As she was about to leave the job, Lauri Ostrander Klefos, the state’s director of the Division of Travel and Tourism Development, felt free to share a secret of her personal life that, had it been known earlier, might have…
Financial Services The New Hampshire Higher Education Assistance Foundation Network has announced the promotion of a number of staff: David C. Dobbins to senior executive vice president for operations, Richard R. Russell to executive vice president and chief financial officer,…
In this day and age of mega bank mergers, it’s nice to know there are still some neighborhood financial institutions where customers really do come first. Ann Lally, president of Salem Cooperative Bank, was singled out for providing such personal…
The drive Route 3 or Route 16 and you’re in the Great North Woods. The doin’s • The North Country Moose Festival, Aug. 27-29 in Colebrook (North Country Chamber of Commerce, 237-8939, northcountrychamber.org) celebrates all the majesty and mayhem of…
Every business has its own set of challenges, but Admix - short for “Advanced Mixing Technologies “— sets a standard for solving some unique problems. The company’s sanitary mixing devices handle fish eyes, floating powders, unmixed agglomerates, inconsistent product quality,…
C&S Wholesale Grocers, the second-largest grocery distributor in the country, has moved its corporate headquarters from Brattleboro, Vt., to Keene, N.H. But the privately owned company, which has sales of $13 billion so far this year, did not move into…
As part of the state’s continued effort to privatize social services, the Department of Health and Human Services is negotiating with a for-profit contractor to manage the care of the sickest of the poor. The department’s embrace of so-called disease…
New Hampshire should consider helping to offer affordable long-term care insurance to younger and middle-aged residents, according to Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen. Stephen said his advisory council is exploring how to encourage young citizens to buy long-term…
When David Gottesman decided to run for the New Hampshire Senate in District 12, it took some of his friends and neighbors by surprise. “My life is pretty busy,” said the Nashua attorney. “People were wondering why I was doing…
In June, health-care professionals from across the state and New England met to discuss how to build a telehealth initiative in New Hampshire. The two-day “Telehealth NH” seminar was sponsored by the North Country Health Consortium Inc., a Littleton-based rural…
