Central Mass. South

New workforce data and industry leaders in Central Massachusetts suggest any inkling that people wouldn’t travel or meet at the same rates as they did before COVID appears to be unfounded.

A half dozen craft breweries in Framingham, Marlborough, Worcester, and throughout Central Massachusetts are creating and selling female-driven beers in March in support of Women’s History Month and the nonprofit The Pink Boots Society.

Oxford education firm, Wilson Language Training Corp. has appointed a new CFO, Mario LaRue, and created a new chief people officer position at the company. Ewan McCulloch has been named to that role.

UMass Memorial Health has opened its second UrgentCare Express at Harrington, with the new Southbridge facility joining the Oxford location.

Nichols College in Dudley named Peter Tympanick as the school’s new vice president for business and finance and its chief financial officer, effective March 1, becoming the third Bryant University official to join Nichols since 2021.

To move on from the garage to the real world isn’t as easy as “I have an idea!” In the world, we cherish ideas and people who bring them to life, but what is often lost is to make something, to start a company, to build something new, money is required.

Inside of these downtown Worcester century-old structures, and some contemporary ones, businesses from one of the most cutting-edge industries – technology – have been setting up shop

The Chandler Street location of Bushel ‘N Peck, a longtime sandwich shop in Worcester, was sold to the owner of a Charlton restaurant on Friday. The remaining three Bushel ‘N Peck locations will be unaffected.

In the wake of a scandal, Worcester’s largest brewer needed someone to show it how to be a great company. Kimberly Golinski answered the call.

The landscape for women’s business leadership at the highest level in Central Mass. has taken a hit, but for women professionals in the region, it is yet another motivator to empower one another in traditional and non-traditional ways.