Despite New Hampshire’s best efforts to flatten the curve of Covid-19 cases, the Granite State isn’t out of the woods just yet.

With the price of gold up 50% in 2020 and silver with a 51% gain over the same period, it’s a good time to catch up with Bob Lavoie, proprietor of Bob’s Coins in Manchester

Lee Morin, a University of New Hampshire graduate and Manchester native, was aboard the International Space Station in 2002. He currently works at the Johnson Space Center, developing the cockpit of NASA’s newest spacecraft, which will travel to the moon by 2024.

‘We are leaving behind an old and trusted name, but we are becoming a far more capable and innovative company than we were,’ says Paul Forte, CEO of the recently rebranded FedPoint, the Portsmouth-based company formerly known as LTC Partners.

‘We’ve had to find a better way to work with people’ since the pandemic began, says Rik Cornell of the Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester.

A career businessperson, Frank Edelblut has been New Hampshire’s education commissioner since 2017.

Joan Fortin, a longtime attorney at Bernstein Shur, last year became the first women to head the law firm in its 105-year history.

John Greabe, a professor of law at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, recently gave a presentation to lawyers on ‘The Coronavirus and the Constitution.’

According to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, fewer than 325,000 of the 16 million Americans who served in the Armed Forces during World War II are still alive. Two of those World War II vets live in Wolfeboro and volunteer at the Wright Museum of World War II.

For nearly four decades, Arnie Alpert has been at center of New Hampshire’s social justice and peace movement as co-director of the American Friends Service Committee’s New Hampshire program.

As executive director of the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts, Tricia Soule says she is working to develop ‘a sense of community’ between the business and arts sectors of the state.

At ExcellenceNorth Alliance, ‘we work with organizations and individuals to provide some of the detailed skills that they don’t necessarily have but may need,’ says Anne Warner, executive director.

Older people are an ‘untapped’ source to help solve the workforce shortage, but it’s ‘perennially overlooked,’ says Todd Fahey, state director of AARP New Hampshire.

Ted Kitchens has served as airport director for Manchester-Boston Regional Airport since October 2018

‘It’s more important to be impartial and fair in journalism now, in the face of the opinion programs that have taken over cable TV and radio,’ says David Tirrell-Wysocki, a former longtime journalist and recently retired…