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  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: John T. Pitcavage

    In the last five years, Pitcavage has grown solar installer Endless Energy from 10 to 50 employees while serving Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Jay Merrill

    When Merrill received his certified investment management analyst designation from Wharton in 2012, he was one of the youngest holders of the title in the nation.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Michelle L. Cote, Esq.

    Four years after joining Ravosa, Cote now manages the firm's Worcester office, growing practice areas of civil litigation, personal injury law and foreclosure prevention.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Kevin G. Johnson

    Johnson joined O'Connor, looking to continue its legacy of professional excellence and community involvement, while strategizing clients tax, auditing and accounting needs and requirements.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Ryan A. Wagner

    Wagner is known as a helper and a fixer, attracted to challenges and happiest when solving complex issues.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Jody Staruk

    After graduating WPI in 2003, Staruk joined Consigli as project engineer and, after two productive years, was promoted to project manager before achieving senior project manager status for her leaderships on projects large and small.

  • The Rainmaker
    The Rainmaker

    Three basics for a gig entrepreneur

    Ken Cook

    Successful gig entrepreneurs usually have three things in common: clarity of concept and execution, value people pay for, and focus on relationships.

  • Incorporations
    Incorporations

    Incorporations

    These businesses incorporated with the Massachusetts Secretary of State's Office from June 16-30.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Lindiana Semidei

    Semidei is a dancer, choreographer and director for Raices, with experience such as co-founding Hispania Dance Co. and working with local programs like Worcester State University Latino Education Institute's Isla Theater.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Patrick T. Royce

    Royce joined UniBank in 2015, after serving in financial roles at other institutions for nine years, including small business development and retail branch management before transitioning into commercial lending.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Jamie Salois

    Salois joined Atlas six years ago after working at Morgan Stanley in New York City and Eaton Vance Management in Boston, returning to work with his father, Joe Salois, Atlas president and owner.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Keith Reardon

    Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs, Reardon co-founded Commonwealth in 2010 with Brian Pelczarski, transforming the firm from credit and debit processing to assisting with accounts receivable for clients ranging from entrepreneurs to multinationals, opening offices in New York, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Joy Rachelle Murrieta

    Six years ago, Murrieta and a group of artists wanted to pool talents and passion for mentoring youth, launching free youth arts program Main IDEA.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Greta Bajrami Campoverde

    Bajrami Campoverde founded Golden Group in 2011 while still attending WSU, seeing a need for a roofing firm to focus on concierge customer service – using the hospitality lessons she learned while working at her family's restaurant since age 14.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Heather Mangione

    Brooklyn born-and-raised, Worcester became home to Mangione after she went to Clark University to receive her doctorate in developmental psychology and settled roots in the city, particularly in the LGBTQ community, co-founding the organization Airspray throwing queer dance parties at Electric Haze monthly with 200+ people in attendance.

  • Shop Talk
    Shop Talk

    Southbridge hotel is moving on from its military days

    Steve Gardiner took over management of the Southbridge Hotel & Conference Center one year ago this August.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Brendan Aylward

    Shortly after turning 23, Aylward opened his inclusive fitness facility, the byproduct of thousands of hours spent with the Special Olympics, Best Buddies and working in disability services.

  • Advice
    Advice

    10 Things I know about closing digital security gaps

    Michelle Drolet

    Delete accounts associated with former employees or temporary contractors; you may prefer to disable access, rather than delete accounts.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: The Judges

    Jeannie Hebert, Kola A. Akindele, Derek Beahn, Catheryn McEvoy-Zdonczyk and Julie Crowley

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Francisco Torres

    Torres works on issues ranging from transportation to small business growth, introducing programs like Shop Westborough and Downtown Beautification.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Kathryn Behan

    Behan is responsible for developing strategic planning for servicing UMass Memorial's relationships with Central Massachusetts community hospitals, working closely with the UMass chief physician executive.

  • Advice
    Advice

    Transition your small business in retirement

    Julianne Dahrooge

    Select and develop a successor.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Justin Dufresne

    Since taking over VHB's civil engineering and land development team three years ago, Dufresne has doubled its size, due to his prowess and increased activity in Worcester's market.

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    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Julianne Dahrooge

    In 2007, Dahrooge started her practice to bring compassion and understanding to financial planning, and co-founded Chan & Dahrooge in 2014 to help clients prepare for retirement and protect family and business assets.

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    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Kevin Peterssen

    Peterssen began his career in public accounting, obtaining his certified public accountant license and master in business administration.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    Aubuchon Hardware embraces change on a stormy retail landscape

    William Aubuchon, Iv

    Retail is hard. The landscape is challenging. Clinging to the status quo deals dire consequences. At Aubuchon Hardware, we value a 109-year family commitment to customer service, resilience and innovation.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Patrick J. DiGregorio

    DiGregorio started serving area veterans and their families nine years ago, first as residential advisor at the nonprofit's headquarters on Grove Street, helping the men who live there with day-to-day activities.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Julia Randall, M.D.

    Over the past four years, Randall practiced as an attending family physician with a special interest in caring for patients with substance-abuse disorders.

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    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Dr. Milka Njoroge, PharmD.

    Njoroge co-founded home healthcare provider Century in 2012.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Courtney Ross Escobar

    Escobar moved from Boston to Worcester in 2013 to found law firm, Ross Escobar Group, to make legal protections more accessible for small businesses and startups.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Meghan E. Montaner

    Montaner was the second employee ever hired by The Hanover Theatre and assisted with the $32-million campaign to open the facility.

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    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Edward Murphy

    Murphy's interest in business first came working after school for his father's fire truck repair firm.

  • Psychiatry practice building $4.3M facility in Worcester

    Grant Welker

    Unable to find the new space he needed for his growing mental health practice, Amjad Bahnassi decided to build his own $4.3 million facility on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Abel Travis

    Since joining Hanover, Travis designed product architecture to improve speed to market for the firm's broadening products by more than 50 percent, also providing leadership to successful new product launches, including modernization of the business owners and life sciences products.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Elizabeth Tripp

    Tripp joined Hanover's specialty division six years ago, as it has grown to a $800-million business through organic growth and mergers and acquisitions.

  • Boxborough residents fighting a rising tide

    Grant Welker

    As housing demand rises for their community, Boxborough residents are fighting new developments, even though they have little choice in the matter.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Andrew B. Palumbo

    After achieving all-time highs in student enrollment and revenue at Plymouth State and The Sage Colleges, Palumbo joined WPI in 2015 and since new underrepresented minority student enrollment reached an all-time high while the rate of women in class jumped from its previous record of 34 percent to 43 percent.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Ashleigh C. Gelinas, Esq.

    After graduating cum laude from law school in 2008, Gelinas joined Gelinas & Ward, specializing in estate planning, probate and trust administration, and elder law.

  • Advice
    Advice

    101: Strategic networking

    Susan Shalhoub

    Hopefully your organization recognizes networking as an important part of relationship-building, whether with clients, prospects or partners.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Giselle Rivera-Flores

    Winner of the StartUp Worcester award, Rivera-Flores quit the corporate world in 2015 to start her own businesses: The Learning Hub, offering low-cost tutoring and free classes in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) to K-6 stude

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Neil Callahan

    Since being promoted to project executive in 2013, Callahan ensured completion of $50 million in new construction throughout New England.

  • Page One Story
    Page One Story

    WBJ announces 40 Under Forty for 2017

    Meet the Class of 2017 boosting the Central Massachusetts economy and community.

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    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Jim Notaro

    Notaro is on a mission to supercharge the bank's deposit operations by enabling a world-class team with technology and process improvements.

  • Craft brewing booming in Central Mass. amid sustainability concerns

    Zachary Comeau

    Despite the congenial attitude among Central Mass. breweries, the statewide industry association is worried growth may become unsustainable.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Alexis G. Vallejos

    Vallejos came to the U.S. 13 years ago after graduating from medical school to pursue the American dream, despite English being his second language.

  • Editorial
    Editorial

    eClinicalWorks, MCPHS must lead through choppy seas

    Leaders of any stripe can navigate through times of steady growth, but managing a crisis from the top separates the great leaders.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Robert Fecteau

    BirchTree's foundations were laid when Fecteau started selling his bread out of the back of wife Avra Hoffman's Subaru, and then moving onto farmers' markets.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: David Viens

    Viens completed a judicial clerkship with Massachusetts Superior Court before entering private practice, relocating to Worcester County in 2010 to join Bowditch.

  • Focus On 40 Under Forty
    Focus On 40 Under Forty

    40 Under Forty: Hilary Gardner

    In the last 11 years, Gardner has ascended the ladder at Davis, first as manufacturing recruiter, then senior recruiter and recruiting supervisor, creating an employee training plan.

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Today's Poll

Should Mass. officials be allowed to force local communities to zone for multifamily housing?
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Poll Description

On March 19, a judge ruled the showdown between the Massachusetts attorney general and the Town of Milton will go before the full Supreme Judicial Court in October. The dispute is over the MBTA Communities Act, which requires cities and towns near T service to adopt zoning allowing multifamily housing by right in certain areas. Some Massachusetts local governments, including Holden, have pushed back against the requirement, saying such zoning doesn't fit in their communities. 

Gov. Maura Healey and Attorney General Andrea Campbell have cracked down on non-compliant communities with lawsuits and by reducing state funding, as part of a larger effort to address the statewide affordable housing crisis. The MBTA Communities Act is one of a handful of laws designed to increase housing construction by having at least one zoning district of reasonable size where multifamily housing is permitted.