New Hampshire Business Review - February 27 2009
Bill would allow cameras at intersections
CONCORD - Four years after a similar proposal failed to gain traction in the state Legislature, a group of Bedford lawmakers wants to give New Hampshire cities and towns the authority to put up cameras to catch cars running red…
Huge colon raises cancer awareness, eyebrows at mall
Shoppers at the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua got a nice view of a colon Saturday. Lowell (Mass.) General Hospital had a super-size colon on display for people to walk through to witness the various stages of the organ, from…
Stimulus for rail? It's a long road
CONCORD - The question of whether expanding commuter rail through Nashua will become part of the federal stimulus package is a year from being answered, state and local officials said last week. The process is a long, bureaucratic and political…
Facing the voters
Here is a quick look at some top ballot items in local towns and school districts: Amherst Town MAJOR CONTESTED RACES: Two three-year seats on the Board of Selectmen. Incumbent Bruce Bowler faces Joe Esposito, Jim O'Mara Jr. and Linda…
Polling places
AMHERST 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Souhegan High School, Boston Post Road. BROOKLINE 7 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Capt. Samuel Douglass Academy, Townsend Hill Road. HOLLIS 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Hollis/Brookline Cooperative School, 24 Cavalier Court. HUDSON 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Community Center, 12 Lions Ave.…
Studies inconclusive about cameras' effectiveness
Nearly 100 years after the practice was perfected in Massachusetts, the use of cameras to catch scofflaw motorists remains controversial and relatively uncommon in the United States. No one disputes that driving can be dangerous or that running red lights…
Deeds won dirt cheap at foreclosure auction
BEDFORD - Michael and Kerri Pacheco had exactly a split second to decide. In a room stuffed with people and noise and pressure, they looked hard at one another. "Should we do it? Should we do it?" In a flash,…
Towns vote to fuse school districts
WILTON - The three school districts in Wilton and Lyndeborough will become one cooperative school district next year for kindergarten through grade 12. The present cooperative is grades 7-12 only, with separate school districts for each elementary school. The surprising…
