In November, Dean J. Mazzarella was elected to his 12th two-year term as Leominster mayor, extending his lead as longest serving mayor in the city's 375-year history. This January, when Medford Mayor Michael J. McGlynn retires, Mazzarella officially will be the longest currently serving mayor in Massachusetts.
Boston Heart Diagnostics, a cardiovascular diagnostics company, is a favorite Framingham success story. Local officials tout it as an example of a small company that's been able to successfully expand its footprint and workforce in town, and they're proud to have liaised with Susan Hertzberg on those efforts.
Very few people could plan to leave a job as head of Worcester's largest publicly traded company and still retain an outsized influence on the region, but such is the pull Frederick H. Eppinger has had on the region since 2003.
Kevin Meehan, owner of a sprawling car dealership in bucolic Mendon, two years ago made a $5-million donation in his family's name to help fund a $54-million expansion at Milford Regional Medical Center, where he served several years as a board member.
If you are looking for the true economic and political power in Central Massachusetts, you should start by walking into the Worcester city manager's office at 8:30 a.m. every Friday.
Fostering a business-friendly atmosphere takes a village, but leading the charge in Marlborough are two key players: Mayor Arthur Vigeant and Susanne Morreale Leeber, president and CEO of the Marlborough Regional Chamber of Commerce.