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Battling homelessness in the pandemic
“We’d rather be in the housing business instead of the shelter business,” said Michael Redmond, executive director of Upper Valley Haven,...

Restaurants are hopeful about new eased guidance
But guidance from Gov. Chris Sununu, announced Sept. 24, allows restaurants in the state to operate at 100% capacity indoors, provided they use barriers between diners who are closer than 6 feet to other parties..

Hospitals tell GOFERR they need a lot more help
That, in short, is the presentation they gave Sept. 29 before the legislative advisory board of GOFERR, the Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery — which still hasn’t recommended how to allocate the remaining $289 million the state has of the original $1.

NH trade office gets new federal export grant
And New England Wire in Lisbon has used the grant for several years to defray trade show and exhibit expenses, allow them to “explore new markets, procure new international sales prospects, and develop and grow existing relationships with customers...

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Residential services transition date nears at Crotched Mountain
Change can be difficult, even problematic, for people with Autism spectrum disorder, which affects sensory input and an individual’s reaction to it. And there will be change at Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center in Greenfield beginning Nov.

PEMBROKE
PEMBROKE: Brendan Williams, president and CEO of the New Hampshire Health Care Association, a trade group for the state’s nursing homes, says that they are in financial distress and are calling for more help from the state.

School-funding panel wrestles with ‘first-last dollar’ rule
In 1993, the court ruled the state is obliged to provide an adequate education and “guarantee adequate funding” to districts. Since then, the court has clarified and reaffirmed its opinion, never so bluntly as in 2006,...

TAKE5
25% of U.S. adults say they or someone in their household was laid off or lost their job because of Covid-19. Even if they didn’t lose their job, 32% of adults say they have had to reduce their hours or take a pay cut.

New Hampshire named fifth best state for homeowners
The study compared all 50 states across 10 metrics: median price per square foot; home value appreciation; ratio of home value to income; foreclosures per 10,000 homes; average annual homeowners insurance; burglary rate; median annual property...

NH to get piece of $60m settlement over surgical mesh
In the case of CR Bard, now owned by Becton Dickinson, a New Jersey-based company that earned $17.3 billion in revenue last year, attorneys general of 48 states and the District of Columbia, charged that Bard downplayed the risk that its transvaginal...

ABOUT TOWN
1. The New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NHSPCA) held a groundbreaking ceremony at their location in Stratham,...

THE BOTTOM LINE
Senet Inc., a Portsmouthbased provider of cloud-based software and services for internet of things networks, has secured a $16 million funding round that the firm says positions it to accelerate deployment of its low-power wide-area network,...

In it for the long haul
Each week, Sandi Elliot needs to take time off work to take her 14-year-old son to a therapy appointment. It takes Elliot about half an hour to drive from her home in Wilmot to the appointment in Franklin.

Keeping the wheels of local food moving
Food hubs are defined as businesses that manage the aggregation and distribution of source-identified foods. Institutions — such as schools, restaurants and large wholesale buyers — don’t want to work with a dozen individual farmers.

What’s your favorite activity?
Are the Covid-19 restrictions getting you down? No doubt they’re cramping our style and probably preventing us from doing many of the things we like to do. A lot of us have forgotten how to have fun. Stress levels are increasing steadily;...

Rowing through change
I couldn’t see the shore anymore. All I could hear was the lapping of water against this oddly painted gray wooden boat I found myself rowing in. Rowing.

Lonza to begin Covid vaccine production in November
In an interview Sept. 30 with the Financial Times, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the company will not seek emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration for use by front-line medical workers and at-risk individuals until Nov. 25 at the earliest.

The cloud’s silver lining?
I recently had a call from the chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, asking if I, as chair of the Ballot Law Commission, thought it was possible to influence or change the votes of presidential electors,...

Remote work and income taxes
More Americans than ever are working remotely due in large part to the Covid-19 pandemic, a trend which may continue indefinitely. This shift in the status quo has created an unprecedented tax dilemma for employers with multi-state workers,...

Report: Two-thirds of NH hotels at risk of shutting down
A recently released national report’s prediction that two-thirds of New Hampshire’s hotels will shut down if they don’t get more federal aid seems “really high,” but that doesn’t mean that the state’s lodging industry isn’t in big trouble, said mike Somers, president of the New Hampshire Lodging and restaurant Association.

The overlooked Covid-19 long-haulers
So much of the coverage of Covid-19 has focused on statistics about the number of deaths and the number of infections. While it is important to have an accurate statistical picture of the pandemic,...

Congress must come together and pass Covid relief
If there were ever a time to avoid the traditional playbook prior to elections when both parties in Congress usually work up messaging bills and pass very little legislation, this would be it.

An unconscionable attack on a key drug program
In the midst of a severe public health crisis, drug makers have launched an assault on a critically important drug discount program upon which low- and modest-income patients in our community depend.

The workplace of the future is here
Developments over recent years have meant that we need to reimagine the way we use technology. It’s about using the latest innovations to make our manufacturing processes more efficient and effective.

What is an acceptable method of protest?
In 1940, my father, Harold E. Ward, was a Black volunteer enlistee in the U.S. Navy. During World War II he was wounded and almost killed at Guadalcanal and awarded a Purple Heart. But afterward, even as a veteran for 20 years, he was a second-class citizen.

16 honored at 18th annual Business Excellence Awards
NH Business Review thanks presenting sponsor Citizens for an evening that demonstrated the resilience, imagination and optimism of individuals who represent the Granite State’s community of entrepreneurial minds and collective community action.

From video production to live streaming
Since 2014, Rory Hurley and Eddie Gomez II have been working together to create short video content for small businesses throughout New Hampshire, from their shared workspace in the MAxT Makerspace in Peterborough. Their company, Drum Production Studio, produced everything from social media reels to marketing materials.

The importance of creating a durable investment plan
As everyone tries to make sense of the ongoing Covid-19, many people are wondering what actions they should take to protect their finances. Although many investors have some sort of plan to help guide them,...

A challenging retirement income environment
A caution for investors is to avoid “reaching” for yield by putting significant assets in fixed-income securities that generate more income. For example, high-yield bonds (also known as “junk” bonds) may create more income,...

CALENDAR
Dozens of professionals will volunteer their time to share knowledge with fellow developers.

Q&A INTERVIEW
Manchester Public Health Director Anna Thomas is never seen in public these days without a face mask, which she wears as a public health measure and not to conceal her identity from opponents of a proposed mask mandate ordinance aimed at limiting contagion from Covid-19.

THE LATEST
Cornerstone, founded as The Richard H. Clough Company in 1975, provides association management services to a wide range of state and regional nonprofit organizations.

UNH wins grant to further diabetes, cancer treatments
Vashisth and his team will use computational techniques combined with experimental data to explore new and more suitable stages in the signaling cycle of a cell protein to target drug interventions..

FLOTSAM&JETSAM
“I realized that this online relationship was going places I didn’t want it to go, and I decided to end it,” Giuda said. “What I thought was two friends having conversations about their similar life experiences was in fact an extortion scam.” And now the FBI is investigating.