New Hampshire Business Review - August 14 2009
Accent magazine to end publication
Accent Home & Garden, a Seacoast-based home design magazine, will be publishing its last issue in the fall. Network Communications Inc., a Lawrenceville, Ga.-based publisher of regional real estate and home design publications and owner of Accent, announced that the…
N.H. mortgage delinquency rate creeps up
New Hampshire’s 60-day mortgage delinquency rate rose in the second quarter of 2009. According to TransUnion’s analysis of 27 million randomly selected consumers nationwide, the Granite State’s mortgage delinquency rate rose from 3.55 percent in the first quarter of 2009…
2 more concerts set at Griffin Park
MERRIMACK - Two final performances will wrap up the summer concert series put on at Abbie Griffin Park by the Merrimack Parks and Recreation Department. Champion fiddler Robin Warren and guitarist Brian Clancey, the two members of Spirit Fiddle, will…
1934 price draws crowd of wine shoppers
The state liquor store on Coliseum Avenue in Nashua sold bottles of Chateau de Macard Bordeaux Superieur on Monday for $1.40 a bottle, one bottle per customer. This was the price former Alderman Joseph A. Therriault paid for a 1929…
Town could have 100 new houses built
MERRIMACK - Two developments being proposed in Merrimack could bring as many as 100 new houses to town. Equally notable is that these plans will be the first major housing projects seen in town this year. "Here we are in…
1st H1N1-related death in state is county woman
A 22-year-old Hillsborough County woman has become the state’s first H1N1-related death, according to state health officials. Dr. Jose Montero, director of the state Department of Health and Human Services’ Public Health Division, said the agency would not release exactly…
Benson's contract dispute leads to review hearing on August 25
HUDSON - A contract dispute has thrown a wrench into a rehabilitation project at the old Benson's Wild Animal Farm. Assistant Town Administrator Mark Pearson and Eric Langill, co-owner of KSL Contracting, had a confrontation last week that led to…
Taking $3.4m from reserve backed
NASHUA - Though a "bitter pill to swallow," the Board of Aldermen's Budget Review Committee voted to recommend taking $3.36 million from the city's school reserve fund to erase a deficit in last year's school district budget. The recommendation was…
