite objections from civil libertarians, educators and librarians, the N.H. Senate has passed a Republican-backed bill aimed at prohibiting “obscene or harmful sexual material” from being disseminated at public schools.
The Board of School Committee gathered on Monday, May 19 for a special meeting to discuss budgetary next steps forward on what reductions should be made to bridge the approximately $9.5 million gap between the school district’s proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget bottom line they recommended to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen and the budget that the Board of Mayor and Aldermen ultimately approved.
“I’d just like to say that as public educators, our number one commitment is to do what is best for our students. And we achieve that through federal funding. So, largely our federal funding. goes to our most at-risk kids. It is students from low-income families. It is students who are homeless. It is students with social and emotional needs.”
It’s boxy, angular, and typically yellow. And when it lights up on a car dashboard, the next step is often hundreds of dollars in repairs.
But some in New Hampshire believe the “check engine” light is not always reliable, and that its presence can cause vehicles to fail their state inspection even when everything is working fine.
Fire officials credit quick action by a fitness center manager that helped reduce damage to the building after a fire broke out inside the multi-business warehouse.
Attorney General John M. Formella is part of a bipartisan coalition of 40 state attorneys general that has sent a letter to Congress voicing opposition to a sweeping amendment to the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s budget reconciliation bill. The amendment would impose a 10-year prohibition on states from enforcing any laws or regulations addressing artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making systems.
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.
If deemed surplus by the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen, the City of Manchester looks to sell three vacant parcels of land with the intention of adding the proceeds going into the city’s affordable housing trust.
