Westborough

EMC has further shrunk its footprint in Central Massachusetts, this time selling a 166,213-square-foot office building for $6.9 million.

Every year starting in October, WBJ asks its readers to vote on the best companies in Central Massachusetts in a variety of categories, ranging from law firms and incubators to golf courses and restaurants.

This directory is a list of business and industrial park throughout Central Mass. including in Devens, Framingham, and Grafton.

Ascend plans on producing up to 3,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate per year at the facility.

The Atlantic Union Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist has purchased a Westborough office building for $6.4 million.

Employees at Assumption University, Fidelity Bank, and Mirick O'Connell are advancing in their careers.

Albrecht Auto Group has purchased a property adjacent to its Westborough dealership.

As leaders, they ably represented two of Central Massachusetts’ longest-running institutions: each intricately tied to Isaiah Thomas. One turned his bequeathed library into the world’s preeminent repository of pre-20th-century print materials in what is now the United States. The other invoked the patriot printer’s name for its annual award to citizens who serve Worcester with distinction.

How do you whittle 35 years of headlining business news down to a couple thousand words and a few pages? You don't. But here, we take our best shot to highlight the companies, individuals, and moments that left a lasting impression.

You can define success in myriad ways: holding your ground; uncompromising ambition; the relentless pursuit of excellence; steady as she goes; staying a step ahead. The one thing shared in common by the most-heralded and well-run companies Worcester Business Journal has chronicled over 35 years is a bit of all these things.