Back when a telephone was still a rare commodity and e-mail had not yet been dreamed of, Manchester residents had a reliable way to get same-day messages across town. They sent post cards. “I have postcards that say ‘I’ll meet…
E&R Cleaners of Manchester is celebrating its 85th anniversary by completing its transition into a new 80,000-square-foot processing facility on Gold Street in Manchester that enables the company to streamline operations by consolidating six laundry and dry-cleaning processing facilities into…
Officials in charge of operating the Port of New Hampshire say the facility’s future may one day include high-speed commuter ferries to Boston, tall ship regattas, small cruise vessels and a bustling roll on/roll off container trade, and to take…
Maple syrup, maple candy, sugar on snow, barbecued ribs, baked beans — the list of maple-flavored inspirations is limited only by our imagination, and from late February until early April the maple producers of New Hampshire do their part in…
Scientists and supporters attending a regional conference earlier this month in Concord agree climate change in the woods of New Hampshire is real. The early arrival of spring means a longer mud season and less time for foresters and loggers…
The New Hampshire Senate passed a bill Thursday that would require insurance companies to cover divorced spouses as if they are still part of the family, until either spouse remarries. Supporters of House Bill 197 - sponsored by Sen. Sheila…
Dan McLeod, longtime president of the New Hampshire Automobile Dealers Association, will be retiring at the end of 2007. “It’s been a great ride,” said McLeod, who has been with the organization for 27 years. ”The folks I’ve worked for…
Sentencing of four former Enterasys Networks executives convicted last year of securities fraud is likely to be delayed until late June. On Wednesday, prosecutors and defense attorneys jointly appealed to the court to put off sentencing a couple of months…
Health care was on the agenda in key votes taken in the New Hampshire House and Senate earlier this month. In the House, lawmakers voted overwhelmingly March 6 for a bill that would force pharmacy companies to offer discount drugs…
In many ways, early mornings at Sheila Zakre’s Concord home have always resembled those of any other family — breakfasts made, children dressed and sent off to school, and Zakre and her husband prepared to head out for their own…
