Rich Krasnow blames himself for the 50 percent increase in health insurance premiums at his company, Payroll Matters in Manchester. Krasnow has only seven employees -- clerical workers who are young and healthy. Under a new state law that went…
Scandals, trials and a very loudly burst bubble wound up giving some people a phobia about investing in the stock market, whether it’s individual stocks or mutual funds. But it’s probably pretty safe to say that the clients of Tom…
It’s not often a businessman has the chance to rehabilitate a favorite childhood hangout, but for Fred Baybutt of Keene that’s precisely what he’s doing with Granite Gorge. Baybutt, one of the members of the Baybutt Construction family, bought the…
In the last 8-1/2 years the country has experienced an unprecedented run-up in home prices. Over this time, the rise in home sale prices has been more than 40 percentage points higher than the overall rate of inflation. Typically, home…
What’s being described as the second-largest construction project in New Hampshire history has gotten the green light from the federal government. U.S. Senator Judd Gregg’s announced on Jan. 30 that a $154.5 million federal prison will be constructed in Berlin…
Rich Krasnow blames himself for the 50 percent increase in health insurance premiums at his company, Payroll Matters in Manchester. Krasnow has only seven employees -- clerical workers who are young and healthy. Under a new state law that went…
Lost in the political firestorm surrounding Choicelinx and how it won an $890,000 state contract, is the company’s product -- an agile and robust benefits software system that can save insurers and employers thousands of dollars. The Manchester-based firm was…
It is called the Omnibus Spending Bill, the annual appropriation by Congress that covers several departments, a multitude of programs, and several hundred billion dollars. But it also might be called the “ominous” spending bill for the legendary barrels of…
The New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulations has jumped into the growing national mutual fund scandals in a big way, helping to investigate and negotiate a tentative settlement -- reportedly in the $200 million range -- with Boston-based MFS Investment…
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Minnows died off quickly when placed in samples of de-icer runoff that Manchester Airport lets seep into a nearby brook, according to tests conducted last year. The results are contained in files The Union Leader obtained…
HOLLIS - Members of the town’s School Board, Budget Committee and Board of Selectmen met last week to evaluate what would happen to the town’s financial situation in the event of a grade reduction in the Hollis/Brookline Cooperative School District.…
MERRIMACK - The items may seem esoteric, but they filled a slate of real needs in the police and fire departments. For example, after the town received federal money to buy hazardous-materials suits, police officers discovered they needed special nylon…
BROOKLINE - Five people, beside the Board of Selectmen and the Finance Committee, showed up Monday for the first of two public hearings on the town budget. Of those five people, one was the town clerk and another was a…
LITCHFIELD - A fireplace malfunction sparked a fire in a Molsom Cirle house Monday night. A malfunction near the damper cause a fire to spread into the home’s partitions, Assistant Fire Chief Tom Schofield said. The homeowner placed wood in…
Two local pilots were home safe Monday after their plane crash-landed into woods in Bedford, Mass., and caught fire. Robert Denaro, of 44 Pioneer Drive in Nashua, and Stephen Parsons, of 38 Holbrook Hill Drive in Bedford, N.H., were co-piloting…
Many women not only work at the office all day, but they also take the kids to the doctor and attend school meetings. In their daily lives, women deal with the same issues the country faces on a daily basis.…
The New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulations has jumped into the growing national mutual fund scandals in a big way, helping to investigate and negotiate a tentative settlement - reportedly in the $200 million range - with Boston-based MFS Investment…
The New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulations has jumped into the growing national mutual fund scandals in a big way, helping to investigate and negotiate a tentative settlement - reportedly in the $200 million range - with Boston-based MFS Investment…
A few years ago, when the Lafayette Artillery Company was seeking some support from a Town Meeting in Lyndeborough, a newcomer asked what the company did, or had done, for the town. “The Lafayette Artillery has been in Lyndeborough since…
WINDHAM - Justin, Kaley and Brittany Missert are 6-year-old triplets, and like other kids, they love to receive balloons. It’s what they do with the balloons that makes them different. “We let them go so Devon can play with them,”…
MERRIMACK - The Board of Selectmen on Thursday voted to endorse and send to voters two warrant articles that would raise car registration fees in town by a combined $8. That burns Selectman David McCray’s motor. “I really believe we’re…
MILFORD - Perhaps it’s a testament to the good job being done in Milford schools, or perhaps it’s a sign that SB2 has altered people’s interest in annual meetings, but Tuesday night’s public hearing for the proposed Milford School District…
Even before it has been officially established, the Pennichuck Regional Water District may have to change its name. Eugene Van Loan, a lawyer for the committee working to draft a charter for the district, told the panel at a meeting…
CONCORD - A Litchfield couple convicted of forced labor charges now face efforts to seize their home and assets. The government is seeking to seize Timothy Bradley’s home, business including equipment and more than $100,000 in cash. A lawsuit charging…
If you go NASHUA - Katie Rudolph and Kimberly Karish stood elbow to elbow inside the pottery room at the north campus of Nashua High School and dunked empty bowls into buckets of earth-toned liquid. Rudolph is a 17-year-old junior…
MERRIMACK - The Board of Selectmen on Thursday endorsed the “partial-build” option for the Circumferential Highway, but with a stipulation. Construction of the highway shouldn’t be paid for by tolls, the board decided. Even with that attachment, the highway option…
It sounds like a 1960s post-college scenario: Go to an exotic place, live on the cheap, do good. And it sounds like a 1990s post-college scenario: Use the Web in interesting ways, create a company, look for funding. Combine them,…
As a kid growing up in Toronto, Bruce Boudreau knew he wanted to be a hockey player, but could he have known the odyssey that lay ahead? He set a junior hockey single-season record of 165 points -- a mark…
Verizon Communications Inc. has announced plans to spend $3 billion over the next two years to speed up its networks and build a national next-generation wireless network to attract greater numbers of customers and businesses that are demanding faster Internet…
Marking patented products with their corresponding patent numbers is an important part of any patent strategy, particularly if the patent owner wishes to maximize the damages awarded for infringement of the patent. Of course, an accused infringer also may take…
BAE Systems is one of three firms the Department of Homeland Security wants to hire to help protect the airline industry against missile attacks. BAE, Northrop Grumman Corp. and United Airlines were all chosen to receive $2 million to develop…
It sounds like a 1960s post-college scenario: Go to an exotic place, live on the cheap, do good. And it sounds like a 1990s post-college scenario: Use the Web in interesting ways, create a company, look for funding. Combine them,…
As a kid growing up in Toronto, Bruce Boudreau knew he wanted to be a hockey player, but could he have known the odyssey that lay ahead? He set a junior hockey single-season record of 165 points -- a mark…
George Herbert Walker Bush made a political convert out of Manchester lawyer Kevin Dugan, but probably not the kind the former president would have hoped for. “I was a registered Republican,” Dugan recalled, when he watched Bush debate challenger Bill…
The woman widely praised as the driving force behind a pioneering program to train workers for the tool and precision metal-working industries has been fired from her job, raising the concerns of at least one of the program’s key funders.…
Two controversial environmental projects have sparked legislation this year, one dealing with water and one dealing with air. They are just some of the environmental bills that might affect business. A plan to convert the Bio Energy wood burner to…
IF YOU GO NASHUA - A proposal to send about 150 students who live near Sunset Heights Elementary School to Nashua High School North next year is scheduled to be reintroduced to a Board of Education committee tonight. Despite having…
AMHERST - The proposed 2004-05 operating budget for the Amherst School District would increase school spending 3.8 percent, the Amherst School Board told residents at Monday’s public hearing. As a result of the way public education is funded in the…
AMHERST - In an attempt to alleviate some of the dryness associated with budget hearings, School Board Chairwoman Addie Hutchison launched Monday’s public hearing by reciting a humorous poem about how budgets are set. And then the Souhegan Cooperative School…
BROOKLINE - If a petitioned warrant article submitted to selectmen Monday night passes in March, then 2004 will be last time that Selectman Clarence Farwell and his son, road agent Gerry Farwell, could be elected to serve in their current…
NASHUA - Dee Addis-Simonson felt frustration and uncertainty last year when the principal of Amherst Street Elementary School was replaced. Now those feelings have returned. Last week, Karen Crebase, who was chosen by Superintendent Joseph Giuliano to replace Ruth Tuttle…
PUBLIC HEARING MILFORD - The struggle to build a new police station in town has nothing to do with the school system, but it certainly has had an effect on the school system’s spending. For the second year in a…
PUBLIC HEARING AMHERST - Amherst and Mont Vernon taxpayers are being presented with Souhegan Cooperative School District’s proposed $13.5 million operating budget tonight. The amount represents a 5 percent increase over last year’s budget of $12.9 million. A loss of…
PUBLIC HEARING MILFORD - The possibility of a new police station has overshadowed almost everything else in town as annual meetings approach, but it’s not alone on the ballot. Among other things, there’s an operating budget of slightly more than…
MERRIMACK - Round two on Thursday added $92,000 to what the town will generate each year in additional fees charged residents for a variety of services. That brings the total to roughly $302,000 a year in additional revenue from fees…
AMHERST - The Board of Selectmen will hold a public hearing about Amherst’s proposed fiscal year 2005 operating budget Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Souhegan High School. A bond hearing is scheduled at the same location an hour beforehand. The…
A coffee klatch is brewing downtown. The Great American Downtown organization is starting monthly morning meetings to discuss downtown issues and look for solutions and generally get to know the people and businesses that make downtown what it is, said…
By his own admission, 38-year-old Erik Fey is a ski bum. “Oh, yeah, definitely - just ask my wife,” the New Boston resident said during a recent chat at Crotched Mountain Ski Area. But unlike most people who regard the…
HOLLIS - Despite what members estimate to be about 6,000 hours worth of work and research, School Administrative Unit 41’s Long Term and Immediate Needs Evaluation committees have yet to come to a consensus on a solution to meet those…
NASHUA - A rabbit would be a popular animal right about now in City Hall. As in a rabbit that could be pulled out of a hat to reduce the potential 11 percent tax rate increase looming on the horizon.…
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
The Latest is a roundup of the comings and goings of the movers and shakers in NH's business community
The nonprofit and ReVision Energy expand renewable energy portfolio with new solar panels across five properties in the Monadnock Region
NH ranks last in the nation for funding public higher education per capita
