Dr. James Squires, the 73-year-old president of the $79 million Concord-based Endowment for Health, is a former state senator and a general vascular surgeon who once headed the Matthew Thornton Health Plan (which is now part of Anthem Blue Cross…
Nancy Puglisi, center, the University System of New Hampshire’s director of organizational wellness, recently accepted the Health Innovator Award from Beth Roberts, right, vice president of Northern New England for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Sharron McCarthy, publisher of NHBR.…
Rock Roberge, left, and his wife Kristen Roberge spent the ninth annual Comcast Cares Day at Families In Transition in Manchester where employees landscaped and painted four floors of the complex as part of the company’s day of community service.…
NHBR recently held a roundtable discussion in conjunction with AARP New Hampshire to focus on a topic at the top of mind of many people in the state and beyond: the best way to find a job. The in-depth discussion…
Three years ago, Teresa Rosenberger, a savvy State House lobbyist with the law firm of Devine Millimet & Branch, guided client FairPoint Communications through the state’s thorny permitting process. Now as FairPoint tries to move out of bankruptcy, the company…
Members of Concord Hospital Associates were recently honored for their volunteer work on behalf of Concord Hospital’s Family Health Centers in Concord and Hillsboro-Deering. Shown accepting the award at the hospital’s ‘Destination Paradise’ theme benefit is Jayne Millerick, president of…
Jennifer Boyer, keynote speaker at the Women’s Business Center celebration, left, and Christine Davis, the WBC’s executive director.Click here for more photos from recent events around the Granite State.Submit items for About Town to editor@nhbr.com. Please include a color photo…
So a geneticist walks into the patient’s room…and leaves a dentist.Less a humorous story than it is a heartwarming one, it is also a true one for Gary Lindner, dentist and founder of Lindner Dental Associates of Bedford.His initial interests…
Kenneth Johnson is a self-professed “data junkie,” which explains his profession and passion. As the senior demographer at the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, Johnson finds history and truth in numbers, such as those found in the…
If the economic meltdown of recent years has been hard on American workers in general, it’s been downright brutal on older workers.According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployed workers aged 55 and over stayed unemployed an average 35.9…
Showing that many minds working together can make a healthy difference, the City of Concord has been recognized by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England and NHBR as the latest winner of the Health Innovator Award.
Last year, in a decisive step to pull the country out of the worst economic crisis in four generations, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, known as the Recovery Act. As envisioned by the Congress,…
Bob Clegg is a Hudson contractor who has had a long and varied career in politics, eventually rising to become Republican leader in the state Senate. Today he works as a lobbyist and is founder of the New Hampshire Small…
Doris “Granny D” Haddock, the venerable and quixotic campaigner for public campaign financing burst on the political scene 11 years ago when she walked across the country to gain support for her cause. On Jan. 26, the Dublin, N.H., resident…
John Cronin, who founded the Manchester law firm of Cronin & Bisson in 1991, is the attorney who has filed a class action lawsuit against the state over a change in the interest and dividends tax -- included as an…
Back in the early 1990s, former advertising executive David Random turned a time dilemma question on its head. While working 60 or more hours a week at Dibona, Bornstein, & Random, the successful Boston advertising firm he co-founded, Random also…
Building a personal brand after 50 is something Marva Goldsmith knows well. The 51-year-old, who spent 20 years in the utility industry as an electrical engineer and lobbyist in Washington D.C., reappraised her future after taking a mid-career program and…
