MANCHESTER – The Manchester Community Music School would like to congratulate Canterbury resident Henry Arlinghaus on being named Musician of the Month for March. Henry, now 21 years old, has been attending the Music School for 8 years. He started studying piano with Elizabeth Hodges in fall ...

Four teachers in the Bedford schools have been awarded grants from The Craftworkers’ Guild to support arts and crafts education in their classrooms. Kathy Parker, an enrichment teacher at Riddle Brook School, has been awarded a $500 grant to create a Maker Space Station. This will be a ...

KEENE – Abhinav Govindaraju, a seventh grader from Ross A. Lurgio Middle School, Bedford, took top honors at the 2017 New Hampshire National Geographic Bee held March 31 at Keene State College. The state champion received $100, a medal, the National Geographic Concise Atlas of the World, 4th ...

Hollis Brookline High School English teacher Ann Melim was reading “Kookooland” and realized she had a question about a certain part of the novel. She decided to email the author, Gloria Norris. The two began a conversation that culminated with a visit from the author on April 10. ...

AMHERST – A garden isn’t just for growing food, it’s also a place to renew your body, mind and spirit. That was the gist of Ellen Ecker Ogden’s recent talk to the Amherst Garden Club. Ogden is a garden artist, speaker and cookbook author based in Manchester, Vt. Her slide presentation ...

MONROVIA, Calif. – Trader Joe’s, a unique, neighborhood grocery store with foods and beverages ranging from the everyday to the exotic, has signed a lease for a new location in Bedford. The store is scheduled to open in the second half of 2018. The store will be approximately 13,000 square ...