Government & Politics

Three Central Massachusetts organizations and institutions have been awarded $2 million in state funds to sponsor their workforce development initiatives aimed at closing the skills gap and placing hundreds of unemployed and underemployed residents into culinary, human, and medical service positions.

Nine of the top 20 highest-paid state employees in Massachusetts are employed by UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester.

A Watertown-based real estate firm has purchased 11 Southbridge-based apartment buildings for a combined $7.95 million. 

Republican Sens. Peter Durant of Spencer and Ryan Fattman of Sutton voted against the bill.

As the number of Asian-owned businesses in Massachusetts have risen by 187% in the past two decades, a new survey shows Asian American & Pacific islander company owners are struggling in the economy, particularly among immigrant-owned businesses, and they are having a harder time finding employees than the average business in the state.

An administrator at Donna Kay Rest Home in Worcester has been indicted on charges related to an alleged scheme to embezzle more than $220,000 from the rest home and its senior residents.

Following a May announcement the aerospace manufacturing company is moving its headquarters to Northeast Cutoff in Worcester, The David Clark Co. has purchased the site.

The City of Worcester has allocated $1.5 million in American Rescue Plan Act dollars to help fund youth employment opportunities.

Anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is on the rise nationally. Despite being known as a leading state for LGBTQ+ rights, that sentiment has trickled down to Massachusetts.

Cautious optimism. These two words are perhaps the most succinct way to summarize how some of the region’s economists and business figures feel about the state of the Central Massachusetts economy.