Local voices chime in on a variety of topics.
At a time when shrillness and discord seem to dominate politics, Manchester came together to welcome its first female mayor Joyce Craig to a second term in office yesterday.
I’m no legal expert. But when I hear “act of God,” I think about hurricanes and tornadoes, Noah-level floods, plagues of frogs, stuff like that. Especially here in New Hampshire, snow and cold temperatures don’t strike me as an act of God. More like the cold hard latitude and longitude of living in the northeast. We prepare for it. We allow for it when it comes to things like buying a year’s worth of road salt, or setting aside enough money to pay plow drivers overtime during a snow storm.
Just a month after putting it up, Manchester says it will now spend $25,000 to move the gate that blocks access to the new Walmart from Upper Gold Street.
Parking tickets suck. But the new Manchester NH Connect mobile app makes it practically painless to pay up. I said practically!