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SEE Science Center’s Park2Park Community Clean-up: New Year, bigger impact

read more…: SEE Science Center’s Park2Park Community Clean-up: New Year, bigger impact

If you were out in Center City on April 20 you might have noticed a lot of activity. Monday marked the second year of SEE Science Center’s Park2Park Clean-up event, a collaborative effort between the Science Center, Manchester Connects, and the City of Manchester Parks, Recreation, and Cemetery Division, to prepare our city parks and the streets in between for Earth Day activities.

Good clean fun: Join one of the remaining Urban Pond Restoration clean-up events

read more…: Good clean fun: Join one of the remaining Urban Pond Restoration clean-up events

Since 2000, the Manchester Urban Ponds Restoration Program has coordinated 124 volunteer cleanups at Manchester’s urban ponds. Other groups have coordinated 15 additional cleanups at the urban ponds / or have been assisted by the Program in doing so. Thus, a total of 139 volunteer cleanups have occurred at Manchester’s urban ponds.

The Soapbox: Manchester will pay the price for a Constitutional tax ban

read more…: The Soapbox: Manchester will pay the price for a Constitutional tax ban

New Hampshire has always stood for something simple and powerful: local control, fiscal responsibility, and the freedom to make our own choices.

That’s exactly why a proposed constitutional amendment to permanently ban a state income tax is the wrong move—especially for cities like Manchester.

City government department heads provide requests following mayor’s proposed budget

read more…: City government department heads provide requests following mayor’s proposed budget

Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais released his Fiscal Year 2027 budget proposals for the Manchester School District and City of Manchester last month and, as part of the usual budget process, the Board of Mayor and Aldermen have been given requests to change the mayor’s proposed budget from the city government’s department heads.

The Foundation for NH Community Colleges awards record 1,650 scholarships totaling $1.1 million

read more…: The Foundation for NH Community Colleges awards record 1,650 scholarships totaling $1.1 million

The Foundation for New Hampshire Community Colleges (The Foundation), a charitable organization dedicated to supporting NH’s seven community colleges, awarded a record-breaking 1,650 scholarships totaling $1.1 million during the 2025–26 academic year. This represents the highest number of scholarships awarded in the organization’s 25-year history.

Defense Department terminates union protection for hundreds at Portsmouth Navy Shipyard

read more…: Defense Department terminates union protection for hundreds at Portsmouth Navy Shipyard

Last week, Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth notified most of the unions that have contracts with the department that their collective bargaining agreements are terminated, including American Federation of Government Employees and the and United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, which represent about 800 civilian workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, in Kittery, Maine.

Ayotte, Ruais visit The Founders Academy for John Stark Day Celebration

read more…: Ayotte, Ruais visit The Founders Academy for John Stark Day Celebration

The Founders Academy on April 13 celebrated the life of General John Stark with a school-wide assembly that included special guests Governor Ayotte, Manchester Mayor Ruais, NH Education Commissioner Catilin Davis, and members of The Founders Academy Board of Trustees. General John Stark is New Hampshire’s best-known Revolutionary War soldier and coined the state’s motto, “Live free or die: death is not the worst of evils.”

Despite the claims of New Hampshire’s leaders, towns are not to blame for high property taxes

read more…: Despite the claims of New Hampshire’s leaders, towns are not to blame for high property taxes

Downshifting costs, and blame, to red towns and blue towns alike has been instrumental to the state GOP’s “New Hampshire Advantage” ruse for a long time. In her inaugural address more than a year ago, Gov. Kelly Ayotte said, “Property taxes are a burden in New Hampshire in spite of the fact that the state is sending more money than ever before down to the local level.”

The Soapbox: Judge Not – a Christian’s moral stand against weaponizing religion

read more…: The Soapbox: Judge Not – a Christian’s moral stand against weaponizing religion

I am a Christian. I had an old fashioned, come-to-Jesus conversion experience as a young woman during the “Jesus Freak” era. For me, it wasn’t a fad; it was and is the real deal. We find ourselves living in an era where we have witnessed the rise of White Christian Nationalism in the United States; a trend that has now become a movement that is determined to make the U.S. a “Christian Nation.”

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