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…
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was written by a friend of Steve Boland's, Liam Canny, a fellow Bishop Guertin student. On Dec. 21, 1988, 20 years ago today, Pan American World Airways Flight 103 pushed back from the gate at London's…
One of the greatest constraints to continued economic growth in New England is the inability of business to hire skilled workers. Faced with an older workforce, stagnant population growth and a declining interest in science, technology and engineering and math…
To the editor: I am amazed that a New Hampshire attorney would openly promote the importation of non-American indentured six-year servants to be trained by loyal American workers who are then to be discarded (“H-1B visa program is broken, and…
