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Unemployment 30% or higher in some Worcester, Fitchburg neighborhoods

The recession has erased roughly 24 years of job growth in the Worcester area. Some neighborhoods, particularly in Worcester and Fitchburg have been hit especially hard, with unemployment rates estimated at 30% or more.

Central Mass. hospitals ran $95M in the red as pandemic was starting

Hospitals across Massachusetts showed significant financial losses in the first quarter of the year, capturing a time mostly before the coronavirus pandemic hit in full force, according to new state data released Thursday.

Athol marijuana facility sells for nearly $27M

A San Diego real estate investment trust serving the cannabis industry has bought a sprawling Athol pot-growing facility at the former site of the Union Twist Drill Co. for nearly $27 million.

🔒Dire predictions on hospital bed shortages force Central Mass. officials to look at alternatives

Central Massachusetts is projected to have among the biggest shortfalls in the number of available beds in the country, virtually no matter how hard the coronavirus pandemic hits.
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Movers & Shakers for Feb. 17, 2020

Check out the latest Central Massachusetts professionals getting hired and promoted.

🔒The Boardroom Gap III: Mass. legislators eye laws requiring women on public company boards

One bill filed last year by Sen. Jason Lewis (D-Winchester), would require any public company headquartered in Mass. to have at least one female board member by the end of 2021.

🔒The Boardroom Gap III: Central Mass. has regressed in the percent of women in business leadership

A 2019 WBJ investigation into the gender breakdown of the leadership at 75 Central Massachusetts prominent business organizations found 35% were women, an increase from 33% in 2018. This year, the percentage went backward.

Verc Enterprises opens gas stations in Athol, Bellingham

A Duxbury-based convenience store and gas station operator, has opened two locations in Central Massachusetts. A 5,000-square-foot station has opened in Athol and a Citgo station in Bellingham has been replaced with a Shell station.
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Scituate couple buys Quabbin Valley Healthcare property in Athol for $10M

The Athol property on which the Quabbin Valley Healthcare nursing home sits has sold for $10 million.

🔒Marijuana subpoenas cause a stir among Central Mass. communities

When they looked in their email a few weeks ago and found subpoenas from U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling's office looking into their relationships with marijuana businesses, leaders in communities across Central Massachusetts, and the rest of the state, were surprised.
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