Archive for September 2025

No one likes loading boxes onto a pallet. But machines don’t seem to mind. Mike Holmberg noted as much as he pointed to a neatly palletized pile of boxes from a liquor distributor. In a non-automated facility, he said, someone would be loading those by hand. “They’re making the different spirits, and then they put…

The Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony is set to take place Saturday night, honoring nine inductees, including NBA legends Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard, and WNBA stars Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles, and Maya Moore. The ceremony will also recognize the 2008 USA Men’s Team, which featured both Anthony and Howard, as well as coach…

Eversource and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame recently commemorated a milestone in Massachusetts’ ongoing energy transition with the ceremonial installation of a smart electric meter. The event on Aug. 7 marked the symbolic kickoff of Eversource’s work to install smart meters at homes and businesses across the state — a project that officially…

Gene Cassidy understands that the Big E generates traffic jams outside the fairgrounds — and sometimes traffic jams inside the grounds as patrons flock to new attractions and food vendors. What he can’t understand is why some can’t look past those ‘good problems to have’ and see the annual fair as a true economic engine…

Tom Senecal recently announced he will retire at the end of 2025 after more than 35 years in the banking industry. PeoplesBank, which he joined in 1995, has grown from a $450 million institution to almost $7 billion at the bank’s mutual holding company. “I just feel it’s the right time to allow a new…