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Apple Picking in Stow, Massachusetts
If you haven’t made an apple picking trip this year it isn’t too late in Central Massachusetts. We recently made a trip out to Stow, Massachusetts where we visited Honey Pot Hill Orchards. We were a bit overwhelmed by the choices of farms we could visit for our first official apple picking trip as a […]
Worcester’s Hanover Insurance Big Mover in Globe 100
Hanover Insurance Group of Worcester jumped from 69 to Number 5 on the Globe 100 list this year. It also topped the list of Financial Industry companies on the list. Attributing it’s success to a conservative investment strategy Hanover Insurance seemed to be ahead of the rest of us in its views of the equity […]
Genzyme Bringing More Jobs to Worcester County
Genzyme has officially started construction on a facility based in Northborough. This is good news for the area because it most likely will mean new jobs. The project already is bringing jobs for construction workers just to renovate an existing facility on Forbes Road. According to the Worcester Business Journal 165 workers will be transferred […]
WOOphoria – Culture and Revitalization in Worcester
WOOphoria is coming to Worcester this Sunday, September 20th. No it isn’t a play, it’s a celebration put on by the Worcester Cultural Coalition in honor of 10 years of “creative city-making”. The Worcester Cultural Coalition is: the unified voice of Worcester’s cultural community whose members are the leaders of the City’s sixty-plus arts and […]
Blackstone Valley To Educate Green Workforce
This month Governor Patrick announced the beneficiaries for the Clean Energy Workforce Development Grants. Blackstone Valley Vocational School District in Upton is one of six organizations to receive grant money. According to the press release the Upton school will receive: $150,460 for professional and curriculum development in weatherization, solar photovoltaic and solar thermal for vocational […]
Central Mass Casino Being Considered in Warren
Is Warren really being considered a site for a possible casino? According to the Boston Globe things have started to heat up on the gaming front and Warren is one of the options for bringing gaming into Massachusetts. Bringing gaming into any community can be controversial and concerning but the economic impact can be significant. […]
Don’t Miss the Celtic Festival in Webster
Whether you’re Irish or not you may want to check out the Blackstone Valley Celtic Festival in Webster Massachusetts. The 7th annual Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce Celtic Festival is taking place at Indian Ranch this Saturday, July 25th. We are planning to bring our children who are half irish so that they can learn […]
Swine Flu Fatal for 2 in Worcester County
Yesterday the Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued a statement announcing 2 more deaths related to the H1N1(Swine) Flu. The first was a 13 year old boy and the second a 64 year old man. The second death is still pending official test results but the assumption right now is that he died of the […]
Worcester County Tortured by Rain
Flood conditions were the norm yesterday and today as severe weather moved through the Worcester County and Central Massachusetts area. A report on NECN confirms what most of us already know. We are soaked! With plenty of rain in June and the storms that have caused flash flooding in the last couple of days the […]
Stimulus + Boston Power = Worcester County Jobs
The Boston Business Journal and the Associated Press are reporting that Boston Power based out of Westborough plans to build a battery manufacturing facility in Auburn, Massachusetts. This is great news for the Central Massachusetts economy and highlights a possible success story of the stimulus programs coming out of the Obama administration. Boston Power manufactures […]
Worcester Area Companies in the Globe 100
The Boston Globe comes out with a listing of the Globe 100 and we are glad to report that the Worcester County area was represented. The companies are ranked per the Boston Globe based on: 1) Return on average equity, a measure of how effectively shareholder money is employed; 2) One-year percentage change in revenue; […]
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