New Hampshire Business Review - March 17 2006

Preservation conference set for April 11-12

The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance and the Belknap Mill Society will be presenting a two-day conference addressing preservation and community planning April 11-12 at the Belknap Mill in Laconia. “Preserving Community Character” will center on providing residents, community planners, museum…

Unitil seeks Mass. gas rate cut

Hampton-based Until has filed for a summer-season gas rate decrease in Massachusetts. The utility holding company said a typical residential heating customer using 41 therms per month in the summer will see a decrease of $10.69, or 13.6 percent, from…

Ericsson makes new Riverstone bid

Riverstone Networks will have two suitors in a bankruptcy auction scheduled to begin today. On Friday, the Cabletron Systems spinoff company announced that Swedish-based Ericsson made a $178 million bid for Riverstone’s assets, topping Lucent Technologies’ $170 million by the…