Westborough

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.

After 15 years as chairman of DetecTogether, a Westborough-based nonprofit working to early cancer detection, organization Founder Jim Coghlin is stepping aside from his board position.

The 3.58-acre shopping plaza located at 164 Milk St. was sold by Smart Retail LLC of Framingham to Indira Investments LLC in a deal finalized on Oct. 8, according to Worcester District Registry of Deeds Records.

Shah plans on leveraging his experience in public education and nonprofit work to promote education among business owners.

A new urgent care option has arrived in Central Massachusetts as New Hampshire-based ConvenientMD has opened its second Worcester clinic located at 18 Belmont Ave.

Two adjacent Westborough properties could soon be the home of a self-storage facility and the new headquarters of a building restoration company, following two separate property sales totalling $4.2 million.