June 8, 2015Edition

News

Merging business with blood

Last year, when we were honoring six family-run businesses in Central Massachusetts, a summer-long family drama focused...
Small Business

2015 Central Mass Family Business Awards – Fuller Automotive

Fuller Automotive of Auburn knows cars. Now in its fourth generation, the company has been around for...
News

Marijuana for all? Let voters’ decision count

Three years ago, Massachusetts voters approved the medical use of marijuana via a binding ballot referendum. Now with two states having made recreational pot legal and others leaning that way, should voters here ultimately decide that too? Most of last week's Flash Poll voters said it should.
News

Insurers feeling the heat of health care reform

This year, all four big health insurance companies covering Central Massachusetts referred to the landmark federal health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, in explaining why they lost money in the first quarter.
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News

Q&A with Bob Fields, President and Founder, CommCreative

In the 1980s, after several years in marketing roles for top consumer brands, Bob Fields formed CommCreative, a “unified” marketing agency where clients can get help with the different components of marketing. CommCreative's clients include Fortune 500 companies and regional brands in health care, finance, high tech and service industries.
Transportation

2015 Central Mass Family Business Awards – Knight’s Airport Limousine

With more than a half-dozen brothers, uncles, nephews and moms working together regularly, Knight's Airport Limousine Service...
Arts & Entertainment

2015 Central Mass Family Business Awards – Worcester Fitness

The sizes of their sneakers have changed, but Andrea Shliapa and Timothy MacDonald have put their footsteps...
News

Selling and buying don’t have to be opposing forces

Selling and buying sound sound similar, and ideally are. They're interdependent, yet they manifest themselves in different ways, and somehow they usually end up being contentious.
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News

Accolades & Honors

Milford Regional Medical Center received International Board Certified Lactation Consultant Care Award from the International Board of...
Real Estate

Real Deals: June 8, 2015

Real Deals highlights recent commercial property transactions in Central Massachusetts. This week's deal: The former Evergreen Solar building in Devens.
News

Photo Finish

Of NoteMarlborough Regional Chamber of Commerce awarded five $1,000 scholarships to graduating seniors. The $5,000 is raised...
Transportation

Readers endorse fiscal control board for the T

Will a fiscal control board help rein in MBTA spending? Most respondents to our poll for the week of May 25 said “yes.”
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Government & Politics

Tech advocate Spilka sits in unique vantage point in Senate

In 2012, without much fanfare, the state passed a new tax on software. But when it took...
Government & Politics

A lift for democracy in Worcester

We see it every year: veteran public officials running unopposed for re-election, which can mean one of...
News

The changing culture of corporate philanthropy

Businesses are inextricably linked with the charitable organizations in their backyards, with a small chunk of profits probably going to local charities. But changes in employees' attitudes may also be changing that model.
Startups

Becker effort represents boost for ‘good’ business

In some circles big business has taken it on the chin for the widening income disparity between...
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Government & Politics

MBTA money must help transit system move forward

Everybody, it seems, has an opinion about what's wrong with the MBTA and how to fix it.But...
Health Care

2015 Central Mass Family Business Awards – AdCare Hospital

Before heroin addiction in New England became the subject of incessant media coverage, before David W. Hillis...
Advice

10 Things I Know About … Shifting your perspective

10. Embrace change. It's a whole lot better than fighting it.9. Sometimes you have to let go....
News

Fresh Beginnings

Marlboro Animal Hospital at 441 Lakeside Ave. in Marlborough, has celebrated its grand opening after a reconstruction...
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Manufacturing

Drones taking flight in Central Mass. businesses

As Maribeth McCauley Lynch walked the property of one of her latest listings in Westborough, the Realtor looked up to see a hawk floating above the rolling four-acre site, envying the bird's view. That perspective, she concluded, could help sell the property.
News

Incorporations

A list of Central Massachusetts businesses filed incorporation papers with the Massachusetts Secretary of State's Office from March 1-15, 2015.
Economy

Briefing: Work and wellness

Companies are increasingly connecting and personal wellness, as many employers are taking an active role in encouraging better health and more happiness for their employees.
Manufacturing

2015 Central Mass Family Business Awards – Aimtek Inc.

Over the 42 years Aimtek Inc. has been in business, only one facet of the business has...
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Advice

5 business cliches you should ‘throw under the bus’

If you're lazy, never have an original thought and don't want anyone to read what you write, clichés are for you. But the rest of us should avoid using them.
Advice

101: Earning trust

There's no quick fix when it comes to trust within your office or team, or among colleagues....
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