New Hampshire Business Review - Oct. 9, 2026

Amanda Andrews
Brad Cook Columnist

(Cook on Concord) Manchester is on a roll

Brad Cook,

On Sept. 30, Visit Manchester, the nonprofit launched to promote the Queen City, held its kick-off event at the Rex Theatre, where board members, sponsors and Manchester’s Mayor Jay Ruais spoke about the many activities going on in the city, new restaurants and planned events, and the sense of optimism and unity which has spurred the effort.

Taylor Caswell

(Market & Main Streets) Tough budgets ahead

Taylor Caswell,

It’s October and as the leaves fall, town budget committees, school boards and select-boards are beginning the process that will culminate in Town Meeting as snow starts to melt in March. The famous quote is that “all politics is local,” but in New Hampshire so are budgets.

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Military & Veterans Campus has new way to build teamwork

Ernesto Burden,

On a recent Friday at the Easterseals NH Military & Veterans Campus in Franklin, I found myself about 30 feet in the air. I was holding onto a pole and contemplating what suddenly seemed like a rather narrow log stretching out over a great deal of empty space toward another pole, which also seemed remarkably distant.

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The Hudson campus of BAE Systems was the setting for the signing of a multiyear agreement with the U.S. Department of War to increase production capacity of the company’s APKWS laser-guidance kits up to 35,000 units per year. The kits, which transform unguided 2.75-inch rockets into precision-guided munitions, are used by the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps and Navy, and are available to U.S. allies.