MUCH AS the “maintenance required” light on our dashboard prompts us to bring the car in for timely servicing, so too might be our response at the start of a new year to attend to getting tuned up.
LONDONDERRY — Dan Lynch, the president of LYMO Construction, started the company in his grandparents’ garage in Arlington, Mass., in 1987. Their first office was above a pizza parlor in Bedford in 1993, and the company has since moved to Hooksett, Manchester, then Merrimack.
Question: I have been trying for the last six months, without success, to acquire funding to complete development and marketing of my idea for a new roofing product. Several people have suggested crowdfunding as an alternative, but I’m clueless as to how that works. Can you provide a crash course?
People don't like to be told they can't have it all. It's one of the reasons frugality as a way of life is a hard sell.
When she graduated from college in 2012, Molly Owen wasn’t in a financial position to move into her own apartment, much less out of Massachusetts, where she was living with her father.
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu may not like the state’s new law providing electric ratepayer subsidies to wood-burning power plants, but his attorney general will defend the law against a challenge before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
Venture capitalist Jamison Hill was momentarily flummoxed by a strappy red garment. Hill, who is accustomed to working behind a desk in a San Francisco high rise, had pulled it out of a bag of strangers’ laundry that he was tasked with sorting, but with strips of fabric in unexpected places,…
Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig named the two retailers and said two or three more businesses were planned as the Sears store gets carved up.
Sierra Trading Post and HomeSense are being eyed to fill the former Bob’s Store at the Bedford Mall plaza.
Wanted: 100,000 square feet of industrial space for a manufacturer working overtime.
Genia, a health care analytics provider, is headquartered in Harrisburg, Pa., but employs 50 people in the Manchester Millyard.
Starting a job at a new company can be overwhelming. There are a lot of unknowns, and the new person starting really has no clue what to expect, what to do or how to do it.
Big-box retail giant Walmart, long despised by Main Street small businesses for luring their customers to the superstore on the edge of town, is now attempting to bring town-center amenities to its sprawling parking lots in two Washington locations and elsewhere.
During the holidays, many people start to experience the financial stress of everything that accompanies the festivities.
Research firm Cerulli Associates asked 401(k) participants age 45 and older a simple question: “When you retire, what do you plan to do with your savings?”
When Christopher Cacho is home, the 23-year-old data specialist doesn’t do much out of the ordinary. He may run a computer analysis at his desk, play a video game or lie down with a good book.
While a housing crisis rages in high-priced coastal cities, where modest homes can sell for in excess of $1 million, and governments promote affordable-housing options, an entirely different problem is playing out closer to the country’s interior.
Chevrolet introduced its first trucks to customers in January 1918, then 80 years later introduced the Silverado pickup in 1998 as the successor to the long-running C/K line, taking the Silverado name from a previous trim level used from 1975 through 1998.
According to Fire Chief John McArdle, an inspection found there was too much stock in the back of the store that created concerns and needed to be moved.
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy added 155,000 jobs in November, falling short of expectations for more robust growth, and the unemployment rate stayed at a 49-year low of 3.7 percent, federal economists reported Friday.
MANCHESTER — State incentives for solar projects should focus on driving down the bills of solar customers and include projects built in low-income areas, Gov. Chris Sununu says.
A Massachusetts company this week launched its first aerial cell tower resembling a big blimp from a new research and development center in Fremont.
The canopy over the Cumberland Farms on Mast Road will be demolished next week, following a scathing building inspection determined that the columns holding the structure up are deformed and severely deteriorated, official say.
PORTSMOUTH — Officials at Optima Bank & Trust Company and Cambridge Bancorp in Massachusetts have announced a merger.
BEDFORD — The architectural design for a four-story parking garage at the Market and Main project has been approved by town planners, and an undisclosed cinema chain is in the process of being finalized for the development.
MANCHESTER — Ben and Clark Graves have been golfing buddies for years.
GOFFSTOWN — Several New Hampshire business owners say the upcoming Health Insurance Tax will be extremely costly to their companies, and could result in higher prices for their customers.
Comcast adds Amazon’s Prime Video to X1
EXETER — The curtain has closed on a fixture that’s been part of the downtown business community for 89 years.
CONCORD — A high-powered commission failed to endorse moving the start of all public schools until after Labor Day, but submitted a report that offers a “road map” on how to overcome obstacles to the change.
BEDFORD — A five-story, extended stay hotel is being eyed for the former Magdalen College property along South River Road.
MILFORD — Voters will decide in March whether to lease about 120 acres of town land for the construction of a large solar farm.
The state Bureau of Securities Regulation has issued a cease-and-desist order against a man soliciting money to invest in a $25 million film.
Q: What exactly is workforce housing, and does my city or town have to provide it?
GOFFSTOWN — Drivers along Route 114 near Tatro Drive may find it hard not to notice the new headquarters of Langley Construction.
Our age of instant information is served by 100-year-old content rules. That is as it must be because human nature gravitates to those things that look to be of interest.
The share of people working or looking for work is well below 2000 levels for prime-age Americans. But move up the age range and the story changes.
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