“We’ve been thinking about starting a business for 10 years,” Mike Gagnon says. “But we didn’t have the courage.” Mike and his wife Sandy are finding that courage as participants in a business planning course aimed at helping fledgling entrepreneurs design and launch their ventures. But these students have a set of challenges beyond the usual that face new businesses. They are laid-off paper mill workers and other residents of Groveton, a northern New Hampshire town that lost over half its employment with the recent closures of Groveton Paperboard and Wausau Paper.

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LANCASTER, N.H. - After a food drive conducted by a small church in a small New Hampshire town, two truckloads of donations arrived Friday morning, all to benefit folks in Groveton affected by the closing of Wausau Papers earlier this year. "We're neighbors helping neighbors," said Ellie Stokes, who is in charge of the Freedom Food Pantry, which accepted the donations of everything from peanut butter to laundry soap, as well as a few surprising, and touching, contributions.

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NORTHUMBERLAND – A $250,000 grant is on its way to the North Country to develop an economic development road map in a part of the state hard hit by the closings of paper mills over the past two years.

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NORTHUMBERLAND – The New Year's Eve closing of Wausau Paper in a town that has produced paper for more than a century "could portend the end" of the papermaking era in Coos County, according to a report on the impact of the closure.

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NORTHUMBERLAND, N.H. (AP) -- New Year's Eve marks the end an era in northern New Hampshire. Wausau Paper's Groveton mill is closing, putting 303 people out of work. A new report says the closing could portend the end of the papermaking era in Coos County.

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