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Charlie Carr, legislative liaison for the Disability Policy Consortium and a working group member, said the proposed savings reflect an effort to make limited reductions without undermining the core of the program.

UMass Memorial Health will absorb another hospital, and nine other predictions.

CCC was not placed into receivership, no hospital replaced Nashoba Valley Medical Center, and the results of eight other bold predictions for 2025.

Despite the pessimistic results about 2025, the plurality of respondents see improvement in 2026.

Greater Worcester has finally received its September unemployment rate, after the federal government shutdown left states unsure whether they would receive their monthly unemployment data at all.

The Goldberg Building in Worcester’s Canal District has been sold for $1.6 million to a familiar face in the neighborhood’s business scene.

The expansive 5,000-square-foot collection of arms and armor, featuring pieces from the shuttered Higgins Armory Museum, is now on display in a dedicated gallery space on WAM’s second floor.

More businesses are being started and bought by military veterans, particularly as the wave of post-9/11 service members hit the civilian workforce. Still, veterans in Central Massachusetts are calling for more help.

Home healthcare provider Care Central VNA & Hospice has selected a professor at UMass Chan Medical School’s Springfield campus to serve as the Gardner-based organization’s new hospice medical director.

WBJ will be doing our part in helping to celebrate the Goddard legacy with a special publication coming out in February called INNOVATORS.