New Hampshire Business Review - May 12 2006

Competitors of Public Service of New Hampshire are pleased that lawmakers seem to have blocked the regulated utility from building a plant in the North Country. Meredith Hatfield, a spokesman for Tamarack Energy, said House Bill 1690, if it passes…

Saraswati Maniram, a Hindu temple and school, filed for bankruptcy last week in order to thwart a foreclosure threat on its property, which spans 100 acres in Epping. The temple, which suffered a fire in January 2004, was attempting to…

The Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire is planning a series of 15 policy development roundtables to be held in June at sites around the state. The roundtables - featuring business and opinion leaders -- are an open forum…

The New Hampshire Division of Economic Development wants to hear from companies adversely affected by the recent flooding. “It’s vitally important to collect as much information as possible so that we can determine the extent of the damage and then…

Close on the heels of several multimillion-dollar deals penned just days earlier, BrandPartners Group of Rochester has signed several more lucrative contracts, bring the total number of new deals signed in May to $11 million. On Thursday, the integrated retail…

Every planning board does it or feels tempted to do it now and then: hold up a big subdivision project or box store, then kill it with a zoning amendment. A legislative conference committee took just two minutes May 16…

Dinah Haycock, a resident who claims she was snookered into taking an Ameriquest Mortgage Company loan that now has her facing foreclosure, has sued the company in federal court in a rare motion to rescind the mortgage. Haycock, who lives…

The Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire will honor local business leaders at its annual Business Meeting and Member Reception May 24 at the Center of New Hampshire in Manchester. The BIA will present the “Above and Beyond” awards…

A former Dell Computer engineer living in New Hampshire last week filed a family leave and disability discrimination suit against his former employer in federal court in New Hampshire. William Schomburg of Atkinson said he was a senior systems engineer…

The first quarter of 2006 was the best opening quarter in four years for New England businesses seeking venture capital, according to the recent MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data from Thomson Financial.…