Real Estate Sales Jump, Community Colleges Prepare Students For Industry, And Panel Okays Fairpoint Rate Increase

New Hampshire’s Economic and Business News In Brief

“Realtors Hail 27.7 Percent Jump In Sales” – “Home sales shot up 27.7 percent in May compared with the same month a year earlier, and the New Hampshire Association of Realtors hailed the jump as a sign of recovery in the housing market.” Concord Monitor

“N.H. Community Colleges Offer ‘Bridge To Economic Opportunity’ By Targeting Specific Industries” – “When Ross Gittell took the job to be the next chancellor of the Community College System of New Hampshire, some of his colleagues at the University of New Hampshire saw it as a step down. They were puzzled why he would leave UNH, after 20 years of teaching in the respected Whittemore School of Business and Economics, for work in community colleges.” Nashua Telegraph

“Panel Okays FairPoint Rate Increase” – “FairPoint Communications can raise its rates to cover the cost of paying property taxes on its telephone poles, but it must stop charging customers a special 99-cent-per-month “municipal property tax surcharge,” the state Public Utilities Commission has ruled.” Concord Monitor