Sara Bee has been to Boulder and back, and the 27-year-old Bedford native says Manchester is hipper than it used to be.

COVERING your face with a mask before you mix in public is rapidly becoming as commonplace as strapping on a seatbelt before you turn the key in the ignition.

A PANDEMIC robs lobbyists of their greatest weapon: personal contact.

COMEBACK? What comeback?

“ENJOY OUR PARKS!”

AS IT goes virtual this year, the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts awards event shifts from a one-night affair to a weeklong celebration, including a raffle of original artworks designed to help raise money for artists the group champions.

KIDS in the Queen City aren’t going hungry on the weekends, thanks to a program spearheaded by Southern New Hampshire University that aims to continue through the end of the school year.

BACK IN JANUARY, Mark Stebbins was marveling in the success of the AC Hotel Portsmouth. He and his XSS Hotels partner, Leo Xarras, had just opened the Marriott property.

B efore driving home from work one night last week, I scooped up a couple of green necklaces that had been sitting in my cup holder for several days, a souvenir from a fundraiser.

Over the past few days, workers at Events United have been setting up a 2,400-square-foot studio at the company’s headquarters in Derry.

PORTSMOUTH -- If all goes to plan, Herbie Hancock will be headlining the opening night of Elle’s in the spring of 2021. The iconic pianist and keyboard player just doesn’t know it yet.

Welcome to the virtual waiting room.

IS A DEVICE that can bring clean water to rural villages and save countless lives worth a million bucks? How about $100,000? What if the price tag was what you'd pay for an old clunker at a used car lot?

The Common Man family’s latest venture has its roots in a barn built nearly 180 years ago on a homestead in Canterbury.

SOME FIRST-TIME entrepreneurs are spurred to pursue their dream after a change in employment status, such as new management at their workplace, a layoff or early retirement. For people like Jim Kelly, it's because of an idea that wouldn't stop percolating.

Before I met Sandy Ratliff, the English teacher I was paired with for West High School’s annual career day, I learned a few things about her.

How much would you pay to visit a world where no one has gone before?

As we wind down 2018, here’s a look back at some of the fascinating people we encountered over the past year in New Hampshire business and beyond.

After the shopping frenzy that begins on Thanksgiving and picks up steam on Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday comes a day to pause and reflect on people in need.

I WAS CURSING the British a few days ago as I lifted our hefty air conditioner off the basement floor to carry it upstairs.

FRIDAY'S SPECIAL on the chalkboard at Cafe La Reine was The Green Man — coffee with Irish cream, dark chocolate and a dash of green mint. You could get it hot or iced or try it as a latte or hot chocolate.

The handshake is on shaky ground in the year of COVID-19.

It’s hard to find takers for a position that promises long hours and zero starting pay.

Chris Schleyer had to speak above the roar of passing cars and music piping from the pub across the road while he hosted a ribbon cutting Friday for Pearson’s Place Apartments.

John Hickenlooper’s path to the presidency has proven to be a much slower ride than his rise to mayor of Denver and governor of Colorado. When I first met him during my tenure as the editor of a business magazine there, he was a popular mayor about to handily win his first term as governor.

Over the more than three decades Joan Goshgarian directed the entertainment for the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts’ annual awards dinner, she selected different performers and artists to appear each year.

Employers in New Hampshire have been living with an unemployment rate of less than 3 percent for more than three years. 

As many as 700,000 fliers who live within 25 miles of Manchester-Boston Regional Airport choose Boston Logan instead of Manchester.

Oh, no - Velcro is singing again!

SIRI IS NO LONGER the only robot lady in our household since we received an Amazon Echo for Christmas. Now it's all Alexa, Alexa, Alexa.

SO WHAT do you do when you're trying to attract young people to one of the most gray-haired states in the country? Hiring a thirty-something to run your biggest city's chamber of commerce is a good start.

COMCAST IS LOOKING for few good men and women.

DEAN KAMEN invented a portable dialysis machine, a stair-climbing wheelchair, a bionic arm and a water purification device.

“Like everyone else, the BIA wants to grow younger.”

Over the holidays, most of us stuffed ourselves silly with cake, cookies, candy and pie, so the last thing on our minds right now is a doughnut. Dunkin’ Donuts knows that.

The rapid rise of urgent care centers in New Hampshire is underscored by the growth of ConvenientMD.

Wanted: 100,000 square feet of industrial space for a manufacturer working overtime.

Back when I was a freshman at the University of New Hampshire, I was terrible with money - so much so that I nearly ran out of cash after only a month on campus. I had been piddling away my meager savings and wages from a work-study job on sub sandwiches from the late-night food truck and vi…