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Arts & Entertainment

🔒From France to Philadelphia to Tom Brady: Historic fountain brought back to life at Beechwood Hotel

A cast iron fountain from the 1800s has taken a long journey of restoration to now be installed and displayed at Beechwood Hotel in Worcester. In early 2019, Dr. Charles Birbara – who co-owns the Beechwood with his wife Janet Birbara – purchased the remains of the fountain with the...
Arts & Entertainment

🔒Polar Park fund shortfall expected to exceed $2M by end of fiscal year

The letter said the shortfall was caused by the postponement of construction in the district, which Batista said was the result of an unpredictable market, high construction costs, and high interest rates.
Health Care

New CEO to lead Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation

Kaitlyn Kenney Walsh will assume her leading roles as president and CEO of the BCBSMA Foundation come Jan. 1.
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Real Estate

🔒September brings more home sales to Central Massachusetts

Cassidy Norton, associate publisher and media relations director of The Warren Group, said September’s data represents an ongoing shift in the market.
Nonprofits

Esler Family Foundation adds $100K matching donation to United Way’s emergency fund

The United Way of Central Massachusetts’ efforts to establish an emergency fund for the region’s nonprofits have been boosted through an additional $100,000 matching donation from a charity founded by a Sutton couple.
Banking & Finance

🔒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.
Education

🔒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.
Real Estate

🔒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 a Boston-based investment group for $157 million. An...
Education

🔒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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Education

Fitchburg State picks Georgia State administrator as new CFO

Fitchburg State University has named Travis Chambers, a former assistant dean at Georgia State University, as its new CFO, starting Dec. 1.
Diversity & Inclusion

🔒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.
Opinion

From the Editor: Defenders of the truth

The internet democratized information gathering and information sharing. Traditional gatekeepers and barriers began to erode, and eventually anybody could share any information with anybody.
Diversity & Inclusion

🔒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.
Real Estate

🔒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.
Banking & Finance

🔒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 banking app. Today, you’d be hard pressed to...
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Should more skyscrapers be built in Central Mass.?

Worcester is home to the three buildings in Central Massachusetts with more than 20 stories, including the 24-story Glass Tower offices, the 21-story office complex Mercantile Center, and the 24-story residential tower The 6Hundred. However, no new skyscrapers have been built in Central Massachusetts in the last 35 years. In Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu has proposed building more residential high rises as a way to create more housing and address the affordability crisis in Eastern Massachusetts.

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Blackstone Valley

🔒Movers & Shakers for Oct. 20, 2025

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

Mass. business owners’ pessimistic view of economy worsened in September

Massachusetts’ business confidence was once again on the decline in September.
MetroWest

A Thousand Words: Trump’s $110M cut to Westborough firm

The President Donald Trump Administration cut $110.2 million in U.S. Department of Energy funding to Westborough-based Ascend Elements' plans for an electric vehicle battery recycling facility in Kentucky. Still, Ascend announced in October that it plans to move forward with the project despite the federal cuts.
North County

🔒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.

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