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Bedford News

American Red Cross seeks volunteers to install smoke alarms

MANCHESTER – The American Red Cross is seeking people to volunteer their time and help save lives at the Sound the Alarm home fire safety and smoke alarm installation event on May 5, 2018 in Manchester from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. “Sound the Alarm in Manchester and be part of the nationwide ...

Manchester Development Corporation names board chairman

MANCHESTER – At its annual meeting in March, Manchester Development Corporation (MDC) named Don St. Germain chairman of the board of directors. St. Germain, executive vice president and chief lending officer at St. Mary’s Bank, joined the MDC board in 2015. MDC, a nonprofit that supports ...

Make a ceramic poppy to honor veterans

The Craftworkers’ Guild, in coordination with the local Richard K. Harvel Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Stevens-Buswell Post of the American Legion, invites members of the public to join guild members in making life-size ceramic poppies that will honor veterans as part of a ...

Bedford Boy Scout Troop 5 to host yard sale

BEDFORD – Warmer weather is finally on the way. As we shed our winter coats and welcome the spring weather, many of us are clearing out some clutter around our homes. Bedford Boy Scout Troop 5 is standing by to receive all those spring cleaning donations from basements and ...

Man’s passion for guitar repair gives the gift of music

MANCHESTER – It’s 9 a.m. on a Monday morning. While most people are just grabbing that first cup of coffee and getting settled at their desks, 20-year-old Tristan Aho can be found busily at work in the Manchester Community Music School instrument library refurbishing donated ...

World of wheels

AMHERST – Bicycles are so common we forget they weren’t always here and that the history of two-wheeled, human-powered transportation is long and complicated. Zip Zamarchi, from Eliot, Maine, was in Amherst recently to talk about bicycles and display some of his collection of antique ...