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40 Under Forty 2021: Jared Forman
Updated: August 16, 2021One conversation with Jared Forman is all it takes to hear how passionate he is about food and how much the art of cooking has influenced his life journey.
Updated: August 16, 2021
40 Under Forty 2021: Sheena Toscano
Updated: August 16, 2021Sheena Toscano always dreamed of opening her own salon but thought the opportunity was decades in the future. However, her boyfriend (now husband) encouraged her to chase after her dream and with a small loan from her parents and a 600-square-foot
Updated: August 16, 2021
Canal District business pioneer John Giangregorio passes away
August 6, 2021John Giangregorio, former president of the business and community group Canal District Alliance and Canal District Business Association in Worcester, passed away on Wednesday, leaving a legacy of business advocacy and commitment to improving the
August 6, 2021
Happy hour may become a 2022 ballot question
August 6, 2021More than three decades after Massachusetts banned bars and restaurants from offering happy hour drink promotions, a Dorchester attorney wants voters to decide if the practice should return to the Bay State.
August 6, 2021
Polar Park hits 9,508 capacity for the first time
August 2, 2021Polar Park hit its stated capacity of 9,508 for the first time since the baseball stadium opened for baseball on June 1, the Worcester Red Sox announced on Saturday.
August 2, 2021
Hanover, Palladium lead the 22 Central Mass. venues receiving $15M in COVID relief
July 26, 2021Performing arts and other venues in Central Massachusetts were approved for $15.39 million in coronavirus pandemic relief through the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, a program run by the U.S.
July 26, 2021
Q&A: Despite reopening, The Strand hasn't survived yet
Updated: July 26, 2021The coronavirus pandemic created 15 long months of no business at The Strand historic cinema draft house in Clinton, which shows a variety of movies a few months, years, and even decades after they first debuted in theaters.
Updated: July 26, 2021
Webster's growing downtown led by influx of restaurants
Updated: July 26, 2021Aided by the town’s rising popularity as a place to live and the local government’s incentive programs, in the past year alone, five new businesses have opened in downtown Webster, with two more scheduled to open in August.
Updated: July 26, 2021
Ban on happy hour here to stay, says Baker
July 22, 2021Count Gov. Charlie Baker among those uninterested in reversing the state's decades-old ban on "happy hour" drink promotions, even if that position makes him, as he put it, "a stick in the mud."
July 22, 2021
Mass. hotel industry struggling more than other states
July 20, 2021Massachusetts this year is expected to endure a sharper drop in hotel industry jobs than the nation as a whole, according to a new report.
July 20, 2021
Mass. unemployment drops below 5% for first time since pandemic started
July 16, 2021The Massachusetts unemployment rate in June dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 4.9% from the adjusted 5.0% in May, according to a Friday announcement from the state Executive office of Labor and Workforce Development.
July 16, 2021
Mass. convention business mounting a solid comeback
July 15, 2021Convention business in Massachusetts is "starting to escalate quite dramatically," with the potential to lift tourism and hospitality sectors ravaged during the pandemic, officials said Thursday.
July 15, 2021
Over 300 Central Mass. restaurants approved for $65.6M in COVID relief
July 15, 2021Before the program closed earlier in July, 306 Central Massachusetts businesses received more than $65.6 million in coronavirus federal aid from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, according to data from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
July 15, 2021
Report: Boston's Hotel Market Among Nation's Most Depressed
July 13, 2021Boston hotels stand in an economic depression after experiencing the second-steepest financial losses related to COVID-19 among major U.S. markets, according to a new industry group report.
July 13, 2021
Teddy G’s owners buy former Sturbridge Friendly’s spot for $1.5M, plan pizzeria
July 12, 2021Owners of Teddy G’s restaurant in Sturbridge, Jenna and Ted Gidopoulos, have completed the purchase of a former Friendly’s at 367 Main St. in the same town for $1.5 million, and announced on Monday plans to turn the building into a brick oven pizza
July 12, 2021
Greater Worcester unemployment rate increases for 2nd time in pandemic
July 9, 2021The unemployment rate in the Worcester metropolitan area took a slight upward turn for the second time since the coronavirus pandemic began.
July 9, 2021
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