New Hampshire Business Review - June 2, 2023

June 2, 2023

Jeff Feingold

Interest renews in rail proposal through North Country

Barbara Tetreault -The Berlin Sun,

Plan to include overnight passenger train service between Montreal and Boston with stops in Berlin, Gorham and Durham

Taking cybercrime seriously

Ron Bourque,

Major corporations are quick to defend their turf and their brands. Why not online, too?

The flawed confirmation process

Brad Cook,

Michael Delaney’s experience exposes a troubling U.S. Senate judicial nomination system

Mary Jo Brown named Holloway Entrepreneur of the Year

NH Business Review Staff,

Brown & Co. Design and Big Brown Books' founder and president honored by UNH

Ledyard Financial Group appoints new CEO

Jeff Feingold,

CEO Kathy Underwood to retire, Josephine Moran to become president & CEO

ReVision Energy, Upper Valley affordable housing effort honored

NH Business Review Staff,

NH Businesses for Social Responsibility's Cornerstone and Partnership for Innovation Awards presented May 17

Bill seeks to close sales loophole for pot-related substance

Rick Green -The Keene Sentinel,

House Bill 611 aimed at prohibiting sales of Delta-8 products in stores

Hannah Grimes receives $50k grant for biotech work

Trisha Nail/The Keene Sentinel,

BioNest programming and Radically Rural summit were factors in applying for the grant

The ‘rigorous’ road to B Corp status

Paul Briand,

How Piscataqua Savings Bank accomplished certification

Clews: Women make the New Hampshire economy work – let’s invest in them

Tanna Clews,

NH Women’s Foundation CEO urges House to support Senate-passed measures supporting childcare workers, mothers

More news from NHBR:

Expanding access to mental health care in New Hampshire

Demand for behavioral health care services continues to rise across New Hampshire and the nation, impacting families, employers, health care providers, and communities alike.

Are home prices closing in on a $600,000 median?

The median priced single-family home in the Granite State reached another all-time high at $579,900, according to data from the New Hampshire Association of Realtors. That breaks the previous high mark of $569,000 in June of last year.

Promoting NH’s outdoor economy will take better coordination, report says

New Hampshire’s outdoor economy is active and evolving, but the systems that support it have not kept pace, according to a new report by the Granite Outdoor Alliance. “Grounded Growth” was culled from three roundtables hosted by industry businesses around the state where 62 stakeholders from business, manufacturing, conservation, workforce and the public sector discussed challenges and opportunities shaping New Hampshire’s outdoor economy.