New Hampshire Business Review - July 3 2009
Riding for a cause
A Nashua woman plans to bike 200 miles in two days to raise money for cancer research. Pat Dow was inspired by a friend with cancer, so she'll put her experience as a bicyclist to work and participate in the…
Holding the line
Here's some good news for parents: School lunch prices aren't expected to increase for the next two years. Lunch prices went up last year, but Mealey said that those prices are expected to stay the same next year and likely…
Bowing out
At least one member of the Board of Education won't be seeking re-election in the fall. Hogan said he wouldn't be pursuing another term on the board. He was elected in 2005. Hogan, currently chairman of the board's policy committee,…
Protest location
Local opponents of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have changed the venues of one of their protests, ending their "vigils" outside the offices of Republican lawmakers and now targeting a Democrat. Members of NashuaPeace.org will stand outside the Main…
‘Where are the women?’
To the editor: We keep hearing about the ARRA (the economic stimulus package) money pouring into New Hampshire and other states. I heard the other day that “New Hampshire is leading other New England states in getting that money out.”…
New Hampshire’s sullied reputation
To the editor: Jim Roche’s warning in the June 5-18 edition of NHBR that “recent (legislative) policy decisions are resulting in growing unease among businesspeople” is too late. The horse is already out of the barn. New Hampshire, which ranked…
Biodiesel is Wayne Presby’s next challenge
Turning around two faltering New Hampshire tourism icons — the Mount Washington Cog Railway and then the Mount Washington Hotel — into world-class destinations took more Yankee ingenuity than Gilded Age swagger. Now, three years after selling the grand resort for…
The good, the bad and the ugly
This year’s budget process was sloppy at best. While there may be cause for relief in the short term, citizens should worry about the long-term ramifications as well as the process employed in its creation. The budget committees, led by…
Officer joins Amherst department
EDITOR'S NOTE: Around the Towns, which typically runs Saturdays, appears in the Friday edition of The Telegraph this week because there will be no Saturday paper. AMHERST - The town's newest police officer came on board this week and is…
