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Environment

  • Study calls for improved public transit; touts benefits of reduced driving

    State House News Service November 23, 2015

    Calling for an improved public transportation system that would enable Massachusetts residents cut back on driving, a report out Monday says a 1 percent decrease in the growth rate of driving miles would improve overall quality of life and result in

    State House News Service November 23, 2015
  • Q&A with Geoffrey Dancey, President & Portfolio Manager, Cutler Capital Management

    November 23, 2015

    Geoffrey Dancey first came to work for Melvin Cutler at his investment advisory firm when Dancey was an intern out of Clark University.

    November 23, 2015
  • Clark honored nationally for diverting food waste

    November 20, 2015

    Clark University in Worcester was one of 14 organization honored nationally by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for diverting food waste out of landfills.

    November 20, 2015
  • Environmental secretary Beaton extols value of hunting

    State House News Service November 12, 2015

    Weekend mornings can be rather busy in the Shrewsbury home of Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew Beaton, whose wife recently gave birth to a third child.

    State House News Service November 12, 2015
  • Movers & Shakers

    November 9, 2015

    GLEN MARTIN was promoted at Continental Woodcraft, a millwork subsidiary of BlueHive Strategic Environments of Worcester, to vice president. He was previously manufacturing manager for the company. Martin, who joined BlueHive in 2012, formerly

    November 9, 2015
  • Incorporations from Aug. 1-15, 2015

    November 9, 2015

    These businesses filed incorporation papers with the Massachusetts Secretary of State's Office from Aug. 1-15. Listed below are the corporate name, address, ZIP and president.

    November 9, 2015
  • Guild of St. Agnes gives raises for educational achievements

    John A. Lahtinen November 9, 2015

    The story of the Guild of St. Agnes, a full-service early education and care facility, started back in 1913 with the agency serving just 19 children in a day nursery.

    John A. Lahtinen November 9, 2015
  • The Davis Cos. merges fun with healthy lifestyles

    Livia Gershon November 9, 2015

    Walk into the Marlborough headquarters of the Davis Companies around 4:30 on any given afternoon, and you might find something surprising. Many of the staffing firm's workers will have left their desks and dropped to the ground, bodies stretched out

    Livia Gershon November 9, 2015
  • Front Street developer seeks to improve Worcester's value

    Sam Bonacci November 9, 2015

    When Chip Norton set out to purchase two office towers in downtown Worcester, he knew modernizing the buildings and the adjoining property that includes a portion of a former mall would be key to the equation.

    Sam Bonacci November 9, 2015
  • The end of the nuclear age

    Livia Gershon Special To The Worcester Business Journal November 9, 2015

    As president and CEO of the North Central Chamber of Commerce, Roy M. Nascimento hears a lot from local businesses about the cost of electricity.

    Livia Gershon Special To The Worcester Business Journal November 9, 2015
  • MassDEP fines Wells Fargo Bank $38K over Fitchburg spill

    October 30, 2015

    A home heating oil spill has proved costly for Wells Fargo Bank.

    October 30, 2015
  • Energy Council: Efficiency plan savings to total $8B

    State House News Service October 27, 2015

    A week after being named the most energy efficient state in the country, Massachusetts took an additional step Monday to set ambitious, nation-leading energy efficiency goals for the next three years.

    State House News Service October 27, 2015
  • High-end comes to Worcester's downtown

    Sam Bonacci October 26, 2015

    In one fell swoop, a 168-room hotel has done something that years of development efforts have been striving for: align Worcester's downtown with the words luxury, premiere and high-end.

    Sam Bonacci October 26, 2015
  • 2015 Outstanding Women In Business: Roberta Brien, Worcester Business Development Corp.

    October 26, 2015

    Roberta Brien is vice president of projects for the Worcester Business Development Corp., an organization designed to promote the city as an economic leader in Massachusetts. She started with WBDC as a project manager 11 years ago, bringing to

    October 26, 2015
  • Cascade Drilling acquires TerraTherm of Gardner

    October 20, 2015

    TerraTherm of Gardner has been acquired by Cascade Drilling, a national company with a regional office in Northborough.

    October 20, 2015
  • Reliability, transmission factors in role of hydro power

    State House News Service October 16, 2015

    The planned closure of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth represents "a big step back" in meeting the state's emissions reduction and clean energy goals, and makes it "all the more important" that the Baker administration's hydroelectric and

    State House News Service October 16, 2015

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Today's Poll

As housing prices spike, do you raise your employees' compensation to ensure they can afford to live in Central Mass.?
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In June, the median single-family home price in Worcester County rose by 2.6% to $513,000 while the median home price in Middlesex County climbed by 2.2% to a $905,000. Despite the price increases, the counties saw 10.8% and a 6.2% increases in transactions over the year from June 2024. 

Despite the increase in sales, Massachusetts is experiencing an unhealthy house-price-to-income ratio, with the typical home in Massachusetts costing six times the average annual household income, according to The Boston Globe.