After School Adventure — 08/14/2025

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Back! To! School! OK, maybe all kids aren’t as excited for the new school year but maybe some extracurricular fun will get them looking forward to fall. In this week’s cover story, we present our annual roundup of some area sports, arts, music, dance, martial arts and other activities to bring fun to the after-school hours. Know of an extracurricular we didn’t include? Let us know at adiaz@hippopress.com and we may include it in a future Kiddie Pool column.

Also on the cover, It’s a food festival weekend in Manchester with We Are One Festival serving up Latin American and Caribbean eats and Mahrajan Middle Eastern Food Festival featuring shawarma, baklawa and more. See those stories starting on page 22. For some art fun, head down to Nashua for the annual Greeley Park Art Show (page 20).

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