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🔒Movers & Shakers for Oct. 20, 2025

Employees at ERA Key Realty Services, bankHometown, and Spectrum Health Systems are making advances in their careers.

🔒What’s becoming of Chip Norton’s Worcester properties?

Four months after Charles “Chip” Norton filed for personal Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the prominent Worcester properties he was once the face of, as the managing director of Franklin Realty Advisors, have seemingly moved on without him.

🔒Diversifying business loans: Lenders and entrepreneurs of color are trying to overcome historic biases and practical barriers in commercial lending

Central Massachusetts institutions like Webster Five and St. Mary’s are working to open up the financial system by educating entrepreneurs of color.

🔒Q&A: Railers try to keep community at center ice

The Worcester Railers are Central Massachusetts' only professional hockey team and the ECHL affiliate of the NHL’s New York Islanders. Playing out of Worcester’s DCU Center and heading into their eighth season, the Railers aim to continue to draw fans by being community focused.
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🔒Tech support: Community banks are partnering with fintechs to deliver a competitive mobile banking experience while keeping the human touch

In 2012, a WBJ review found less than half of Central Massachusetts banking institutions had a mobile...

🔒UMass Chan gets $625K from Department of Defense to start lung disease study

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester could receive up to $18 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to lead a nationwide clinical study to determine if metformin, a drug used to treat high blood sugar and type 2 diabetes, can be used to treat a form of chronic, progressive lung disease.

🔒Report: Mass. among best states for Medicare beneficiaries, despite high rate of ER visits

Massachusetts ranks among the top states where Medicare serves its residents the best, offering some of the best access to primary care providers, yet its beneficiaries experience the second-to-highest preventable hospital admissions rates in the nation.

🔒MassDevelopment, feds provide $38M to preserve 73 affordable Worcester apartments

The combined $38 million in financing will be used to renovate and preserve 73 units of affordable housing located in 16 buildings.
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Mass. nurses union selects new executive director

The Massachusetts Nurses Association, a Canton-based labor union representing nurses throughout Central Massachusetts and the state, has named Joe-Ann Fergus as its new executive director.

Healey orders review of utility fees

Gov. Maura Healey ordered utilities regulators Tuesday to start combing through gas and electric bill charges line by line to reduce or remove any that don't provide a benefit to ratepayers as they gird for the winter heating season.
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Communications & Events Coordinator

Girls Inc. of Worcester
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Worcester, MA
Hourly Rate: $24–$27.88/hr (based on experience)

Quality Engineer II – Columbia Tech

Columbia Tech
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Westborough, MA

Chief Financial Officer

The Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts
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Worcester, MA
$125,000 - $135,000
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