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Q&A: The legacy of Sena's Barbershop
Updated: November 28, 2022Brenda Tomasetta closed her father's Sena's Barbershop on Grafton Hill and has now moved and joined forces with Kelly Collins at her barbershop, Studio C Hair Artistry, on Massasoit Road in Worcester.
Updated: November 28, 2022
Paying Polar Park’s debt: For the second year, underwhelming tax collections were saved by a public property sale
Updated: November 28, 2022When Polar Park was first announced in August 2018, Worcester's pay-for-itself plan for it was centered around six proposed buildings from Boston developer Madison Properties. But that development has since significantly shrunk in size and been
Updated: November 28, 2022
Devens community center to be used as temporary shelter for unhoused people
November 23, 2022The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency will use the Bob Eisengrein Community Center in Devens as a temporary intake center for up to 60 unhoused families beginning in early December.
November 23, 2022
Already low unemployment rates in Greater Worcester, Leominster drop further
November 23, 2022The Worcester area’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.2% in October from 3.3% in September, while the Leominster-Gardner area also dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 3.5% over the month.
November 23, 2022
Worcester hires Springfield deputy commissioner as public health director
November 23, 2022Soloe Dennis will become the new director of the City of Worcester’s Division of Public Health on Dec. 5.
November 23, 2022
Attorneys general want extension of telehealth visits for opioid-use disorder
November 21, 2022Attorney General Maura Healey joined a coalition of 45 attorneys general calling on federal officials to permanently permit doctors to prescribe a drug to treat opioid use disorder during telehealth visits.
November 21, 2022
FEMA awards UMass Memorial Health $23M for COVID costs
November 21, 2022FEMA has awarded UMass Memorial Health three grants totalling almost $23 million to reimburse the organization for costs incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
November 21, 2022-
Report: Consumers frustrated by hospital price search
November 18, 2022Finding prices for health care procedures on Massachusetts hospital websites can be a circuitous or frustrating process, despite a 2019 federal law requiring hospitals to make all prices available online in a consumer-friendly format.
November 18, 2022 
Staff problems may be permanent part of health care's future
November 18, 2022Staffing shortages in health care might be here to stay, and the industry needs to reimagine how it delivers care, Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday morning.
November 18, 2022
No-net-loss conservation bill becomes Mass. law.
November 18, 2022A public lands conservation policy that environmental groups have been advocating for more than two decades was signed into law Thursday evening by Gov. Charlie Baker, according to its chief legislative sponsor and the governor's office.
November 18, 2022
Worcester appoints Batista permanent city manager, becoming first Latino to hold the powerful role
November 16, 2022Batista, who had been serving as acting city manager was approved for the role permanently after the City Council on Tuesday night voted 8-3 to appoint him as Worcester city manager.
November 16, 2022
Improving health care: America spends the most money on health care and yet has subpar outcomes
Updated: November 14, 2022Major healthcare providers in Massachusetts and across the country have started taking steps to rectify racial discrepancies in healthcare services and outcomes.
Updated: November 14, 2022
The Worcester Housing Authority’s next chapter: How a housing crisis awoke a sleeping giant
Updated: November 14, 2022Worcester’s largest landlord is stepping up its fight to increase housing stock for not only the city residents most in need, but for all residents who find themselves stretched thin by the region's rising housing costs.
Updated: November 14, 2022
Central Mass. projects slated for $1.4M from $4B economic development law
November 11, 2022With the Thursday signing by Gov. Charlie Baker of the $3.76-billion Massachusetts economic development bill, more than $1.4 million will filter to five Central Massachusetts projects.
November 11, 2022
Baker signs economic development package, with preference for ARPA spending
November 11, 2022Months of uncertainty about the fate of a multibillion-dollar spending package came to an end Thursday when Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law a $3.76 billion compromise bill that, to his disappointment, does not feature the tax relief Democrats
November 11, 2022
Saint-Gobain, WBDC pull trigger on massive land deal
November 10, 2022Saint-Gobain has transferred 51 acres of underused land to the Worcester Business Development Corp.’s nonprofit entity New Garden Park Inc. as part of redevelopment plans to create 1 million square feet of new manufacturing space in the Greendale
November 10, 2022
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