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Unemployment claims filed since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic have increased to 1,036,291 in Mass. 

The Regional Environment Council Community Farmers Market and Mobile Farmers Markets will reopen its sites around Worcester beginning Friday, the organization announced on Tuesday.

It wasn’t long ago CEOs were notably absent from such societal debates. For decades, business heads were advised not to talk about hot-button issues such as religion or politics.

At such a perilous time, the Worcester County business community is hampered by an uncomfortable problem: In the homogeneous world of business leadership in Worcester County, top officials at the area’s largest and best-known institutions are almost entirely white.

The owners behind Hudson eatery Rail Trail Flatbread Co. plan to open a restaurant at 223 Main St. in Milford, in the old Rockland Trust building near the town common, co-owner Karim El-Gamal said on Friday.

This week is marking a major milestone in a return toward normalcy for the Massachusetts economy as major shopping malls reopen.

Shareholders at Framingham retail parent firm TJX Cos., Inc. are requesting executive pay scales be changed to help close a company-wide earnings gap where the top executive makes nearly 1,600 times more than the average workers, according to a proposal published by Trillium Asset Management of Boston. 

Every business reopening will have to follow mandatory safety regulations and industry-specific guidelines for keeping workers and customers safe as the highly-contagious coronavirus continues to circulate.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is fining Home Depot $22,000 for failing to report lead and arsenic-contaminated soil during a 2017 excavation at the hardware store's 130 Gold Star Blvd. location in Worcester, MassDEP announced on Friday.

The struggles of the AMC movie theater corporation do not bode well for the company’s Framingham location, with a statement from the company on Wednesday detailing the financial pressure the coronavirus closures have put on the movie theater company.