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StockerYale has agreed to pay more than $3 million to settle a stockholder suit that claimed that its executives either manipulated the stock price or used insider information to enrich themselves at the expense of the shareholders, the company announced…

Some 31 participants have graduated as members of the 2007 class of Leadership New Hampshire, the 15th year of the statewide leadership development program. Graduates include senior executives, government officials, entrepreneurs and nonprofit executives. This year’s graduates are: • Tim…

The New Hampshire Association of Realtors has unveiled a new Web site aimed at consumers interested in learning more about the Granite State. The site, livingnh.org, provides information on such subjects as New Hampshire’s cities and towns, education, government and…

Federal Realty Investment Trust has sold two properties in Keene and a third in Maine to a New York firm for a combined price of $62.9 million. The sale of the Riverside Plaza and the Key Road Plaza in Keene…

StockerYale will be unloading more stock in order to refinance a $2.3 million loan and cut its monthly payments in half, according to the filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The cash-strapped provider of photonic devices will be selling…

Contracts for future nonresidential and nonbuilding construction projects in New Hampshire continued to fall in May. Contracts for future residential construction, however, increased when compared to the same time period 2006. May 2007 contracts for future nonresidential construction decreased by…

Milk prices continue to rise in New Hampshire, and paying $4 a gallon may not be out of the question by summer’s end, according to Steve Taylor, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food. But so…

After more than eight years at the helm of the Children’s Alliance of New Hampshire, Ellen Shemitz has announced plans to step down as president of the organization this summer. Shemitz said her resignation will become effective at the end…

A study conducted for the New Hampshire Division of Travel and Tourism says that this summer could be the best yet for the state’s hospitality industry. The study by the Institute for New Hampshire Studies at Plymouth State University expects…

Prosecutors have asked US District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro to sentence four convicted Enterasys Networks executives to as many as 33 years in prison, while their defense attorneys are arguing that they should be sentenced to less then a tenth…