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“It definitely can be done,” said Rob McCarthy, founder of the Melan Hotel Group. McCarthy’s assessment was warmly received by the Berlin Industrial Development and Park Authority, which hired him in March to evaluate the city’s potential to support a small hotel. Berlin Community Development Director Pamela Laflamme reviewed McCarthy’s report with BIDPA at its monthly meeting last week. Armed with McCarthy’s assessment, BIDPA voted to hire him to continue working on the effort for the next three months. By the end of that period, the schedule calls for him to ha...

BERLIN — The city of Berlin lost another piece of its historic downtown with the demolition of the Princess Theater building Monday. When it was built 106 years ago, an article in the local paper said management “had spared no expense to make the most up-to-date house of entertainment in the state of New Hampshire.” But a movie hasn't been shown there in over a decade, and the property fell on tough times. A 2013 fire heavily damaged the building, and last year, the city took it for non-payment of taxes. When the Princess Theater opened on Oct. 29, 1914, a newspaper article sai...