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MassHire Central receives $225K grant to train truck drivers
August 18, 2020The MassHire Central Region Workforce Board has received a $225,000 grant to help provide commercial driver’s license training and placement services for 45 unemployed or underemployed workers, the agency announced on Friday.
August 18, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Alex Guardiola
Updated: August 17, 2020As a nearly lifelong resident of Worcester, Guardiola utilizes his law degree and experience to help the Worcester community.
Updated: August 17, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Bryan Sawyer
Updated: August 17, 2020During the last recession in 2009, Bryan Sawyer became the general manager of his family's Bull Run Restaurant and embarked on its rebuilding, survival, and upgrade.
Updated: August 17, 2020
Despite federal mandate, minority-owned businesses were not prioritized for PPP loans
Updated: August 17, 2020Chizoma Nosike wouldn’t have known it a year ago, but a federal business loan may be the reason her company, Acclaim Home Health Care in Worcester, is still in operation.
Updated: August 17, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Kelsey Lamoureux
Updated: August 17, 2020When the coronavirus hit Worcester, Lamoureux and her family joined Worcester Stitchers for Health and have sewn 1,000 cloth face masks to give to health and community organizations.
Updated: August 17, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Karim El-Gamal
Updated: August 17, 2020Hudson has become a star of MetroWest thanks to a stretch of Main Street featuring a few notable destinations opened in the last decade, including El-Gamal’s Rail Trail Flatbread Co.
Updated: August 17, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Michael Matros
Updated: August 17, 2020After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Michael Matros joined the fire department, fell in love with fire service, and has committed his life to it ever since.
Updated: August 17, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Nicholas S. Lynch
Updated: August 17, 2020At Webster Five, Lynch might seem to have a by-the-numbers type job, maybe buried in paperwork. He sees it as being trusted with a role in one of the most important decisions in someone’s life: buying a home.
Updated: August 17, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Lora Markova
Updated: August 17, 2020Lora Markova has been many things: a magazine editor, television news reporter, marketing director and, most recently, founder of Earth & Aerial Yoga in Hudson.
Updated: August 17, 2020
Eviction records could be sealed under Judiciary Committee bill
August 14, 2020Tenants who faced evictions in the past could petition to have those court records sealed under a bill advancing through the Legislature.
August 14, 2020
Guidance clarifies allowable R.I. trips without quarantine
August 14, 2020After Gov. Charlie Baker's latest travel restrictions prompted questions about what was permissible for residents who live along the Rhode Island border, the state has published updated guidance that includes exemptions for activities like grocery
August 14, 2020-
Trump orders shake up debate over stimulus
August 11, 2020With Congressional talks hung up and the nation struggling through the COVID-19 crisis, Trump on Saturday signed executive orders dealing with protections for renters, payroll taxes, college loans and enhanced unemployment benefits that he said
August 11, 2020 
Central Mass. housing authorities secure $2M to keep residents in place
August 11, 2020Housing authorities in Central Massachusetts, which are charged with overseeing affordable housing, have taken in nearly $2 million in federal funds to help lower-income residents stay in their homes despite the economic upheaval related to the
August 11, 2020
Mass. halts economic reopening indefinitely, lowers gathering size from 100 to 50
August 7, 2020The second part of the Phase Three of the Massachusetts economic reopening plan has been suspended indefinitely, Gov. Charlie Baker announced on Friday, along with a slew of other changes intended to stop the spread of COVID-19, as cases and related
August 7, 2020-
Biz, gatherings could be squeezed in COVID-19 response
August 5, 2020Gov. Charlie Baker threatened Tuesday that he may cut the allowable gathering size below its current limit or revive restrictions on businesses if a slight jump in new COVID-19 cases accelerates into more substantial spread.
August 5, 2020 
Visitors from Rhode Island added to state’s quarantine list
August 5, 2020Most travelers entering Massachusetts from Rhode Island will soon be ordered to quarantine for two weeks upon arrival unless they recently tested negative for COVID-19, the Baker administration announced Tuesday.
August 5, 2020
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