North County

WBJ readers voted for the top 55 companies in categories like Best Bank, Best Nonprofit Fundraiser Event, Best After-Work Bar, and Best Forensic Accountant.

Since 2018, professional men’s or women’s soccer teams have been announced or launched in Boston, Hartford, Pawtucket, and Portland, while New England’s second-largest city has been sitting on the proverbial sidelines.

As the number of job vacancies nationally nears 4 million, Central Mass. businesses push to find and keep workers.

The North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce will provide the Winchendon Community Action Committee with a $216,000 loan to create a new facility known as the Winchendon Works Community Hub.

Heywood Hospital in Gardner will reopen its inpatient mental health unit on Jan. 11, after having closed the facility in October 2021.

The total number of unemployed workers in the Greater Worcester metropolitan area rose slightly in November.

Process Cooling Systems Inc., a Leominster-based provider of manufacturing-related water systems, is the latest Massachusetts company to give their employees a stake in the business that they work for. 

The state’s buzziest industry slowed down this year, although some sectors will do better than others next year.

In December 2022, the WBJ Editorial staff made 10 bold predictions for news events to happen in Central Massachusetts throughout the year. Turns out, we missed the mark on all but two.

Every December for this Economic Forecast special edition, the journalists in the WBJ newsroom forecast 10 possible news events for the coming year, based on their expertise and the trends in the Central Massachusetts business community.