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Letters: ‘Our town should stand on the right side of history’ – Merrimack State Reps speak in opposition to ‘human warehouses’

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Building a detention facility in Merrimack would make our town complicit in cruelty and human rights abuses. These facilities operate by warehousing human beings, often for months or years, under harsh conditions that dehumanize and traumatize adults and children alike. Detention has been shown to cause lasting psychological harm, particularly to asylum seekers and survivors of violence. No community that values dignity, fairness, and the rule of law should accept this.

‘I’ On Sports: Remembering Don Beleski, Part 1

read more…: ‘I’ On Sports: Remembering Don Beleski, Part 1

Due to the number of seasons that he has coached over his career, his “story” has been divided into two parts. The first segment covers his playing days and his years involved in coaching baseball. In Part 2, in addition to his years coaching football and basketball, you will be made aware of the amazing total number of seasons that Don has been a mentor to the youths of Manchester and around the state.

Not Toynbee Tiles: A new street mystery emerges in Manchester

read more…: Not Toynbee Tiles: A new street mystery emerges in Manchester

The first time I spotted one of these was in August of 2024. I didn’t know exactly what it was, but I knew I had seen something like it before online. That summer and fall, it seemed like everywhere I went in Manchester I saw them. But no one else seemed to notice and whenever I brought up the “lines and squares graffiti on the ground” no one knew what I was talking about.

A Holiday Plea for Decency

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Granted, morality is not always black and white, and plenty of people prefer to not “conform” to society’s standards and expectations. However, being a non-conformist does not absolve a person from being a “decent” human being.

The Soapbox: Taxpayers should be outraged at what the Education Freedom Accounts have become

read more…: The Soapbox: Taxpayers should be outraged at what the Education Freedom Accounts have become

New Hampshire taxpayers have every right to be angry. While we are told the state “cannot afford” to meet its constitutional obligation to public education, tens of millions of dollars are quietly being drained from the Education Trust Fund to subsidize private, religious, and homeschooling families who were never in our public schools to begin with.

Simply enjoying Christmas

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I love the Christmas season! I love Christmas! As a follower of Jesus, I celebrate His birth as well as the Hope that He brings to our crazy world, but I also recognize that Christmas has become more of a cultural and commercial holiday. I myself celebrate Christmas in part by buying gifts, attending plays and celebrations, and watching movies, (including those that have the “magic of Christmas”). I just stay grounded and keep Jesus at the center of everything that I do around the holiday – I remember it is really about His birth. 

Small business and being online at the end of the world

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I lost my job because of an online customer review. I don’t know the person’s name who wrote it, and I’ll never get to tell them what happened to me because of it. The person who fired me didn’t want to – she told me straightforwardly, “it’s my boss’s decision, I have no choice.” Her boss, if I know her at all, would also probably say, “it’s a business issue- nothing against you, but I have no choice.” 

The Soapbox: Santa says shift to reusables like paper, cardboard, glass, aluminum and metal

read more…: The Soapbox: Santa says shift to reusables like paper, cardboard, glass, aluminum and metal

Plastic pollution begins with production. Our Manchester Coca-Cola Company is fueled by good intentions, its corporate purpose ‘to refresh the world’. It helps mitigate the impacts of climate change by ‘using 35% to 40% recycled material in our primary packaging, including increasing recycled plastic use to 30% or 35% globally, as well as collecting 70% to 75% of the number of bottles and cans introduced into the market annually’. Yet, harnessing 100,000 to 150,000 gallons of  water daily from the industry’s primary source, the Merrimack River, for the purpose of beverage production, would seemingly put the river at risk.

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