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The city of Berlin may turn a 215-acre parcel of land into a new industrial park. City officials seem poised to approve a feasibility study of the land, which is located directly north of the Maynesboro Industrial Park off East…

Community Bank and Trust shareholders will be collecting some pretty hefty dividends. The Wolfeboro bank (traded under the symbol CBNH.OB) announced yesterday that it will be paying a quarterly dividend of 35 cents a share, bringing the total for this…

Memorial Hospital in Conway plans to ask the state Health Services Planning and Review Board to approve a $17 million expansion project, including a new 20-room medical-surgical wing and a five-bed observation unit for short-term stays. Hospital officials say the…

New London Hospital has become the latest New Hampshire hospital to join the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Alliance - a move the hospital’s chairman said was "obvious." G. William Helm Jr., chairman of the New London Hospital board, said the affiliation brings "economies…

Cigna Corp., Wellpoint Inc. and eight other companies have been approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to offer Medicare prescription drug benefits to seniors starting in January. While some states will have more plans to choose from…

Three New Hampshire-based companies have been named to the 2005 list of the fastest-growing tech companies in New England. Compiled each year by Deloitte & Touche LLP and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, the New England Technology Fast…

Boston and Hartford, Conn., will be the sites of a diversity summit hosted by Bank of America as part of its supplier diversity and development program. The summits provide opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses to meet with Bank of…

"The Year of the Entrepreneur -- Building the New Hampshire Economy From the Inside Out" will be the theme of the second annual New Hampshire Entrepreneurial Summit, which will seek to link businesspeople and budding businesspeople to both public and…

As one of the largest trade organizations in the state, the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of New Hampshire’s (HBRANH) primary function is to protect its members’ interest at the various levels of local, state and, through its affiliation with…

Portsmouth-based Pax World Funds — the nation’s largest and oldest socially responsible mutual fund is facing a Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry about “internal control issues” so serious that they may affect the company’s ability to continue to manage its…