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New Hampshire's Executive Council is expected to vote on spending $1.7 million on 18 no-bid contracts when it meets today in Warren. It will be the first meeting since NHBR published its most recent report on such "sole-source" contracts, which…

As most people who were trying to get anywhere in New Hampshire by car would attest, the pace of stimulus spending on transportation projects picked up considerably in August. The equivalent of some 282 full-time jobs were created (or layoffs…

Jim Tibbetts, president and chief executive of First Colebrook Bank, has been named the New Hampshire Bankers Association's 2009 New Hampshire Community Banker of the Year. Tibbetts, who has been at the helm of First Colebrook for 12 years, has…

Alex Ray, founder and owner of the Ashland, N.H.-based Common Man Family of Restaurants, has been named winner of the National Restaurant Association's 2009 Cornerstone Humanitarian award. The award, along with a $5,000 donation to Ray's designated cause, Webster Place…

The Timberland Company will be replacing its chief financial officer at the end of the month, the Stratham, N.H.-based casual footwear and apparel maker disclosed Thursday. John D. Crimmins III, vice president and chief financial officer, will be leaving the…

A bankruptcy judge Tuesday gave his final stamp of approval to the long-pending sale of a portion of the former Hinsdale Greyhound Park to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for $2.13 million, paving the way for the retailer to build a Walmart…

Plans for high-speed fiberoptic links connecting colleges in New Hampshire and extending into additional networks elsewhere in northern New England have received a major boost with the announcement of a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to support building the…

Sunday, Sept. 20, has been proclaimed New Hampshire Restaurant Recognition Day by Gov. John Lynch, part of the second annual nationwide Great American Dine Out Week. From Sept. 20 to 26, restaurants in New Hampshire and nationwide will be donating…

The need for direct-care givers in New Hampshire is being outstripped by the supply — and the situation will only become worse as the population of the state ages. That's the conclusion of yet another study of the state's direct-care…