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Brown, 29, is the state’s youngest municipal energy manager, serving as the City of Nashua’s first-ever Energy Manager since 2019. In that time she has helped spearhead the creation of the Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire, making Nashua a founding member of the CPCNH, and bringing Community Power to Nashua’s residents.
Imagining code that serves the city 50 years in the future, connects the community to the space they live in, and guides investment is a complex project. Anticipating changes like rail or other future transportation modes, keeping quality of life a priority, and enhancing Nashua’s existing features are all factors under consideration.
“We get the day off, state buildings are closed, that’s all great and good, but do people really know why?” she said. “It’s about freedom. We broke free from the chains of slavery. That was a time when black people … came together to build community amongst each other and for each other, so if people now in this day and age know what it really was and [what] people did, then maybe it will force us to come back together as a people and unite and just be stronger.”
Personnel from the Nashua Public Library, Nashua school district and Public Health and Community Services went before the Ad Hoc Capital/Debt Committee to present their upcoming projects, plans and needs.
Of all the questions and comments shared at the second Code Week workshop on enhancing housing Tuesday night, most concerned affordable housing.
“We aim to serve two communities,” said Danny Johnston, the marketing specialist for Operation Delta Dog, which is based in Hollis. “Veterans – particularly those who are diagnosed and suffer from PTSD and traumatic brain injury (TBI), and those who have experienced military sexual trauma (MST) – and shelter dogs.”
The origins of Nashua’s prosperity were built on the namesake river that flows through it. In the 1820s the Nashua Manufacturing Company and Jackson Mills began to harness the power it provided in their cotton mills. Today with those mills a distant memory the river still provides power to the city.
YHDP is a two-year grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to end youth and young adult homelessness. Once a request for proposals is released, local agencies will be able to submit proposals for projects that in some way focus on housing for youth between the ages of 18 and 25.
The Board of Education approved Superintendent Dr. Andrade’s recommendation to appoint Trisha Kaufmann as the principal of New Searles Elementary School at the board meeting on Monday night.
“[My platform] is called ¡Cuéntame!, which for Spanish-speaking people is like [saying] ‘hey, what’s up? Tell me,’” Medina said of the Spanish word that translates to ‘story me’.
“I came to it with my daughter’s help,” she added. “She said ‘how about cuéntame? Story me’ … and it gave me an immediate, sort of poetic image of story me, cover me in story, fill me with stories. It completely seemed to me how the very young would hear the word cuéntame.”