Sudbury

Manufacturing

🔒Goodnow Farms making a name with high-quality, responsibly-sourced chocolate

Goodnow won eight awards this year by the Academy of Chocolate, and others by the International Chocolate Awards, Good Food Awards and the Northwest Chocolate Festival.

Manufacturing

Methods Machine Tools appoints new president, CEO

Sudbury manufacturer Methods Machine Tools has appointed a new president and CEO to succeed Jerry Rex, who left the company earlier this month.

Retail

Independent bookstores thrive despite market and technology trends

Bookstores are making a comeback across the country, with the New York-based American Booksellers Association seeing a 50% rise in the past decade in the number of its member locations.

Retail

Sudbury chocolatier teams with brewer Trillium

Sudbury chocolate maker Goodnow Farms Chocolate has joined with popular craft brewer Trillium Brewing to make a chocolate stout and a special chocolate bar.

Real Estate

Year ends with Central Mass. home sales down, prices up to $275K

Central Massachusetts ended 2018 with single-family home sales falling for the year and prices rising on a tight inventory.

Government & Politics

UMass Medical School sixth in state in NIH funding

UMass Medical School received $161 million in National Institute of Health funding for research last fiscal year, the sixth highest in Massachusetts.

Arts & Entertainment

Movers & Shakers

Who's on the move in Central Massachusetts?

Government & Politics

Flavored tobacco now banned in Worcester

Worcester has joined a growing list of Massachusetts cities and towns banning the sale of flavored tobacco.

Government & Politics

Sudbury has highest household income in Central Mass.

Sudbury has the highest median household income of any community in Central Massachusetts and the fourth highest in the state at $170,945, according to new Census data.

Hospitality