Author: NH Business Review Staff

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.…

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…

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…

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.…

Merrimack Polling Precinct Boundaries MERRIMACK - If you live in the northwest part of town and are accustomed to voting at Mastricola Middle School, here’s some news: You can no longer vote there. Last April, voters at the annual Town…

LYNDEBOROUGH - The Planning Board has approved final wording for a new off-highway recreational vehicle facilities ordinance that provides some controls over parking and picnic areas, noise, number of vehicles at one time, and traffic. The proposal will be on…

AMHERST - A school bus carrying a half-dozen elementary school children had its left rear tires torn off by a passing car in a Friday afternoon accident that sent the driver of the car to the hospital for examination, but…

AMHERST - In an effort to keep taxpayers happy, Superintendent of Schools Mike Ananis has been steadily chipping away at the Amherst School District’s budget. The proposed budget now meets the School Board and the Ways and Means Committee’s goal…

NASHUA - After five years of heading the Planning Board, Bette Lasky has survived a challenge to her position as chairwoman. Whether she will be able to stay on the board after her term expires at the end of March…

LYNDEBOROUGH - AT&T has agreed to make its cell towers, both the one in place and the one proposed, less obvious to viewers. Acquisitions expert Chris Dwight said the tower on Woodward Hill will be painted in the spring, the…

CONCORD - A federal judge has thrown out the bulk of a lawsuit brought by the parents of a young man who died after swallowing a pushpin while copying a Pepsi commercial that showed a college student “shotgunning” the soda.…

It did not set an all-time low for New Hampshire, but the frigid cold and blustery winds closed and delayed schools, set records for winter electricity demand, and has at least a couple of hospitals speculating about a baby boom…

With temperatures climbing close to 30 degrees this weekend, it’s going to feel a lot like spring. After this week’s cold snap, the relatively balmy weather is sure to make life easier. It will be easier, for example, to drive…

NASHUA - Rice’s Pharmacy has served Medicaid clients ever since the state health insurance program for the poor became law in 1965. But this week, owner and pharmacist Roger Hebert posted a sign in the window of the 136-year-old Main…

WILTON - Everyone agreed that the dedicated volunteers who staff the Wilton-Lyndeborough-Temple Ambulance Service are great people who do a wonderful job, but on Tuesday, the combined budget committees of Wilton and Lyndeborough found little good to say about the…

NASHUA - A busing system that would allow students to start school between 8 and 8:30 a.m. was presented as the option of choice at a public meeting held Thursday evening by the School Times Committee. Currently, Nashua students are…

HUDSON - Voters at the annual Town Meeting will be asked to approve a $23.6 million operating budget for next year, after the Budget Committee approved the proposal Thursday night following a public hearing. The town’s proposed tax rate would…