HANCOCK LUMBER TO ACQUIRE JOHNSON LUMBER Hancock Lumber has announced its plan to acquire Johnson Lumber, a lumberyard based in Salisbury, Massachusetts. The transaction is expected to close on May 31, 2025, with operations beginning under the Hancock name on June 2. This marks Hancock Lumber’s twelfth lumberyard and its…
Continue reading →AS Congress debates extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, just under three-quarters of small business owners believe the current federal tax system is unfavorable to them, according to a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Voices survey. Of them, 63% said the system isn’t scaled for their size…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire An existing reverse mortgage-backed securities issuer and wholesale lender is making a new play for the retail space, according to a new announcement. GoodLife Home Loans, dba of Bellevue, Wash.-based Traditional Mortgage Acceptance Corporation (TMAC), announced this week that it has launched a new retail reverse mortgage division to…
Continue reading →U.S. Senators Susan Collins, R-ME, left, and Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, visited the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on April 17 with Navy Secretary John Phelan. It was Phelan’s first visit to any U.S. public shipyard since the Senate confirmed his nomination to the post. (Photo by Deb Cram, Seacoastonline) Despite being approved…
Continue reading →During a May 6 panel discussion at the Currier Museum of Art hosted by New Hampshire Civics, retired Union Leader publisher Joseph McQuaid illustrated civics in action by reading from the obituary of John Swope, which had run in the paper that day. Swope, and two other New Hampshire citizens…
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