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More than four decades after opening their Worcester accounting firm S&G LLP in 1980, Carl Goldstein and Terry Shepherd knew it was time for a change.

Three entrenched Worcester law firms received news of a new challenger arriving from the east in July, when high-profile, Boston-based Prince Lobel Tye announced it would open a Worcester office, convincing about a dozen Bowditch lawyers to join the firm in the process.

An extended leave enables people to find their identities and focus on personal health, something they can not do in shorter chunks of time off, according to a lecturer at Harvard Business School.

For this rural Massachusetts area, the hospital’s closure will mean extended ER wait times at neighboring hospitals already pushing capacity, quadrupled ambulance turnaround times, and ultimately, the potential collapse of a healthcare system already spread thin.

People not reading anything more than just the headline has been a longstanding problem in journalism.

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.