In November, Dean J. Mazzarella was elected to his 12th two-year term as Leominster mayor, extending his lead as longest serving mayor in the city's 375-year history. This January, when Medford Mayor Michael J. McGlynn retires, Mazzarella officially will be the longest currently serving mayor in Massachusetts.
Boston Heart Diagnostics, a cardiovascular diagnostics company, is a favorite Framingham success story. Local officials tout it as an example of a small company that's been able to successfully expand its footprint and workforce in town, and they're proud to have liaised with Susan Hertzberg on those efforts.
Kevin Meehan, owner of a sprawling car dealership in bucolic Mendon, two years ago made a $5-million donation in his family's name to help fund a $54-million expansion at Milford Regional Medical Center, where he served several years as a board member.
As lawmakers and officials seek to crack down on the snowballing opioid crisis that has claimed hundreds of lives in 2015, Spectrum Health Systems President and CEO Charles Faris has been an important voice for the substance abuse treatment industry and the patient.
Laurie Leshin landed on the Worcester business and higher education scene in 2014 when she became the first female president in the 150-year history of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.