New Hampshire Business Review - January 2 2009

2008 NHBR Business Excellence Awards Script

Charlie Sherman - Emcee Opening Remarks Good evening and welcome to the sixth annual New Hampshire Business Review Business Excellence Awards. Tonight, 16 businesspeople from across New Hampshire will be singled out for the successful way they’ve run their businesses.…

Pennichuck gets state OK for rate hike

MERRIMACK - State regulators have granted Pennichuck Water Works an 11 percent rate increase, the water company announced Tuesday. The increase will bring the average customer's monthly bill from $38.23 to $41.70. Pennichuck is also asking for an additional 14…

PSNH already upped budget for trimming

In 2007, the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission upped PSNH's budget for regular tree-trimming operations from $10 million to $13 million, according to the utility company. However, no amount of trimming would have prevented the bulk of outages in the…

Wintry mess just keeps on coming

One glance out the window this morning will give you an idea of what's in store today for our region: A wintry mix that could yield enough frozen precipitation to cause another round of dreaded power outages.The National Weather Service…

Share your pain (in rhyme form)

It's not even mid-January and plenty of people are already tired of winter. They need an outlet for their angst - and what makes a better outlet than poetry? Nothing, of course, which is why the Telegraph is soliciting limericks…