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🔒Welch to step down from UniBank in June, bank looking for successor

Welch joined UniBank as its CEO in 2019, after 15 years as the headmaster of St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury.
Banking & Finance

🔒Private equity firm with stake in Miami Dolphins buys Franklin warehouse for $32.4M

Two and a half years after selling for $28 million as part of a larger deal, the site of a  152,752-square-foot warehouse in Franklin has been sold again.
Banking & Finance

Ballot questions could add $5M to election costs, as Galvin points finger at legislative inaction as cause for surge in initiatives

Galvin said his office would prefer if some of the questions were resolved by lawmakers due to the administrative challenges posed by the volume of questions. 
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Former cannabis commissioner promoted at AIM

Camargo joined the Cannabis Control Commission in 2021.
Health Care

🔒Milford Regional Physician Group joins UMass Memorial Health

With the incorporation, Milford Regional Physician Group brings its 135 physicians, 113 advanced practice providers, and 386 staff members to UMass Memorial Medical Group.
Energy

Maplegate Country Club in Franklin sold for $24.8M, new owner will convert it to 30-MW solar field

Maplegate Country Club, a golf course located in Franklin and Bellingham, has been sold for $24.84 million to NextGrid, a California-based private solar energy...
Energy

🔒Commonwealth Fusion teams with world’s most valuable company to use AI to advance fusion tech

CFS says the use of this digital twin will help accelerate its efforts to commercialize fusion energy, the same source of energy powering the sun. 
Real Estate

🔒Long-dormant Spag’s warehouse planned to be part of major Shrewsbury development

A former warehouse utilized by defunct discount department store Spag’s makes up part of a large Shrewsbury site proposed for major redevelopment.  Spagtacular LLC, an...
Government & Politics

🔒Developer plans 197 apartments near Polar Park on Madison Properties’ land

The project falls inside Worcester’s district improvement financing area around Polar Park.

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Arts & Entertainment

Fallon Health extends corporate sponsorship of WooSox

Seven years after the Worcester Red Sox secured Fallon Health as a founding sponsor in September 2018, the baseball team has signed a three-year partnership extension with the Worcester-based healthcare insurer.
Banking & Finance

🔒Cornerstone Bank completes $2.4B merger with Athol Savings

Cornerstone Bank and Athol Savings Bank signed off in 2025 by finalizing their anticipated merger, with the latter officially becoming a division of the Worcester-based institution, effective Dec. 31.
Nonprofits

After more than two centuries of ownership, West Boylston church sold for $1.2M

The site used for worship since the 1790s will continue to be used as a church under its new ownership.
Government & Politics

🔒DPH finds Saint Vincent back in compliance following staffing investigation

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has deemed Saint Vincent Hospital back in compliance with staffing requirements, after an investigation found the Worcester hospital failed to maintain a mandatory nurse-to-patient ratio for an organ-donating patient back in April.
Banking & Finance

🔒Braintree firm buys 114-unit housing complex in Ayer for $32M, working with tenants to preserve housing at site as affordable

A New Hampshire-based firm wanted to redevelop the site, but residents pushed back.
News

Working group targets meal prep, overtime for cuts from $1.7B personal care attendant program

Charlie Carr, legislative liaison for the Disability Policy Consortium and a working group member, said the proposed savings reflect an effort to make limited reductions without undermining the core of the program.
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Blackstone Valley

🔒WBJ’s 10 bold predictions for 2026

UMass Memorial Health will absorb another hospital, and nine other predictions.
Central Mass. South

🔒Spencer townhouses sold for $4M to Vermont firm

An 18-unit, townhouse-style apartment property in Spencer has been purchased by a Vermont-based firm for $4.03 million. The property, located at 0 Townhouse Court off...
MetroWest

🔒How did WBJ do with its bold predictions for 2025?

CCC was not placed into receivership, no hospital replaced Nashoba Valley Medical Center, and the results of eight other bold predictions for 2025.
North County

🔒EcoForecast survey: For first time since 2020, WBJ readers say the economy is in worse condition than a year ago

Despite the pessimistic results about 2025, the plurality of respondents see improvement in 2026.

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