Cathleen A. Schmidt, currently executive vice president and director of retail banking of Citizens Bank of Massachusetts, will be taking over next month as president and chief executive officer of Citizens Bank New Hampshire. Schmidt will replace Thomas M. Metzger,…
State employment offices in Littleton, Lebanon, Keene and Salem might close if the state Legislature doesn’t give the Department of Employment Security more money, according to Commissioner Richard Brothers. But Brothers told NHBR Daily that the closures will not be…
More than $395,000 has been raised to meet a federal matching grant to restore and upgrade the historic The Music Hall in Portsmouth. The federal grant was awarded to the 127-year-old theater by the Save America’s Treasures program, sponsored by…
The Small Business Administration says it has increased its dollar-based small-business size standards to account for inflation, restoring small-business eligibility to those firms that may have lost their small business status because of inflation since February 2002. The agency has…
Manchester city officials will be among those on hand Thursday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the official opening of The Residences at Manchester Place, a $40 million, 204-unit luxury apartment complex in the city’s downtown. The courtyard ceremony - to…
Avionics and electro-optics systems manufacturer Kollsman Inc. of Merrimack has won a $33.6 million order to provide high-performance thermal binocular system long-range thermal imagers to the U.S. Marine Corps. The company, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd., is expected to…
Bentley Pharmaceuticals can now sell its generic antacid drugs in the United Kingdom, further expanding the Exeter-based firm’s European base beyond Spain. The British Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency approved 15 and 30 mg dosages of lansoprazole capsules, acid-pump…
The state Department of Labor wants to begin retroactively fining employers who are not keeping current with their workers’ compensation insurance premiums. Currently workers that don’t fulfill their with workers’ comp payments are fined starting the day state inspectors discover…
The state Supreme Court has ruled that a Nashua chemical company abandoned hazardous waste after it moved from its former facility in Merrimack. Elementis Chemical Inc. had appealed a Superior Court finding that it abandoned materials at its former site…
Sitting at the Thanksgiving dinner table with bright young adults is an educational experience. Undergraduate and graduate students and recent college graduates discussing public policy and their perspectives on it, and then considering their questions, essentially led to the following…
