The LocalNH Team
A very small, New Hampshire–based crew trying to make one good thing: the most complete discovery resource for the Granite State.
Why LocalNH exists
If you've ever tried to plan a weekend in New Hampshire using the usual suspects — a tourism site from a decade ago, a Facebook group with 900 members and no moderation, a Ticketmaster search that misses everything free — you've already seen the problem LocalNH is trying to solve. The state has an absurd amount happening any given week: farmers markets, foliage drives, town fairs, craft shows, concerts at venues that don't own a website, horse shows, maple weekend, the Kancamagus on a perfect October Sunday. None of it is in one place. We're trying to fix that.
Manie Pellegrino
Founder & Editor
Manie founded LocalNH in 2025 through Northstar Labs, his New Hampshire-based software studio. A long-time NH resident, he started the site out of a specific frustration: every time he or his family tried to find out what was happening in their town, they had to piece it together across six different websites and three Facebook groups.
Manie runs the editorial direction, the engineering, and the partnerships. He also personally reviews every event submission that comes through the form — which is less glamorous than it sounds but is how the site stays clean.
Reach him at hello@localnh.com.
How we actually build the site
LocalNH is a small operation that leans heavily on infrastructure doing the boring work. Here's what the machine looks like:
- Event aggregation: a weekly scheduled job pulls from 129 public event sources — town-hall iCal feeds, published library and venue calendars, Ticketmaster and Eventbrite public feeds. Every new event is stored with a pointer back to the original source.
- Moderation: every community-submitted event and business is reviewed by hand before it goes live. This is what most aggregation sites skip and it's where most thin content sneaks in. We don't skip it.
- Town guides: written editorial introductions for each of the 234 NH municipalities, maintained over time as we learn more about each place.
- Field Notes: a running editorial blog with seasonal guides and deep-dives — see localnh.com/blog.
Editorial principles
- No pay-for-coverage. Advertising and sponsorship slots are clearly labeled and separate from editorial content. We don't write a town guide because a town paid us. We write it because it's a town in New Hampshire.
- Cite our sources. Events link back to the organizer. Businesses link to their websites. We try to send traffic where it belongs rather than hoard it.
- Correct fast. If we're wrong about something, we'll fix it quickly — usually within a few hours of a correction request.
- No AI slop. AI helps us speed up repetitive structured work (like normalizing venue names across 129 sources), but every piece of editorial on the site has been read and approved by a human who lives here.
Want to help?
LocalNH is better when the community shows up. Easiest ways to contribute: