Recent court opinions have created a stir in the collection industry by challenging debt collectors’ procedures for recovering money. While nearly everyone agrees that debt collectors need strict regulation to prevent strong-arm tactics, the courts’ recent rulings have left many…
While this summer their classmates are bagging groceries at a supermarket or flipping greasy burgers at a fast-food chain, Souhegan High School junior Timmy Luter and several other Nashua area high school students will be working full time for BAE…
For the first time in the school’s 40-year history, a culinary arts program will be offered this fall at New Hampshire Community Technical College-Laconia. “Long known as a center for restaurant management and lodging and conference management, NHCTC-Laconia faculty and…
CIBOR, New Hampshire’s statewide Commercial Investment Board of Realtors, recently held its quarterly meeting at SERESC in Bedford. The theme was “Looking Through the Crystal Ball,” and economist Brian Gottlob of PolEcon Research gave a detailed and interesting presentation on…
Although the Legislature was hard at work this past session in considering many new employment-related measures with a potentially significant impact on New Hampshire employers, only two major bills successfully emerged from the lengthy list, along with a few more…
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Concord Hospital are suing the state Department of Health and Human Services, and its commissioner, John Stephen, for not paying some $1.58 million in Medicaid money that they say is due to teaching hospitals. The…
With the state’s professional sports organizations having a growing economic impact on New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Business Resource Center is working to deliver its economic development message to their audiences of businesspeople. The agency has developed a multi-faceted program…
With hardware and process control designs completed and testing begun, students in the University of New Hampshire’s Chemical Engineering Department next year plan to add automation equipment to the manual processor at the Woodman Farm on campus and produce biodiesel.…
Chittenden Corp., parent company of Ocean National Bank, reported sharply reduced earnings on Thursday but blamed it on costs related to a previous merger. Chittenden’s net income was about $9 million for the second quarter of the year, or 20…
After 12 years, the Children’s Metamorphosis museum in Derry will close its doors on Aug. 31, due to what the museum cites as declining corporate donations and rising debt. Founded in 1991, the nonprofit children’s museum, known as the Met,…
