Nearly a year after a Harrington Hospital nurse was stabbed, Harrington and UMass Memorial Medical Center are among the few hospitals in the state to have shored up security.
New York-based Advance Local is growing its presence in Central Massachusetts. The company is set to open an office for its MassLive Media division near the Worcester Common this month.
The Massachusetts economy is continuing to strengthen. Since the state budget covers two years, now is the time to take a reasonable portion of that prosperity and feed it back into the local economy via sales tax relief.
Family businesses likely don't see themselves as dictatorships, but to be multi-generational businesses, they've survived by adapting and looking ahead instead of how things have been done in previous generations.
Two decades have passed since Digital Equipment Corp. occupied a 58-acre site in Maynard just a mile south of town center. More than half of that time has been spent trying to redevelop the property.