A seminar examining state and federal water policy, permitting and legislation is planned for November in Concord. Presented by the Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Department, the 2006 New Hampshire Water Seminar focus on…
The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance has announced its first “Seven to Save” list of the Granite State’s most endangered historic properties. The 2006 Seven to Save are: • Great Stone Dwelling (1837), Enfield • Stone Arched Bridge (1847), Keene •…
Former Cabletron Systems Chief Executive Officer Piyush Patel has reached a deal over legal fees with the bankrupt estate of the company’s spinoff, Riverstone Networks. According to papers filed in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware on Tuesday, Patel’s attorneys can…
Portsmouth-based Bottomline Technologies has acquired FormScape Group for $22 million. The financial software company, with offices in three countries, counts Wal-Mart as one of its customers, Bottomline announced on Monday. FormScape has offices in the United States, United Kingdom and…
One of the nation’s largest insurance companies has entered into an agreement with one of the world’s largest technology firms. Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cigna Corp. of Philadelphia, Pa., has signed a contract worth…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged six former officials of Cabletron Systems and Riverstone Networks with securities fraud, the federal agency announced Monday. In a civil complaint filed Friday, the SEC charged that Romulus Pereira, Riverstone’s first CEO, and…
Rep. James Martin would seem an unlikely candidate to have what can be viewed as the most pro-business record among the state’s legislators. Martin, a first time representative from Brookfield, is a former lawyer from California, where he mainly represented…
Peter Egelston, president of Smuttynose Brewing Co., was largely responsible for breathing life into the nascent microbrewery industry — brewers that make no more than 15,000 barrels per year — in New England back in the 1980s. In 1987, he…
GOP gubernatorial candidate Jim Coburn was reported in the press as having made several pronouncements lately that, if truly representative of his opinion, are troubling. He was quoted as saying that if he were governor, he would pick and choose…
Frank Merrill has always believed in setting goals, some, like the construction of his first Chichester log home, have been realized according to his anticipated timeline. Others, like the birth of his own company, came earlier than even he expected.…
