Author: John Angelo

From Cadillacs to carrot cakes

As it turns 100, the iconic Red Arrow Diner celebrates its history

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

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Defense co. creates stay, work, play in one site

New Hampshire entrepreneurs Ken and Grace Solinsky are experienced in creating businesses. On July 7, they cut the ribbon on something much more — an industrial, residential, child care, retail strip, all rolled into one.

Mental Health Care Concept. Hands Holding Paper Head With Brain

Benchmark at Rye completes expansion

Benchmark at Rye, an assisted living and mind and memory care community, opened a new 60,000-square-foot addition at its Route 1 campus, welcoming its first residents on May 1.

Full STEAM ahead for ArtLab

The Currier Museum of Art is expanding ArtLab, its hands-on, after-school STEAM partnership with Nashua Public Schools, after a pilot year that reached 58 students at four schools and connected classroom learning with art on view at the museum.

Dartmouth professor honored for developing ‘camera-on-a-chip’ that powers smartphones

Eric Fossum co-invented technology that grew out of research at NASA

Firing up the fans

When New Hampshire Fisher Cats General Manager Taylor Fisher was hired on Halloween of 2024, his bosses at Diamond Baseball Holdings (DBH) advised him to use his first year on the job to observe and evaluate the organization, and figure out what needed to be tackled.