Leominster

The Worcester area’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.2% in October from 3.3% in September, while the Leominster-Gardner area also dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 3.5% over the month.

Leominster-based accounting firm Robert C. Alario, CPA, PC, named Christopher Aguilar to partner and changed its name to Alario & Associates, CPA, PC to reflect his promotion. 

Dr. SUBHASH PAUDEL has joined Reliant Medical Group’s department of nephrology.

The Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts distributed $154,000 among 25 area nonprofits for community enrichment projects and operational effectiveness.

Voting for the WBJ’s 2023 Best of Business awards, which seeks to highlight institutions throughout Central Massachusetts based on reader votes, will close this coming Monday, Nov. 14.

The management company that owns 21 Dunkin locations across Central Massachsuetts has agreed to pay more than $145,000 for child labor violations at the locations, resolving more than 1,200 allegations.

The workforce became decentralized, and fewer people went out for a quick lunch.

The September unemployment rates in the Central Massachusetts metropolitan areas surrounding Worcester, Framingham, and Leominster-Gardner all dropped.

Clinton Savings Bank hired former Fidelity Co-operative Bank executive John Peculis as senior vice president, chief lending officer.

The Innovation Institute at Westborough-based MassTech Collaborative has granted $25,000 each to the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce and the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. to develop a strategic plan for a program to help local entrepreneurs.