July 19, 2010 - Worcester Business Journal

Transportation

Chugging Along: P&W Freight Traffic Posts Gains

The past 18 months have been tough for the freight-hauling business, including Providence & Worcester Railroad. ...

Manufacturing

Worcester Firm Greases The Wheels Of Manufacturing | Pobco turned maple trees into industrial innovation

In 1929, an entrepreneur named George Johnson recognized a need among the textile manufacturers of southern New...

Transportation

Grounded | Regional airports struggle for funding, survival

All Fred Guertin is asking for is 500 feet. That’s all he says the runway at...

Education

Briefing: State Colleges

An effort is afoot on Beacon Hill to officially change the name of the six of the...

Hospitality

Ice Cream Empire | Popular family chain comes to Lancaster

When the Kimball family decided to bring its Westford-based chain of souped-up ice cream stands to Lancaster,...

News

Incorporations For May 16 – 31, 2010 (first half)

These Central Massachusetts businesses filed incorporation papers with the Massachusetts Secretary of State's...

Technology

Cisco Makes Boxborough Head For New Division

When cell phone users download data to browse the web or stream video, a separate network from...

Real Estate

Marlborough Fire Hurts Downtown

It wasn’t much to look at. The three-story building on Main Street in the heart of downtown...

Manufacturing

Saint-Gobain Division Changes Hands

If all goes as planned, on July 31, one building in Saint-Gobain’s Greendale Campus in Worcester will...

Banking & Finance

Knowhow: Bankruptcy Alternatives | Advice on what to do if a financial crisis arrives

Chapter 11 bankruptcy is a legal proceeding designed to allow businesses to reorganize and restructure their...

Education

MCAS Tests Hold Bay State Students Back

I would like to offer my sincere congratulations to the graduating Class of 2010 at all of...

Real Estate

Report: Recession Did Little To Make Homes Affordable

If the recession’s impact on the housing market has a silver lining, it could be that homes...

News

Photo Finish From July 19, 2010 Issue Of The WBJ

News

Shop Talk: Q&A With Patty Zillian Eppinger, Ecotarium

Since moving to the Worcester area with her husband Frederick Eppinger — president and CEO of The...

News

Behind The Sound Bite

This issue’s sound bite comes from Greg Bialecki, secretary of the Executive Office of Housing and Economic...

Energy

Biomass Plant Emissions Spark Debate | Central Mass. operators say energy source is clean

Just over one year ago Munksjo Paper Co. in Fitchburg closed its factory and laid off 100...

Technology

Deleting The Dot Com

Who needs a website anyway? I was hoping that I could, through my skills as a...

Real Estate

Editorial: Extended Approval

Hasn’t this economy been tough enough on developers? Financing dried up some time ago for most...

Advice

10 Things I Know About…Language Translation

Wendy Pease is executive director of Rapport International, a Sudbury-based interpretation and translation company. 10....

Technology

Going Mobile | Local firms adapt how they do business to keep pace with smart phone technology

When Kathleen Cooper, a Sturbridge real estate agent with JCKC Realty-Keller Williams, is showing houses to potential...

Advice

101 Staff Retention

As the economy loosens up, employees may be looking to jump ship. And that could spell disaster...

Government & Politics

Much At Stake For Mass. In Census Results

New England has a lot at stake in the 2010 Census, not just in terms of federal...

News

WBJ Talk Back In The July 19, 2010 Issue

“I hope Pulaski will comply with federally mandated Complete Streets Initiative, in that roadway has bike...

Technology

Social Networks Pose Opportunities, Problems | Local firms tread cautiously on sites like Facebook, Twitter

A year ago, Marlborough-based Digital Federal Credit Union struck out into the world of social networking by...

News

Contents Of The July 19, 2010 Issue Of The WBJ

Issue Highlights ...

Energy

Ameresco Hits The Public Markets

What do you get when you combine a company in a fast-growing sector with an initial public...

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