Author: Cindy Kibbe

Q&A with N.H. Snowmobile Association Executive Director Gail Hanson

Gail Hanson will be the first person to tell you snowmobile clubs are nearly as busy in the summer as they are in the winter

Q&A with N.H. Public Radio President Betsy Gardella

‘I would say that we really make the most of the fact that we are a small-market station,’ said Betsy Gardella, president and CEO of NHPR. ‘We think of ourselves as an innovation hub for public media.’

Q&A with Derryfield Head of School Mary Carter

Dr. Mary Carter was named head of The Derryfield School in January, after serving in a variety of roles at the Manchester independent prep institution since 1997, including interim head.

Q&A with Capital Regional Development Council’s Stephen Heavener

‘Every single thing that we do is focused on job retention or creation, or enhancing the property tax base,’ says Stephen Heavener

QA with 'Life planner' Robin Young

When Windham financial professional Robin Young mentions terms like “visioning,” “passage” and “holistic,” you know that this is a very different kind of financial planner. Young, owner and president of Windham-based Northstar Financial Planning, practices life planning, a method of…

Karen Pollard, 2011 Outstanding Woman in Business

Economic Development Manager, City of Rochester

Maren Boothby, 2011 Outstanding Woman in Business

Owner, Boothby Therapy Services

Maureen Beauregard, 2011 Outstanding Woman in Business

President, Families In Transition

Beware the departing employee

Over the past three months, the sales manager has been absent more than usual. He generated 30 percent fewer sales in the quarter. He has been unresponsive to his fellow employees for several weeks, and he has not returned calls…

Insurance alliances slow to start in N.H.

There's much more to forming a purchasing alliance than pulling together a group of small businesses to go on a shopping trip for health insurance

Remember the good old days?

It was a sultry July day in 2002 when I met Dan at an International Management Consultants breakfast in Burlington. We chatted and discovered we were both sailors. In fact, Dan had lived on a boat in Newport, R.I., while…

Kathryn Underwood, 2010 Outstanding Woman in Business

President and CEO, Ledyard National Bank

Deb Titus, 2010 Outstanding Woman in Business

Managing Director, Dale Carnegie - New Hampshire

Leslie Sturgeon, 2010 Outstanding Woman in Business

Founder, Women Inspiring Women

Melanie Gosselin, 2010 Outstanding Woman in Business

Executive Director, New Hampshire Food Bank

Laurie Ferguson, 2010 Outstanding Woman in Business

Executive Director, NH Made

Mary DeVeau, 2010 Outstanding Woman in Business

President and CEO, Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association

Q&A with Technology Entrepreneur Mark Galvin

"At heart, I am an engineer, so my interest is to see my products proliferate. I want to see them end up in as many people’s hands and make as many people happy as possible"

Q&A with Craft beer pioneer Peter Egleston

Peter Egelston, president of Smuttynose Brewing Co., was largely responsible for breathing life into the nascent microbrewery industry — brewers that make no more than 15,000 barrels per year — in New England back in the 1980s. In 1987, he…

Sohl receives angel investing award

Jeffrey Sohl, director of the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, is the 2006 recipient of the Hans Severiens Award from the Angel Capital Education Foundation. The award honors an individual whose accomplishments have…

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'From the Battlefield to the Boardroom' with Robert Campbell

Author, leadership coach and veteran of 27 years in the Army, Robert Campbell speaks on his 'Battlefield to Boardroom' book series and how companies can become veteran-ready

Live-work-create tech village eyed for Manchester

A tech-entrepreneur turned venture capitalist is eyeing one of the largest undeveloped tracts in Manchester for a community where tech- and startup-minded people would live and work. Freedom Village would be located on 250 acres of mostly wooded land at Hackett Hill, which is located in the northwestern corner of Manchester.

NHBR About Town: Week of October 9, 2026

Business and event happenings around the state of NH

Manchester property values jump nearly 50%

The value of all property in Manchester increased by almost half — 48% ‑ over the past five years, according to preliminary data released by city officials on Oct. 13 The valuations, compiled due to a citywide revaluation, add up to $23.09 billion. The current value of city properties is $15.56 billion, which was based on assessments made during the city's last revaluation.