MERRIMACK - Selectmen have worked to hold the line on spending in next year’s budget, first asking department heads to trim their requests by 5 percent and then pruning an additional $1.4 million. Still, something kept nagging Dick Hinch, the…
BROOKLINE - If US Cellular had its way, all town residents would abandon their “landlines,” and switch strictly to cellular service. This is one goal of many in the company’s proposal for a new 180-foot tall cell tower on Ball…
NASHUA - Mayor Bernie Streeter spent nearly $17.64 for every vote he earned on Election Day. Streeter won a second four-year term in last month’s election, beating Alderman-at-Large Steve Bolton and write-in candidate Don Davidson. The final campaign finance reports…
NASHUA - Will anyone be there to answer the phone in the economic development office? With City Hall reopening its search for a director, the assistant economic development director, Alan Manoian, said he will leave his position Dec. 17. Manoian…
NASHUA - Claire Thomas, receptionist at the Health Stop clinic, is happy to talk about how many people are suddenly looking for flu shots - if only they would stop calling long enough to give her a chance. “We’ve had,…
Blizzard-like conditions are expected in the region’s first major winter storm of the season. Meteorologists predicted heavy snowfall, strong winds and a resulting low visibility during the weekend-long storm, which began making its way into the region late Friday night.…
The following are school lunch menus for the week of Dec. 8. ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS MONDAY: Papa Gino’s pizza, green beans, fruit salad or fruit juice. TUESDAY: Chicken drummies with seasoned pasta, garden salad, juicy peaches or fruit juice. WEDNESDAY: Cheeseburger…
NASHUA - When Chris Stewart is old enough to go to high school, he wants to go to Nashua High School South. The Sunset Heights sixth-grader wore his purple Nashua football jacket to a public hearing Thursday night where the…
“I’m really excited because folks who own horses in the area will know how much they spend, and now others will see how big (the industry) is and how much it does contribute,” said Nancy Robbins, owner of The Horse…
AMHERST - Police are investigating the origin of a prank 911 call, which caused the evacuation of a major retail and grocery store early Thursday night. Several hundred customers were forced out of the Wal-Mart Supercenter at 85 Route 101A…
WILTON - The teachers at the Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative Middle/High School still do not have a contract. After about two hours of discussion on Wednesday, voters rejected the plan, 104-60. Voters also rejected a proposed one-year contract last spring. Although many…
HUDSON - Citizens Bank on Lowell Road will have a new look in the near future. The Planning Board on Wednesday approved several changes to the building, including adding a Brooks Pharmacy. Although another business is going in at 71…
CONCORD - Gov. Craig Benson will get a proposed 10-year highway plan that’s $500 million out of balance. The Executive Council and Transportation Commissioner Carol Murray approved a $2 billion wish list Wednesday when the best estimates are that only…
NASHUA - The pink, purple and yellow surveys flashed before the eyes of Lisa Gingras’ advanced placement statistics class. Nashua High School senior John Collins tallied the results of nearly 140 surveys during the first-period class Wednesday. “It’s monotonous,” he…
TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. - The town has stripped Matthew’s of its big drawing card, ordering the club to cease and desist from offering any adult entertainment as of noon Wednesday, The Lowell Sun reports. Matthew’s manager and co-owner Donato DiRocco could…
NASHUA - Some of the leading advocates of local ownership of Pennichuck Corp. are criticizing the draft charter for a regional water district. Former state Sen. Barbara Pressly said the document approved last month by a study committee does not…
These are the three options presented to students, teachers and parents on surveys distributed by the School Times Committee. Timetable No. 1 (Current) Five elementary schools: &tab;&tab;First pickup at 8:25 a.m., buses arrive at &tab;&tab;&tab;&tab;&tab;&tab;8:55 a.m., school hours are 9:08…
NASHUA - Melissa Theriault and her son Adam put on warm, red fleece jackets for a walk around their South Main Street neighborhood. Adam wore a facemask that protected him from the cold December night. Theriault carried a clipboard in…
Hillsborough County Attorney John Coughlin expects to step down as the county’s top law enforcement officer once his unit in the New Hampshire Army National Guard is mobilized for a mission to Iraq. “I am going to resign. I am…
NASHUA - The golf course at the Nashua Country Club in the city’s south end would play a central role in a storm water management and control plan being developed by the Division of Public Works, officials said at a…
MERRIMACK - Removing asbestos tiles and installing a sprinkler system top the list of renovations needed to convert Mastricola Middle School to an upper elementary school. The proposal for building the new middle school, scheduled to open next year, originally…
HOLLIS - Members of the Hollis/Brookline Cooperative School District’s Long-range and Immediate Needs Evaluation Committee said Hollis and Brookline residents still have time to share input on solving the middle school space crunch. With the Hollis/Brookline Middle School only two…
Lawyers for a Litchfield couple convicted under federal forced-labor statutes are seeking access to previously unreleased information that they claim would establish the need for a new trial. Kate O’Dell and Timothy Bradley were both found guilty of 18 counts…
NEW IPSWICH - The high school gym floor needs to be replaced and the estimated cost is about $150,000. Another $25,000 is needed to upgrade the bleachers to life safety codes. The roof at Appleton School will have to be…
CONCORD - Gov. Craig Benson said the executive branch should pick the chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and the 2001 law that took away that authority could legally be flawed. Benson said he supports a proposed bill…
PEPPERELL, Mass. - A mother and her young son escaped serious injury after their car left the road and struck a tree near the New Hampshire border in Hollis Monday night. The one-car accident took place on Hollis Street (Route…
NASHUA - Bundled up against Monday night’s bone-chilling wind, a group of about 40 people lighted candles at Nashua City Hall and began a slow stroll up Main Street. Although a beautiful sight, the group was not celebrating the holiday…
HUDSON - After being left to the elements for many years, a historic barn and other buildings at the former Benson’s Wild Animal Farm will receive some attention. Last week, the Board of Selectmen awarded three contracts for work to…
NASHUA - The sign over Stefan Russakow’s door says: Lead, follow, or get out of the way. The mission of this former Army captain, who once aided refugees in Southeast Asia, is to quicken the pace of the Division of…
MILFORD - If a new police station is built in town, a committee that has been studying the issue since spring said it should be built in place of the largely unused Garden Street School - probably. The committee’s final…
NASHUA - Projects at Daniel Webster College, St. Joseph Hospital and the Senior Activity Center are in line to receive more than $4 million in federal funds. U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass is advocating for the projects, which have won early…
NASHUA - Cailyn Costa likes all the Boston Red Sox players, but her favorite is David Ortiz. That could be because the 28-year-old designated hitter has a reputation as an upbeat, sincere team player, or because he led the team…
MANCHESTER (AP) - President Bush’s secret visit to Baghdad on Thanksgiving was an exciting time for American troops and for one household in Manchester. David Legro was watching the news when he saw a soldier pass by. “Hey, I think…
When President Bush recently described himself as “a friendly guy,” he made a point that many of his critics concede: They disagree with his policies but like him personally. Now that his job-approval ratings are hovering around the 50 percent…
Getting something for nothing is a good thing, except when you get exactly what you paid for. But AVG Anti-Virus, a free utility, doesn’t come with the usual gotchas. Installing it requires downloading and running a six-megabyte installer, then registering…
It’s not enough to build a Web site. If you want people to use it, you have to make it helpful and easy to find. So says the General Accounting Office, a federal agency that recently examined traffic at the…
Gateway Inc. has expanded its reach into the electronic home with some solidly built digital cameras that offer budding photographers another option beyond the tried-and-true Canons, Sonys and Nikons. Gateway’s premium model is the DC-T50 ($399), a 5.25-megapixel workhorse with…
WILTON - The board of the Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School District and the school’s teachers have agreed on a new three-year contract, but the district’s Budget Committee says the percentage increases are too high given the economic climate. A special district…
MERRIMACK - “Hi, I’m Jeremy King with ‘Merrimack Matters!’ ” Jeremy, 12, stood with a microphone poised to interview Janet Angus, the library director. Meanwhile, Jennifer Bull, 11, worked the camera, staring intently into the viewfinder. This was the main…
Comcast Cable officials notified City Hall it would be raising cable bills early in 2004. The average price increase will be about $2.71 a month, said a letter from Elizabeth Graham, the cable company’s director of government and community relations,…
IIn the time it took Steve Fetter to get his baby daughter out of her car seat, his two young sons had already found _The One. Walking among the 14 rows of Christmas trees at Brookdale Fruit Farm in Hollis…
This chart shows the median sale prices for houses and condominiums in 11 areas of Nashua between April 1, 2002, and March 31. The areas were defined by the Nashua Regional Planning Commission, which analyzed data for home sales. Southwest&tab;&tab;&tab;$385,000…
NASHUA - Working families are increasingly facing home prices that are beyond their reach, according to a newly _issued report by the Mayor’s Task Force on Housing. “This housing problem is not just a problem for the low-income (residents). This…
HUDSON - After two years of decreases, the Police Department is starting to see a rise in the number of false alarms. The police and fire departments have suggested raising the fines for false alarms and other changes to the…
MONT VERNON - The drive to raise enough money to buy 78 acres of forest along Purgatory Brook has reached two-thirds of its $90,000 goal, but the deadline is now only three months away. Joanne Draghetti, who has been leading…
NASHUA - The Zoning Board of Adjustment has approved a local development firm’s request for a special exception to build a 40-lot single-family cluster housing project on 12.5 acres owned by the 1590 Broadcasting Corp. at 502 W. Hollis St.…
LYNDEBOROUGH - Sometime during Saturday night, vandals broke into the clubhouse at Pinnacle Mountain Fish and Game Club off Cemetery Road. Damage is estimated at about $10,000, including broken windows, doors, furniture and appliances, a television and a microwave oven.…
WILTON - There is no way to control Congress, lawmakers are totally out of touch and need to get the deficit under control, reduce spending and control taxes. Those were some of the comments made to U.S. Rep. Charles Bass,…
The six schools that will get about 700 new laptop computers for 7th-grade classes and teachers early next year were announced earlier this moth by Gov. Craig Benson. The leased computers, wireless networks and technical support will be going to…
Saying there was no indication of intentional wrongdoing, Merrimack-based PC Connection predicts it will win back a $56 million federal contract canceled over possible sales by a subsidiary that may have resulted in “underpayment of fees” or sales of “unqualified…
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.
