New Hampshire Business Review - December 19 2008

Hottel speaks to Mass. board

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. - Interviewing for a new job, Nashua Superintendent Christopher Hottel touted his record of leading the school district through tough times and setting the stage for his successor. "I think I've put Nashua on a pretty good…

No one hurt in Amherst house fire

AMHERST - No one was injured Thursday in a fire that rendered a home on Winterberry Drive uninhabitable. Fire Chief Rick Todd said firefighters encountered heavy fire in a front bedroom on the second floor of 2 Winterberry Drive. "The…

City students get out early today

NASHUA - In anticipation of the impending snowstorm, the Nashua School District has announced that students would be let out of school early today. All students will be dismissed two hours earlier than normal. There will be no afternoon kindergarten.…

NHBR About Town

Grantham Village Elementary School students and their principal, Kurt Gergler, break ground on a new 14,000-square-foot addition at the school being constructed by Trumbull-Nelson Construction Company of Hanover. H.L. Turner Group of Concord is project architect. Submit items for About…

Piven leaves Broadway

"Speed-the-Plow" producer Jeffrey Richards says Jeremy Piven is out - and Norbert Leo Butz and William H. Macy are in. Richards says Butz and Macy will replace Piven in the critically praised Broadway revival of David Mamet's comedy. Piven, star…

Cruise's son makes debut

Tom Cruise's 13-year-old son will have a six-day jump on his father at the box office. Connor Cruise makes his big-screen debut in "Seven Pounds," which opens Friday. On Dec. 25, his father's "Valkyrie" hits theaters. It's a small, supporting…

Scarlett gets snotty

How snotty: Scarlett Johansson blew her nose on a tissue, and now the tissue is being sold on eBay. Johansson appeared on NBC's "Tonight" show Wednesday to promote her new movie, "The Spirit." The actress said she'd caught a cold…