New Hampshire Business Review - July 17 2009

Two injured when car leaves road

HOLLIS - A Pepperell, Mass., woman and her passenger, a minor, were taken to St. Joseph Hospital early Wednesday, after their car left the road, striking a utility pole and ending up in a field. The accident happened at 1…

Hollis homes evacuated over propane leak

HOLLIS - A propane leak forced the evacuation of a residential neighborhood Thursday morning. Hollis Fire Chief Rick Towne said a subcontractor driving a truck for Christopher Cahill Construction ran over an in-ground propane tank, near a driveway at 61…

Man guilty of misusing PC in chat

NASHUA - A Londonderry man was convicted of using AOL Instant Messenger to arrange what he thought would be a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old. A jury on Wednesday found Andrew Farrington guilty of the Class B felony crime of…

Team owes $50k

NASHUA - The chairman of the group Boston Baseball All-Stars LLC, owners of the local independent minor league baseball franchise the American Defenders of New Hampshire, said Thursday his team's delinquent $50,000 rent to the city is "an obligation we…

2010 races starting to take shape

Recent events concerning the governors of South Carolina and Alaska — the former who should resign and the latter who did so inexplicably — notwithstanding, New Hampshire has its own set of interesting events. Thank goodness they are tamer. What…

Patent or trade secret?

Generally, entrepreneurs start companies based on new technologies. The question of how best to protect these technologies is more important than ever in a tight economy. Some technologies can be maintained in secret, such as the process for polarizing certain…