Author: Jack Savage

Be Safe. Be Well. Be Local.

Stepping away from hiking hot spots into the nature of our own neighborhoods can help protect the people and places we love

The ‘Hoobub and the Grinch’: Northern Pass edition

With apologies to the oft-parodied Dr. Seuss, who first wrote about the Grinch in a short (32-line) rhyming fable called “The Hoobub and the Grinch,” published in Redbook magazine in 1955 (Marlon Brando on the cover of that issue, by…

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Littleton Regional Healthcare selects Dartmouth Health as preferred future partner

After two years of extensive evaluation of various affiliation models, the Littleton Regional Healthcare (LRH) Board of Trustees has chosen Dartmouth Health (DH) as its preferred partner. LRH and DH have signed a letter of intent, which serves as the next step toward LRH joining the Dartmouth Health system.

NH trade mission to Canada seen as having positive results

Gov. Kelly Ayotte led the visit, which included a selection of policymakers as well as businesspeople representing a wide array of enterprises.

More Chinese-owned property in Nashua comes into focus

Another piece of Chinese owned property in Nashua has come to the public’s attention — the former Daniel Webster College property, encompassing some 52 acres. Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess encouraged the Board of Aldermen on Sept. 9 to pass a resolution giving him the authority to seek state and/or federal funds to purchase the property, currently owned by Xinhua Education Consulting Services Corp.

Jim Loomis, Bottomline Technologies co-founder, dies at 75

James “Jim” Loomis, co-founder of Portsmouth-based Bottomline Technologies, passed away on Sept. 6 in his hometown of Dover after a period of declining health. He was 75. After its creation in 1989 with business partner Daniel McGurl, Bottomline became a worldwide leader in automated business payments and cash management.