Thermo Fisher Scientific board chairman Paul Meister - who last week announced he was stepping down from the post -- will receive some $28 million in retirement benefits, according to a proxy statement filed Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange…
Kelly Clark, chief operating officer at New Hampshire Public Television, has been chosen as the new state director of AARP New Hampshire. Clark will replace Dick Chevrefils, who recently stepped down from the New Hampshire post to become state director…
The fraudulent conduct of former Enterasys Networks executives caused stockholders to lose at least $144 million, according to a prosecution expert report filed with United States Federal district court in Concord on Monday. The report is the opening salvo of…
New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares of Newport has agreed to acquire First Community Bank, serving Woodstock, and Killington and Rutland in Vermont, for nearly $16 million in cash and stock. According to a company release, First Community will merge into Lake…
Too much ‘payday’ coverage To the editor: My company subscribes to your publication to keep informed as to what is going on in the State House. Bob Sanders has recycled the same story about “payday” lending over and over again.…
The Colebrook House Inn may have survived the Civil War, the Great Depression, the drop in tourism after the 2001 terrorist attacks and every blizzard the North Country could hurl at it, but it couldn’t get through the last few…
A report issued in February by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General cites deficiencies in the way the state Department of Environmental Services handled the accounting of a revolving loan fund for municipal drinking water improvements. For…
It is tough being in the middle in politics sometimes. As it is said, if you stand in the middle of the street, trucks going in both directions could hit you. Gov. John Lynch proposed a constitutional amendment in late…
Keith Frisbee, owner of Energy Resources Group Inc. accepted a dozen roses as payment for his first job — an energy audit performed at a local greenhouse. A similar job at a lobster company followed. His payment: lobsters. “I told…
The New Hampshire House’s passage of a renewable energy bill April 5 might spur even more wood-fired power plant projects, such as Public Service of New Hampshire’s 50-megawatt facility at Schiller Station in Portsmouth and several projects recently proposed in…
