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Friday, November 10, 2017
WBDC secures manufacturing campus land
The Worcester Business Development Corp. and the state signed a land disposition agreement Thursday for a planned 44-acre biomanufacturing campus near the UMass Medical School.
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RXi trying to break through to a Nobel $100B market
For more than a decade, RXi has been developing drugs using RNAi technology, the discovery of which in 1998 won UMass Medical School researcher Craig Mello and his partner Andrew Fire the Nobel Prize.
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VNA Care CEO to retire
Mary Ann O'Connor, the president and CEO of VNA Care, will retire in January, the Worcester agency announced Thursday.
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Hopkinton firm leads region's top 10 woman businesses
Central Massachusetts has several other woman-owned businesses with more than 100 employees, as compiled by the Worcester Business Journal research department.
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Movers & Shakers
The American Antiquarian Society, the Boys & Girls Club, Quality Beverage and Bethany Hill Place were among those making appointments and promotions.
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Danforth Museum to open at FSU in 2019
The Danforth Art Museum will open as a part of Framingham State University in 2019, when it'll make the university the state's first public school to host a comprehensive art museum.
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101: Keeping a work journal
Journaling, or keeping a diary, isn't just for angst-ridden teenagers anymore.
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Regional Roundup
Week in review
Worcester playing to win in PawSox game
Worcester is making a stronger play for bringing the Boston Red Sox' top minor league team to the city. Worcester has hired sports economist Andrew Zimbalist and lawyer and former Department of Transportation secretary and CEO Jeffery Mullan to help the city make a potential bid for landing the team.
Print is not dead
Print circulation for newspapers has been in a steady fall for more than a decade, but one Worcester publication is making a bet against that. The previously online-only Worcester Sun will begin publishing every Saturday starting Dec. 9, with each issue costing $2.
Deadline passes, but church still likely to go
It might have sounded at first glance like a reprieve for the long-vacant Notre Dame des Canadiens church in downtown Worcester. A sale agreement to the developer of the nearby145 Front at City Square project -- which would demolish the church to build residences -- went past a deadline, opening up a potential sale to someone else, including someone who theoretically might want to reuse the church instead. But the church's current owner said it still wants to knock the church down to make the site more attractive to other developers.
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