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River Styx Brewing opened a taproom and brewery last weekend at 166 Boulder Drive in downtown Fitchburg.

Worcester is the 43rd most educated city in the country, based on how many adults have college degrees and the quality of the city's school system.

The Worcester carpenters union said it has filed an unfair labor practice complaint against a contractor for a downtown apartment project after a carpenter working on the site was allegedly fired for trying to improve conditions for employees at the project.

An animal rights group is calling on UMass Medical School to permanently ban a researcher from working with animals after the school reported violations in an experiment involving rats to the National Institutes of Health.

Jean King, the current vice provost for biomedical research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, has been named the Peterson Family Dean of Arts and Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Nominations are now open for the Worcester Business Journal's annual Outstanding Women in Business Awards.

The chief of police at Becker College is now the president of an international campus law enforcement organization.

A Westborough provider of home accessibility solutions for the elderly has been acquired and will operate from a new office in town.

A new pedicab service, WooRides, has started from an idea from a Worcester Polytechnic Institute student.

The Worcester Railers HC have signed a deal with 98.9 FM NASH ICON for the country-music station to broadcast all of its games this season.