New Hampshire Business Review - March 28, 2025

March 28, 2025

Contribute to your future

Katie Geery,

Health savings accounts (HSA) can be one of the most underutilized investment vehicles offered to individuals. HSA accounts are made available to those with a high-deductible health plan.

Delays with municipal solar grant program cause uncertainty for NH towns

Mara Hoplamazian-NH Public Radio,

Towns across New Hampshire are facing uncertainty around planned solar energy projects, as a $1.6 million dollar grant program experiences ongoing delays.

Cutting taxes, Republican-style

Mark Fernald,

Repeal of New Hampshire's interest and dividends tax will lead to a significant decline in state tax revenues.

Ragged Mountain Resort is for sale as it turns 60

David Brooks-Concord Monitor,

It’s an interesting time for Ragged Mountain Resort in Danbury, which held its 60th birthday party last weekend after enjoying a record ski season – because it’s also for sale.

WLC director of technology concerned over data breach

David Allen -Eagle Times,

Members of the Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School Board are concerned about student information that was released as a result of a computer hack in January.

Take 5: Layoff fears, charitable decline and tipping culture

Trisha Nail,

NH Business Review's biweekly snapshot of business and industry statistics

A tale of two senators

Brad Cook,

While from different parties, Shaheen and Simpson will be remembered for their statesmanship

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NH GOP lawmakers move ahead with push to control local school spending

Annmarie Timmins -NH Public Radio,

The state would take significant control of local school spending under a bill Republicans passed in the New Hampshire House Thursday, March 13.

Citizens Bank plans to close its Keene branch

Rick Green -The Keene Sentinel,

Citizens Bank plans to shutter its Keene branch on June 18, leaving the bank’s next closest branches in Brattleboro, Henniker and Milford.

Kazakhstan delegation visits NH to explore cultural preservation

NH Business Review Staff,

Friends Forever International, a global youth leadership and cultural exchange organization based in New Hampshire, recently hosted a delegation from Kazakhstan from February 21 to March 1.

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Shaping NH's health care landscape

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Exit stage left: Two insurers leave NH’s Medicare Advantage market

Anthem and Martin’s Point are exiting the state entirely, Aetna is shrinking its coverage to just one county, and others are adjusting their plans, leaving some of the state’s counties with limited choices

Unbottling the Nongfu Spring deal

New Hampshire’s attorney general says no improprieties by state officials preceded the sale of a large Nashua commercial building to China’s largest water bottler. But Attorney General John Formella’s report to Gov. Kelly Ayotte dated Oct. 3 says the provisions of federal law should have taken place prior to the sale of the 337,391-square-foot building at 80 Northwest Blvd. in Nashua by a subsidiary of Nongfu Spring.