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State Rep. pushes to repeal colonial-era law, instate earlier alcohol sales on Sundays
August 26, 2025A colonial-era law prevents alcohol sales any earlier than 10 a.m. on Sundays. In "A Beautiful Brunch Act," or the ABBA Bill, Rep. Adam Scanlon is trying to change that.
August 26, 2025
Mass. could run out of nursing home beds in four years
August 26, 2025Massachusetts nursing homes might run out of bed capacity years earlier than a task force recently forecast, according to a former budget chief of the secretariat focused on caring for older Bay Staters.
August 26, 2025
Realterm buys Milford trucking facility for $6M
August 25, 2025The site is leased to Ryder and PLM Fleet.
August 25, 2025
United Way of Central Mass. establishes emergency response fund to support families amid federal cuts, financial strains
August 25, 2025The United Response Fund is intended to serve as a rapid response model, funding organizations supporting the nonprofit’s four impact pillars.
August 25, 2025
Mass. gas prices holding steady, down from last year
August 25, 2025Drivers in Massachusetts this summer have experienced an extended run of stable gas prices.
August 25, 2025
State’s West-East rail project, connecting Worcester with more frequent service to Springfield and Albany, receives $3.5M from federal government
August 25, 2025The funding will be used to develop a service development plan examining the feasibility of a Boston-to-Albany intercity passenger rail route.
August 25, 2025
BJ's Wholesale Club member count grows to 8 million
August 25, 2025Income from its membership fees, which were raised in January for the first time in seven years, grew 9% year-over-year to $123.3 million.
August 25, 2025
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2024 Power 100: Meg Delorier
Updated: April 29, 2024Delorier stepped in as the head of Devens for state-backed lender and developer MassDevelopment in September 2022 applying years of military base management and economic development to act as the interim point-of-contact for the 4,400-acre mixed-use development community.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Eric Batista
Updated: April 29, 2024Eric Batista says managing the second-largest city in New England and its $848 million budget is like managing a busy household.
Updated: April 29, 2024
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.
Updated: April 29, 2024
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.
Updated: April 29, 2024
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.
Updated: April 29, 2024
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.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Elizabeth Cruz
Updated: April 29, 2024Cruz founded LABO in 2013 driven by a passion for community empowerment.
Updated: April 29, 2024
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.
Updated: April 29, 2024
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.
Updated: April 29, 2024
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.
Updated: April 29, 2024
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.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Vincent Hemmeter
Updated: April 29, 2024Vincent Hemmeter is part of the vanguard of the informal movement to keep Worcester weird.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Allie Catlin
Updated: April 29, 2024Running a small dairy farm and creamery was something Allie Catlin and her co-owners had to learn, but seven years in, they seem to have the right idea.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Dani Babineau
Updated: April 29, 2024Redemption Rock is known for brewing beer, but Dani Babineau has been hard at work brewing a sense of community and kinship in Worcester’s small business community.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Caroline Frankel
Updated: April 29, 2024Caroline Frankel has been breaking down barriers in the legal Massachusetts cannabis industry since its beginning, and her latest breakthrough will make it easier for entrepreneurs and small businesses to find a foothold in an industry.
Updated: April 29, 2024
Book of Lists 2024
Worcester Business Journal's annual Book of Lists is filled cover-to-cover with pure market intelligence on significant businesses and players in the Central Massachusetts economy and community. The 45 lists in this 2024 edition highlight the top companies and professionals in sectors including banking & finance, real estate, manufacturing, health care, education, nonprofits, hospitality, and professionals services. This year's edition even includes three lists never previously published.
