The weighty and drafty wooden doors at the Nashua Public Library are being dismantled Monday, according to Carol Luers Eyman, the library’s community services coordinator. The replacements will be glass doors that are energy-efficient and easier to open. Also, the…
MILFORD - The Milford bandstand may be big enough to fit a moose, although nobody can recall ever seeing one there. But you can thank a moose for an upcoming restoration of this downtown centerpiece. Using money collected from the…
CONCORD - Secretary of State Bill Gardner suspended a state Senate recount affecting Nashua and three neighboring towns Friday night after ballot counting in Hollis came up 234 votes shy of what local officials reported on Election Day. Another discrepancy…
NASHUA - The hills will go dark tonight. French Hill and Crown Hill residents will lose their power briefly as Public Service of New Hampshire works on a nearby substation, a company spokesman said. A power outage is planned for…
NASHUA - Robert Dawe was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma six years ago. After undergoing extensive chemotherapy treatments to cure that cancer, he developed a second kind - leukemia. Now, Dawe needs a bone marrow transplant to survive, but none of…
Unless a blizzard closes the highway, there should be hundreds of drivers jamming Boston Post Road in Amherst this afternoon as the region’s most intriguing football rivalry takes center stage, but former coach Reed Panasiti won’t be one of them.He’s…
MILFORD - In one direction from Badger Hill - the southern summit, not the northern one - you can see Pack Monadnock. In another, Mount Wachusett. In yet another, Federal Hill. What you can’t see are many houses. That isn’t…
Engineers studying the refurbishment of the Cotton Transfer Bridge over the Nashua River found most of its components in fair condition, but missing several pieces of hardware. The study looked at converting the truss bridge to a pedestrian walkway over…
The Nashua Catholic Regional Junior High School production of “Bugsy Malone, Jr.” is running this weekend at the school. The show, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the 1920s gangster flick, opened Friday. The last two performances are tonight at 7:30 p.m.…
NASHUA - Hector Perez went to the Veterans Day parade to watch a familiar cookie march down Main Street. Perez’s granddaughter, 10-year-old Darianne, and her fellow troop members dressed up as Girl Scout cookies and paraded from Holman Stadium to…
The death of Yasser Arafat expectedly echoed across borders. Even in New Hampshire, geographical distance hardly prevented those with an interest in the Middle East from pondering the fate of Palestinian-Israeli relations after the passing of the unifying - and…
MERRIMACK - A year ago, the selectmen and school board agreed to form a committee to look at ways the two boards could cooperate to save taxpayers’ money. Nothing came of that, but a year later, there’s a movement afoot…
LYNDEBOROUGH - When the J.A. Tarbell Library is enlarged within the next year or two, the Common in South Village will have to be redesigned and landscaped. The two war memorials currently on the library lawn will be moved to…
BROOKLINE - If the local school districts don’t start sharing their long-term needs and construction plans, local schools could soon be filled to the gills with no solution in sight, according to members of the town’s Capitol Improvement Committee. One…
Worker loyalty to an employer stems from the mere existence of the employment relationship. A worker doesn’t have to have a confidentiality agreement to prohibit him from misappropriating or disclosing company trade secrets to third parties. Not only would such…
LYNDEBOROUGH - When the J.A. Tarbell Library is enlarged within the next year or two, the Common in South Village will have to be re-designed and landscaped. The two war memorials currently on the library lawn will be moved to…
HUDSON - A proposal for a retail restaurant, possibly a Dunkin’ Donuts, stalled Wednesday night over concerns about the drive-through window. The Planning Board raised several concerns about the proposal’s possible impact on traffic on Central Street with cars entering…
A large piece of property abutting the Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School may be available, and members of the School Board are talking with people concerned with the idea of a purchase for future expansion. “I have talked to (real estate agent)…
The thriving Chinese economy is having an effect on cement and concrete projects around the world, although in New Hampshire the industry seems solid. Massive building projects in China have turned the Asian country “from an exporter to an importer…
Winning in one category of the 2004 Start Up New Hampshire business plan competition has given Bill Lankins’ company more visibility with potential investors and a bigger customer and vendor base. “Having written that plan and polished it to a…
Newington: Pan American Airlines, a subsidiary of Guilford Transportation, has gone out of business and fired its 30 union pilots. The carrier has transferred its flight operations to Boston-Maine Airways, another Guilford owned airline and a non-union operation. An attorney…
New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny said his department will “look under the rocks and under the hoods” to see if the same kind of insurance fraud exists in the Granite State that New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer has…
In 1962, Irving Singer and his partner Arthur Spohr walked into Merchants Bank with hopes of securing a loan to start a used car business on a small lot in Manchester. The two left with not only a loan but…
While there are many ways to explain the results of the recent elections, it’s important for supporters of Senate Bill 110 to step back and realize that New Hampshire voters have sent a very clear message: scuttle the law as…
Editor’s note: Following is the statement put on Governor Benson’s campaign Web site after his loss to John Lynch in the Nov. 2 election. Friends, Taxpayers, Citizens, Campaign Supporters, I cannot thank you enough for all of your hard work…
By the time you read this column, the presidential election will be over. Not knowing how it will come out, I wonder what impact the election will have on the national economy, and the Northeast in particular. I am not…
Q. It’s a safe bet that my company now manufactures more numbers than it does gaskets. The statistical and financial reports that I receive are, at best, mind-numbing and, at worst, confusing and misleading. How can I stem the tide?…
“I’ve sent hundreds of resumés electronically, and I’m still out of a job! Every time I hit the send button, I feel like I’m sending into a black hole that will never respond. Sometimes, I get an automatic response from…
Two state legislative telecommunications study committees recently issued reports on a couple of thorny telecom tax issues. In one, the committee recommended extending the exemption from property taxes on telephone poles and conduits for an additional four years to 2010…
The Red Sox win the World Series. The voters of New Hampshire defeat a governor after one term. Both recent events occurred for the first time since 1918 and 1926, respectively. On Nov. 2, New Hampshire was one of only…
Experts predict it’s going to cost more for homeowners to heat their homes this year. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is predicting a 28 percent increase in heating costs for homeowners this winter. Therefore it is critical for New England…
The housing sector’s strong contribution to economic recovery and growth in New Hampshire over the last several years is merely a fulfillment of strong market demand. The market forces driving housing demand are the basis for the state’s continued economic…
Last month New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer reached deep into the insurance brokerage community’s wallet. His office reportedly uncovered substantial bid-rigging and other illegal activity among certain name brand members of the industry. It seems as though initially Spitzer’s…
A month ago we talked about the growing interest among homeowners to add a wine cellar. This time let’s look at the fun part what wines to choose to stock the cellar. But because there is a seemingly endless variety…
See Jayne run Jayne Millerick, chair of the state Republican Party, turned in an impressive deadpan post-election performance in trying to explain away her party’s loss of the governor’s office, an Executive Council seat, a couple of Senate seats and…
In January 2004, 43-year-old Lisa Guertin became the head of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Hampshire. Since taking over as vice president and general manager, New Hampshire’s controversial Senate Bill 110, which eliminated community rating for small business…
In response to requests for a more central location, the “Agenda for Growth,” a collaborative conference on small business planning, growth and financing, has been rescheduled. It will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 7, at…
Speaking at an Oct. 28 infrastructure summit in Manchester, state Transportation Commissioner Carol Murray challenged opponents of the Interstate 93 expansion to take their objections to court. “It’s not that I want full employment for lawyers or want to spend…
Nashua aldermen are considering so-called “transit-oriented development” as a means of generating the $14 million needed to match the $56 million in federal funds earmarked for the restoration of rail service between Nashua and Lowell, Mass. The plan developed by…
Imagine you are the owner of a small business in New Hampshire that occasionally attracts customers from Massachusetts. You attend a sporting event in New Hampshire where a Massachusetts radio station broadcast can be heard on the loudspeakers. Suddenly you…
Employers may place severe limits on the mobility of their most senior executives without negotiating employment contracts that contain non-compete covenants, according to a case decided last year by the Rockingham County Superior Court. Ordinarily, an employee may freely choose…
Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), businesses with 50 or more workers in a 75-mile radius, must provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for a qualifying individual or family member’s serious medical conditions or the birth,…
Don’t let the name fool you. The Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2004 provides tax benefits beyond the family unit to include single individuals and businesses. Here are some of the highlights: • The child credit, which was scheduled…
The building that housed one of downtown Manchester’s most popular stores is open for business again, though not to sell clothing or accessories. The newly renovated McQuade’s building had a grand reopening earlier this month as rehabilitated historical and commercial…
NEW YORK (AP) - More than 20 ABC affiliates around the country, including WMUR-TV of Manchester, N.H., have announced that they won’t take part in the network’s Veterans Day airing of “Saving Private Ryan,” saying the acclaimed film’s violence and…
MERRIMACK - Merrimack Village District officials took offense to portions of a Budget Committee report citing nearly a dozen concerns about the water utility’s accounting practices. The three-page report, presented to the Budget Committee on Wednesday night by a subcommittee,…
HOLLIS - James Squires has been a town resident for the past 30 years. He has served as the town and Hollis School District moderator for the past 20 years. During that time, Squires has had the opportunity to see…
WILTON - Help sometimes comes from unexpected places, and this aid was from a long way away - Afghanistan. Sgt. Lance Emond of Wilton, a member of the Army National Guard’s 210th Engineering Detachment of Peterborough, has been in Afghanistan…
LITCHFIELD - William Morin’s logging business has barely made the cut. But if his neighbors have anything to say about it, he won’t be chopping much longer. The Planning Board appealed the decision that Morin’s commercial business could be operated…
NASHUA - Anyone concerned about the effects of alcohol and other drugs on community life is invited to attend a meeting next week, one of a series organized across the state to address issues of prevention, intervention and treatment. “It’s…
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.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte led the visit, which included a selection of policymakers as well as businesspeople representing a wide array of enterprises.
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.
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.
Encube Labs Founder Rajesh Nair shares updates on his time in Japan, teaching young entrepreneurs how to critically and creatively innovate in their fields
SilverTech CEO Nick Soggu discusses the promise and risks of AI as his Bedford-based agency acquires Paragon, expanding digital experience services and advancing AI-driven innovation.
Educational institutions and hospitals are taking steps to help alleviate New Hampshire’s primary care doctor shortage by trying to expand the pipeline of doctors to help replace those who are leaving.
It’s getting harder for patients to find a doctor as wait times and barriers to access grow
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