Author: NH Business Review Staff

It may not be for everybody, but if karaoke is for you, then you won’t want to miss the Gone Country karaoke contest, a music fest and barbecue to raise money for the Boys and Girls Club of Souhegan Valley.…

Whether you’re going to participate or be a spectator, mark you calendar for the 16th annual Wildman Biathlon, one of the toughest multi-sport events in New England. Scheduled for 8 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 14 — rain or shine — more…

Love the outdoors, but hate the hassle of hiking? Reserve a spot for the next Wine and Dine Naturalist Float Trip on the Androscoggin River. Sandy MacGregor, owner and operator of the Mountain Ranger Guide Service in Rumford, Maine, offers…

“I told him that I am taking a different approach than other governors.” — Gov. Craig Benson recounting what he said to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge about Benson’s decision to begin scrutinizing federal homeland security grants for what he…

Governor Benson’s decision to bury the hatchet and call on former GOP rival Bruce Keough to co-chair his 2004 campaign, albeit honorarily, was a shrewd political decision. It was also was absolutely necessary, considering that more than a few Republicans,…

Yes folks, J. Edward Kerns, the caped crusading former state rep who lived one place and represented another, has filed once again to run for the job he was forced to give up last session in the wake of an…

The Union Leader has been zealous in its defense of the right to privacy — J.D. Salinger’s right to privacy, at least. The paper published an editorial commending the good folks of Cornish for respecting and protecting the privacy of…

“Well, now lookie wha’ we got here!” the sheriff or policeman (whatever) of New Ipswich might have said when he stopped a vehicle and found it contained nine (count ‘em 9) illegal aliens. The immigration authorities in Boston were contacted…

It’s always an instructive experience when Jennifer Donahue, senior adviser for political affairs at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, appears on New Hampshire Public Radio’s “The Exchange.” In a March 9 appearance, Donahue, expounding on…

Funny that the very week that Finas Williams, attorney for the state Democrats in the GOP phone-jamming affair, had to read John DiStaso’s article in the UL to find out about the guilty plea by Allen Raymond, head of the…

Real Estate and Construction Martini Northern, a Portsmouth-based construction manager and general contracting firm, has added Kenneth Hadley of Henniker and Peter Stimmell of Northwood to its construction management team. Hadley is senior project manager and Stimmell is chief estimator.…

Bank of America Corp. (BAC) said its second-quarter profit soared 41 percent, easily surpassing Wall Street expectations with a boost from the results of newly acquired FleetBoston Financial Corp. The Charlotte-based banking giant said it earned $3.85 billion, or $1.86…

A new Monadnock Region business incubator has been born. With the purchase on July 1 of the former W.W. Cross building in Jaffrey, Monadnock Business Ventures has launched the Webster Street Incubator. The building, which is currently being renovated, will…

A Hanover-based company that has developed software to help Wall Street traders take in more data is the first investment of the Mount Washington Valley Economic Council’s First Run Angel Group. Accentus, founded in 2002 under the auspices of the…

When Congress passed the CAN-SPAM Act in January 2004, companies that use e-mail to market to their customers and prospects were faced with new legal requirements designed to protect Americans from the onslaught of unwelcome spamming. Attempting to curb the…

As soon as Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry announced his choice of a running mate, Republicans were loading Web sites, e-mails, air waves and fax machines with ammunition aimed at the Democratic ticket. Much of the negative comment about John…

While you may intend it as a gesture of trust or love, naming a friend or relative as executor of your estate has serious implications. The duties of an executor are formidable — onerous, actually — and you should give…

The New Hampshire International Trade Association has set Oct. 6 as the date of “Growing Globally,” its 18th annual World Trade Forum and Governor’s Conference on Trade. The forum, to be held at the Center of New Hampshire in Manchester,…

Across the state, many a New Hampshire employer allows its employees to take vacation time before it is fully accrued. In such instances, the employer will usually have the employee sign an authorization in which the employee acknowledges that he…

Offshoring — the practice of outsourcing business functions to a vendor outside of North America - has the potential to save companies millions of dollars in labor costs. But the practice is not a panacea for bottom-line savings. Poor offshoring…

The New Hampshire Retirement System, that sleepy holder of pension funds of state functionaries, schoolteachers and municipal police, has been quietly playing a key role in the national effort for monetary damages and corporate governance reform against a variety of…

Dennis Mires, PA, The Architects of Manchester and Northcape Design Inc. of Sunapee each took home Best of Show honors in the recent Home Builders & Remodelers Association of New Hampshire’s annual Cornerstone Awards. Dennis Mires earned its Best of…

Seven rehabilitation projects were singled out last month as winners of the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance annual historical preservation achievement awards. Restoration and rehabilitation awards went to: • Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Portsmouth, a statue honoring Civil War veterans that…

On July 7-8, I attended a two-day workshop on “Mediating Land Use Disputes” in Freeport, Maine, put on by the Lincoln Land Institute. A very nice venue, although they worked us too hard. My interest in mediation follows my role…

The city of Concord and state officials are teaming up to win a multimillion-dollar federal grant to rebuild Concord Airport’s aging terminal. The idea is to make the airport a more suitable visual gateway to the state and position Concord…

Architectural Resources Cambridge Inc. has been selected to work on the middle and high school facilities planning process in Laconia. ARC, based in Cambridge, Mass., will be working along with the Rist-Frost Shumway engineering firm on developing plans to address…

Antioch New England Graduate School has signed an agreement to acquire 46 acres of wooded, undeveloped land in eastern Keene to be used as a study site for ecological monitoring. The area, bounded on three sides by the Branch River…

Victor Azzi, the former campus planner for the University System of New Hampshire, has filed a lawsuit against the University of New Hampshire and USNH claiming he was unfairly fired from his position in 2001. Azzi’s suit, filed in Rockingham…

In the last 12 months, asking prices for single-family homes have risen by more than 50 percent in the Upper Valley towns of Lebanon and Hanover in New Hampshire and in the Vermont towns of Norwich and Hartford, with sales…

A row of retail shops stretching from Granite Street to near a planned riverfront ballpark is being explored for two Millyard buildings on South Commercial Street in Manchester. A potential addition to the Langer Place Mill also would include a…

Seacoast area developer Eric Chinburg and former gubernatorial candidate Bruce Keough are proposing major development project off Borthwick Avenue in Portsmouth that will incorporate residential, business and artist studio space. The estimated cost of the project could be as high…

Bed Bath & Beyond and T.J. Maxx stores will soon be built on sites long vacant in a Loudon Road shopping center in Concord. Rocky’s Ace Hardware and the Concord post office are the only current tenants at the plaza.…

The Laurel Hill apartments in Milford have been sold to the Boston-based real estate company that already owns Woodland Heights, the town’s largest apartment complex. The 96-unit Laurel Hill was sold in June for $6.8 million to Mayo Nine, a…

Real estate agents in Plaistow are livid over the town’s recent decision to charge them $50 a month for each “For Sale” sign they post in front of homes. The issue emerged up after a car dealership was ordered to…

Brady Sullivan Properties says it plans to build either residential condominiums or a new office tower on part of the eight-acre parcel at 1750 Elm St. in Manchester. Brady Sullivan bought the 12-story tower, formerly known as the New Hampshire…

When David Wright of Keene graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1979 his career path was uncertain at best. He’d majored in business administration and minored in economics and figured that, with his training, “I thought I might…

The process surrounding plans to expand the Mount Sunapee ski area, already under the microscope, is about to be perused by a new set of eyes. Sean O’Kane, commissioner of the state Department of Resources and Economic Development, announced at…

Gov. Craig Benson is one of the few chief executives nationally willing to change the bargain with the federal government and deliver services differently under Medicaid, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson. Thompson, in New Hampshire earlier…

Daniel Webster College in Nashua has rolled out its new Web site, dwc.edu. Taking a cue from the college’s colorful new undergraduate marketing collateral - bright orange large mailing envelopes, an oversized orange “view book” and blue “search piece,” and…

The New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits has joined with New England College in Henniker to offer a new area of concentration - nonprofit leadership — in NEC’s Master of Science in Management program. The new concentration will be an offering…

University of New Hampshire Manchester is preparing to launch a bachelor’s degree program in computer information systems for the academic year that begins in September. The program will focus on functional areas of information technology that are used to manage…

New Hampshire Community Technical College Manchester/Stratham will be receiving a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to enhance biomanufacturing training in the Northeast - one of only five colleges in the country to be chosen for the…

The New Hampshire Community Technical College System has announced an 11 percent increase announced in tuition for the 2004-05 academic year. The cost of $148 per credit is $15 higher than the $133-per-credit cost in the previous year and reflects…

Goodbrain Academy of Creative Technology LLC, a computer graphics and Web design training facility in Manchester, has begun accepting enrollment for its courses. Officially launched in April 2004, Goodbrain is a private vocational/art school offering personalized, hands-on training in the…

Materials scientist Zhengmao Li has been named manager of protein/peptide delivery programs at Bentley Pharmaceuticals Inc., a hiring that lays the groundwork for a future collaboration between the Exeter-based company and the University of New Hampshire. Li, who received his…

Franklin Pierce College has announced plans to open a new campus in the Jefferson Mill in Manchester’s Millyard for the fall 2004 term and begin shutting down its campus in Salem. The college will open a campus in an 11,000-square-foot…