By the end of April, New Hampshire hospitals had received $150 million in emergency funds to help with the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The 30-member New Hampshire Hospital Association, which includes Cheshire Medical Center in Keene and Monadnock Community Hospital in Peter…

The mission of the Keene Young Professionals is to connect young professionals in the Monadnock Region with their peers and their communities.

In the past few months, as schools closed and governments issued stay-at-home orders, companies have had to quickly navigate myriad changes, from employees working at home to challenges in supply and demand. We talked to three area companies about their experience adapting to the pandemic.

We’re months into the pandemic, yet the debate on the shape of the recovery rages on. The potential trajectory of recovery has been a cornucopia of letters: L, U, V, I and W.

Given the emotionally charged election cycle, I thought a review of the past performance of our political parties might be useful.

Congress isn’t failing to solve the country’s problems because of party polarization or gridlock. It’s failing because it’s not in its own best interest to do so. Our legislators uniformly rely on big money to keep them in power.

This is the second installment of a three-part series on how to get the country back on track. I avoid saying “making America great again” because that’s both a political trigger and blatantly wrong. Although I may rail against the country’s direction, America remains the greatest sovereign …

Eddie Gomez came to Peterborough for an intern position at PeoplesVC, founded by Akhil D. Garland to facilitate “crowd-funded” venture capital investments. PeoplesVC also worked with entrepreneurs to streamline and personalize their messages to potential investors. That’s where Gomez met Ror…

Will Silverstein-Belden graduated from Keene High School in 2014 and traveled to the West Coast for college. But after one semester at the University of Puget Sound, he returned to the Granite State to get degrees in English literature and environmental and resource economics from the Univer…

Cody Hall, 27, and Max Rowe Beebee, 26, have known each since eighth grade at Keene Middle School. They drifted apart after high school, but one day, during a fateful walk around Goose Pond, they rediscovered their friendship and realized they could be the perfect partners to start a busines…

Before December 2018, Ingrid Aho a 2017 graduate of ConVal Regional High School was known for her pipes, singing in musical theater and choirs. After she graduated she thought about getting serious about her singing or going to college for music, but then life happened. Or more specifically,…

The struggles facing communities dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on personal lives, jobs and businesses are well documented. With this in mind, the organizers of Radically Rural, the summit that showcases ideas of importance to small cities and towns, will stage its event this year on on…

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At Antioch University New England, ecological stewardship and social justice are two of the cornerstones of the educational foundation that underlies the school’s graduate programs. Perhaps the other two cornerstones are the university’s faculty and the people from around the world who trave…

Five towns in the Monadnock Region — Peterborough, Sharon, Rindge, Hancock and Fitzwilliam — were the first participants in Monadnock Energy Hub’s “Solarize Monadnock” campaign. Solarize Monadnock is a community-based solar energy group purchasing campaign that makes solar more accessible an…

Tedd Benson knows it is not enough to build sustainable homes. The manufacturing process that creates those homes must also walk the “green” talk.

Ever since I was 10 years old, I’ve been known as “The Green Up Girl.” I grew up in a small Vermont town and each year, on the first Saturday of May, our state would celebrate “Green Up Day” — a day when everyone would come together in their community to walk up and down each road, river and…

Translating cutting-edge, highly-technical ideas to the world from a rural landscape seems ironic. Yet that kind of entrepreneurship is exactly what’s possible in New Hampshire and Vermont, what’s continuing to develop here, and now what’s needed living in the “new normal.”

It seems like passive investing — index and exchange-traded funds — have won the performance battle in today’s financial market. Trillions of investment dollars now rest in massive pools, while investors question why they pay active managers anything for investment advice.

High stress workplaces are like psychological Petri dishes; they are perfect places to grow nasty things.

At the end of June of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, or the “internet sales tax case,” which overturned its prior case law that required “physical presence” before a state could subject a retailer to its sales tax collection and remittance l…

In the face of COVID-19, pressure on a global scale has made it obvious that a changed economy is imminent. On a local level, businesses are confronting an “innovate or exit” reality and are thinking carefully about their next steps. Hope, it seems, lives in an altered, or could we even say …

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On a pleasant spring day a few years ago, Jill Carson was enjoying some outdoor play time with her granddaughter. The focus of the play: bubbles. It was fun, but with her instinctive sense of quality control, Carson noticed that the bubbles and the medium of play were generally deficient. Th…

Suzanna Kamphuis’ startup, TotumVos, produces and sells multi-collagen chews in Keene. Collagen, if you weren’t sure, is the most common protein found in the body, offering support to everything from bones to skin.

When people talk about downtown Keene, they use words like “vibrant,” and “vital.”

A small New Hampshire downtown fights back rising tide of online shopping, absentee landlords and years of Main Street vacancies

While Webster might associate “malaise” with depression, dejection and good old ennui, Marlborough’s Malaise is having quite the opposite effect.

It’s all about the bones. The bones of the old buildings in Bellows Falls, Vermont. That’s what’s bringing back this town in Wind­ham County that went through some bumps, scrapes and bruises for almost 100 years.

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It’s a great story: New England woodworkers carry on an age-old craft for 115 years right here in Cheshire County. But can you guess the company? Not to worry if you are stumped. Whitney Brothers remains one of Keene’s best-kept secrets, despite its reputation for designing, building and sup…

Architects and designers who are focused on the sustainability of their projects have depended on one organization since 1985 to help guide their efforts.

The maker movement began 15 years ago and gained momentum about a decade ago with makerspaces popping up in cities. Today, the phenomenon is worldwide and there are 700 such spaces around the country — a dozen in New Hampshire alone.

Depending upon what type of farmer you talk to, the pandemic has been either a boon or bane for the business of agriculture.

What started as a “rosy” year has taken an unprecedented and historic turn with the threat and reality of COVID-19 sweeping through the region.

Right off the bat, the nonprofit sector was one of the hardest hit by the pandemic, with 92% of those organizations who responded to a New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits survey said that they’d had a loss in revenue, more than 61% of responders having suspended some operations and more than…

Med Kopczynski, Keene’s director of economic development initiatives and special projects, says progress may have slowed due to the pandemic, but projects are not being canceled or shelved. He notes that the city has a list of capital improvement projects that could become candidates for pot…

The COVID-19 data on the hospitality industry is dire, catastrophic, really, with $800 million lost so far since the pandemic reached New Hampshire; roughly half of the industry’s 70,000 employees have been laid off or furloughed, according to New Hampshire Lodging and Restaurant Association…

The spring 2020 season was forecasted to be a tornado of transactions in the real estate market with eager buyers waiting to snap up new listings. However, for locals, coronavirus has disrupted or perhaps just delayed that prediction.

While patrons have adjusted to drive-up banking and leaning more heavily on their mobile apps, behind the scenes, banking professionals have gone to extraordinary lengths to pull together resources, training and collaboration needed in the crisis.