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That hip young man delivering office supplies to his co-workers to old Spinners tunes just might have to take his rubber bands and Post-It notes elsewhere. OfficeMax has announced that it will close three stores in southern New Hampshire. The…

Jane E. Berwick, a member of the Capital Center for the Arts’ founding board of trustees, has been named interim executive director of the Concord facility, filling the position left vacant when M.T. Mennino died late last year of heart…

A New Hampshire House committee heard testimony Tuesday on two bills that would dramatically shift the balance of power among landowners, developers and town planning and zoning officials. House Bill 1508 would grandfather a building project under existing town rules…

Presstek’s move to buy AB Dick and push its digital printing equipment into smaller shops has apparently paid off, according to preliminary fourth-quarter figures. The Hudson-based company took in $68 million in the last quarter of 2005, a 27 percent…

Steve Barba, the recently retired president and managing partner of the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel in Dixville Notch, has been named executive director of university relations at Plymouth State University. Barba, who will take over his new post at the…

Irving Oil has completed its purchase of Lebanon-based Johnson & Dix Fuel Corporation.’s heating oil and propane business and seven of its convenience retail stores in New Hampshire and Vermont, the companies announced Wednesday. The transaction includes Johnson & Dix’s…

An event designed to help teenagers and their parents learn how to be “financially fit” will be held Saturday at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester. The NH Jump$tart Coalition’s Financial Fitness Fair - a free event - is designed…

Bottomline Technologies, a Portsmouth-based provider of payments and invoice automation software and services, has completed its acquisition of UK-based Tranmit Plc, a provider of Web-based purchase-to-pay automation solutions. The addition of Tranmit’s invoice management capabilities enhances the company’s ability “to…

TTexas Instruments said its fourth-quarter profit rose 34 percent, but warned that sales in the current quarter might be disappointing. Revenues increased 14 percent to $3.59 billion in the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2005, from $3.15 billion in the same…

Jerry Shanahan, Enterasys Networks’ former chief operating officer, asked Robert Barber, the former senior vice president of business development at Cabletron Systems, to close a deal before the quarter ended in order to inflate the Enterasys’ revenue, according to Barber’s…