Recent PPP fraud cases may be prelude to more
In December 2021, Andrew Mc-Breairty pleaded guilty to abusing CARES Act funds. He was sentenced in April.

Robots meet bridge, road inspection
He is now president and CEO of Infraspect, a newly assembled company that makes artificially intelligent infrastructure inspection robots.

Elm Grove Properties to build 74 affordable housing units in Salem
Elm Grove, which also is a property management firm, has long managed buildings providing affordable housing, said Matt Menning, principal of the company, but this is its first try at developing affordable units.

ConvenientMD will relocate to accommodate growth
According to the company, the new space will be about four times as large as ConvenientMD’s current headquarters.

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Inside the fallout at Gunstock
The closure comes after the senior management team gave their resignations during Wednesday’s GAC meeting.

Rooftop garden at Concord Hospital takes shape
“It is well understood that nature has a healing impact,” said Matthew Johnson, Concord Hospital’s director of public affairs.

An ‘F’ in infrastructure drove state’s low business-friendliness ranking
In its rankings of “America’s Top States for Business 2022,” the cable business news channel puts New Hampshire firmly among the lower third of states, ranking the Granite State at No. 35.

MANCHESTER
MANCHESTER: The NH Small Business Development Center and NH Tech Alliance have partnered to offer free cybersecurity reviews to businesses with up to 500 employees.

Local municipalities still awaiting final state rules for community power plans
“The PUC has had almost three years since the legislation passed to write the rules,” said Marge Shepardson, chair of Marlborough’s community power committee, of the New Hampshire law authorizing these programs.

Nashua man pleads guilty to wrongfully receiving $29K in unemployment, pandemic benefits
Nashua resident Sean Hendricks has reached a plea deal with prosecutors in his unemployment compensation fraud case that spares him jail time,...

TAKE5
OVERALL, Facebook is the most widely used social media site for news, with 31 percent of U.S. adults saying they go there regularly for news...

ABOUT TOWN
1. Last month, the Veterans Count Seacoast Chapter held its 10th annual Salute Our Soldiers event, which helped raise over $1.1 million to support NH service members, veterans and their families.

THE BOTTOM LINE
Boston-based investment firm Bain Capital and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority have signed an agreement to acquire Hooksett-based Merchants Fleet,...

Cost effective?
State law requires the department to update the strategy every three years.

Exciting projects move ahead
Early summer 2022 has been an unsettling time for many, with a rocky investment scene, inflation, war, heat and political bickering.

The decline and fall of Mammoth Tech Inc.
Those jobs are now gone. Osborne’s company fired the last of his 20 New Hampshire employees on March 2 without notice,...

A gut check for investors
Let us dispense with the obvious. No matter how hard one tries, there is no denying that the current behavior of markets is a gut check for investors, the public and the markets themselves.

$3m in relief aid for restaurants remains unspent
Blue Harbor Coffee was four months old when Covid-19 first arrived in New Hampshire and business was strong.

Find opportunity in crisis
Business owners of companies of all sizes are seeing a completely different economic environment today than we have seen in several years.

‘Imagining the Future’: inspiring girls to become engineers
The theme for this year’s International Women in Engineering Day, which was held June 23, was “Imagine the Future,” celebrating those who dare to be part of the solution and are helping to build toward a brighter future.

Navigating workplace flexibility
The demand for and expectation of workplace flexibility for employees is a construct that is not going away anytime soon, if ever.

‘Union’ is once again the watchword in our aging republic
Granted, there’s reason for concern. In the last three presidential elections, red and blue contingents matched up pretty evenly, suggesting a near-perfect polarization.

Shibinette’s successor must keep the focus on public health
The commissioner recently announced that she will leave at the end of 2022, and Governor Sununu now has the task of finding someone to replace her in leading the state’s largest and most challenging agency.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
For nearly 40 years, I’ve been involved in the construction and real estate development industry, consulting on land and building acquisition, due-diligence efforts,...

NH employers share top concerns at BIA roundtables
The Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire held 10 roundtable policy talks across the state in June.

INSIGHTS INTO BUSINESS INSURANCE
One of the greatest challenges insurance agencies face here in New Hampshire is the growing challenge posed by insureds not having adequate cybersecurity risk controls.

UNH prof links land conservation to higher housing costs
Since the 1960s, the New Hampshire landscape has been the scene of a tug-ofwar between residential and commercial development on the one hand and protecting and conserving land on the other.

Legal risks and co-worker romances
Some might question why businesses have any right to monitor the personal lives of their employees. No reports suggest the subordinate employee objected to the relationship, or alleged a hostile working environment.

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Record insurance fraud cases prosecuted
In total, they represent nearly $283,000 in fraudulent claims, said Insurance Commissioner Christopher Nicolopoulos.

Sununu signs law to prevent healthcare assaults
Lawmakers began working to create the new requirements after the death of a hospital security guard who was assaulted at work in December 2020.

Hampton company fined over wage law violations … and more
The Department said the company also failed to pay one worker wages for nearly a month.

Stricter landfill site criteria relies on veto override
Proponents of the bill believe it has enough bipartisan support to advance without the governor’s signature.

INSIGHTS INTO TECHNOLOGY
Supply chain disruption and lack of staffing slows businesses down, while rising inflation results in increased costs.

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Q&A INTERVIEW
Grace Kindeke of Manchester, who came to the United States as a 2-year-old child from the Democratic Republic of Congo,...

THE LATEST
Two Lakes Region Community College students earned medals at the 2022 SkillsUSA Championships, held in Atlanta, Ga., in June: pastry arts student Starr Perry.

NH Automobile Dealers Assoc. names new board chair
The NH Automobile Dealers Association has appointed John Sawyer Jr., vice president at Portsmouth Ford, chair of its board of directors.

FLOTSAM&JETSAM
Wow, the guv’s office really didn’t like CNBC’s recent “business-friendliness” rankings, putting NH way down at No. 35 on the list. And they sure didn’t like that it was being reported in these here parts, neither.