If you have recently made a major addition or renovation to your home, you may want to take a moment and review your homeowner’s insurance. The reason? Many of the largest home insurers (including State Farm and Allstate) are now…
Prudential Verani Realty has launched its “eShowings” Appointment Center, which is designed to assist all real estate professionals in scheduling showings of their listings. “We handle all aspects of the appointment-making process,” said Giovanni Verani, vice president of Prudential Verani…
Soft Draw Investments LLC, a company owned by Gov. Craig Benson, has paid $1.1 million to take over total ownership of the troubled Golf Club of New England. The agreement reached in U.S. Bankruptcy Court calls for the property to…
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua has broken ground on a $17 million, 22,000-square-foot addition that will double the size of the facility’s emergency room as well as add space for a centralized cardiac center, more private rooms and…
A Massachusetts company has been hit with nearly $200,000 in fines for unsafe conditions at a Merrimack work site, federal officials said. Roberto’s Steel Erectors Inc. of Fitchburg, Mass., was cited for 17 “alleged willful, repeat and serious violations” by…
New Hampshire’s population is growing faster than anywhere else in New England, due in part to urban professionals moving their businesses and families to more rural areas. While other Northeastern states saw a 5.5 percent increase in population from 1990…
Once again I have snuck off for a few days’ vacation with the family, this time to the coast of Maine, in Harpswell on the peninsula south of Brunswick. It is a truly beautiful view looking across Casco Bay. The…
A condominium developer found in violation of Laconia erosion control regulations is now in compliance with those regulations. But city officials said that should Earney Mayo of Golden Oak Developers LLC fail to address slope erosion on an ongoing basis…
The Dunbarton Zoning Board has approved what will become the largest development in the town — Watch Hill Commons, 88 units of senior housing behind Countryside Golf Club off Route 13. Project engineers will now re-evaluate the site and design…
Department of Resources and Economic Development Commissioner Sean O’Kane has set a November deadline for deciding whether to allow Mount Sunapee Resort to expand the ski area it leases from the state. The expansion would allow the resort to build…
Construction of Cross Mill Village, a housing complex for those age 55 and older, is slated to begin later this year in Northwood. The project will include 35 duplex housing units on 53 acres. Occupancy is expected to begin in…
The building materials and truss manufacturing operations of Boscawen-based Steenbeke & Sons has been sold. The Steenbeke family sold the operations to Ben Thibault and Hank Martineau of Lumber One LLC. Thibault and Martineau said they will continue to do…
A competition between the two largest home improvement retail companies in the world may be taking shape on Route 302 in Littleton. Lowe’s, the second-largest home improvement company, has withdrawn its interest in a proposed retail center at Exit 43…
A mantra has developed in Dover that covers the breadth of hopes for the long-awaited Dover Waterfront Development project. As Beth Thompson, the city’s planning director, tells it, the hope for the 35 acres or so of city-owned land along…
Ashland Lumber Company has been purchased by Jaffrey-based Belletete and Shea LLC for $1,115,000 from brothers A. Walter “Butch” and Alan W. Hill. The site includes two large lumber warehouses and the main store. Manchester Realtor Ray. E. Pinard &…
DERRY - An eight-unit apartment building was left uninhabitable after a fire ripped through the rear of the dwelling early Wednesday night. Fire crews arrived shortly after 8 p.m. to find the rear of the West Broadway apartment building fully…
HUDSON - Dust off those poodle skirts and saddle shoes, because the 1950s are making a comeback. At least they are for the weekend. The theme of this year’s Old Home Days, which kicks off Friday night on the grounds…
AMHERST - Resident David Fraser’s goal of building a planned residential development in the town’s northern rural zone made little progress at Tuesday night’s Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting. Fraser wants to build 42 homes on 127 acres he owns…
The attorney general’s office is seeking volunteers to work as consumer affairs specialists for the next year in the Consumer Protection Bureau’s mediation program. The next training for new volunteers is scheduled for the weeks of Sept. 27 and Oct.…
GROTON, Mass.- The Nashua River Watershed Association will hold an end-of-summer family program, “There’s a Fox in My Backyard,” from 9:30-11 a.m. on Aug. 28. Using exciting, hands-on demonstrations participants will get to “make it rain on a community” and…
NEW IPSWICH- The New Ipswich Democrats have revitalized their town committee and will kick off the election season with an ice cream social to meet the candidates.
AMHERST- The Amherst School Board recently appointed Deborah Martel as assistant principal of Amherst Middle School. Martel replaces Porter Dodge, who has been promoted to principal of the school. Prior to taking this position, Martel served as dean of students…
AMHERST- The SAU 39 School Board recently appointed Susan Ward as school business administrator. Ward, SAU 39’s former director of technology, replaces former Assistant Superintendent Michael Galan, who retired in June. Ward has 30 years of experience with databases, statistical…
MERRIMACK - A teenager is missing after a suspicious fire damaged the basement of her family’s house, where her bedroom was located, police said Wednesday. The teenager is considered to be a runaway, police said. Police would not say whether…
MERRIMACK - One of the nation’s first plants to manufacture a certain type of plastic soft-drink bottles will close its doors, company officials announced Wednesday. Amcor PET Packing, at 15 Continental Blvd., will cease production by the year’s end, forcing…
For Nashua’s Laura Gerraughty, the 2004 Olympics ended Wednesday morning at about 2:30 a.m. EDT, as bleary-eyed friends and fans back home looked on with pride and, ultimately, disappointment. Part of the disappointment, no doubt, came from the live broadcast…
It was the experience of a lifetime, coming on the original Olympic grounds, used for the games between 776 B.C. and 393 A.D. But for Nashua’s Laura Gerraughty, it was still a tough morning. In the qualifying rounds of the…
NASHUA - Providus Software Solutions Inc. announced Monday that FHLBank Topeka has selected Providus’ operational risk management software, RiskResolve, to actively manage and integrate its enterprise-wide risk management and Sarbanes-Oxley Act regulatory compliance initiatives. FHLBank, a privately-owned, federally chartered corporation,…
NASHUA - An American Red Cross Blood Drive will be held Tuesday, Aug. 24, at the gathering hall at Immaculate Conception Church, 216 E. Dunstable Road. Those donating blood through Oct. 4 will be eligible to enter a raffle to…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Nashua’s Laura Gerraughty, a shot-putter on the U.S. track and field team, has been sharing her experiences leading up to her participation in the Athens Olympics in this journal. ATHENS - Thanks (or no thanks) to the wonder…
It might be the most frequently asked question of young athletes in certain sports. Friends, grandparents, fellow competitors and, perhaps, even the occasional sports writer ask it. The query may be posed in different ways, but ultimately it comes down…
AMHERST - A coffeehouse fund-raiser for the Peabody Mill Environmental Center will be held in the Souhegan High School cafeteria on Saturday, Sept. 18, from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Trio Eddie Mottau, Bob Drew and Jimmy Clark will sing blues, ragtime, and…
MASON - The Historical Society will meet Saturday, Aug. 21, at 1 p.m. at the Mann House. The group will present a program on the Lawrence family, one of the first in town, and then walk to the site of…
CONCORD- A judge turned down a Londonderry company’s request for an injunction against a California firm that it claims copied a light that both firms sell to attach to Glock pistols. Insight, Inc., of Londonderry, charges that the X200 light…
PETERBOROUGH- Marcel’s Way will hold its first “Walk This Way . . . For Awareness” walk on Saturday, Sept. 11, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The walk will benefit those diagnosed with mitochondrial disorders and their families. Registration at Putnam Park…
Two men were injured in a crash on Route 101 on Monday morning at the Milford/Wilton town line. Police, fire and rescue units from both towns responded to the scene at 6:53 a.m., Milford police said. Police said Jeffery Gefen,…
MANCHESTER (AP) - A judge has ruled that a 42-year-old man isn’t competent to be tried on charges of causing an accident that killed a Goffstown woman. Remy Casimir, a Haitian immigrant, was charged with negligent homicide in the death…
EPPING - (AP) - A 33-year-old man charged with animal cruelty after his pit bull was found dead in his car on a hot June day has pleaded innocent. Jeffrey Brown of Epping faces up to a year in jail…
CLAREMONT (AP) - Authorities say the death of a worker who was struck and killed Friday by a race car at the Twin State Speedway appears to have been an accident. Authorities said Michael Bliss, 46, of Montpelier, Vt., died…
PELHAM-Gov. Craig Benson will speak at the grand opening of Dennis P. Lyons Memorial Park on Saturday. The park is named after a police officer who recently died after a lengthy battle with cancer. The park has two lighted basketball…
AMHERST-The first public hearing for the proposed Lowe’s shopping center on Route 101A took place Wednesday, giving the developer a chance to outline the project to the public. The next public hearing will be held Wednesday, Aug. 18, at 7:30…
It seems like you could spend your entire day traveling from one trade show and business exposition to another. Industry-specific, business-to-business and business-to-consumer - the list is never-ending. With so many possible choices for your promotions dollar, businesspeople are asking…
If the name Accentus sounds familiar, that’s because it probably is. The Hanover-based firm was the winner earlier this year in the initial Start Up New Hampshire business plan competition, garnering a $40,000 prize for its efforts. The company -…
Would you drink reclaimed sewage effluent? Bill Zebuhr thinks so. As founder and chief executive officer of Nashua-based Ovation Products Corp., he has found a way to turn dirty water into ultra-pure drinking water through vaporization and distillation — and…
Northeast Delta Dental of Concord was recently named among the top 50 “Best Small & Medium Companies to Work for in America” by the Society for Human Resource Management. The company, which administers dental benefits to more than 650,000 people…
For the last year or so, I have never thought of Governor Benson as a Republican. And I’m not alone. Most spectators of the political scene have quickly observed that the governor who ran as a Republican is actually an…
Over the course of recent years, leaders of our state’s government have worked to craft a solution to — quite arguably — the most challenging public-policy debate New Hampshire has grappled with in modern times. As a former House member…
A series of articles on outsourcing by the New Hampshire Business Review’s Cindy Kibbe (the third and final part can be found on page 1B) has highlighted the complex ramifications of the practice. While it’s true that sending jobs overseas…
When advocating for the founding of national forests, President Theodore Roosevelt listed as a reason for their creation “to preserve the timber supply for various classes of wood users.” Since its founding, New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest has been…
To the editor: As a follow up to your recent article (“Outsourcing: The good, the bad and the inevitable,” July 9-22 NHBR), AeA, the largest high-tech association in the United States, has sent a copy of its white paper addressing…
Business and event happenings around the state of NH
The Latest is a roundup of the comings and goings of the movers and shakers in NH's business community
A federal judge heard opening arguments Monday, February 9, in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a 2024 state law that requires first-time voters in New Hampshire to show proof of U.S. citizenship when they register.
What employers should know for the upcoming cap season
On February 11, 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the largest enforcement settlement under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), resolving claims that The Walt Disney Company failed to adequately honor consumers’ opt-out rights — a core tenet of modern privacy law.
Our post-pandemic business environment has brought about myriad challenges that make cash flow forecasting much more difficult than it was five years ago. Many businesses are navigating supply chain challenges, volatile demand and lingering inflation — all key indicators of future cash flow.
For a long time, workplace wellness was viewed through a fairly narrow lens: reminders to schedule an annual physical, a blood pressure screening, maybe a gym reimbursement. Those efforts still matter. But “wellness” has expanded, because the way we work and live has changed.
What employers are getting wrong, and how to fix it before it becomes a claim
Collaboration can ensure the Granite State’s ski industry remains vibrant and resilient
