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Government & Politics

🔒UMass Chan gets $625K from Department of Defense to start lung disease study

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester could receive up to $18 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to lead a nationwide clinical study to determine if metformin, a drug used to treat high blood sugar and type 2 diabetes, can be used to treat a form of chronic, progressive lung disease.
Banking & Finance

Senate to boost state budget after overriding Healey vetoes

The Senate next week plans to add money back to the state budget by completing House-approved budget veto overrides, Senate President Karen Spilka told reporters Thursday.
Health Care

🔒Boston Scientific to purchase California medtech for $533M

Boston Scientific, a Marlborough medical device manufacturer, has entered into yet another half-billion-dollar purchase agreement, this time to acquire Nalu Medical, a California-based medical technology firm creating solutions for chronic nerve pain.
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Real Estate

🔒Former Whole Foods plaza in Wayland to feature event hall, restaurants, Terrain store following $7M sale

Framingham-based Grossman Development Group purchased the former site of a Whole Foods in Wayland for $6.68 million, part of a plan with the parent...
Health Care

🔒Report: Mass. among best states for Medicare beneficiaries, despite high rate of ER visits

Massachusetts ranks among the top states where Medicare serves its residents the best, offering some of the best access to primary care providers, yet its beneficiaries experience the second-to-highest preventable hospital admissions rates in the nation.
Government & Politics

🔒MassDevelopment, feds provide $38M to preserve 73 affordable Worcester apartments

The combined $38 million in financing will be used to renovate and preserve 73 units of affordable housing located in 16 buildings.
Government & Politics

Leominster woman pleads guilty, sentenced to jail for $28K healthcare scheme

Seven months after being indicted for allegedly stealing thousands from elderly individuals throughout Worcester and Middlesex counties, a Leominster woman has pleaded guilty to charges related to larceny, fraud, and witness intimidation.
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🔒Worcester landlord adds two more multifamily properties to growing portfolio

Real estate developer Michael Ermani has added two more properties to his portfolio, with multi-family purchases in Worcester and Grafton. Ermani, founder of Premier Property...
Economy

Mass. nurses union selects new executive director

The Massachusetts Nurses Association, a Canton-based labor union representing nurses throughout Central Massachusetts and the state, has named Joe-Ann Fergus as its new executive director.

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Government & Politics

Healey orders review of utility fees

Gov. Maura Healey ordered utilities regulators Tuesday to start combing through gas and electric bill charges line by line to reduce or remove any that don't provide a benefit to ratepayers as they gird for the winter heating season.
Economy

New law bars homesellers from conditioning accepted offers on inspection waivers

Buyers do not have to conduct an inspection, but they are banned from letting sellers know before an offer is accepted that they intend to waive the home inspection.
Government & Politics

Leominster lawmaker wants to fund extended Fitchburg commuter rail with potential North Central casino

A new proposal on Beacon Hill would fund extended commuter rail services along the Route 2 corridor into north central Massachusetts with revenue from a hypothetical casino.
Real Estate

🔒WBJ landlord seeks to convert Shrewsbury St. building into 44 apartments

The owners of a three-story brick building on Shrewsbury Street are looking to convert the building into a 44-unit apartment complex.
Economy

🔒Ascentria Care Alliance names new chief of strategic business development

Ascentria Care Alliance, one of Central Massachusetts’ largest human services nonprofits, has named a new chief of strategic business development at the Worcester-based organization.
Real Estate

🔒Wormtown Brewery landlord to develop 80-unit affordable housing complex in West Boylston

Worcester-based Branded Realty Group is developing a mixed-use site in West Boylston into a three-building site featuring 80 residential units and retail space, as...
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Should more skyscrapers be built in Central Mass.?

Worcester is home to the three buildings in Central Massachusetts with more than 20 stories, including the 24-story Glass Tower offices, the 21-story office complex Mercantile Center, and the 24-story residential tower The 6Hundred. However, no new skyscrapers have been built in Central Massachusetts in the last 35 years. In Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu has proposed building more residential high rises as a way to create more housing and address the affordability crisis in Eastern Massachusetts.

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Regional News

Blackstone Valley

🔒Blackstone solid waste firm handed injunction amid alleged illegal disposal lawsuit

A Blackstone waste management company and its owners have been hit with a preliminary injunction from the Massachusetts Superior Court.
Central Mass. South

Mass. business owners’ pessimistic view of economy worsened in September

Massachusetts’ business confidence was once again on the decline in September.
MetroWest

🔒Trump Administration cuts $110M in funding for Westborough firm’s Kentucky plant

The funding cuts are the latest obstacle related to the Kentucky project Ascend will need to overcome.
North County

🔒Accessing a vocation: As vocational-technical schools rise in popularity, limited space raises concerns over who gets to attend

For those who are able to grab a seat at the voc-tech table, the schools learned can provide lifetime value, even if students don’t end up spending the rest of their working lives in the field they studied,

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