Area businesspeople shared business cards and information about their companies Friday morning at the North Shore Chamber of Commerce's Business Leads get-together. The event was held at the chamber's office on Cherry Hill Drive in Danvers. It's billed as a way to give your "60-second commercial" and pass out cards to more than 35 attendees. The group meets again Sept. 17 at 8 a.m. in the same location.
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Mass. fishermen: No sure way to rise above woes
A newly formed group to help fishermen outlast an 80 percent cut in their yellowtail flounder catch offered no certain solutions Wednesday to a battered fishing industry some warn will soon collapse.
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A SOLAR BURST
DANVERS — The roof of the Walmart on Brooksby Village Drive soon could be sporting solar panels, bringing the world's largest retailer one step closer to its goal of being 100 percent powered by renewable energy.
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Tom Torello was named vice president of marketing and communications at Salem State University. Most recently, Torello was vice president of university relations at Pace University in New York. He has also worked in marketing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and at Ithaca College. Torello earned his bachelor's degree in communications from Ithaca College, and completed a management development program at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. -
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Wednesday, May 23
Studio 13 After Hours, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Studio 13, 13 Enon St., Beverly. Beverly Chamber of Commerce event. Food, drinks and a complimentary work class. www.s13beverly.com.
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Paid sick leave bill faces uphill battle
Backers of a bill allowing hundreds of thousands of Bay State workers to begin earning paid sick leave touted the findings of a new report on Monday suggesting employers would save money under the proposal, but one House supporter said she was still uncertain that the bill could gain traction in the waning months of the election-year session.
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