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…
Yankee Publishing, the Dublin-based family-owned company that publishes Yankee magazine, the Old Farmer’s Almanac and other publications, celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. For the past decade, Jamie Trowbridge has been at the helm of the company, which was started…
Steve Wells, former member of the local ‘70s band Rush started playing the guitar at age 11, but didn't start cooking until much later on in life. A chain of events that Wells describes as “a natural push in the…
According to the AARP, nearly 7 percent of adults aged 55 and older are unemployed. And with five other people vying for each open position, it’s become clear that looking for a job in today’s marketplace has become very different…
Tom Collachio, president of Hanover-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, and Alyson Pitman Giles, president and chief executive of CMC Healthcare System - parent company of Catholic Medical Center in Manchester - have been busy the last few months promoting an affiliation between…
Antiques experts Leigh and Leslie Keno of the television program, 'Antiques Roadshow' are joined by New Hampshire Home editor Andi Axman at the brothers' recent appearance at The Music Hall of Portsmouth, which was presented by the magazine.For more photos,…
On Dec. 1, the state of New Hampshire set up its first business court docket. If both parties wish, they can now go before the court’s first and only judge, the newly appointed Judge Richard B. McNamara, a former commercial…
