Posts by Sheryl Rich-Kern
As the year comes to a close, the city of Nashua marks a turning point in its efforts to drive economic activity, especially to its downtown.
At a former Sears store, consumers who once searched for bargains on toasters, vacuum cleaners and air conditioners may soon test their fortunes at slot-like machines and card tables.
Amy Sterndale of Durham, a full-time business advisor for the Small Business Development Center in the seacoast, has two children, ages 10 and 13. When summer arrived, she planned on packing towels and bathing suits into backpacks. But restrictive health and social distancing guidelines for camps due to COVID took that option off the table.
New Hampshire realtors are seeing more interest from out-of-staters in permanent relocations.
Denise Mazzola of Everything Dog in Keene has been training dogs and their owners for more than two decades. When the coronavirus pandemic infiltrated the U.S., she figured her business would be another lockdown casualty.
From stocking makeshift food pantries, to opening bolted doors so students can access internet, Community Colleges are trying to help their students through.
In addition to managing loneliness, Pham and the more than 4,000 international college students in New Hampshire are facing another sober reality: the risk of going home. Unfavorable Visa restrictions, in place since the Trump administration, along with public health concerns, may prevent them from coming back.
“We gotta do something because it’s impacting everyday people,” Nick Toumpas said. “It’s impacting kids, its impacting adults, it’s impacting innocent people who are impacted by somebody else who has a problem with substance abuse — it’s an overall sense of urgency. They basically said it’s better to do something fast and then correct it as we go along, as opposed to stepping back and looking at it in a more measured way.”
PART OF THE SERIES Editor’s note: Second part of an ongoing series of stories over the next several weeks by