Every owner of a successful privately owned company must eventually confront an important question: What sort of future will the company have when you retire? Although I am not ready to retire yet, I nevertheless found myself being asked this…
At the post office the other morning, I took a hard look around me. I live in a town that supports New Hampshire's largest state university. Durham desperately needs young people for its strength, its vitality and its future. But…
Last month, the New Hampshire Motor Speedway and the New Hampshire chapter of Speedway Children's Charities donated more than $150,000 to 47 organizations throughout New England that support underprivileged children. Representatives from the groups accepted the funds during a Gift…
Maureen Manning, left, president of the New Hampshire Association for Justice, and Ellen Shemitz, right, the association's executive director, present Charlie Sherman, executive director of New Horizons for New Hampshire, with a $7,855 donation, which was raised at a holiday…
Catherine Edison, left, of the Portsmouth Rotary Club's Basic Needs Committee, and fellow Rotarian Mark Sullivan, right, present checks totaling $3,600 to Margie Parker, second from left, pantry director for the Seacoast Family Food Pantry, and Diane Giese, the pantry's…
John Neylon, ombudsman of the New Hampshire Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, presents Jannette 'Nettie' Olson, RN at the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, center, with a Patriot Award, for her support of Amanda Bailey, right, a…
City officials and members of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce joined Laconia Savings Bank employees in celebrating the opening of the bank's newest branch on North Main Street in Rochester at a ribbon-cutting ceremony held earlier this month.
Cheryl Cutting, lead New Hampshire ambassador for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Peter Ames, its state vice president of health initiatives, and volunteer Rachel Chretien were among the more than 40 volunteers and supporters of the ACS CAN…
For the past two decades, University of New Hampshire economist Ross Gittell has been on a research quest to understand and decipher the diverse New Hampshire economy. But on Feb. 1, Gittell makes a dramatic career change from scholar and…
Maureen Lemay and Quentin Keefe, left, co-owners of Regency Mortgage Corp., celebrate with their staff at the groundbreaking of Regency's new home in Hooksett, which is scheduled to open in June.
Barry Leonard, senior vice president for commercial services at Laconia Savings Bank and chair of the Boy Scouts of America 20th Annual Lakes Region Good Scout Award Luncheon, congratulates Rodney Dyer, senior partner at Wescott, Dyer, Fitzgerald & Nichols, P.A.…
Before hiring a contractor, a construction project owner must first determine the appropriate delivery method for the project. The delivery method affects a project's efficiency, cost and quality. But no method is perfect for every project, so owners must evaluate…
Map questSo this is the thanks Executive Councilor Dan St. Hilaire gets.The first-termer from Concord -- most famous, at least in some quarters, for being the deciding vote on cutting off state contracts with Planned Parenthood of Northern New England…
Conservative and ethically challenged activist James O'Keefe is back in the news, once again, manufacturing edited videos to make a case he can't produce with existing facts.On New Hampshire's primary day, O'Keefe and crew committed voter fraud at polling locations…
House Bill 1515, which proposes major changes to the assessment and use of the Land Use Change Tax, threatens local control, raises significant concerns on several levels, and should be killed.First, the bill provides that the failure to pay all…
Just before the primaries, I met a woman who didn't have health insurance. She was not my patient, but was one of those truly Good Samaritans we hear about. She was driving a patient of mine to my office. She…
On Jan. 4, the New Hampshire Legislature passed House Bill 542, a bill that took effect immediately and grants parents unprecedented powers to direct the education of their child in public schools.Specifically, the new law - sponsored by Rep. J.R.…
Even though an attorney for the potential Swiss financial backers of USA Springs told creditors on Thursday that they could still bail out the company and pay off creditors with a $60 million loan, nobody in the bankruptcy court in…
The total value of future construction contracts in New Hampshire in 2011 lagged more than $500 million behind 2010.And in December 2011, future construction contracts totaled 13 percent less than they did in the same month the previous year.That's according…
Should municipalities and nonprofits be required to reimburse the New Hampshire Department of Employment Security after a longtime employee quits and gets a job somewhere else, only to be shortly laid off?That's the question raised by Senate Bill 257, and…
The United States and Canada have announced a two-year extension of the Softwood Lumber Agreement, which those in New Hampshire's lumber industry say is good news."Most everybody that I know that's producing softwood lumber right now would think it's positive,"…
Should the state expressly ban games and contests involving alcohol at bars -- games like beer pong? Or does a law like that run the risk of targeting people simply for betting a beer over a game of darts?Senate Bill…
Stay Work Play -- the organization whose goal it is to encourage 20-to-30-year-olds to pursue their careers in New Hampshire -- is looking for small and large businesses and other organizations around the state that share its focus on retaining…
ProPhotonix Ltd. says it expects to report about $17 million in revenue for 2011, an increase over the $15.2 million it reported the previous year.In an earnings preview released last week, the Salem-based company said the gain came despite a…
Isaacson Steel Inc. wants to sell off some of its warehouse business for $225,000, but the fate of the larger bankrupt company - Berlin-based Isaacson Structural Steel Inc. -- is still up in the air, according to recent bankruptcy court…
A bill that would exempt foods produced and sold in New Hampshire from federal food safety regulations is running into opposition from some of the very groups the bill says it would help.A hearing on House Bill 1650 is scheduled…
On one side are businesses, insurance companies, health care providers and the state Insurance Department. On the other are House leadership, conservative senators and a think tank. All of them mingled in a crowded House Commerce Committee meeting to testify…
A deadlocked New Hampshire Senate did not approve a bill Tuesday that would eliminate a workers' compensation fund for the disabled, despite the recommendation of its commerce committee to do so.The fund involved is known as the "second injury" fund,…
Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc. issued a quarterly report of sorts last week on how the company is doing in reaching its goal of selling a million guns during its fiscal year - and in giving $1 from each sale…
The new owners of the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel have hired a North Country economic development organization to find ways to finance its long-overdue renovation.The nonprofit Northern Community Investment Corp., which serves northern New Hampshire and Vermont, will develop a…
A bill that would limit credit and debit card fees has New Hampshire retailers and banks going head to head.The fee in question -- the interchange fee -- is the amount that a credit card user's bank charges the retailer's…
A bill that would have required New Hampshire retailers to give a refund for returned items looks like it will morph into a return policy disclosure bill, if Tuesday's House Commerce Committee hearing is any indication.Sponsor Michele Peckham, R-North Hampton,…
Few people care that the New Hampshire Legislature is rewriting laws governing corporations and limited liability companies, but they should, said supporters Tuesday at a sparsely attended press conference in Concord.The current law in New Hampshire, one of the few…
TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable arm of TD Bank, has awarded $100,000 to the Laconia Area Community Land Trust for its Lochmere Meadows Renewable Energy Project, which will be used to install renewable energy systems at the 28-unit affordable housing…
Shelley Bruin, left, manager of Friends of the Manchester Animal Shelter, accepts a $2,529 donation from Claudia Rippee and Ed Aloise, owners of Republic Café, who also donated more than $2,400 to the Greater Manchester YMCA. Each year, the restaurant…
Representatives from the Ted Williams Foundation, Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, and the Fisher Cats Foundation accept a check representing the $155,680 raised for the three organizations at the 2011 Granite State Baseball Dinner, which was presented by Northeast Delta Dental.
Lynn Gelinas, vice president of government banking at Citizens Bank, helps Gov. John Lynch distribute food at the New Hampshire Food Bank's Mobile Food Pantry event in Manchester. The Citizens Bank Foundation provided a $50,000 grant to the food bank…
Lisa Christie, center, executive director of the Nashua Soup Kitchen, and Norma, right, a longtime soup kitchen volunteer, accept a $10,000 grant from Jim Tollner, director of account management at Harvard Pilgrim, on behalf of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care…
Ann Peters, CEO of Lamprey Health Care, presents an award of appreciation to Ken Holmes, left, president of North Branch Construction, project manager Eric Hastings and project superintendent Julianne Cardinal, in honor of North Branch's work building the new Lamprey…
St. Mary's Bank has donated $15,000 to the YMCA of Greater Londonderry in support of its capital campaign to build the town's first outdoor community swimming pool and a state-of-the-art recreation facility. From left, Tom Champagne, the credit union's director…
Developers and supporters gather at an open house to celebrate the opening of Families in Transition's newest housing development in Manchester, which will provide 12 units of permanent, supportive housing for formerly homeless individuals with disabilities and their families.
New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility held a roundtable discussion at Monadnock Paper Mills in Bennington to discuss ways New Hampshire businesses and organizations can benefit from the Environmental Protection Agency's environmental initiatives. Pictured, from left, are Michelle Veasey, executive…
"No requirement" could be the theme of the legislation that may emerge from this year's libertarian-tinged legislative session, at least as far as business is concerned.As the New Hampshire Legislature looks past the budget to focus on regulations in the…
For many businesses, the past three years have been a time of cutting back, laying off and hanging on. But for Mainstay Technologies, it has been a very different kind of ride.Ryan Barton, who started Mainstay seven years ago as…
As a longtime ad executive and head of Quaker City Mercantile, Steve Grasse doesn't just market brands; he creates them. Hendrick's Gin? That was his brainchild, as was Sailor Jerry rum, launched after he purchased the estate of the influential…
This time of year has always represented a period of new starts and, in reality, getting to things that had to be put off in the stressful year-end months of November and December.Included in this are all those resolutions to…
For the past decade or so, nanotechnology - the study of manipulating matter at an atomic and molecular scale -- has been promoted (hyped) as the next industrial revolution. "Nanotechnology for Dummies" (Wiley Publishing) in 2005 described a future that…
With 6 billion text messages sent daily in the United States, texting has seemingly become a national pastime. This is evident to any casual observer in a public place, where most people can be seen texting while walking, shopping, and…
Remember the dot-com era? We were made to feel like dinosaurs unless we were part of a dot-com business. They claimed it was a new business model that rewrote the rules.Most of them weren't making any money. The new model…
Deciphering the collective psyche of investors in the current economic climate is a challenge, to say the least. There are no easy answers -- only many complicated questions.To some, including the growing leagues of protesters, such as Occupy Wall Street,…
The availability of affordable yet well-maintained housing has become a perennial issue in New Hampshire communities and in the New Hampshire Legislature. While local and state policies and programs may open pathways to increased housing opportunities, policies alone won’t create new housing or keep existing homes in safe and livable condition.
Business and event happenings around the state of NH
The Latest is a roundup of the comings and goings of the movers and shakers in NH's business community
A federal judge heard opening arguments Monday, February 9, in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a 2024 state law that requires first-time voters in New Hampshire to show proof of U.S. citizenship when they register.
What employers should know for the upcoming cap season
On February 11, 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the largest enforcement settlement under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), resolving claims that The Walt Disney Company failed to adequately honor consumers’ opt-out rights — a core tenet of modern privacy law.
Our post-pandemic business environment has brought about myriad challenges that make cash flow forecasting much more difficult than it was five years ago. Many businesses are navigating supply chain challenges, volatile demand and lingering inflation — all key indicators of future cash flow.
For a long time, workplace wellness was viewed through a fairly narrow lens: reminders to schedule an annual physical, a blood pressure screening, maybe a gym reimbursement. Those efforts still matter. But “wellness” has expanded, because the way we work and live has changed.
What employers are getting wrong, and how to fix it before it becomes a claim
