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April 30, 2024
Hologic, a Marlborough-based medical device manufacturer, is expanding its product catalog through the planned $310-million acquisition of Endomagnetics.
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More than 350,000 dropped from MassHealth since April 2023
April 30, 2024On the verge of completing a year-long process to reassess eligibility for every member, the MassHealth public insurance program has now cut more than 350,000 people from its rolls since last April.
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Sponsored articleSecuring Our Future: Perimeter Security Strategies to Combat Rising Theft in Central Massachusetts
April 29, 2024Central Massachusetts businesses are struggling against the rising tide of crime. With a record-breaking inflationary environment already taking a chunk out of their profits, businesses can no longer put perimeter security on the back burner.
April 29, 2024
House rejects amendment to enforce family shelter residency requirements
April 29, 2024House Democrats on Friday defeated a Republican bid to restrict migrants' access to the state's overflowing emergency family shelter system, a day after the Legislature shipped a supplemental budget to Gov. Maura Healey that would impose a new nine-month limit on shelter stays.
April 29, 2024
WPI awarded $1.2M federal grant to study low-carbon iron production
April 29, 2024The grant is part of a federal effort to support technologies with the potential to reduce the country’s emissions by 1% annually.
April 29, 2024
MassDevelopment CEO steps down more than two years before contract end date
April 29, 2024Dan Rivera stepped down from his position as president and CEO of the economic development agency MassDevelopment on Friday, effective immediately, more than two years before his contract was set to expire.
April 29, 2024
Wormtown Brewery sold to Jack’s Abby
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2024 Power 100: Carla McCall
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Senate Dems back wholesale extinction of competitive electric suppliers
April 26, 2024Senate Democrats passed legislation Thursday to crack down on the competitive electric supply market and shield residential consumers from potentially expensive contracts, overcoming opposition from Republicans who offered reform measures for the fraught industry.
April 26, 2024
WBJ Web Partners
EVENT
Life Sciences Forum
The Central Mass Advantage
The Life Sciences Industry has seen incredible growth the last decade, and Massachusetts has become a worldwide leader with continued industry growth and expansion underway.
Courtyard by Marriott, 75 Felton St., Marlborough
Event Details
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2024 Power 100: Kola Akindele
Updated: April 29, 2024Akindele’s job is to nurture relationships with WPI funders, whether private foundations, government organizations, or corporate sponsors, to support research and operations, as well as to strengthen community connections.
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2024 Power 100: David Bagdon
Updated: April 29, 2024As local news outlets are struggling just to stay alive, the Community Advocate excels at the important service of providing Central Mass. communities with the information they need, under the longtime leadership of David Bagdon.
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2024 Power 100: Sam Squailia
Updated: April 29, 2024Sam Squailia was elected as Fitchburg’s 46th mayor in 2023, the third female to hold the position in the North Central city of about 42,000.
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2024 Power 100: Mike Nicholson
Updated: April 29, 2024Nicholson, a Gardner native who is the city’s first Latino mayor, has met the problems of blight and economic depression head on.
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2024 Power 100: Meg Delorier
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2024 Power 100: Eric Batista
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2024 Power 100: Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham
Updated: April 29, 2024Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham gives major Central Massachusetts employers the tools, motivation, and accountability they need to meet the promises they made following the 2020 police murder of George Floyd. She founded Promoting Good as she saw this as an unmet need in her community.
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2024 Power 100: Jessica Pepple
Updated: April 29, 2024RFK Community Alliance’s hire of Jessica Pepple into a newly created top leadership position is a model for how to infuse diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into an organizational culture.
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2024 Power 100: Marlina Duncan
Updated: April 29, 2024With Duncan’s influence, UMass Chan added a diversity, equity, and inclusion pillar to the university’s IMPACT 2025 strategic plan in 2022, picking 10 of the university’s departments to front new action plans.
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2024 Power 100: Brian Gibbs
Updated: April 29, 2024Gibbs joined UMass Memorial as the hospital system’s inaugural vice president and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer in 2020, selected from a nationwide search.
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2024 Power 100: Elizabeth Cruz
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2024 Power 100: Adriana Vaccaro
Updated: April 29, 2024After founding Culture Redesigned in 2018 in Shrewsbury, Adriana Vaccaro is at the forefront of a small, new wave of entrepreneurs and businesses in Central Mass. helping companies fill their job vacancies amid the ongoing workforce shortage while achieving their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.
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2024 Power 100: Danielle Spring and Julie Toupin-Spring
Updated: April 29, 2024Although it is a lesbian bar, Femme is open to everyone and seeks to be a safe space at a time when the LGBTQ+ community is increasingly under fire locally and nationally.
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2024 Power 100: Sam Hendler
Updated: April 29, 2024Sam Hendler sees his influence in the Central Massachusetts business community as providing a critical component of any well-lived life: fun.
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2024 Power 100: Jason Reposa
Updated: April 29, 2024Reposa’s innovation stands out in the increasingly competitive and financially strained Massachusetts cannabis industry, where he is one of the few actively working to help other entrepreneurs succeed in the space.
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