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WBJ has detailed the gender disparity in Central Mass. business leadership through The Boardroom Gap series. This issue's final part shows how the disparity can be decreased.

The brain is an amazing thing. It fills in blanks for things we can't see, hear, or sometimes even understand.

The accomplishments of this year's five Business Leaders of the Year and three WBJ Hall of Fame inductees are awe-inspiring and humbling.

Last year's withdrawal of an $800,000 annual subsidy to Lancaster's Atlantic Union College from one of its major funding sources appears to have been the death knell for the struggling Seventh-day Adventist School. While the closure is stunning in many ways, it's hardly a surprise.

The Worcester Business Journal examined of the gender makeup of the 1,527 senior executives and board members at 75 prominent Central Massachusetts business organizations.

A Dave & Buster's entertainment complex is slated to move into the upper floor of the Sears department store at the Natick Mall, which would be its first Central Massachusetts location.

The EcoTarium will begin construction in April on a new $3-million mountain lion exhibit where the Worcester children's and natural history museum once had a polar bear exhibit.

Ed Hyder grew up working in his family's market on Hamilton Street on Worcester's east side, so it was natural at 25 years old, he went into the business himself.

A Nichols College administrator and assistant football coach were present in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. when a gunman opened fire and killed at least 17 people on Wednesday. Both Nichols officials are unharmed.

A group of nearly 150 current and former students, faculty and staff wrote a letter to College of the Holy Cross President Philip Boroughs and the Board of Trustees urging them to reconsider the decision to keep the Crusader name.