Community Bank and Trust shareholders will get a little extra this quarter, thanks to its planned merger into Ocean National Bank, a Portsmouth-based subsidiary of Chittenden Corp. in Vermont, the company announced on Wednesday. The Wolfeboro-based bank said it will…
The board of directors of New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares Inc., parent company of Lake Sunapee Bank, has authorized a stock repurchase plan allowing the company to repurchase up to 5 percent (253,776 shares) of its common stock outstanding as of…
Note: This is the first in a series of inside stories detailing actual venture capital transactions. Dates, numbers and other details have been changed to protect the private nature of the information. A few years back, our fund closed an…
Attorney Robert Backus, of counsel to the Manchester firm of Backus, Meyer, Solomon & Branch, has a long history of activism on political and environmental issues. As counsel for the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, he was a key figure in the…
The New Hampshire Banking Department threatened three major payday lenders with cease-and-desist orders late last summer, according to documents obtained by New Hampshire Business Review through a Right to Know request. Advance America, New England Auto and Pay Day Loans…
A desire to make a difference — a difference in the success of her clients and the life of her family - was the driving force behind Tammy Boucher’s decision to launch her own company in December 2006. “I wanted…
A new state law requiring restaurants to renew their rooms and meals tax license every other year was signed into law Monday by the governor, but its major effect shouldn’t be felt for a while. Although the law goes into…
Gov. John Lynch, making good on his pledge to revive the state’s Job Training Fund, yesterday signed into a law a bill that restores its funding. Senate Bill 97 dedicates up to $1 million a year from the Unemployment Compensation…
Despite a very difficult start to New Hampshire’s 2006-07 ski season, the number of alpine skiers taking to the state’s slopes declined only slightly, according to the trade group Ski NH. The number of cross-country skiers increased from the previous…
A southern New Hampshire oil company may face up to $157,500 in penalties and a Queen City landlord may face up to $92,800 in fines by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in two separate complaints lodged by the agency’s New…
