Worcester

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Worcester Business Journal’s will host its 2025 Central MA Economic Forecast Forum this Tuesday to explore the region’s economic and real estate landscapes by tapping into the minds of key industry leaders.  

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has closed its investigations into Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick and Framingham Union Hospital, probing sparked by undisclosed hospital-related incidents and complaints filed by the Massachusetts Nurses Association labor union.

Kathleen Gagne, executive director of Mechanics Hall in Worcester, will be packing up her desk come June as the event hall’s leader has plans to retire.

IMA celebrated its 100th year of operation last year, having been founded by Harold Fielding in Worcester in 1924. The firm has 45 employees.

Worcester science museum EcoTarium has enhanced its collection of mammal artifacts and sculptures, along with an unspecified monetary donation, from benefactors Peter and Joan Dirlam of Southbridge.

Worcester Community Action Council has named Ruth Pellegrino as the social services nonprofit’s new chief financial officer.

Massachusetts cannabis regulators have sounded the alarm over potentially harmful products sold by two marijuana companies, who are both pushing back against the need for the notice and the state’s haphazard testing system.

Carolyn Jackson, CEO of Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, will resign from her position on Feb. 14.

The parent companies of Worcester-based Cornerstone Bank and Holyoke-based PeoplesBank have officially completed their merger announced in June, forming a $6-billion entity.