The Baker administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for home care workers and staff at rest homes, assisted living residences and hospice programs got a green light Wednesday from the Public Health Council, which unanimously approved regulatory changes to implement the requirements. The regulations were approved on an emergency basis and will be subject to a public […]
“I just got off a coaching call with a client in Detroit,” recalls business expert Cameron Herold. “He’s got about a hundred employees in his manufacturing shop and I was talking to him about culture while they’re basically in shutdown. He’s fully paying all of his employees for three months – full salaries – and […]
In August 2017, Sean Kelly, Aaron Birt, and Diran Apelian from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), combined their expertise and together, formed Solvus Global to bridge the innovation gap through the creation of next-generation technologies. According to their website’s timeline, Solvus Global built out their first office space and laboratory on Rockdale Street in Worcester back […]
The US Department of Education has selected Mount Wachusett Community College to received funding under the Talent Search Program in two grants totaling $662,926. Launched in 1965, the Higher Education Act created Talent Search. Along with the Upward Bound Program and Student Support Services, the three services make up the TRIO of federally funded programs […]
All staff in Massachusetts rest homes, assisted living residences and hospice programs and home care workers who provide in-home direct care would need to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in the next two months under an expanded mandate introduced Wednesday by Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration. The administration announced it would seek to broaden an existing vaccination […]
Demand for restaurant take-out and delivery food has skyrocketed, a trend that’s likely to continue into the foreseeable future. Restaurateurs who want to stay competitive are faced with some tough choices — do they link up with a third-party food delivery service, hire their own delivery driver, or simply say ‘no’ to deliveries altogether? Third-Party […]
Teachers, staff and many students at day care centers and after-school programs will be required to wear masks indoors after Labor Day, but Education Secretary Jim Peyser on Tuesday told the board that licenses early education providers that a vaccine mandate may be out of their control. The Board of Early Education and Care voted […]
The temperatures may have suggested the dead of summer, but preparations were in full swing this week to welcome students and employees back to classrooms and offices in the fall with COVID-19 still swirling in the hot, humid air. Gov. Charlie Baker set the bar last week with a no-alternative vaccine mandate for thousands of […]
The North Central Massachusetts Private Well Program is actively seeking homeowners with private wells in the communities of Berlin, Bolton, Boxborough, Hubbardston, Princeton, and Sterling who are interested in learning more about the quality of their water, the condition of their wells, and how to remediate contamination of their wells. The Private Well Program is […]
This spring, the Mount Wachusett Community College Physical Therapist Assistant program students were in danger of a delay in their graduation due to the lack of clinical placement sites. The lack of clinical placement impacted all health students, with the impact on physical therapist assistant students more pronounced due to fewer facilities available in the […]