After 16 seasons of working Holiday retail hell, six of which I was forced to listen to a looping disco Christmas tape, I run with all possible haste away from Black Sabbath Friday and Soul Sacrifice Cyber Monday.
Instead, I offer a more substantial but totally unattainable Holiday and New Year’s wish list:
This weekend is sure to light up your life with holiday cheer! It’s got ugly sweater parties. It’s got craft markets. It’s got holiday parties. It’s got The Polar Express. It’s even got Astronaut Santa. From the NH World Christmas Market at Anheuser Busch Biergarten, to The Grinch Paint Night at Chunky’s, to holiday pet portraits at Bonfire, you’re bound to find something to get you in the holiday mood!
Granite State Generosity welcomeS the start of ski and snowboard season with the return of the 9th Annual Bob Gilman Fun Run Ski & Snowboard Race. This year’s event will take place at Manchester’s winter playground, McIntyre Ski Area, on Sunday, January 25th.
Bull riding is not rooted in ranch work. Real cowboys have far more important tasks, and no one on a working ranch would waste time forcing an animal into a frantic display that would make life harder for them both. Bull riding is nothing more than a contrived and inhumane spectacle.
Manchester Parks and Recreation Department just announced the launch of the very first trip in the brand-new Community Bus Trip Series— kicking things off with an unforgettable outing to cheer on the Boston Celtics as they take on the Washington Wizards at TD Garden!
Meet Karen Rosenberg and Tara McGee – hard to miss this dynamic duo if you attended Sunday’s Merrymaking on the Merrimack as their distinctive headgear was second to their Siamese Twin-sweater which was rivaled by their intermittent but quite intentional baton twirling.
How these West Merrimack St. neighbors built an annual street party for all.
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.
Recently, M&T Bank donated $20,000, along with 100 turkeys and fixings, to the New Hampshire Food Bank, a program of Catholic Charities New Hampshire, to support families in need this Thanksgiving. In addition to the monetary donation, volunteers from M&T Bank and the Food Bank prepared the packaged turkeys and fixings for distribution to local families.
Instead of Howdy Doody we had Scooby Do. We heard all about Woodstock and the Summer of Love but watched the Watergate hearings on TV with our Mom and raced home every day after school to watch Dark Shadows. My older siblings loved Bandstand and the Jerry Blavet show on our local Philly TV stations. My little sister and I watched Soul Train. One of my older siblings and I compared our childhood experiences once and realized they were nothing alike. It was like we were raised in two different families. And by two different sets of parents.