Matthew Mowry

1 week ago | businessnhmagazine.com | Matthew Mowry

The child care crisis has hit NH hard. Between 2018 and 2022, there were, on average, 54,242 children under age six with working parents who may have needed child care, according to a May 2024 report from the NH Fiscal Policy Institute (NHFPI). However, there was only an average of approximately 45,800 licensed child care slots, meaning about 8,400 kids didn’t have child care who needed it.

1 week ago | businessnhmagazine.com | Matthew Mowry

The Business NH Magazine staff celebrates after winning 14 awards at the NH Press Association's Distinguished Journalism Awards Banquet. From left are: Morgan Costa, marketing advisor and account manager; Daryl Flagg, marketing advisor and account manager; Staff Writer Scott Merrill; Laura Maxfield, marketing advisor and account manager; Jenn Farkas, creative manager and events assistant; Christine Carignan, co-publisher and COO; and Matt Mowry, co-publisher and executive editor.

3 weeks ago | businessnhmagazine.com | Matthew Mowry

Published Monday Jun 9, 2025Author Matthew J. MowryIssue: May 2025Manuel “Manny” Ramirez and Cecilia Ulibarri, co-founders of Positive Street Art (Photo by Matthew J. Mowry)For 13 years, Positive Street Art has been transforming plain building walls into works of art and literally had people dancing in the streets of Nashua and other NH communities … and beyond.

3 weeks ago | businessnhmagazine.com | Matthew Mowry

Published Thursday Jun 5, 2025Author Matthew J. MowryIssue: May 2025For 30 years, the Regional Economic Development Center (REDC) in Raymond has been finding ways to lend and support small businesses in NH and help them grow. For 17 of those years, it has done so under the leadership of President Laurel Adams. When Adams joined the REDC, it only served Rockingham County, had two employees and a limited loan product.

3 weeks ago | businessnhmagazine.com | Matthew Mowry

Published Thursday Jun 5, 2025Author Matthew J. MowryOne day after Mark Stebbins, the longtime and beloved CEO of PROCON, a design-build firm in Hooksett, unexpectedly passed away in 2021, his grieving wife Sally and two adult children, John and Jennifer, held a lunch for all PROCON employees. They hugged everyone and confirmed that the siblings were committed to taking on the leadership of the company and continuing it as a family business.