New Hampshire Category Archive

NH was ranked #5 in the country in a study of child health care done by The Commonweatlh Fund, trailing Iowa, Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts. Unfortunately, we were also among the ten most expensive for that care and in the middle of the pack for access to health care services.
The study focused on “13 performance [...]

New Hampshire just keeps getting better and better, at least according to CQ Press. They’ve named NH the “Most Livable State” for the fifth time in a row. This year we’re the only New England state in the top five spots which also include Utah, Wyoming, Minnesota and Iowa.
New Hampshire also ranked highly on the [...]

By now I’m sure you’ve heard of Google Maps. Like many people, you’ve probably already used it (or a similar mapping service) to find directions to a new restaurant, store or other family destination. But now Southern New Hampshire families have another reason to use it: Google has mapped the Manchester and Nashua areas with [...]

Thinking of moving in or around Southern New Hampshire? Cyberhomes, a new website from Fidelity National Financial, Inc. claims to “give you access to most of the same information that real estate professionals use to evaluate homes.” Does it deliver? Yes, but currently only if you’re looking to buy in the southeastern part of the [...]

Looking for an easy way to give something back to your community? Internet search engine Goodsearch gives half its revenue (about a penny per search) to nonprofits. That would be a good reason to use GoodSearch instead of Yahoo! or Google, but there’s more: you get to pick the charity your searches benefit.
Just visit www.goodsearch.com [...]

Budget Travel Magazine has named Peterborough to its list of the 10 Coolest Small Towns
The 10 towns on the list are:

Millerton, NY
Milford, PA
Yachats, OR
Waitsburg, WA
Paia, HI
Parkville, MO
Silver City, NM
Peterborough, NH
Tuscumbia, AL
Collinsville, CT

Maybe it’s time to update the “a good place to live” slogan?
[Union Leader]
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At a time when some museums are facing closing, some one individual is challenging all state museums and libraries to increase their membership. Robert Finlay, confounder of Hillcrest Capital Partners and a graduate of Southern New Hampshire University, has offered $75,000 to the encourage librarian and museum directors to raise awareness of their services and [...]

The Children’s Metamorphosis (Met) museum in Derry is in danger of closing after 16 years. According to an article in the Union Leader, the Met is hoping to raise $50,000 in pledges by the end of August. This would allow them to pay back rent and put them in a good position for the fall.
Our [...]

Another NH locale has been recognized as a great place to live! This time it’s Hanover, coming in at #2 on Money’s “Best Places to Live 2007,” just behind the winner, Middleton, WI. To be eligible, towns had to have a population between 7,500 and 50,000.
At #85, Salem was the only other New Hampshire entry [...]

Seacoastonline.com has reported that New Hampshire ranks eighth in the nation for Internet access speed. Our median download speed is 2.7 mbps, compared to the US median of 1.9 mbps.
That sounds pretty good, but compare that to the other countries mentioned in the article:

Japan: 61 mbps
South Korea: 45 mbps
France: 17 mbps
Canada: 7 mbps

Pretty sad, huh? [...]