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The current Nashua mayor is Jim Donchess, a Democrat reelected in 2023 to a four-year term through January 2028. See the complete list of Nashua mayors since 1853.

Theaters in Nashua, New Hampshire, come in three kinds: working stages downtown, first-run cinemas a short drive outside the city, and the Main Street movie houses that closed decades ago. Live performance here has roots in the 1830s, and today you can still catch musicals, comedy, and community productions within a few blocks of City…

What Does the Word Nashua Mean? The Nashua name origin traces back to a river, not to a founder or a family. In the Penacook language, the word is usually translated as “beautiful stream with a pebbly bottom,” a description of the waterway the Nashaway people lived along long before English settlers arrived. The town…

The Mine Falls Gatehouse is a brick dam gatehouse built in 1886 by the Nashua Manufacturing Company to control how much water left the Nashua River and entered the power canal feeding its textile mills three miles downstream. It sits inside the 325-acre park located in the heart of the city of Nashua, New Hampshire,…