1. Silverstone Living celebrated the groundbreaking of a 16-home, two-story expansion of its retirement community, The Huntington at Nashua, on May 13. Current and future community residents joined Silverstone staff. The expansion will see one-bedroom with den units, and two-bedroom style apartments offered across three possible floor plans.
2. FEEDNH.org recently awarded a car — a 2024 Honda Civic CRV-EXL presented by AutoFair Honda — to David Appleby, of Windham, as part of a fundraiser celebrating the nonprofit’s 10th anniversary. Appleby, second from left, claimed the car with FEEDNH.org and AutoFair officials at the Copper Door restaurant in Bedford on June 3. He was one of 10 finalists randomly selected among 1,000 tickets purchased for $100 each. FEEDNH.org’s mission is to “support local New Hampshire Families, the Elderly, Education and the Disadvantaged.”
3. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover — part of the Mass General Brigham network — launched its new pediatric hospitalist program in May in collaboration with Mass General for Children. The program allows patients under age 18 access to a pediatric hospitalist on-site 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Children entering the hospital via the emergency department will be cared for by the same hospitalist during their inpatient stay.
4. Benefits marketplace operator FedPoint, based in Portsmouth, announced the recipients of its 2024 FedPoint Nursing Scholarship on May 21, chosen over 150 applicants graduating high school and entering an accredited nursing program this fall. The recipients are Farmington’s Callie Rocheleau; Epping’s Annabelle Shumway; Kingston’s Lauren Varney; and Londonderry’s Anna Windisch. The four students were awarded $5,000 and honored at FedPoint’s headquarters.
5. NH school students in 5th-12th grade publicly expressed their mental health journeys through visual artwork, essays, videos and performances among the mediums used, with 44 submissions total as part of the sixth-annual Magnify Voices Expressive Art Contest. A celebration event on May 22 at New England College in Henniker allowed students to exhibit their work, joined by a keynote from Plymouth State University graduate student Alexa Felix, and an awards presentation featuring 12 finalists.
6. The M&T Bank Foundation recently granted $10,000 to the nonprofit Hannah Grimes Center in Keene, supporting the center’s entrepreneurial assistance to food systems, child care, energy and housing challenges. The funds will allow Hannah Grimes to bring resources to entrepreneurs of those sectors with accelerator programs, bring more visibility to regional food and child care sectors with programs like the Farm Business Lab, pictured, and convene key regional figures to devise solutions to these challenges.
7. The Southern NH Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon-cutting for the Performance Pavilion at Salem’s Field of Dreams Park. The pavilion brings an entertainment venue to the park, hosting concerts, plays and community events. Salem restaurant Par28 and the band Salem Boyz celebrated the opening with chamber officials and community members.
