Efforts by The Timberland Company to create footwear for the hard-to-fit population has earned the Stratham-based company the 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA award) for its new Timberland PreciseFit system, which will debut next month. The award, sponsored by…
Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon has been ranked as one of the nation’s top 50 hospitals for cancer care by US News & World Report in its 2006 “Americas Best Hospitals” issue. Placing 43rd on…
Patricia Foss controlled nearly all of the voting stock in Foss Manufacturing in July 2004, more than a year before the Hampton firm went bankrupt, and she owned nearly half of the stock two years before that, she said in…
Warren Buffett, the second richest man in the United States, in announcing that he was giving away 85 percent of his multibillion-dollar fortune, or over $30 billion, startled the business and philanthropic communities when he announced that he was giving…
Outbound company shipments to the state’s major international markets enjoyed gains in April as demand for goods made in New Hampshire was boosted by strong growth in foreign consumers’ incomes and a weaker dollar, which makes exported goods cheaper and…
Jan Soderquist ended a recent tour of Rehabilitation Equipment Associates Inc. in Manchester by sharing photos of children enjoying a bike ride at this year’s Bike Day celebration, which was hosted in the company’s parking lot. The photos captured those…
Stop meddling with military retiree benefits To the editor: Buried deep within the Senate and House versions of the National Defense Authorization Act 2007 (HR5122, Sec. 710 and S2766, Sec. 722) is a provision which would restrict the use of…
Where there’s secondhand smoke… During the debate over whether the state should ban smoking in restaurants, Rep. Ken Weyler - the man who would be speaker - used a tried-and-true tactic of many a smoking-ban opponent. He referred to people…
As the group of kids runs around the house, laughing and chasing one another, it doesn’t appear that some of them have health problems so severe that their doctors don’t know how to treat them. Other than the fact that…
A milestone in the economic development of the Mount Washington Valley was marked June 28 with a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Mount Washington Valley Technology Village in Conway. The culmination of nearly six years worth of work put forth…
