Carol Robidoux: Redefining the role of journalist with Manchester’s first hyperlocal online news site

Sunday, January 19, 2025Sunday, April 17, 2016

Former newspaper reporter and seasoned journalist Carol Robidoux has taken her two-year old Internet news service to nearly two million hits with exponential growth, validating her efforts. It’s time to hear about the journey of the woman who created the news and information you’ve come to rely on everyday. Listen in.

Please help me to take back our democracy

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Thursday, April 14, 2016

At age 68, I was arrested this week for he first time in my life. My misdemeanor offense, and that of my more than 400 fellow arrestees, was blocking the the front of the U.S. Capitol. We did it because big money is blocking us, and all ordinary Americans, from being heard – or at least heeded – by Congress.

Reauthorizing Health Care Expansion another historic step forward for our people, businesses and economy

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Wednesday, April 13, 2016

The New Hampshire Health Protection Program, more commonly known as Medicaid Expansion, has provided nearly 50,000 hard-working Granite Staters with the peace of mind and security that comes with quality, affordable health insurance. The people who are now covered are our friends and neighbors. They are our health care workers, restaurant employees, and construction workers, and the people who work in our schools and local grocery stores.

World tour: Catch acclaimed Nepalese poet at Griffin Free Library Tuesday

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Internationally acclaimed Nepalese poet Yuyutsu Sharma is making a stop on his tour of America at Griffin Free Public Library in Auburn on April 12 at 2 p.m.

Unitarian Church to hold free screening April 21 of ‘Where to Invade Next?’

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Thursday, April 7, 2016

A free screening of Michael Moore’s newest film, “Where to Invade Next,” will premiere in Manchester on Thursday, April 21 at 6 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 669 Union Street.

Dianne Carter: A sip of anniversary wine awakened her entrepreneurial spirit

Sunday, January 19, 2025Thursday, April 7, 2016

New England Uncorked, a wine and spirits brokerage company that only deals with regional products, something no one else is doing. And it all began with a glass of wine while visiting Mystic, CT. Listen in for the story.

April 19 educational forum on bullying at the Currier Museum

Sunday, January 19, 2025Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Panel discussion explores NH’s bullying law, who is at risk, and resources for parents, students and teachers – who may be eligible for professional development credits by attending this forum.

Lead the Way open house April 2 highlights equestrian program for at-risk girls

Sunday, January 19, 2025Saturday, April 2, 2016

On Saturday the public is invited to come and see what it’s all about during an open house at the farm in Raymond, at 119 Langford Road, from 2-4 p.m. for pony rides, raffles and the official ribbon cutting for a therapeutic equestrian program designed to help at-risk girls.

Ken Sheldon, aka Fred Marple: Founding father of Yankee reinvention – and Frost Heaves, NH

Sunday, January 19, 2025Monday, March 28, 2016

Ken Sheldon has put fictional town Frost Heaves on the map through the persona of quintessential Yankee Fred Marple. Listen in for the story behind the story – and find out how to get your tickets for the final performance of “Welcome to Frost Heaves,” April 8-9.

2016 Share the Music Gala: Get jazzed up & dance

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Friday, March 25, 2016

Tickets are available for the March 31 Manchester Community Music School “Share the Music Gala.” This is the organization’s primary fundraising event, which supports the tuition assistance fund, extending musical instruction and appreciation to local students.

From my kitchen window and beyond

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Thursday, March 24, 2016

I know what amuses me: Standing by my kitchen window (inside the house) and watching all my little friends arrive to feed off one simple little birdfeeder. Yes, I said ONE! The antics I can watch for hours just makes me smile. It’s fun watching a blue jay chasing away everyone as if he was the boss and had to have it all. Just like life, karma will always get you. I just love the picture of the blue jay sitting on my canopy rods waiting his turn as the squirrel does to him what he’s been doing to others and, hopefully, he has learned a lesson here: To be patient and let others have their turn.

Book Review: “The Maze Runner” by James Dasher

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Tuesday, March 22, 2016

The ending will surprise you and sets up the story for the sequel. Yes, this book is the first in a trilogy.

Zoe’s story proves puppy mills still a problem

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Thursday, March 17, 2016

“Many of the dogs were housed in tiny cages covered with feces and lacking clean water and food. We also witnessed the heartbreaking consequences of this cruelty — carcasses and piles of bones strewn across the property.”

Ed Brouder, Man from Mars: From candy hunter to radio archivist

Saturday, January 18, 2025Friday, March 11, 2016

Now that the Most Interesting Man Alive, aka the Dos Equis guy, is retiring, Ed Brouder may be a worthy successor. You won’t believe how he got his start in the radio biz.

Cremains of 50 ‘unclaimed souls’ to be buried after decades on shelf

Sunday, January 19, 2025Thursday, March 10, 2016

They are sometimes referred to as shelf people. They are men and women, young and old, rich and poor, from all different backgrounds and walks of life. The cremains are abandoned for many reasons: Some people have no families and thus no one to pick them up. Some family members can’t bear to claim the remains because the loss is felt so greatly. Some are simply left behind.

Joe Nelson, 102: A giant among men, a savior of our millyard

Sunday, January 19, 2025Thursday, March 10, 2016

See, Joe fell in love with a pretty switchboard operator here in town – the former Ruth Ball from Lake Avenue – and when Ruth agreed to marry Joe and follow him back to New York where an engineering job awaited him, Joe vowed that, one day, he would bring her back to her home town. And again, for those of us who love the Millyard, it was serendipity.

Girls at Work Inc. Diva Comedy Night March 19

Sunday, June 16, 2024Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Come out March 19 for this inspirational and high-spirited event at New Hampshire Institute of Art, 148 Concord St., Manchester. Showtime is 6 p.m.

Free family fun: Discover WILD NH April 16

Sunday, January 19, 2025Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Bring the family to Discover WILD New Hampshire Day, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s biggest community event of the year! The event is set for Saturday, April 16, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the grounds of the Fish and Game Department at 11 Hazen Drive in Concord. Admission is free.

Mayor Gatsas’s PR stunts will not solve the substance abuse crisis

Monday, September 23, 2024Friday, March 4, 2016

In what the Mayor himself acknowledged was nothing more than a measure to get media attention, he is now pushing for a 21-day State of Emergency to be called to raise public awareness of this important issue. The notion that we can solve this crisis by increasing public awareness at a time when families across our city know far too well about its devastating toll is absurd. Empty rhetoric in the face of a state-wide health crisis does nothing but put more people at risk.

Next act for Club Liquid: Sink-hole or Downtown oasis?

Sunday, January 19, 2025Friday, March 4, 2016

This week we take a look at 23 Amherst St., the former Rex Theatre, and more recently Club Liquid bar-pit. The City of Manchester – via the affiliated Manchester Development Corporation (MDC) – has issued a Request For Proposals (RFP) to buy-develop the site. The MDC did a good thing to acquire the property and offer it for redevelopment, or else it may have deteriorated indefinitely, as it is definitely a “challenging” property. Today I offer my 2 cents.