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Friday, March 30, 2018
Hangover Pub owner pleads guilty in taking $130K in Chameleon drug money
Christopher Slavinskas plead guilty to concealing $330,000 in drug money from investigators in The Chameleon restaurant saga.
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Call center founder has become a $10M steward of the community
Wallace Andrews has established and operated call centers all over the world first for Minnesota camera maker Polaroid and then Massachusetts computer company Digital Equipment Corp. before striking out on his own.
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Flying Rhino names new executive chef after O'Harra departs
The departure of Chris O'Harra from the Flying Rhino in Worcester has paved the way for a new executive chef at the Shrewsbury Street restaurant: Drew Day.
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Athol Hospital receives $28M MassDevelopment financing
MassDevelopment has provided $28.2 million in financing to help pay for the construction of a three-story medical building to expand access to care on the Athol Hospital campus.
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UMass Medical School boosts statewide research spending with 11% gain
The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester spent $280 million on research activities in fiscal 2017.
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Send in your ideas for the 2018 WBJ Power Players
The Worcester Business Journal is asking for the Central Massachusetts' business community's help in naming our Power Players for 2018.
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Biostage brings children's hospital expert James Shmerling aboard
Holliston medical device maker Biostage has added another children's hospital executive as the company continues to remake itself into a child-focused biotech company.
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North Central development agency becomes SBA community lender
The North Central Massachusetts Development Corp., has joined a national Small Business Administration lending program giving loans to businesses in underserved communities.
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Regional Roundup
Week in review
Primetals leaving Worcester for Sutton
More than a month after Sutton voters approved a 15-year tax increment financing agreement for a new facility, Worcester metal manufacturer Primetals made their move to the town official.
The company currently operates two facilities in Worcester: one at 40 Crescent St. and another at 50 Prescott St. in Gateway Park. Both facilities will be close and consolidate under one roof in Sutton.
Reliant Medical Group moving into former Price Chopper in Shrewsbury
Reliant Medical Group willknock down the former Price Chopper grocery store off Route 9 in Shrewsbury and build a new medical office facility, the owner of the plaza said.
Reliant will build a 32,000-square-foot facility in its place that is scheduled to open by March 2019.
Demolition of the former grocery store is expected to start in April. The Price Chopper at 380 Maple Ave. closed in 2010 when the chain opened a new location two miles east at 731 Boston Turnpike.
Former Flying Rhino chef teams up with Milford chef for new Canal District restaurant
Two of the Central Massachusetts' best chefs and former rivals are now on the same team.
Chris O'Harra, former executive chef of the Flying Rhino on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester, has been hired by Maddi's Cookery and TapHouse, a new restaurant slated for Worcester's Canal District opening this spring in the former Perfect Game spot.
Maddi's is the second restaurant from Adam Hicks, owner of Milford comfort food eatery Depot Street Tavern.
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Professional heroes
Former transportation company owner indicted again for money laundering in $19M scheme
Fitchburg State remaking theater as new community, incubator space
Big Brothers Big Sisters CEO to be deployed to Afghanistan

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