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All I want for Christmas …

With Christmas shopping season about to commence Black Friday with the fury of a Filene’s Running of the Brides, I put down my Costco sale flyer long enough to steal a glance at Esquire magazine. The feature, “34 Unique Gifts for Men,” seemed like it would be helpful for whoever gets my ...

Fiscal agency: Being smarter with our community’s resources

Please raise your hand if you think we need more nonprofits in Greater Nashua? You might be surprised to learn that a simple search on GuideStar shows that there are over 400 registered nonprofits in our community. Some of these are very large with budgets in the tens of millions of dollars, ...

NCC set to host conference

New England governors and college leadership teams will come together at Nashua Community College Nov. 28 - 29 for the next Governance Institute for Student Success. The Governance Institute for Student Success helps leaders in higher education make the best decisions for student success ...

Thanksgiving here already? Let’s turn back the clock and slow it down a bit

Seriously? Thanksgiving is really less than a week away? Talk about sneaking up on us. Or is it just me once again forgetting to watch my back? Well, the upside, I suppose, is an early Thanksgiving always means a late Christmas, as the late linguist Yogi Berra might say. Speaking of ...

First Church and 333 years of community

“The opposite of poverty is not wealth, but community. In community, individuals become rich, rich in friends who can be trusted, rich in mutual help, rich in ideas and power, rich in the energies of solidarity.” – Jurgen Moltmann How does architecture shape space, reinvent place and ...

If you really want to treat yourself, get a pedicure

I think that everyone should get pedicures. And massages, too. But let’s talk feet, shall we? I don’t think I had a pedicure before say, the age of forty. And I cannot remember what occasion demanded I get a pedicure – perhaps attending a summer wedding, but after I had my first one, ...