Manchester News

September continues to be a very busy month of events and news of interest hopefully to veterans and their families, so here we go again.

The Manchester VA is sharing a list of announcements for this month.

We can all learn from the past, and in this case prominent city forefathers like the Greeley brothers are in the spotlight.

The man who nearly killed a Manchester woman on Thanksgiving Day will spend the next five years in the New Hampshire Secure Psychiatric Unit after he appeared in a Hillsborough County courtroom and pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity on Wednesday.

The 104th annual Danbury Grange Community Fair will take place Saturday.

To the Editor: We have come to know Richard Johnson over the past several years and know Richard's passion to serve the people of Bow and Dunbarton as their state representative.

Why do we continue to fight in Afghanistan?

SOME PEOPLE are very angry about President Trump's new Supreme Court pick.

If demographics are destiny, New Hampshire received some good news in a new report on population growth in the 50 states.

Do you trust your aldermen or selectmen with your paycheck?

Time was, there was no other American place quite like it. Fifty-six years ago ' a long time in adaptable America's adjustment of its behavior to its creed ' this university town was a few weeks from the U.S. Army's arrival to assist the matriculation of James Meredith.

Mail delivery has resumed to all New Hampshire prisons and other corrections facilities, state corrections officials said Wednesday.

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The public is invited to the 19th Annual New England Paralyzed Veteran and Disabled Bass Fishing Tournament held at Camp Robindel, Geneva Point Road, Moultonborough, Saturday, Sept. 8.

The American Legion Griggs-Wyatt Post 33 of Meredith will conduct a 911 commemoration Tuesday, Sept. 11, at noon in Hesky Park.

It was bound to happen but this sure got bitter at the very end.

The president of the city firefighters union said he is very disappointed with a vote by Mayor Joyce Craig to reject a contract proposal brought before the Board of Mayor and Aldermen Tuesday night.

Residents of the New Hampshire Veterans Home will mark the 17th anniversary of the 911 terrorist attacks on America at a public Patriot Day ceremony on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the home.

For the past two years, Salem resident Denise Robbins has put away her dollars and change to collect backpacks and stuff them with needed supplies for local at-risk and homeless veterans.

To the Editor: Our close friend Barry Newcomb is running for sheriff of Rockingham County.