From Cadillacs to carrot cakes
As it turns 100, the iconic Red Arrow Diner celebrates its history
Author: John Angelo
Homelessness in New Hampshire: no easy fix for a complicated problem
Manchester organization seeks solution for a persistent, intractable issue
HOPE Outreach Committee addressing housing insecurity in Manchester
Local nonprofit looks to tackle Manchester’s homelessness and affordable housing shortages
UNH Manchester forum focuses on threats facing a free press
Panelists point to dangers facing journalists around the world
Residential services transition date nears at Crotched Mountain
New York firm’s takeover of programming set for Nov. 1
Q&A with Bob Lavoie of Bob’s Coins in Manchester
With the price of gold up 50% in 2020 and silver with a 51% gain over the same period, it’s a good time to catch up with Bob Lavoie, proprietor of Bob’s Coins in Manchester
Q&A with Community development advocate Woullard Lett
‘There is only one race, the human race,’ says Woullard Lett, past president of the Manchester NAACP and currently New England Regional Lead at the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Q&A with Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester’s Rik Cornell
‘We’ve had to find a better way to work with people’ since the pandemic began, says Rik Cornell of the Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester.
Q&A with World War II veterans William F. Cronin Jr., and Warren Pond
According to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, fewer than 325,000 of the 16 million Americans who served in the Armed Forces during World War II are still alive. Two of those World War II vets live in Wolfeboro and volunteer at the Wright Museum of World War II.
Manchester Proud plan approved by school board
Only one vote against, but criticisms are raised
Antiquarian bookstores find a home in NH
The literary treasures found, and searched for, in NH’s used bookstores
A new vision for Queen City schools
Manchester Proud to unveil proposed vision for district
More news from NHBR:
NH employers may lower health costs by supporting better health for employees
Diabetes costs the U.S. economy approximately $413 billion annually, including more than $106 billion in lost productivity.
Report: NH’s caregivers need support
A new report from the AARP concludes there’s an urgent need to support the tens of thousands of New Hampshire residents who serve as caregivers to people close to them.
$450M plan aims to supercharge heat pump use
New England winters can get wicked cold. Last week, five of the region’s states launched a $450 million effort to warm more of the homes in the often-frigid region with energy-efficient, low-emission heat pumps instead of burning fossil fuels.
What the latest data reveals about NH’s shifting economy and demographics
New Hampshire’s story is often told through familiar but false assumptions: retirees driving population change, Massachusetts buyers pushing up home prices, and a uniquely low-tax landscape keeping the state affordable.
NH Business Finance Authority approves world’s first bitcoin-backed municipal bond
The New Hampshire Business Finance Authority (BFA) board of directors has approved a financing structure that will make New Hampshire the first state in the world to issue a municipal bond backed by bitcoin.
New England Rural Health Association awarded $1.6m HRSA Northern Border RCORP grant
The award totals $1.6 million over four years and will support training, placement and sustainability efforts to strengthen the behavioral health workforce across rural Vermont and New Hampshire
Parkland to open standalone ER in Salem
A free-standing 24-hour emergency room operated by Parkland Medical Center was conditionally approved by planners Nov. 13
NH gets broadband money, just not as much as was originally promised
Despite some angst that the Trump Administration might vaporize the money, funds are coming to New Hampshire to expand broadband internet access throughout the state, although the amount isn’t what was originally allocated
In reversal, Hantz Marconi to no longer hear cases as NH Supreme Court justice
New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi will no longer take part in cases before the state’s highest court, telling her colleagues on the bench that she will instead focus on administrative tasks until she reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70 in February.
