North County

Unemployment rates in Central Massachusetts’ metro areas in July reached their highest points in a year and had steep year-over-year increases.

July brought another month of high home prices to Central Massachusetts.

"Enough is enough," Gov. Maura Healey declared Friday as she announced that all the bankrupt Steward Health Care hospitals still up for sale have new owners lined up and that the state is going to assist in the transitions with financing and, in one case, the use of its property-taking powers.

Each year, these small 40 Under Forty groupings are challenged to top each other to take the best photos, and every year people rise to the occasion.

The nearly 1,000 winners of the 40 Under Forty awards from the last 25 years have gone onto great things, and we catch up with 25 alumni for the 25th anniversary.

This year’s winners were chosen from 398 nominations submitted for 221 professionals in 2023 and 2024.

This special edition is a celebration of everything the 40 Under Forty has meant to the Central Massachusetts business community over the last 25 years, with a heavy focus on the incoming Class of 2024.

A lawyer representing Steward Health Care said in court Friday morning that the company is "close" to signing purchase agreements for at least five of its six for-sale hospital campuses in Massachusetts.

Sendrowski has assumed her new role as executive vice president, chief human resources officer and will serve on the bank’s executive committee. Sendrowski will continue supervising all HR functions, especially in talent strategy, colleague engagement approach, programs, and services.

The Winchendon School, a private day and boarding high school with campuses in Winchendon and New York, has promoted longtime employee Sean Duncan to executive director and head.