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Manchester, NH
101Events this week
12Free things to do
89New spots
93New stories

● Checked this morning, before the 6 AM send.

This week in Manchester

Five picks from this week's calendar. See all 101 events, day by day →

7th Annual Prospects Athletics Foundation Golf Tournament

Friday 9am · Derryfield Country Club

Farmer's Market

Friday 10am · Nevins Memorial Library · Free

Candlelight: Tribute to Taylor Swift

Friday 3pm · Simons Theatre

Family Pumpkin Painting

Friday 3:30pm · Manchester City Library

Milford Pumpkin Festival

Friday 5pm · Milford Oval

New in Manchester

Places that opened, reopened, or earned a mention this month — the ones we'd go back to.

LAVO Beauty Co

Beauty

Time for a glow-up: Big event on the calendar or just want to stop looking Zoom-tired, LAVO Beauty Co delivers wedding-caliber makeup, on-trend brow and lash upgrades, facials, dry styling, and even one-on-one lessons.

lavobeauty.com ↗

Mast Road Kitchen & Bath

Home & Garden

Kitchen dreams, delivered: Mast Road Kitchen & Bath pairs you with a designer who turns ideas into real plans, then helps you choose quality products from top brands, all backed by Mast Road Grain & Building Materials that has served the community since the early 1900s.

mastroadlumber.com ↗

SoHo Bistro & Lounge

Restaurants

Cocktails worth the trip: SoHo Bistro & Lounge mixes an upscale vibe with genuinely good American eats and crafty pours like The Hemingway daiquiri, plus those steak & cheese spring rolls you didn’t know you needed.

sohonh.com ↗

Manchester’s best businesses

Every spot worth knowing, in one place.

The restaurants, shops, and services the newsletter recommends, all in one place — every listing checked, and paid pins marked every time.

Browse Manchester’s best →

Most read in Manchester

The five stories Manchester readers clicked most this month, from the daily editions.

  1. Around the horn with Ruais: Nashville flights taking off, sh...

    MHT has held public meetings in Londonderry and Manchester to hear from residents, airport travelers, businesses, and community groups as it updates its master plan.

    Full story at unionleader.com ↗

  2. The Outside Story ~ Smooth Slender Crabgrass: A Quiet Engineer to Remember

    The New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau declared smooth slender crabgrass (Digitaria laeviglumis) extinct in 2022 due to soil degradation and soil erosion.

    Full story at dailybulldog.com ↗

  3. Manchester property management company settles federal Fair Housing Act case - Manchester Ink Link

    A Manchester property management company and two others have agreed to pay a tenant $20,000 and provide rent credits to settle federal allegations that they retaliated against him after he filed a housing discrimination complaint.

    Full story at manchester.inklink.news ↗

  4. Structural deficiencies seen on inspection shut Manchester bridge indefinitely

    A routine inspection in Manchester, New Hampshire, has resulted in the closure of the Queen City Bridge, which carries Route 3 over the Merrimack River.

    Full story at nbcboston.com ↗

  5. 4 New Hampshire Restaurants Just Opened, Including One With a Dinosaur Theme

    New restaurants have opened in New Hampshire in August 2026, including a nonalcoholic restaurant and bar in Manchester, New Hampshire.

    Full story at wokq.com ↗

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