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Deadline is Aug. 25 for nominations to be submitted for New Hampshire Business Review’s fourth annual Business Excellence Awards. The awards honor owners and top executives of outstanding small businesses and not-for-profit organizations with 100 employees or fewer. The awards…

If all goes according to plan, former Riverstone Networks shareholders should get their first, largest - and perhaps their only -- check from the company in early October, and they should know the size of that check in mid-August. RNI…

Four environmental organizations are among those challenging the Bush administration’s proposal to go ahead with the Than Brook timber sale on land in New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest. The Sierra Club and its New Hampshire chapter were joined in…

Gov. John Lynch yesterday told Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney that New Hampshire would take action if the commonwealth doesn’t pay more than $3 million it owes several New Hampshire communities for the cost of flood control dams. “Nearly 50 years…

Bottomline Technologies, in an attempt to put on a show of confidence in the face of near year-lows in the company’s share price, last week tentatively offered to buy back up to $10 million worth -- or roughly 5 percent…

A community advisory committee led by state Transportation Commissioner Carol Murray and Lew Feldstein, president of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, has released a transportation plan regarding long-range land use and infrastructure planning, including a number of action items. “New…

Bentley Pharmaceuticals, the Exeter-based supplier of generic drugs, has made Fortune Small Business magazine’s list of the 100 fastest-growing small public companies once again, moving up from 49th to 37th. The list, which appears in the magazine's July/August issue, ranks…

In separate filings in federal Bankruptcy Court in Mancheter, Stephen Foss, former CEO of Foss Manufacturing in Hampton, calls an attempt by creditors to put him on a daily budget ‘pure harassment,’ and his wife Patricia says that the move…

New Hampshire schools earned an ‘F’ for current nutrition policies, according to a recent study conducted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest - a grade received by 22 other states. The study, released June 20 and conducted…

Governor John Lynch has appointed a bipartisan group of members to his TANF Advisory Council, which is being formed to monitor the implementation of changes to the state's welfare program and recommend improvements to the governor. ‘We must make sure…