Our community is better with art

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Our community is better with art. Manchester Citywide Arts Festival, which begins this Sunday with a kick-off event at the Currier, celebrates the thriving cultural heart of our hometown. The Currier is part of a vibrant creative landscape full of historic institutions and vibrant new galleries, dance studios and eclectic boutiques, shelves stocked with wares from local makers. Art – whatever the form – is a vital force for connection.

Sept. 18: Interfaith Women of NH fall program – ‘Ancestry, Our Spiritual Heritage’

Sunday, September 7, 2025Monday, September 1, 2025

Interfaith Women of New Hampshire announce a fall program of Ancestry: “Our Spiritual Heritage,” on Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 6:45 p.m.

Pompous Jackassery: The Wrong-Crib Trilogy, Part 2

Monday, September 1, 2025

Three Tales of Misplaced Royalty, Existential Pancakes, and the Queen of the Sunrise Café

Back-to-school crisis: Are New Hampshire students getting the support they deserve?

Friday, August 29, 2025

As families across New Hampshire settle into the new school year, one crisis continues to loom — and it doesn’t wait for the first bell. Cuts to mental health programs and special education supports are leaving students without the help they need – and that affects every child, every classroom and every family.

Webster Elementary School food drive a major success

Friday, August 29, 2025

Ward 1 Board of School Committee Member Julie Turner and Manchester Planning Board Chair Bryce Kaw-uh on Friday delivered a truckload of food and hygiene products to the Webster Elementary School food pantry.

On the move: Eversource to move transformer on Sept. 3 from Hooksett to Manchester

Friday, August 29, 2025

As part of its everyday work to provide electricity to customers and communities, Eversource will be moving a large transformer from Hooksett to one of the company’s substations in Manchester.

One night is not enough

Friday, March 27, 2026Thursday, August 28, 2025

Here is a basic truism that I’m guessing anyone who has ever been married to another human being already knows: Marriage is hard.

Keene’s Ernest Hebert captures the tough and the tender in the ‘Darby Chronicles’

Friday, August 29, 2025Thursday, August 28, 2025

I moved to Manchester in September, 1978, from the Connecticut flatlands. I was just in time to witness the dart-in-the-forehead angst of Red Sox Nation when Yankee Bucky Dent sent the Sox crashing in a flaming spiral, and then the publication by Viking Press of the novel The Dogs of March by Ernest Hebert.

This side of the glass: The power of being real when we need help the most

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Being off work lately gave me time to really think, to feel. And what I realized in that space is this: I was made to help people.

The Weekender, Aug. 28-31: Applefest, Cruising Downtown, ‘Here to Pee,’ animal blessings + more

Thursday, August 28, 2025Thursday, August 28, 2025

The sun’s still out but there’s a slight chill in the air and we’re hanging onto the remnants of summer for dear life. Rock your coolest shades and get out of the house for some late season sunshine before it’s too late!