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🔒Hologic to be acquired for $18.3B by Blackstone, TPG

Medical device manufacturer Hologic is going from a publicly traded company to a private business as the Marlborough-based firm is to be acquired for up to $18.3 billion.

🔒Clark receives historic $20M gift from Panera Bread founder to fund reorganization

Clark University has received the largest single gift in the Worcester school’s 138-year history, which the Worcester school will use to fund its restructuring plan announced in June that includes laying off up to 30% of its faculty.

🔒Wood Partners sells Alta on the Row in Worcester for $157M to Morgan Stanley

Alta on the Row, a 370-unit apartment community built in Worcester in 2024, has been sold to...

🔒WPI projects granted $662K through new Mass. AI Hub

Two projects led by Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers have been awarded a combined $661,662 from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.
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🔒Community Legal Aid moves Fitchburg office to meet growing need

In response to growing demand, Worcester-based Community Legal Aid has moved its Fitchburg office to a new location and will soon add an additional attorney specializing in immigration.

🔒Informing a misinformed world: With medical misinformation impeding their ability to deliver care, local providers have become frontline defenders of the truth

Throughout Central Mass., healthcare organizations, nonprofit leaders, and practitioners are working to combat a startling and unsettling rise in medical misinformation and disinformation.

🔒What’s becoming of Chip Norton’s Worcester properties?

Four months after Charles “Chip” Norton filed for personal Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the prominent Worcester properties he was once the face of, as the managing director of Franklin Realty Advisors, have seemingly moved on without him.

🔒Tech support: Community banks are partnering with fintechs to deliver a competitive mobile banking experience while keeping the human touch

In 2012, a WBJ review found less than half of Central Massachusetts banking institutions had a mobile...
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🔒Diversifying business loans: Lenders and entrepreneurs of color are trying to overcome historic biases and practical barriers in commercial lending

Central Massachusetts institutions like Webster Five and St. Mary’s are working to open up the financial system by educating entrepreneurs of color.

🔒Movers & Shakers for Oct. 20, 2025

Employees at ERA Key Realty Services, bankHometown, and Spectrum Health Systems are making advances in their careers.
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