NH’s supply chain challenges
For 25 years, Seabrookbased manufacturer AeroDynamics used a specific type of cotton swab for masking metal finishes on aerospace and defense products.

What’s in the state budget for businesses?
“This was a great year for the state’s smallest businesses,” said David Juvet, senior vice president of public policy for the Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire.

At mid-year, a new low in New Hampshire bankruptcies
The continued new lows in bankruptcy filings has defied the expectations of many, including bankruptcy lawyers, who expected them to rise during the pandemic. Instead — thanks to massive amounts of federal assistance and protections — they have fallen to levels not seen in a generation.

D-H to keep remote work for as many as 2,000 employees
D-H Vice President Brenda Blair told the Valley News that the Lebanon-based organization has found that allowing remote work “is increasing our ability to recruit and retain our staff,” including employing workers outside of New Hampshire and Vermont.

41% of NH restaurants received federal Covid aid
New Hampshire’s average award is about $20,000 lower than the national average. New Hampshire restaurants received the lowest average amount in New England,...

NH BUSINESS REVIEW
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BEDFORD
BEDFORD: Dean Christon, executive director and CEO of the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority since 2007, has announced plans to step down from the job at the end of the year.

Station options presented in Capitol Corridor study
The team undertaking preliminary design and engineering work for the proposed Capitol Corridor Project, which would extend MBTA commuter rail service 30 miles to Nashua and Manchester,...

NHLA publishes assisted living facilities guide
“It’s an industry governed by a convoluted system of laws and regulations, and that can be confusing and complicated for individuals and families to absorb,” said the project’s director, Cheryl Steinberg.

TAKE 5
feelings about their day-to-day work experience — negative or positive — impact their productivity (70%) and their ability to do meaningful work (69%)..

Sunshine Initiative founders honored for revitalization efforts
The energetic three-year effort by Jay and Karen Lucas, who applied to revitalize the town of Newport — Jay Lucas’ hometown — were recognized in June with the ExcellenceNorth Allance’s first Dr.

CSX again revises application for Pan Am takeover bid
Pan Am went up for sale last summer, and in December, CSX announced it had reached agreement to purchase the largest regional rail network in the country,...

THE BOTTOM LINE
Nicole Zheng, one of the company’s founders, has been named president of Minim, the Manchester-based maker of Motorolabranded internet access products.

ABOUT TOWN
2. Bank of New Hampshire has donated $5,000 to support Families in Transition-New Horizons’ food programs.

Remembering Mark Stebbins with sorrow and gratitude
This column often has noted the passing of significant New Hampshire citizens, usually after long lives of accomplishment. While sad, they usually come in the regular order of things.

The flavors of our neighbors
Owner Sandra Almonte says that’s the spirit she’s wanted Don Quijote to embody ever since it opened its doors on Union Street in Manchester in 2000. Her business was one of the few Latino restaurants in New Hampshire when it opened.

The credentials that matter
I’ll never forget my first lesson. I thought my job was to convince the instructor that I really didn’t need him, that I already knew how to fly. We took off in a Cessna 150.

84% in U.S. Chamber report difficulties
Most (84%) contractors say they face at least one material shortage, up from 71% in the first quarter. Some 33% are experiencing a shortage in wood/lumber, and 29% are seeing a shortage of steel.

How to be ‘deeply successful’
My son Ben earned a Ph.D. last year at the Colorado School of Mines, but they didn’t hold a ceremony until this year due to Covid. Watching online from home,...

Americans want and need the ACA
The U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld the Affordable Care Act. Again. This came as the Biden administration announced that a record 31 million people now have coverage,...

NH’s disability community is celebrating new budget
In the aftermath of the New Hampshire budget debate, there will be a lot of energy spent tallying the “winners and losers” of the process,...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Robert Clegg’s opening paragraph shows clearly that he is not aware of the true nature of the topic that “critical race theory” addresses.

Hospital specialty pharmacies: follow the money
Specialty pharmacy (sometimes known as “SpRx”) is the business of providing usually expensive and sometimes scarce medicines to patients with complex and often chronic health conditions.

Why the state should beef up solar in energy strategy
New Hampshire’s 10-Year State Energy Strategy is composed of everything from grid modernization and energy efficiency to fuel diversity and sustainable transportation.

Technology tips for your company
As workers return to the office — and as other businesses implement a hybrid work environment — the technology used and level of security is more important than ever.

CDFA awards $5 million in tax credits
The projects receiving tax credits involve improving and building housing, promoting affordable child care, and downtown revitalization and economic development efforts that “are driving positive,...

NH construction equipment firm plans Mass. location
It was launched four years ago with the purchase of ProQuip’s three outlets in Chichester, Gorham and Plaistow in New Hampshire. Since then, Milton has opened three new outlets,...

Sununu signs affordable housing tax breaks bill
Rep. Casey Conley, a Dover Democrat and sponsor of the bill, said the law should provide new flexibility for town select boards. And he said that it would help developers find plots for properties away from the center of town,...

Portsmouth councilor seeks action on affordable housing
“I think when people shelter themselves off or are sheltered off by an area of town from others that are living a different life, it makes us all poorer as a community,” McEachern said.

Red tape snarls New Hampshire school ventilation projects
Multimillion-dollar ventilation projects in New Hampshire schools are being left unstarted while the state and U.S. Departments of Education sort out how to approve spending money from the Covid relief bill passed in December, the Union Leader reported.

CALENDAR
FASHION FORWARD: AFRICANA STYLE CONNECTING THREADS OF AFRICAN FASHION THROUGH TIME AND PLACE.

Q&A INTERVIEW
As deputy commissioner of New Hampshire Employment Security, Richard Lavers has been incredibly busy for the last year and a half.

THE LATEST
Members of New Hampshire Electric Cooperative have reelected four members to the company’s board of directors: Jeffrey Morrill.

Dr. Barnato new director of The Dartmouth Institute
Barnato, who is dually trained in general preventive medicine, public health, hospice and palliative medicine, will lead a group of scholars, researchers,...

FLOTSAM&JETSAM
By last count, Senate Prez Chuck Morse, House Speaker Sherman Packard and House Majority Leader Jason Osborne have all tightly embraced the latest right-wing...