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The markets: The week that was

Banknorth Group (BNK) reported second-quarter net income of $95.8 million, a 10 percent increase over a year ago. For the quarter, Banknorth had income of 55 cents per share, up from 53 cents for the same period last year. Its…

Regional firms net VC

Venture capitalists invested $916.6 million into New England firms in the second quarter — the most since late 2001 — according to a new study. New England venture investing increased for the third consecutive quarter, as investors placed big bets…

Notes

Manchester: Ted Herbert’s Music Mart, a Manchester landmark, is merging with the Frederick, Md.-based Music and Arts Centers chain. Terms of the deal, which includes the music store business but not the music school or the store property, were undisclosed.…

‘Strong Women Saturday’ set for Boston

Stonyfield Farm’s Strong Women conference - profiled last year in the New Hampshire Business Review - is coming to Boston in September. “Strong Women Saturday” is billed as an ambitious undertaking patterned after the Londonderry-based yogurt maker’s successful Strong Women…

It’s been making the rounds…

• After his hysterical “Crossfire” performance on the State House lawn last month, calling CNN’s Tucker Carlson a twerp would be an insult to all the other twerps. • Who’ll have to wait longer before they actually get the cash in their…

Chez Boucher cooking up teamwork

Whoever said too many cooks spoil the broth obviously wasn’t a team player, because that is exactly what Chez Boucher’s Cooking School is trying to do - build teams through Culinary Adventures cooking classes. “Participants will have to choose a…

Riding to remember

Matthew Gregg, co-founder of the New Hampshire Theatre Awards and longtime member of the McLean Communications family, has been hard at work on a Broadway musical, “Nine 11,” based on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In his passion…