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.…
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…
Leadership changes, unmet promises cause for concern at Franklin veteran campus
Those living with intellectual and developmental disabilities deserve housing options that reflect their potential
NH residents deserve transparency surrounding pharmacy benefit managers
New York Times columnist says we’re in the ‘third great period of human history’
When the path forward isn’t clear and feelings of overwhelm or despair are near, finding anchors in gratitude, horizon and context can steady our leadership through almost anything.
Responsible monetary decisions. Clear and widely disseminated communication with the public, especially on the city’s finances and taxes. Helping people keep their homes and find new ones. Regulatory and cultural changes to make it easier for businesses and development, and investments in the roads, sewers and other infrastructure to support them.
Over 20 years of working with New Hampshire business owners, I’ve noticed something consistent: The businesses that thrive aren’t the ones chasing every new trend. They’re the ones who know how to evaluate whether a new tool or strategy actually serves their goals.
College cut the ribbon this month for a 21-home complex for college employees in West Lebanon
