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  • Advice
    Advice

    How to make social media work for you in 2016

    Robert Burgess Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    You probably hear all the time how social media is the key to reaching customers. Yet, how can you translate your efforts online to benefit your organization?

  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    Commit Fitness

    The entire Pagourgis family – down to its pug Sirius Black, who serves as company mascot – is committed to fitness and nutrition.

  • Advice
    Advice

    Ransomware protection

    Michelle Drolet

    10) Backup files every night. If you can access yesterday's files, then there is no need to pay to unlock them today.

  • Shop Talk
    Shop Talk

    Clinton's new CIO merges passion for technology and finance

    Mary T. Dean took over CIO and senior vice president of Clinton Savings Bank earlier this year, heading up the technological operations for the community bank with six branches, two in-school branches and assets totaling $507 million.

  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    Livia's Dish

    Enton and Oriola are first generation immigrants that moved to Worcester from Albania with their families in 1996.

  • Briefing
    Briefing

    Assumption College launches engineering degree

    Sam Bonacci

    Assumption College students will soon be able to get a master's degree in engineering from Washington University in St.

  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    Deane Brothers Broadcasting

    The Deane Brothers worked with the Federal Communications Commission and local investors to open the FM broadcast station WJDF out of a building in downtown Orange in 1995.

  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    Butler-Dearden

    Butler-Dearden has continued a consistent rate of growth despite the influx of new competition from non-traditional sources, such as Amazon and Staples.

  • Manufacturers work together as a success strategy

    Laura Finaldi

    Central Masachusetts' manufacturers are collaborating in a number of different ways to boost the bottom line and improve their businesses.

  • Editorial
    Editorial

    A big stick

    Back in the mid-1990s, when Worcester city officials were undertaking the Medical City Urban Renewal Project that eventually became the St.

  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    Capitol Siding & Home Improvement

    Capitol Siding's signature accomplishments in the last two years is its sales team expansion in order to keep up with customers demands, as well as the addition of a service manager.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    Eversource should cover WRTA cleanup

    Michael O. Moore & Daniel M. Donahue Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    Worcester has blossomed into a bustling Gateway City, home to nationally recognized colleges and universities, corporations, a robust healthcare and biotechnology industry, and significant private and public investment.

  • Page One Story
    Page One Story

    Worcester is eminently serious

    Sam Bonacci

    Worcester officials are anxious to wield their eminent domain power to transform $100 million worth of properties into better use.

  • Advice
    Advice

    101: FAILING WITH FINESSE

    Susan Shalhoub Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    Ready, set, fail! As business leaders, we don't say this much. With risk, comes failure and, with failure, comes growth.

  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    2016 Central Mass. Family Business Awards

    Family businesses are unique to the economic landscape including these nominees for the 2016 Central Mass. Family Business Awards.

  • Incorporations
    Incorporations

    Incorporations

    Gathered are businesses incorporated with the Mass. Secretary of State's Office from Feb. 16-29.

  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    Ballard Truck Center

    In the last two years, Ballard Truck Center increased revenue 24 percent and added leasing to its list of services.

  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    AVATAR Computing

    In addition to government contracts in Massachusetts, Alabama, Texas and California, AVATAR has been steadily growing its technology support services within Worcester.

  • Focus On Family Business Awards
    Focus On Family Business Awards

    Sneakerama

    Athletic shoe and sportswear retailer Sneakerama maintains its hold in a very competitive market dominated by big brand names by offering a very family friendly atmosphere and personal service to each customer.

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Today's Poll

Will the new lottery-based admissions systems for vocational-technical high schools make the economy better?
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Poll Description

Massachusetts is implementing a new lottery admissions system for vocational-technical high schools, starting with the 2026-2027 school year. Proposed by the Healey Administration, the new lottery system is an attempt to expand access to voc-tech schools, giving schools with more applicants than seats the choice of either a weighted lottery, which takes aspects like attendance and discipline records into account, or a non-weighted lottery, which does not take academic performance or discipline issues into consideration.

Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler and supporters of the lottery have defended the change to a lottery system, saying it will make admissions more equitable while the state works to expand access to voc-tech schools. The lottery system has been criticized by business groups and educational leaders, who have said lotteries will water down admission standards and disrupt the pathway of top students into high-demand trades.