October 12, 2020Edition

WBJ announced its 2020 Manufacturing Excellence Awards on Monday, featuring an array of businesses — and one advocate — who have both collectively and individually helped shape the Central Massachusetts manufacturing industry for the better. 

If diversity and inclusion commitments are to ever go beyond nice statements and small symbolic gestures, the efforts are going to have to get uncomfortable.

In July 2019, Jim Way and his wife, Marilyn, opened one of the few poké restaurants in Central Massachusetts, offering the unique food bowls typically made up of raw fish and fresh vegetables.

At the end of September, the historic Worcester performance venue Mechanics Hall decided it will add the first portraits of Black Americans to its Great Hall gallery, a move falling about 20 years after the first portraits of women were placed on the walls of the 163-year-old facility.

My aspirations were to become a commercial real estate lender, and while some may have said I could never measure up, I knew it was up to me to tell my own story. 

People are on the move at UMass Medical School, Bay State Savings Bank, Greater Worcester Community Foundation and more.

Being Zoomed out is a state most can relate to these days, with COVID-19 still having many of us working remotely. Video calls can get draining and nonproductive if we aren’t careful. Here are some changes you can implement today.

If you have been out to eat since Massachusetts started to allow restaurants to reopen, you might have noticed many of your favorite places in Worcester are different.

When you think of the most established brands in the world, McDonald’s likely comes to mind. And...

Almost 60 million Latinos live in the United States, making up 18% of the population. It’s estimated according to the U.S. Department of Labor one in every three new employees by 2025 will be Latino or of Hispanic heritage.

More than four months have passed since Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd, prompting renewed attention to the Black Lives Matter racial justice movement and impelling companies and communities of all kinds to release statements of solidarity.

For every $1 a man earns in Massachusetts, women earn 83 cents, according to data from the National Women’s Law Center. That disparity is even greater for women of color, with Black women in Massachusetts earning 57.7 cents compared to white men, and Latina women earning 50 cents.

Commercial airline service at the Worcester Regional Airport will cease going into October, as JetBlue has been non-committal as to when it will resume flights to and from Central Massachusetts in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.