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Ken Nakata, former senior trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, will join HiSoftware in Concord as director of professional services and legal policy. Customer consulting and regulatory Web compliance training to ensure implementation and integration with current customer…

The city built by paper mills got a piece of good news on Friday. Pat McDermott, business development director for Public Service of New Hampshire, confirmed rumors that his utility might build a wood-chip-burning power plant at the site of…

The House voted last week on a number of bills that could affect various industries around the state that were not reported on by major media. Here are some of them: The racing industry After a long debate on the…

Bentley Pharmaceuticals released its year-end earnings last Thursday and net income shot up last week, yet its stock took a nosedive. What’s going on? According to the balance sheet, everything seems rosy with the Exeter-based pharmaceutical company, which specializes in…

Paul A. Perrault, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Chittenden Corporation, parent company of Ocean National Bank, received $1.6 million in compensation last year, according to the annual proxy filed last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission. More…

Wellpoint, parent company of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Hampshire, has been named for the seventh consecutive year to the list of top 30 companies for executive women by the National Association for Female Executives. “We are…

Governor John Lynch, Berlin Mayor Bob Danderson and other state and local officials worked much of Wednesday mustering an emergency response for 252 workers who will lose their jobs May 6 when Fraser Papers shuts down its pulp mill in…

Fisher Scientific International is thinking of getting rid of its laboratory workstation business, one of its older lines, according to a Tuesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Hampton-based company’s board of directors authorized management to evaluate strategic…

Fraser Papers, the Canada-based multinational paper firm, announced Tuesday afternoon it will close its pulp mill in Berlin on May 6, throwing 250 employees out of work. Under union seniority rules, many of those people can “bump” workers at the…

As avian influenza continues to spread across Europe and Africa, the federal Department of Health and Human Services has approved development of a new vaccine against the deadly disease. While the United States has several million doses of the vaccine…