The after school issue — 08/18/22

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It’s almost time to go back to school! Whether your kids are looking for a creative outlet through art, music or theater, or they want to stay active with baseball or soccer, check out this guide featuring all kinds of extracurricular activities they can enjoy after the school day is over.

Also on the cover Hannah Turtle gives you all the details on the return of Nashua’s Greeley Park Art Show (page 17). Katelyn Sahagian discovers how the town of Hillsborough is celebrating its 250th anniversary with its annual History Alive event (page 22). And it’s a weekend of food festivals in Manchester with the return of both the Mahrajan Middle Eastern Food Festival (page 28) and the We Are One Festival (page 29).

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Absentee voting Absentee ballots for the 2022 New Hampshire state primary election are now available to voters. According to a ...
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New program facilitates healthy connections Through a new contracted partnership with the New Hampshire Department of Education, One Trusted Adult, ...
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Another week with too much going on for a once a week column. With Chaim Bloom’s baseball visions sending fan ...
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Gas going down The average price of gasoline in New Hampshire went down by 11.6 cents per gallon last week, ...
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Big Events August 18, 2022 and beyond Thursday, Aug. 18 Londonderry’s Old Home Days, set for Wednesday, Aug. 17, through ...
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Your guide to the soccer leagues, martial arts classes, dance lessons and more to get your kid excited for fall ...
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Greeley Park Art Show returns By Hannah Turtle hturtle@hippopress.com In its 69th year, the Greeley Park Art Show returns to ...
The latest from NH’s theater, arts and literary communities • A week of art in Boscawen: Twiggs Gallery (254 King ...
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Think ahead and don’t buy on impulse First, August is not the best time for planting trees. Most experts suggest ...
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Dear Donna, Can you share some information on this child’s tin plate? Thanks for any help, Ann in Salem Dear ...
Family fun for the weekend Family fun • Get kids interested in Manchester’s mural-creating event Community Canvas, which runs through ...
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Hillsborough’s History Alive celebrates town’s 250th By Katelyn Sahagian ksahagian@hippopress.com This year’s History Alive event in downtown Hillsborough is going ...
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Jamaican musician returns home to the Granite State By Katelyn Sahagian ksahagian@hippopress.com Music is the heartbeat of the world — ...
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Tree stump removal specialist Timothy Willey is the owner and operator of Ground Zero Stumps, a tree stump grinding service ...
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News from the local food scene • Celebrate with spuds: Join The Potato Concept for its one-year anniversary celebration at ...
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Mahrajan Middle Eastern Food Festival returns to Manchester By Jack Walsh listings@hippopress.com For the past 50 years the Mahrajan Middle ...
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We Are One Festival returns A celebration of the region’s Latin American, African and Caribbean cultures, the We Are One ...
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Lauren D’Agostino of Manchester is a plant-based chef, cooking coach and the owner of Chef Lauren’s Table (cheflaurenstable.com), which specializes ...
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Bread pudding is a fairly simple dessert that has a comforting quality to it, or at least to me it ...
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A man walks into a bar with a pineapple on his head. The bartender asks, “Hey, what’s with the pineapple?” ...
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Sampa The Great, As Above So Below (Loma Vista Recordings) Commercial African music isn’t strictly relegated to Afrobeat, a fact ...
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts by Isaac Fitzgerald (Bloomsbury, 242 pages) When people outside of New England think about Massachusetts, they think about ...
Local music news & events • Piano man: Mixing music, commentary and an overhead piano camera, Frederick Moyer offers an ...
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Bluegrass with Bella White in Portsmouth It’s understandable to mistake Bella White’s debut album, Just Like Leaving, for a mid-20th-century ...

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