01/20/2012 - Past trends and future prospects for N.H. real estate
Having the first presidential primary and the associated worldwide press coverage might be good for New Hampshire real estate. Most press commentary on our state appeared to be quite positive, which has not been the case in some other states.
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01/23/2012 - No plans to build prison in Litchfield, selectmen say
LITCHFIELD – A prison is not coming to Litchfield, a rumor that selectmen attempted to squash Monday by posting a message on the town-operated Facebook page. Town administrator Jason Hoch and Selectman Frank Byron met with Manchester real estate agent Richard Danais last week about plans for a new state prison that is being eyed for southern New Hampshire. Based on that discussion, it was ...
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01/22/2012 - GOP race turns to new terrain in Florida
Now it's Florida's turn. And Republican presidential rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have just 10 days to navigate a state unlike any they've competed in so far. Florida is six times larger than New Hampshire, has almost five times more Hispanics than Iowa, and, with numerous media markets, is much more expensive for candidates than South Carolina. That's where ...
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01/16/2012 - Two Free Educational Seminars to Be Held at Aynsley Place
(Nashua, NH) ? Aynsley Place, one of four Courville Communities in southern New Hampshire, is proud to announce that they will host two free, educational seminars on Thursday, January 26th at the their facility located at 80 Lake Street in Nashua.
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01/10/2012 - Some non-primary news: Enterasys moving 540 jobs to Salem
SALEM – Enterasys, a global networking company, is moving its corporate headquarters and around 600 jobs from Andover, Mass., to just over the New Hampshire border in Salem, in an industrial park that once housed Digital Equipment Corp. and Cisco Systems. “We’re growing; we’re bursting at the seams in the current building. We looked at a bunch of real estate in the area and were trying to keep ...
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01/10/2012 - Ethernet switch firm Enterasys moving from Mass. to Salem, N.H.
SALEM – Enterasys, a global networking company, is moving its corporate headquarters and around 600 jobs from Andover, Mass., just over the New Hampshire border in Salem, in an industrial park that once housed Digital Equipment Corp. and Cicso Systems. “We’re growing, we’re bursting at the seams in the current building. We looked at a bunch of real estate in the area and were trying to keep it ...
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01/09/2012 - Romney wrestles with Republican attacks on corporate past
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - On the cusp of a widely expected victory in New Hampshire, Republican front-runner Mitt Romney struggled to repel attacks on his business record on Monday as rivals in the U.S. presidential race tried to weaken him before a tighter vote in South Carolina. The former venture capitalist did himself no favors in the homestretch to Tuesday's first-in-the-nation ...
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01/09/2012 - New Hampshire voters take their time to make up their minds
TILTON, N.H. — Don't tell a New Hampshire voter what to do. These Yankee stoics will make up their minds about Tuesday's Republican primary when they're good and ready. They spent the weekend
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01/07/2012 - Romney's Week: A Squeaker, A Love Fest And A Shrug
The GOP front-runner started the week telling Iowa supporters, "I need every vote." He didn't know how right he was. After an eight-vote victory in Iowa, he left for the loving embraces of New Hampshire and John McCain. Then came South Carolina, and not quite so much love.
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01/05/2012 - Jon Huntsman looks to pull a 'Rick Santorum' in New Hampshire
Jon Huntsman has racked up more than 150 appearances in New Hampshire, ignoring Iowa in hopes that the Granite State will turn him into a contender on the national stage.
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01/04/2012 - Surprise Iowa surge may not matter in NH
As former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum battled it out into the wee hours of Wednesday morning for a win in the Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire primary, observers said while Santorum’s Hawkeye State results would give him a boost as the conservative alternative to Romney, it might be not enough to overcome Romney’s formidable Granite State lead.
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01/01/2012 - New year ushers in NH’s new laws
Parental notification is now required for minor girls seeking an abortion, one of the Republican-led New Hampshire Legislature’s signature victories of 2011 and among several new laws that went into effect with the start of the new year Sunday. The GOP leadership in Concord changed the landscape of state public policy during its first year in charge, but it was the passage of the parental ...
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12/29/2011 - Clean-cut Romney sons on the stump in New Hampshire
CONCORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Square-jawed and clean-cut, four of Mitt Romney's five sons made a campaign swing through New Hampshire on Thursday to push their father's presidential bid and try to boost his credentials as a family man. While the elder Romney stumped in Iowa ahead of the January 3 caucuses there, Tagg, Josh, Matt and Craig Romney met voters at a coffee shop and ate lunch ...
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12/29/2011 - Balsams deal appears key to power plan
North Country Land links Northern Pass parcels When they lost a $3 million bid for land at the Balsams last week, Northern Pass officials said the piece wasn't critical to their proposed hydropower line from Canada. But the company's recent land purchases in northern New Hampshire suggest otherwise. Since mid-October, Northern Pass has spent nearly $4 million buying property from the Canadian ...
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12/27/2011 - Story of the year 2011: 6. Nashua’s Radisson Hotel goes on the block but survives
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Telegraph will run the 10 biggest local stories of 2011 in the paper during the next several days. NASHUA – One of Nashua’s landmark buildings went from trouble to saved to troubled to saved again this year beginning with an abrupt but temporary closure at the outset of 2011. The Radisson Hotel’s previous owner, Southern New Hampshire Hospitality Management Group, temporarily ...
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12/21/2011 - A 'Supreme' run for president
With the only hurdle to entry in the New Hampshire presidential primary being a $1,000 filing fee, all sorts of fringe candidates are on the ballot as options for voters next month. One of them is Rockport resident Vermin Supreme.
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12/21/2011 - Gingrich, Romney exchange salvos over campaign ads in New Hampshire
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The peevish side of Newt Gingrich surfaced Wednesday as he swept into New Hampshire for a few hours, lashing rival Mitt Romney over a flurry of "shamefully dishonest" ads airing in Iowa.
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12/21/2011 - Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney throw elbows in New Hampshire
MANCHESTER, N.H. — The peevish side of Newt Gingrich surfaced Wednesday as he swept into New Hampshire for a few hours, lashing rival Mitt Romney over a flurry of “shamefully dishonest” ads airing in Iowa.
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12/19/2011 - From earnest to absurd, lesser-known candidates share spotlight in NH forum
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Anyone with $1,000 can get on the primary ballot in New Hampshire. That made a presidential candidate forum Monday night quite a departure from the debates the major candidates have been attending. And not just because there were 17 participants. Timothy Brewer, a Republican from Dayton, Ohio — vowed that speaking with Jesus through “afterlife orbs” would solve the world’s ...
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12/19/2011 - Lesser-known candidates share spotlight in NH
Anyone with $1,000 can get on the primary ballot in New Hampshire. That made a presidential candidate forum Monday night quite a departure from the debates the major candidates have been attending. And not just because there were 17 participants.
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12/18/2011 - Jon Huntsman’s long hours in New Hampshire begin to pay off
Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman is doing the same thing he’s been doing for six months – talking to New Hampshire voters a roomful at a time. But after months of remaining stuck in the single digits in the polls, the Republican presidential candidate is showing some signs of success in the final weeks before the New Hampshire primary. His state poll numbers are rising, he received two ...
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11/15/2011 - Obama Loses to Romney by 10 Points in New Hampshire Poll Showing Pessimism
Driven down by economic forces, President Barack Obama is running poorly in New Hampshire, a state he carried in 2008 and one that has been a swing state in recent presidential elections.
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11/22/2011 - Obama visits New Hampshire, but is the state swinging against him?
President Obama talked about jobs and the economy Tuesday in this small but crucial state. His approval rating is 41 percent in New Hampshire – the lowest it's been since his first month in office.
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11/19/2011 - Obama vs Romney
DRIVEN down by economic forces, President Barack Obama is running poorly in New Hampshire, a state he carried in 2008 and one that has been a swing state in recent presidential elections. Obama trails Republican Mitt Romney among likely general election voters in the state by 10 percentage points in a hypothetical contest amid voter discontent with the President’s job performance and the economy ...
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11/18/2011 - SBA honors two local banks for lending work
Merrimack County Savings Bank and Centrix Bank & Trust were among the 2011 lenders honored by the New Hampshire district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration, the SBA announced Thursday.
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11/17/2011 - Expert: NH Economy On 'Thin Ice'
New Hampshire's economy is growing faster than the regional average but is in danger of stalling due to not enough jobs being created, according to a forecast released Thursday by the New England Economic Partnership.
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11/17/2011 - NH's economy growing faster than regional average
New Hampshire's economy is growing faster than the regional average but is in danger of stalling due to not enough jobs being created, according to a forecast released Thursday by the New England Economic Partnership.
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11/15/2011 - Obama Losing to Romney in New Hampshire Poll Revealing Pessimism
Driven down by economic forces, President Barack Obama is running poorly in New Hampshire, a state he carried in 2008 and one that has been a swing state in recent presidential elections.
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11/16/2011 - Obama Behind Romney in New Hampshire Poll Showing Pessimism
Driven down by economic forces, President Barack Obama is running poorly in New Hampshire, a state he carried in 2008 and one that has been a swing state in recent presidential elections.
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11/14/2011 - N.H. man gets 4-year sentence in Hub mortgage scheme
A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to four years for leading a mortgage scheme that defrauded more than a dozen...
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11/14/2011 - NH man gets prison term for running mortgage fraud scheme
New Hampshire man was sentenced to four years in jail for spearheading a real estate scheme that cheated homeowners and lenders out of more than $2 million and led to a string of foreclosures in the Boston area, Attorney General Martha Coakley said. Joshua Brown, 31, was sentenced late last week in the case following a three-week trial in Suffolk Superior Court. Brown also was sentenced to 35 ...
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11/15/2011 - N.H. man gets prison in $2m real estate fraud
A New Hampshire man was sentenced to four years in prison for spearheading a real estate scheme that cheated homeowners and lenders out of more than $2 million.
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11/10/2011 - NH SBA honors lenders, Triangle Credit Union, Merrimack County Savings Bank among winners
CONCORD – Triangle Credit Union, Merrimack County Savings Bank and Centrix Bank & Trust were among the 2011 lenders honored by the New Hampshire district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration, the SBA announced Thursday. In fiscal year 2011, the New Hampshire district office guaranteed a total of 762 loans totaling over $150 million through its two main loan programs, the 7(a) Loan ...
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11/10/2011 - Only in Print Condos reconverted to rental units during downturn
Condo conversions are pitched as a real estate savior by some, an intrusion by others. In Avenues, the New Hampshire Union Leader's weekly real estate section.
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11/08/2011 - Christie to campaign for Romney in N.H.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will stump for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in New Hampshire tomorrow. According to the Romney campaign, Christie will stop by Romney’s New Hampshire campaign headquarters in Manchester at 5 p.m. for a rally with volunteers. He will then attend a house party with supporters at the Nashua home of John Stabile, a former state senator and state ...
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11/05/2011 - New York Firm Listed Among Owners Of Oxford Casino
A casino application filed with the Maine Gambling Control Board lists a New York investment firm, along with a firm owned by the former owners of the New Hampshire International Speedway and Oxford Plains Speedway in Maine, as the owners of the Oxford casino, which is scheduled to open next spring.
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11/04/2011 - Region’s ski resorts rise to meet challenges left by Irene
Irene wreaked havoc as she followed the spine of peaks from the Berkshires into Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Southern Vermont took the brunt of the hit, not necessarily from the wind as much as the deluge of rain that caused rivers to overflow, washing away bridges and resulting in more than 200 sections of collapsed road. New England ski areas were not immune to the devastation.
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10/31/2011 - From here: Northfield
MOST NEW Hampshire towns have their own Wikipedia entry, and those entries almost always contain a list of that town's "notable inhabitants" - living and dead. From time to time in this space, we'll pick a community from the Concord region and share its list of notables. Today we feature Northfield. Jillian Beyor, Playboy model Joseph Libbey Folsom, Army officer and real estate investor Richard ...
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11/01/2011 - Hahn makes 11th hour not-guilty plea to $2M fraud charge
CONCORD — A former investment adviser charged with bilking a Portsmouth man out of $1.9 million was expected to plead guilty Tuesday, but at the 11th hour notified the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire that he had changed his mind and is now...
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10/31/2011 - Ex-advisor accused of bilking client of $1.9M changes plea, claims innocence
CONCORD — A former investment advisor charged with bilking a Portsmouth man out of $1.9 million was expected to plead guilty Tuesday, but at the eleventh hour notified the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire that he changed his mind and is now...
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10/30/2011 - Leader of Massive Mortgage Fraud Scheme in Boston Convicted by Jury
BOSTON - A New Hampshire man has been convicted of leading a scheme that defrauded more than a dozen...
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10/28/2011 - NH man convicted in mortgage fraud scheme
A New Hampshire man has been convicted of leading a scheme that defrauded lenders and homebuyers of more than $2 million in connection with mortgages loaned for the purchase of 26 multi-family properties in the Boston area, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said today. Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted Joshua Brown, 31, on such charges as larceny and making or publishing false or ...
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10/28/2011 - A Tour of Romney’s $10 Million Lakefront New Hampshire Getaway
WOLFEBORO, N.H. -- Autumn is in the air in New Hampshire, which means the political rhetoric is also here, even in the tucked-away reaches of this tiny lakeside town where Mitt Romney has a summer home.
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10/29/2011 - N.H. man guilty in real estate scheme
A three-week trial ended in the conviction of New Hampshire man on charges he spearheaded a multimillion-dollar real-estate scheme that cheated homeowners and lenders out of more than $2 million and led to a string of foreclosures in the Boston area. A Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted Joshua Brown, 31, of charges related to the plot this week after a trial that included more than 40 ...
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10/26/2011 - Daddy's Junky Music ends on a sour note after 39 years
Daddy's Junky Music, the 39-year-old company that flourished thanks to the New Hampshire Advantage, folded on Wednesday, a victim of the struggling economy and shifts to Internet sales, founder Fred Bramante said.
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10/26/2011 - Ron Paul Can't Win White House Or Nomination, Power Outsiders Say
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Ron Paul has won a series of Republican straw polls, often ranks third or fourth in national polling and was one of the first presidential candidates to run television advertising in Iowa and New Hampshire this year. But among politically engaged Republican activists in the early primary and caucus states, Paul is a nonstarter.
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10/20/2011 - Disgraced financial adviser ordered to pay $2M restitution
PORTSMOUTH — An investment adviser charged with bilking a city man out of $1.9 million has been permanently stripped of his New Hampshire securities license and ordered to pay $2 million in restitution.
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10/18/2011 - Huntsman embraces N.H. tradition, plows into rivals
Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman made it clear with the first sentence of his town hall meeting why he was not onstage tonight with his rivals at the presidential debate in Nevada: “May I say ladies and gentlemen, that I believe in the New Hampshire primary.” Huntsman – along with Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain - is boycotting the Nevada caucuses ...
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10/11/2011 - 2012: Debate No. 7
The Washington Post tees up tonight’s debate. “For 90 minutes in New Hampshire tonight, eight Republican presidential hopefuls will sit around a wooden table and take shots at each other and President Obama.
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10/09/2011 - McClellan: Woman faces peril as she falls out of the middle class
Jean Meacham grew up in a small town in New Hampshire and came of age in the heady days just after World War II. Optimism was the national condition. The future seemed unlimited.
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