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Loan fund wins federal housing grant

The nonprofit New Hampshire Community Loan Fund has received a $3.7 million grant to help it develop and support affordable housing for low-to-moderate income families in the state. The grant – part of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial…

Statewide shopping event readied

More than 150 New Hampshire businesses, artists and retail stores will open their doors the first weekend of November as part of NH Open Doors, a statewide shopping and touring event designed to showcase all the state’s unique offerings. The…

How's business on the Seacoast?

NHBR's editors recently met with Portsmouth area businesspeople at the new Portsmouth Harbor Events and Conference Center at Portwalk Place in downtown Portsmouth. The topic under discussion: How is the area's economy faring and what are the expectations for the…

N.H. bankruptcies rise in Sept.

Bankruptcies in New Hampshire, which have been declining over the last few months, are back up.There were 479 filings in September -- the most in any September save for 2005. The total was 46 more than in August, (an 11…

Securities Bureau launches new FRM probe

The New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulation has launched yet another probe into Financial Resources Mortgage Inc., the Meredith-based company behind a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. But this one will be armed with subpoena power, and would -- for the first…

Longtime N.H. SBA officials to retire

The two top U.S. Small Business Administration officials in New Hampshire will be leaving the agency at the end of the year.Witmer Jones, director of the Concord office, and Alice Zachos, assistant district director, have announced that they will be…

Sept. new hires rise 12 pct.

New Hampshire companies added 12 percent more workers in September than they did in August.According to figures from the New Hampshire Department of Employment Security, 22,649 newly hired employees were added in September – compared to 20,186 adding in August.September’s…