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Economy

🔒Feeding Worcester: Nonprofits strain to meet surging food insecurity

Today, hunger in Worcester is rising faster than it has in years.
Government & Politics

Cannabis agency overhaul bill awaits final negotiations amid holiday slowdown

The House and Senate have conducted minimal business during their six-week holiday season recess.
Government & Politics

🔒Clinton rolls out RFP for redevelopment of Downtown property

The Town of Clinton is seeking proposals to redevelop the former site of a...
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Economy

Fitchburg garage door company loaned $25K for new equipment

The owner of Hansen Overhead Garage Door, an early-stage company out of Fitchburg, has received a boost in funding with a $25,000 loan from the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp.
Health Care

Lifeward partners with Singapore group to distribute exoskeleton in three new countries

Lifeward, a Marlborough-based medical device company, has expanded its global footprint, partnering with a Singapore-based healthcare group to distribute its exoskeleton throughout Mexico, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates.
Banking & Finance

Worcester accounting firm joins forces with Connecticut CPA group

The merger took effect Nov. 1, and the combined firm is operating under The Innovative CPA Group name.
Government & Politics

Strained Nashoba Valley EMS granted $5M after hospital closure

As the Nashoba Valley continues to reel from the 2024 closure of Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer, the Gov. Maura Healey Administration is dedicating $5 million to reimburse the region’s overburdened emergency medical services.
Real Estate

🔒Home sales in Central Mass. dropped in November, as prices climb again

Falling interest rates didn’t appear to have much of an impact on the Central Massachusetts housing market in November, as the region saw fewer...
Real Estate

🔒Kelley Square restaurant building sold for $1.2M

The site of a four-story building, with Golden Pockets Shawarma restaurant on the first floor and four apartments above, sold in a deal finalized on Friday.

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Energy

Devens firm meets with DOE to accelerate fusion energy development

Devens-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems and other fusion-focused firms have met with U.S. Department of Energy leadership to discuss accelerating growth of the promising new...
Real Estate

🔒Four warehouses in Westborough sold for $95M

A Pennsylvania-based real estate firm has purchased four industrial properties off of Route 9 in Westborough for a combined $95.2 million.
Government & Politics

🔒Dr. Michael Hirsh retires as Worcester’s public health medical director

Hirsh stepped down on Friday after originally being named the City’s medical director in 2012.
Opinion

From the editor: An economy without a middle class

As the middle class fades, businesses who rely on people having at least some expendable income – or at least enough income to cover all their basic needs – will not have the necessary customer base to thrive.
Diversity & Inclusion

🔒A rural migration: Diverse communities are being priced out of Worcester, making it harder for healthcare providers and nonprofits to reach them

Not only are these diverse populations moving away from their old residences, they’re moving away from their healthcare providers.
Education

🔒Down, but not out: As they fight to remain open, Job Corps centers in Devens and Grafton are reeling from the Trump Administration’s efforts...

Despite the setback, the centers have persisted. A major breakthrough came when the federal government restarted background checks needed to enroll students.
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Do you view Greater Worcester as a healthcare innovation hub?

UMass Chan Medical School, home to two Nobel Prize winners, Craig Mello in 2006 and Victor Ambros in 2024 just announced it has been selected to participate in a U.S. Department of Defense trial for a non-drug therapy for treatment resistant postpartum depression. In fiscal year 2024, the medical school received $200.75 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health, while Worcester Polytechnic Institute received $4.96 million and Helixbind Inc. in Marlborough received $7.98 million in NIH funding.

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Blackstone Valley

🔒Movers & Shakers for Dec. 15, 2025

Employees at Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives and Country Bank have been promoted.
Central Mass. South

🔒Q&A: My grandmother initially said, ‘Over my dead body.’

Even as the cannabis industry continues to contract in Massachusetts, Southbridge-based Green Meadows has opened a third location, a new adult-use dispensary in Marlborough,...
MetroWest

🔒Poverty wages: TJX and BJ’s are heavily reliant on part-time workers, making their median employee pay qualified for government food assistance

Two of Central Massachusetts’ highest-paid CEOs run companies where median employees likely qualify for SNAP benefits.
North County

AMSC expands into Brazil with acquisition worth $133M

Ayer-based energy solutions company AMSC has acquired ️Comtrafo Indústria de Transformadores Elétricos S.A., a Brazilian transformer manufacturer.

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