New Hampshire Business Review - September 26 2008
Democrats get push from Planned Parenthood
Democratic candidates at the local and national level were getting a boost in Nashua on Saturday thanks to a team of pink-clad volunteers committed to women's health. Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, visited the city Saturday…
Answers to questions about the credit crisis
Last week, it seemed as though you couldn't pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV without hearing about the deepening U.S. financial crisis. Suddenly, news once reserved for the business pages was making big, scary headlines. In a…
Fewer teachers puts area schools in bind
Schools usually finish hiring teachers for the upcoming year around the end of July. This year, things didn't go quite as smoothly. Souhegan High School in Amherst filled its last teaching position the week before school started. "That was particularly…
Fans enthralled with last NE appearance by Babe Ruth's daughter
MILFORD - When Jose Menendez left Guatemala for Boston in 1988, he rented a small room on Beacon Street and took a job at Fenway Park. He didn't speak English. He didn't know what baseball was. And he certainly had…
City looks to environment to help raise test scores
NASHUA - Sometimes success is all about environment. That's the philosophy schools in Nashua are taking, with the next round of standardized tests under way this week. Most students started taking the tests known as the New England Common Assessment…
Local EMTs help survivors in Ike-ravaged South
NASHUA - Hurricanes stink. Literally. They leave behind a horrible, muddy, raw-sewage smell. At least Hurricane Gustav did in Louisiana where it killed acres of vegetation when it flooded much of the region with untold gallons of saltwater. Four Rockingham…
