Professional Services

While corporate profits have surged to near record levels, operators of prominent small businesses in Worcester have not seen the same growth.

Superior Court judge has allowed suspended Cannabis Control Commission Chairwoman Shannon O'Brien's request to block Treasurer Deborah Goldberg from holding a Tuesday afternoon meeting that could lead to O'Brien's firing.

A Superior Court judge will decide Tuesday morning whether a meeting between suspended Cannabis Control Commission Chairwoman Shannon O'Brien and Treasurer Deborah Goldberg scheduled for 1 p.m. Tuesday can go forward as planned. 

Stephen Marohn has been named president of specialty property and casualty for the Hanover Insurance Group in Worcester. He will lead several groups at the insurance company, including excess and surplus business, specialty industrial business, and specialty general liability.

People are on the move at Sundin Marketing, North Brookfield Savings Bank, and Clinton Savings Bank.

Consigli Construction of Milford and BP Third Avenue LLC have been sued by an Acushnet-based plumbing and heating company over allegations of a lack of payment.

The myth that success is achieved solely through hard work and therefore poor people deserve their station in life because they don’t work hard enough is among the economic narratives sustaining racism throughout the economies of Central Massachusetts and the nation, according to the keynote speaker at WBJ’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Forum.

Worcester-based Union Home Health Care Services, an adult foster care company, and its owners have been arrested and arraigned related to an alleged $1.6-million scheme to defraud MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid program. 

A 3.6-acre parcel of land on Route 9 in Northborough that formerly held a miniature golf course has been sold to Belmont Crossing LLC, a Northborough-based corporation.

Unionized janitors and an association of the region’s largest cleaning contractors union agreed to a tentative agreement early Wednesday, avoiding a strike that could have seen 12,500 area cleaners walk off the job.