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.…
Kate Flanagan has endured some teasing lately from folks who can’t resist comparing the 19-year-old redhead and the horse she loves to Seabiscuit and his accident-prone, carrot-top jockey. Like the famous pair, Flanagan and Sadie are recovering from injuries at…
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.…
CONCORD - A Litchfield couple convicted under federal forced-labor statutes was sentenced Friday to more than five years in prison. Kate O’Dell and Timothy Bradley were both found of guilty in August of 18 counts related to forced labor and…
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…
LITCHFIELD - Voters will have several large projects to consider at Town Meeting, including a new fire station and a new elementary school. Residents were able to learn more about the town and school budgets and warrants at a public…
With record cold temperatures forecasted for this morning, a slew of school superintendents in the state took the rare step of calling off school a day in advance. By Thursday night, more than 100 school districts in the state had…
Music, prayer, lecture and dining will all be included in local celebrations of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Civil Rights next week. - Rivier College will celebrate the life and accomplishments of King on Monday, Jan. 19, with the 20th…
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) - A fire caused by a child playing with a lighter burned a family out of its home early Thursday. The fire department said the two-alarm fire broke out just before 1:30 a.m. at 71¾ Vine St.,…
HOLLIS - Members of School Administrative Unit 41 boards and committees met Wednesday night to share their recommendations on possible middle school warrant articles for the upcoming annual cooperative district meeting. Of the committees that spoke at the meeting, only…
MERRIMACK - An opportunity to learn how to plan, prepare for and lead a wilderness canoe trip is being offered to adults in town and the surrounding area through Merrimack’s Adult Education program. The class is called “How to plan…
MERRIMACK - The area near Exit 11 of the F.E. Everett Turnpike will soon get a multiplex cinema and perhaps retail stores. And maybe, just maybe, drive-through doughnuts and coffee. The Planning Board on Tuesday received an application for a…
MANCHESTER - Assistant Attorney General Marguerite Wageling became Hillsborough County’s new top prosecutor, taking the oath of office just minutes after winning a special election. After swearing in Wageling, Judge James Barry welcomed her to the post of county attorney:…
Do you have plans for Dec. 31 yet? Aldermanic president-turned-party-planner Brian McCarthy does. He wants people to party at the Main Street Bridge, like thousands of city residents did less than two weeks ago to ring in 2004. McCarthy made…
Doreen Dufresne is hopeful that she will encounter fewer bumps along her road of life. Dufresne, a Milford resident who has had a string of difficulties worsened by being without reliable transportation, is now the owner of a late-model Buick,…
MERRIMACK - After a two-hour public hearing Thursday, during which town officials held several Adelphia cable company officials to the fire, selectmen asked the company for a simple show of good faith. “I’m asking them to reach out to the…
There are any number of ways a couple can fill an empty nest. Some move into smaller quarters. Some travel. Some start new hobbies. Marge and Gerry Himmelman had 74 more babies. The Nashua couple didn’t produce this large family.…
Independent logger Bud Foster remembers best the lessons learned in the woods. Take one taught him by the late Lawrence Bean about yellow birch. Bean, a local mill owner, had bid a minimal amount for what looked like junk wood…
It’s a non-budget year, and the state Legislature hopes to adjourn in May. There’s a presidential primary and war going on. So why should businesses pay attention to what is going on in the State House? It turns out no…
To be or not to be exempt from the Consumer Protection Act -- that is the question affecting a number of industries this legislative session. The state’s Consumer Protection Act was once a mighty sword wielded by trial lawyers, but…
A University of New Hampshire engineering professor has won a National Science Foundation research grant that could one day result in more durable roads and less highway construction. Jo Daniel, assistant professor of civil engineering in the College of Engineering…
A tax incentive in effect since spring that’s aimed at preserving barns around the state has been twice as successful as advocates had hoped. According to data from the state Department of Revenue Administration, coupled with anecdotal evidence, barn preservationists…
You could almost say Steve Favorite inherited Bristol’s revitalization effort from his father. “My dad helped develop the town’s first master plan back in the ‘60s,” said Favorite, a telecommunications consultant and Bristol resident for 38 years. “This is the…
Independent logger Bud Foster remembers best the lessons learned in the woods. Take one taught him by the late Lawrence Bean about yellow birch. Bean, a local mill owner, had bid a minimal amount for what looked like junk wood…
A tax incentive in effect since spring that’s aimed at preserving barns around the state has been twice as successful as advocates had hoped. According to data from the state Department of Revenue Administration, coupled with anecdotal evidence, barn preservationists…
You could almost say Steve Favorite inherited Bristol’s revitalization effort from his father. “My dad helped develop the town’s first master plan back in the ‘60s,” said Favorite, a telecommunications consultant and Bristol resident for 38 years. “This is the…
Torrington Properties has deepened its stake in the state’s commercial/retail real estate market with its purchase of the 300,000-square-foot shopping center in Rochester known as The Ridge. The $51.3 million acquisition from Waterstone Properties includes the retail center adjacent to Route 11, home to Market Basket, a New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet, Marshalls, Old Navy, Starbucks, Stonewall Kitchen, Petco, Famous Footwear, ULTA Beauty, Hobby Lobby, the 110 Grill restaurant and other occupants.
Joshua Greenwald, owner broker of the Greenwald Realty Group, is the new president of the New Hampshire Association of Realtors.
Business and event happenings around the state of NH
While the median price of a single-family home in New Hampshire declined again in November, don’t assume it’s a trend toward greater affordability. More likely, according to Susan Cole, president of the New Hampshire Association of Realtors (NHAR), it’s because of seasonal trends in this region.
The Latest is a roundup of the comings and goings of the movers and shakers in NH's business community
‘What I learned is if we wanted to have a product or a program in New Hampshire that was successful, it had to mirror the illegal product, because if it was too greedy, if it was…
Diabetes costs the U.S. economy approximately $413 billion annually, including more than $106 billion in lost productivity.
A new report from the AARP concludes there’s an urgent need to support the tens of thousands of New Hampshire residents who serve as caregivers to people close to them.
The State Department and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) have stopped processing visas for Afghans and slowed or halted issuing “green cards” to refugees, the documents granting refugees permanent resident status in the United States and the ability to seek employment.
