Construction contracts for New Hampshire were down 12 percent in May 2006 from May 2005, according to a monthly report released by McGraw-Hill Construction. Year-to-date numbers are down by a cumulative total of 18 percent, the data show. The decline…
Present and past officers of the bankrupt shell of Riverstone Networks want to use shareholder money to defend themselves against an official shareholder committee investigation them. The investigation is aimed at sorting out who owes what to whom relating to…
Gov. John Lynch and the Executive Council have approved 25 child-care agencies for “License Plus” certification. The Licensed Plus quality rating system recognizes and rewards those providers whose efforts to improve the quality of care they deliver goes beyond basic…
Community Bank & Trust has increased its stock dividend a penny to 36 cents a share, the Wolfeboro bank announced June 21. The dividend will be paid on Aug. 15 to shareholders of on record on July 21. That brings…
Presstek, the Hudson-based printing equipment supplier, announced last week that it would no longer use BDO Seidman as its auditor, instead hiring KPMG LLP. Presstek said its audit committee selected KPMG after going through an evaluation process that included several…
In February 2005, Foss Manufacturing Co. changed the makeup of its board of directors to make it, in the words of former board member Patricia Foss, more “independent” and be run “more like a publicly held company.” Her husband, Chief…
Bankruptcy, once a way to rescue an ailing company, has changed, according Daniel W. Sklar, a bankruptcy attorney with Nixon and Peabody LLP. Sklar, who has specialized in bankruptcy law for more than 25 years, has been involved in bankruptcies…
House Speaker W. Douglas Scamman’s surprise announcement that neither he nor his wife, Rep. Stella Scamman — both Republicans from Stratham — would seek re-election to the New Hampshire House next term was as unexpected as his becoming speaker a…
To the editor: The ongoing debate about how to deal with rapidly escalating energy costs is usually played out on the network news between government leaders and Fortune 500 corporate execs. But those hardest hit by these rising prices are…
Kutting and running In his New Hampshire fund-raiser speech earlier this month, GOP mastermind Karl Rove took special relish in pronouncing the words “cut and run” when the issue became Democrats and the war in Iraq. But, as The Telegraph’s…
