The thriving Chinese economy is having an effect on cement and concrete projects around the world, although in New Hampshire the industry seems solid. Massive building projects in China have turned the Asian country “from an exporter to an importer…
The University of New Hampshire has been named one of the Top 25 Most Entrepreneurial Colleges by The Princeton Review and Forbes.com, ranking 10th in the nation. The two organizations released their Top 25 picks this morning. According to The…
St. Joseph Hospital has officially stepped into the future with a ground-breaking ceremony to mark the start of work on a $25 million expansion project. The expansion is expected to improve patient access to innovative and clinically comprehensive health care…
Between 15 and 20 Rochester area business owners have banded together to protest Senate Bill 110 and what they see as its accompanying increases in health insurance premiums. The business owners formed a group they call “STUNG,” which seeks to…
Low unemployment and low housing vacancies mean newcomers to southern New Hampshire often find work before they find a place to live. The housing shortage in the popular Seacoast area is so acute that Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover leases a…
A recently enacted law allows community banks, which have long demonstrated their commitment to meeting the financial needs of the small-business community, to offer their business customers, as well as their employees and their families, a new health-care option that…
Patriot Healthcare, a newly formed insurance company headed by the state’s former health and human services commissioner, is seeking regulatory approval to do business in the state. Patriot, founded by Nicholas Vailas, is asking the state Insurance Department for permission…
The Benson administration has proposed slashing New Hampshire’s nursing home population by 30 percent in the next five years with an eye toward saving $337 million that it says would go toward developing adult day-care centers and hospices. The proposals…
The all-star roster of current and former officeholders who showed up at State Office Park East on Hazen Drive in Concord included a former congressman, two speakers of the house, two governors and one all-purpose potentate. “Governor Flynn, it’s always…
Cummings is named Realtor of Year Ann Cummings of RE/MAX Coast-to-Coast in Portsmouth has been named the 2004 New Hampshire Realtor of the Year. Cummings was honored by the New Hampshire Association of Realtors, which cited her exceptional service as…
