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This coming Black Friday, you can skip the mad 5 a.m. shopping dash, sleep away the turkey coma and hit up locally owned, independent retailers during regular business hours. Oh, and wear plaid.That's the message of some buy-local business networks…

Nearly two-thirds of New Hampshire retailers expect that their 2011 holiday sales will be the same as or better than last year.That's according to the annual holiday survey conducted by the Retail Merchants Association of New Hampshire, which found that…

Manchester-based Hampshire First Bank has agreed to be acquired by Norwich, N.Y.-based NBT Bancorp.The deal, valued at $45 million, is expected to close in the early second quarter, pending state and federal regulatory approval as well as approval by shareholders,…

New Hampshire merchants are already benefiting from recently enacted federal legislation that capped the amount big banks can charge merchants when their customers use debit cards, according to a national payments processor.Heartland Payment Systems -- the country's fifth-largest payments processor…

New Hampshire gets fewer economic benefits than any of the 10 states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, according to a report touting those benefits.But the report, released Tuesday, might have underestimated how much the Granite State gets out…

The New Hampshire Attorney General's office has issued a warning about solicitations for a bogus event that its organizers claim is scheduled to be held at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester.Attorney General Michael Delaney said even though the expo is…

"The Declaration of Inspiration" is the theme of the 16th annual New Hampshire Economic Development Summit, to be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, at the Inns at Mill Falls in Meredith.Keynote speaker will be Burns…

Presstek Inc. will slash its workforce in an attempt to regain profitability after posting a third-quarter loss of more than $5.4 million, the company announced Monday.The printing equipment company, which employs 130 people in Hudson and 450 overall, would not…

Lynn Tilton, CEO and principal of Patriarch Partners LLC -- the firm that brought the former Fraser Papers mill in Gorham back to life -- will speak on "How to Save American Manufacturing" at the ninth annual New Hampshire Advanced…

New Hampshire's bankruptcy crest, which began in the spring of 2009, has now subsided. Ever since May, the number of filings in 2011 has not just been lower than last year's, but below 2009 filings as well. And in October…