Luke Testa remembers one of the most unusual items he and the Project PLAY team collected over the nonprofit’s 2 1/2-year existence. “It was a pair of really, really small pink Princess roller blades,” he recalled. But he and his…
While area nonprofits were nervous about possible cuts to their agencies in the Derry 2016 budget, Town Council Chairman Mark Osborne again said nothing was set in stone and everything was on the table. Nonprofits expressed concern about the budget…
The number of homeless children in the Derry Cooperative School District has remained stable for the past year, but it is up from a couple of years ago – and those are only the students who report themselves as homeless.…
Many local families have all they can do to put a meal on the table at the holiday season, and that is where the Derry Community Fund comes in, with its mission to strengthen and enrich the lives of those…
The Community Meals Network, which provides monthly free meals, put on a free Thanksgiving Day Dinner at Derry’s Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration last month. Organizer Mimi Cagle deemed it a great success, especially from the volunteer point of view.…
A couple of years ago the Free Community Meals Network produced a free, community Thanksgiving meal for those who would otherwise not have had a Thanksgiving meal or who would have spent the day alone. The members of the group…
The 28th annual Derry Holiday Parade will kick off on Saturday, Nov. 29, at 1 p.m., ushering in the holiday season. Festivities last until 3 p.m. And Derry Parks and Recreation steps in with its Very Derry Holiday activities from…
The Derry Demons’ youth football players’ moms played host to the Londonderry Wildcat moms in their first-ever powder puff grid meeting on Friday night, Oct. 17, at Humphrey Park in Derry. The home team came away with a slim 7-0…
Members of the Beaver Lake Improvement Association met at the bridge on Pond Road at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, and though few in numbers were big in enthusiasm. After coffee and doughnuts they took their blue bags and headed off to pick…
It’s often the simple gesture or unexpected act of kindness that means the most to a person. That’s what happened when Clam Haven owner Rick Metts reached out to a customer and made her day in a spontaneous act of…
