Thursday, June 23, 2011

Manchester New Hampshire

By Chris Charles


Manchester stands out as the premier urban centre within the state of New Hampshire and north of Boston within an area comprising the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. With a population more than 109,000 persons, it is rated 13th in the list of the hundred best towns to live in CNN.MONEY.com, and additionally has been voted the 2nd most tax friendly urban centre in the usa by Kiplinger's. Manchester possesses one of the fastest expanding economic climates in New England. Manchester boasts a four-season weather conditions with snowy winter months and warm summers, spring and autumn usually are crisp and brief changes.

The city presents a lot of ethnic activities at the historic Palace Theatre, the Currier Museum of Art and also the New Hampshire Institute of Art. The Verizon Wireless Arena is a civic center which hosts a number of occasions, from sports activities to concerts together with significant recording artists, comics, theatrical stage productions along with family driven programs and fairs.

The school system has 4 public high schools, four public middle schools in addition to fourteen public elementary schools. Furthermore there are various private and faith based schools. You can find 7 post secondary school in the region. The city is served by four newspapers, a New Hampshire public television station and one commercial television station, WMUR-TV Channel 9, an ABC affiliate, along with varied AM and FM radio stations.

Manchester is home to Fischer Cats, a minor baseball team, and the Monarchs, AHL professional ice hockey. Regarding transportation the city provides the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, which is serviced by nearly all major air carriers, with the largest share held by Southwest Airlines. The airport possesses international service via Air Canada to Ontario and Toronto. Public transportation is supplied by Manchester Transit Authority which works buses throughout the city. Concord Trailways and Boston Express operate commuter services to Boston and other regions of the state.

Significant highways include Interstates 93 and 293, and also the Everett Turnpike which are multi-lane highways and join the metropolitan area to Concord and the White Mountains to the north, and Nashua and Boston to the south. NH 101 is a 4 lane highway eastbound from Manchester to Hampton and beaches on the seacoast as well as Maine and Interstate 95 to the north shore of Massachusetts. Westbound NH 101 is a 2 lane highway serving as the chief artery to Keene, the Monadnock region and points west. Manchester possesses a couple of primary retail areas: downtown Manchester and South Willow Street. The Mall of New Hampshire is situated on South Willow Street, exceeding 125 stores.




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