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| Friday, March 23, 2018 | | | Big Brothers Big Sisters CEO to be deployed to Afghanistan | | Duty calls for Jeffrey Chin, CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass/MetroWest. | | Read more >> | | Former transportation company owner indicted again for money laundering in $19M scheme | | Already facing criminal charges for filing $19-million in false Medicaid claims, the owner of a Westminster-based transportation company is now being charged with laundering the money he generated from the alleged scheme. | | Read more >> | | February brings in 13,7000 Mass. jobs as unemployment rate remains 3.5% | | Massachusetts saw a gain of 13,700 jobs last month, including 13,100 from the private sector, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the unemployment rate remained at 3.5 percent. | | Read more >> | | | |
| | | | Canadian clothing company plans Natick Mall store | | Canadian leisurewear company Roots is opening two new stores, both of which will be the first in Massachusetts, including one in the Natick Mall. | | Read more >> | | Florida primary care company opens new Framingham office | | A MetroWest-area doctor has opened a new primary care practice in Framingham in conjunction with a Florida primary care firm MDVIP. | | Read more >> | | MetroWest communities get $60K in downtown planning grants | | Four MetroWest communities — Ashland, Marlborough, Shrewsbury and Stow — have received $15,000 state grants each for planning efforts to improve their downtowns. | | Read more >> | | | Like us on Facebook for our latest business news |
| | | | | Week in review | | Ice Bucket Challenge funds another UMass ALS breakthrough | | A collaborative of 250 researchers, co-led by University of Massachusetts Medical School Professor John Landers and funded through the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, have identified a new gene associated with the development of ALS, according to a statement from The ALS Association, a national nonprofit.
| | MassLive to open downtown Worcester newsroom | | Online news organization MassLive is opening a Worcester newsroom and sales office next month, MassLive announced on its website Tuesday. The announcement, penned by MassLive's Vice President of Content Ed Kubosiak, comes as the company, owned by New York-based Advance Local, pursues a growth strategy in Worcester County.
| | Medusa Brewing Co. eyes 10,000-square-foot production facility in Hudson | | Hudson's Medusa Brewing Company is looking to build 10,000-square-foot production brewery and tasting room just feet away from its current brewery and taproom on Main Street. The two-story brick building is to be located on a vacant lot at 1 Houghton St. that was once home to a shoe factory that was demolished in 1999.
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