1. The Community College System of NH held its annual ApprenticeshipNH Summit in Concord on Nov. 17, attracting more than 250 career-seekers, employers, community partners and state agencies to NHTI for panels and workshops celebrating apprenticeship programs in the state. The summit recognized 11 prominent businesses and individuals.
2. Unitil Corp. was recently featured on the seven-story-tall Nasdaq Tower billboard in New York City’s Times Square after releasing its 2023 “Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Report,” which highlights efforts the company is making to meet its sustainability and emissions reduction goals. Unitil has established a goal of a 50% reduction in company-wide direct greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050.
3. Home Health & Hospice Care revealed the expansion of its Community Hospice House in Merrimack with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Nov. 16. The expansion is slated to add six new patient suites accommodating over 230 additional hospice patients and families each year. Pictured is HHHC Board Chair Scott Flegal, left, and HHHC President Barbara Lafrance, right, cutting the ribbon on one of the new patient suites.
4. Employees of Dover-based First Seacoast Bank recently raised $2,700 for Step Up Parents, a New Hampshire organization offering financial assistance to grandparents and family members who’ve stepped up to raise children whose parents struggle with substance use disorder. The bank’s First Seacoast Community Foundation matched the first $1,000, and the bank presented a check to Step Up Parents on Nov. 21.
5. PhasorLab, a wireless communications company in Nashua, recently received nearly $2 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The grant, received through the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund through the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, will be used for developing an AI large language model that can simulate devices for testing 5G broadband cellular networks. Pictured: the PhasorLab team.
6. Somersworth outdoor apparel company Terracea has partnered with national nonprofit One Warm Coat to donate coats returned by customers to Manchester-based nonprofit My Turn Inc. My Turn partners with One Warm Coat, providing clothing to economically, socially and educationally disadvantaged youth in low-income communities. Pictured is My Turn Participant Intern Reda Shehabeldin, left, and Terracea Founder and CEO Eric Hui, right.
7. UNH’s ECenter hosted its Alumni Entrepreneur Hall of Fame Awards on Oct. 13, inducting four UNH alumni with varied careers into the university’s Hall of Fame during a ceremony, and presenting a new award for ECenter Champion to Dr. Robert “Bob” Phillips, class of 1976, who is chair of the ECenter Advisory Take Force and former chair of the UNH Foundation Board.
8. A 142-unit affordable housing project to be built at 351 Chestnut St. in Manchester, The Residences at Chestnut, broke ground on Nov. 29. Developers Lincoln Avenue Communities, of Los Angeles and New York City, held a ceremony for the project at its construction site.
