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| Worcester shop pleads guilty to $282K in food-stamp fraud | | Esther's Fashion Paradise, a store in Main South in Worcester, illegally took food-stamp benefits in exchange for cash, its owner acknowledged in federal court Wednesday. | | Read more >> | | FDA approves Sunovion's lung disease drug | | Sunovion Pharmaceutics of Marlborough has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for a new drug treating COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. | | Read more >> | | SeaChange revenue up 17% | | SeaChange International, a video streaming company, saw revenues up by 17 percent in the third quarter and the company nearly broke even after sustained losses. | | Read more >> | |
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| Week in review | |
| Off to New York -- soon | |
A long-anticipated flight from Worcester Regional Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport will finally begin next May 3. It's jetBlue's third destination from Worcester, but with only one departure to New York each day, at 6:04 a.m. The route is due at least in part to the imminent completion of a new $32-million landing system at the airport.
| | Worcester commercial rates to rise | |
Despite urging from the business community and Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Worcester City Council adopted tax rates shifting more of the tax burden to commercial properties. The Council voted to set the rate at $18.91 per $1,000 valuation for residential taxpayers, and $34.03 for commercial taxpayers.
| | Buying spree continues for Railers owner | |
Worcester Railers owner and businessman Cliff Rucker has purchased the Main Street block housing popular restaurant deadhorse hill for $2.65 million. The building includes the restaurant Rice Violet, the salon Friendly Nails, and law and commercial offices on the upper floors. The block is adjacent to two other buildings Rucker owns: the Worcester Palladium and the 311 Main St. building housing law firm Bowditch & Dewey. He also owns the Fidelity Bank Worcester Ice Center.
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