North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce

Small businesses in the Fitchburg-Leominster area that need loans that banks won't give them will now be able to approach the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce.

When Lisa Wong was elected Fitchburg’s mayor in 2007, the buzz around her was huge. It wasn’t...

Roy M. Nascimento believes a regional approach can pave the way for economic growth in Fitchburg, Leominster...

The head of the chamber of commerce in the New Bedford area will move north and take on the same role at the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce, its board of directors announced Monday morning.

There have been two leadership changes at Central Massachusetts chambers of commerce within the last year, and there's another one coming when David McKeehan, president and CEO of the North Central Massachusetts chamber, retires at the end of the year.

David McKeehan, the only president and CEO in the 30-year-history of the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce, will retire at the end of the year, the Fitchburg-based organization announced today.

As snow's piled up around North Central Massachusetts, some residents have found a good reason to be pleased with winter conditions: power outages have been only a minor inconvenience. That's something many local businesses and residents have not taken for granted since the ice storm that hit the region in December 2008.

Once upon a time, if you wanted to make things in North Central Massachusetts, you built your mill on a river, or dug a canal, and took advantage of a natural power source. Today, some local manufacturers still do something similar, using hydropower, solar or wind power on site, but, for the most part, plants have to buy their electricity off the grid.

For the past three years, it's been hard to get away from questions about gambling in Massachusetts. Headlines have been filled with proposals, disqualifications, public meetings and community votes. Within the next five weeks, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission plans to finally make one firm decision: where to site the state's only slots parlor.

(From Jan. 20 print edition) A recent report that revealed compensation for top-paid nonprofit executives in Massachusetts called attention to the fact that a “nonprofit” designation doesn't mean top officials at those organizations scrape by. Most of those reviewed in the report, released in December, actually make millions of dollars.