| | | Friday, March 24, 2017 |  | | Crust's new owner seeks to elevate Worcester's bread game | | As a first-time business owner, Alexis Kelleher has her sights set on maintaining the quality Crust has cultivated, and on selling to more area restaurants. | | Read more >> | | Worcester Co. barely grows, while Middlesex Co. leads the state | | Worcester County's population grew by less than 2,000 in a 12-month period ending last July, according to new U.S. Census data, a growth rate only about half of the year prior. | | Read more >> | | Niche executive chef leaves for Worcester food incubator | | Neil Rogers, the executive chef of Niche Hospitality Group, has left to be the kitchen operations manager of the Worcester Regional Food Hub, a commercial kitchen facility for food startups. | | Read more >> |
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| Marlborough 43-acre development adding office space | | Construction has begun on the first phase of what will be a 114,000-square-foot office or medical building at the Apex Center of New England, a 43-acre development on Route 20 in Marlborough. | | Read more >> | | Clark 10th best in country for adjuncts | | Worcester's Clark University is the 10th best college for adjunct faculty, based on a new report by the website Goodcall.com. | | Read more >> | | National Grid unveils semi-transparent Worcester solar panels | | National Grid's Sustainability Hub unveiled a semi-transparent solar awning on Friday, which National Grid says is the first of its kind in Massachusetts. | | Read more >> | |
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| Week in review | |
| Legal trouble for area businesses | |
In the span of only a few days, a Worcester restaurant owner was charged with drug-dealing, a Framingham pharmacist was convicted for his role in a fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people in nine states, and the former president of a Marlborough telecom company was sentenced on charges he ran a $3 billion pyramid scheme.
In the first case, Worcester resident Kevin Perry allegedly used more than $1 million in drug-sale money to buy and renovate nine properties in Worcester County, including The Usual on Shrewsbury Street and The Blackstone Tap on Water Street. The Framingham pharmacist, Barry Cadden, was found guilty of fraud and racketeering at New England Compounding Center, but was found not guilty of second-degree murder of those killed by drugs made by the facility. Lastly, James Merrill was sentenced to six years in prison for a pyramid scheme that affected 1.8 million, including 20,000 in Worcester alone.
| | New growth in Marlborough | |
Just about two miles from each other as the crow flies, the New England Sports Center in Marlborough is adding its seventh and eighth full-size rinks, capitalizing on growth not only in hockey but potentially curling and speed skating, too. On Route 20, the first phase of what will be a 114,000-square-foot office building has begun rising at the east end of the Apex Center of New England development.
| | Mass. added 10,000 jobs last month | |
Massachusetts added 10,100 jobs last month but its unemployment rate ticked slightly upward to 3.4 percent. That's still better than the national average of 4.7 percent. Rates for February for cities and towns will come out next week, but the Central Massachusetts labor area lagged behind the state a bit in January, at 4.2 percent unemployment.
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