Andrew Sylvia

Fall has officially fallen on Manchester and Manchester Ink Link Assistant Editor Andrew Sylvia sat down with Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais to catch up on what went down at City Hall in October and what's coming up in local government.

The Office of the New Hampshire Attorney General is reporting that it has received several complaints about anonymous political advertising mailers regarding New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate race that did not identify what person or entity was responsible for the content of advertisement.

On Thursday, Hope for NH Recovery held a ribbon cutting for the Pivot Program, an eight-bed low-barrier short-term crisis housing and recovery initiative located at the corner of Wilson and Valley Streets.

This month, the New Hampshire Food Bank received two significant donations to help in its goal to support fight hunger throughout the Granite State.

As she approaches retirement from the U.S. Senate, Jeanne Shaheen warned an audience at the Saint Anselm College New Hampshire Institute of Politics (NHIOP) that American disengagement from the world is weakening the country's security and economy, urging a new generation of leaders to rebuild global alliances.

The Luther “Coop” Cooper softball field at Wolfe Park is now officially renovated, marking a key phase of recreational infrastructural improvements in the immediate area.

Eight candidates for New Hampshire's major statewide and federal offices answered questions Sunday Oct. 25, 2026 at Temple Adath Yeshurun, continuing a biennial tradition dating back over 50 years. Moderated by former U.S. Ambassador to Belize George Bruno, each candidate appeared separately, delivering opening and closing remarks and answering questions submitted by attendees.

For a second, imagine a professional sports team. But not just any sports team, a sports team that comes from and represents its community, or even a greater set of communities that community finds itself in. Now imagine that professional sports team does not yet exist, but there are a group of people that want it to exist and have seen similar examples of it happening elsewhere. This was the scene at Republic Brewing Company on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026.

or the second straight meeting, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen accepted a nomination for a Board of School Committee vacancy that violated what had been seen an unspoken Aldermanic tradition stretching back for decades.

In 2024, New Hampshire State Senate District 18 was the second closest in the state as Republican Victoria Sullivan defeated Democratic State Senate Leader Donna Soucy by 748 votes. Two years later, the district’s voters in Manchester and Litchfield are being bombarded with negative messaging against Sullivan and challenger Leonard Bell in what could be a race that is just as tight.

Jose Marte, a Republican candidate for State Representative in Ward 9, is facing severe criticism over a pair of social media posts construed as threats of violence against people with political views differing from his own.

With time running out before Election Day, Democrat Cinde Warmington and Republican Kelly Ayotte traded blows in what became a contentious Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce New Hampshire Gubernatorial Debate at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College on Tuesday, Oct. 20.

A proposed 16-lot single-family development just off Wellington Road received a variance from the Manchester Zoning Board of Adjustment during its October 2026 meeting, the latest in a series of approvals from Manchester’s land use boards for expected new housing in the immediate area.

U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon visited Manchester on Thursday, Oct. 15, promoting school choice and the Trump administration's plans to shift federal education responsibilities to other agencies, while local Democrats warned that those policies threaten public schools.

With Election Day now less than three weeks away, U.S. Senate candidates Chris Pappas and John E. Sununu were on hand at the Saint Anselm College New Hampshire Institute of Politics on Wednesday, Oct. 14 to share their perspectives on securing the future of Social Security in a forum hosted by AARP New Hampshire.

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Ward 5 Alderman Jason Bonilla has submitted a letter to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen nominating Shirley Tomlinson for the role of Board

As the first full month of the 2026-’27 School Year was coming to a close, leaders of the Manchester School District told members of the Manchester Board of School Committee (BOSC) that class size issues were improving, but staffing problems remained.

The city’s recent property value reassessment drew criticism and concern during the Oct. 6, 2026 Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) meeting with the deadline to challenge preliminary property revaluation assessments looming in the near future.

In a 7-5 roll call vote, the Manchester Board of Aldermen have accepted the nomination of Don Spencer over Randy Tremblay to replace outgoing Ward 7 Manchester Board of School Committee (BOSC) Member Chris Potter.

Although the Manchester School District saw mixed results in recently released 2026 state assessments, district officials reported at the September Board of School Committee (BOSC) Teaching and Learning Committee that several Manchester public schools posted double digit improvements in the state assessments and are now attempting to understand why these particular schools excelled and whether their efforts can be replicated elsewhere.