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New England fishermen seek access to closed areasNew England fishermen are asking the National Marine Fisheries Service to allow them to fish inside areas that have long been off limits to groundfish boats, and if regulators agree, insiders say it would provide a solid boost to the local fishing industry, the Standard-Times reports.
the New England Fishery Management Council has asked NMFS to lift restrictions on fishing in three areas that are key to New Bedford boats. As the Standard-Times reports, this could potentially allow fishers better access to particularly abundant species such as redfish, pollock, haddock and hake.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/5UNQoBP8OJo" height="1" width="1"/>Picadilly Pubs close in Marlborough, WestboroughThe Picadilly Pub restaurants in Marlborough and Westborough closed this week, seemingly indefinitely, the MetroWest Daily News reports.
Notices at the two locations thanked patrons for continued business over the years and referred questions to the corporate offices, according to the Daily News.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/i4CstGL2D0g" height="1" width="1"/>Big-box, YMCA eyed for Gloucester's Fuller siteOfficials in Gloucester are scheduled tonight to review four proposed uses floated by MassDevelopment for the vacant Fuller School, the Gloucester Times reports. Among the proposed uses: A big-box retailer, commercial office space, public safety use, and a community center space that can house such organizations as the Cape Ann YMCA.
Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk is in favor of the Y proposal, in which the property is used for a community center with office space, a joint public safety facility, and facilities suitable to house an organization like the Cape Ann YMCA.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/lsxO2-3dGyI" height="1" width="1"/>Super Bowl yielded at least one local winnerCreative Extrusion & Technologies, a Brockton-based manufacturer, has made the laces for every NFL football for the past three decades, including the one used in Sunday's Super Bowl that saw the New England Patriots buckle to the New York Giants, the Enterprise reports.
The company makes laces for a number of football-making companies, including Wilson Sporting Goods, the only ball used in the National Football League, the Enterprise reports.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/FicrMO7ohJo" height="1" width="1"/>Curious George to return to Harvard SquareFair warning to the man in the yellow hat: Curious George will be making mischief once again in Harvard Square. A pair of Roslindale entrepreneurs will be reopening the Curious George store in Cambridge in April, the Boston Herald reports
Adam Hirsch will open the new store April 28 with his wife, Jamie, The couple have invested several hundred thousand dollars in the business, including gutting the 160-year-old building where the former Curious George romped before the business closed last summer, the Herald reports.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/YsqLHhXI2mY" height="1" width="1"/>Fidelity wins whistle-blower appealHanding a victory to Fidelity Investments, a U.S. appeals court has ruled that federal law that protects employees at public companies when they blow the whistle on alleged fraud does not apply to mutual fund firms, the Boston Globe reports.
The ruling overturns a Boston federal judge?s decision involving two former Fidelity employees. The ruling determines that employees of mutual fund companies are not protected under Sarbanes-Oxley, the Globe reports.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/WRyCgtVk3h8" height="1" width="1"/>Berkshire County home sales down 5%Residential real estate sales in Berkshire County dropped 5 percent in 2011 but are above their levels in 2009, when the local market bottomed out, the Berkshire Eagle reports, citing data from the Berkshire County Board of Realtors.
Berkshire County saw 828 residential real estate sales last year, compared with 876 in 2010, according to the Eagle.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/fjHwcT2JZYI" height="1" width="1"/>Chinese court throws out AMSC case against SinovelDevens-based AMSC will see one its cases against former partner Sinovel Wind Group Co. Ltd. decided in arbitration after a Chinese court threw out its civil complaint, Mass High Tech reports.
AMSC announced that Hainan Province Number 1 Intermediate People?s Court granted Sinovel?s motion for dismissal of a copyright infringement complaint from AMSC against it and Dalian Guotong Electric Co. Ltd., a company related to Sinovel, MHT reports. The court cases date back to September 2011, when AMSC filed criminal charges and civil complaints against Sinovel over alleged theft of AMSC?s intellectual property about its wind turbines.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/WdrfQHFOug4" height="1" width="1"/>UMass puts $158M toward financial aidThe University of Massachusetts is putting $158 million of its own funds toward student financial aid during the current year, the Boston Business Journal reports. The amount represents an increase from the $133 million UMass distributed last year and more than double what it gave five years ago.
UMass President Robert L. Caret has proposed that the state pay 50 percent of UMass' general education programs, with student fees providing the other half. The state now pays 45 percent of general education funding and students pay 55 percent.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/O9nnKQlH_LM" height="1" width="1"/>UMass raises financial aid contribution, againThe University of Massachusetts is putting $158 million of its own funds toward student financial aid during the current year, President Robert L. Caret announced Monday.
Students attending UMass campuses are receiving $736 million in all forms of financial aid during the current year, according to a press release issued by UMass.
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Facebook may not have as many active users as you think
Facebook says it has 845 million monthly active users and 483 daily active users, but The New York Times reports, they?re not all clicking on facebook.com.
The Times reports that Facebook counts as active users those who may visit a third-party site, such as NFL.com, and click that they ?like? a story.<div class="feedflare">
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Catholic leaders object to contraception mandate
Catholic leaders in New York are joining their peers nationwide in urging parishioners to reject a federal mandate regarding inclusion of paid contraception in health insurance coverage.
Buffalo Business First, a sister publication of The Business Review, reports that in western New York, Bishop Edward Kmiec this week wrote to church leaders, many of whom addressed the issue this weekend during morning sermons.
?We cannot?we will not?comply with this unjust law,? Kmiec wrote.
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No urgency in making hydrofracking decision
There has been no decision on whether to approve a natural gas drilling, known as hydrofracking, in New York and there doesn?t seem to be any urgency to making a decision soon, The New York Times is reporting.
The Times reports that the approval process has slowed to a crawl and noted that Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn?t even mention it in his State of the State address last month.<div class="feedflare">
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Albany?s apartment vacancy rate among the lowest in U.S.
Apartment owners in the Albany, New York, area had little trouble finding tenants last year as the vacancy rate was among the lowest in the nation, according to a report.
The annualized vacancy rate in the Albany metro area was 3.3 percent in 2011, the 22nd lowest rate among 200 metro areas surveyed by Reis, a real estate research firm in New York City.
The annualized vacancy rate in the U.S. was 5.9 percent. In the Northeast, it was 4 percent, according to Reis.
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Bank of America investors win class-action status in suit over Merrill Lynch deal
Bank of America got more bad news Monday when a federal judge approved class-action status for a lawsuit accusing the bank and some of its senior executives and directors of fraudulently misleading them about the 2008 takeover of Merrill Lynch.
The shareholder suit takes issue with the size of Merrill Lynch?s losses and bonus payments made at the time.
U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel rejected BofA?s arguments that the case should not be granted class-action status.
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Congress members' stock ownership includes GE, Intel, BofA, Apple
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/50_topcongressionalinvest2012*100.jpg?v=1'>Stock ownership and possible insider trading by members of Congress has come under scrutiny lately and prompted bipartisan calls ? including from the White House ? for new restrictions and rules related to financial holdings.
New rules are making their way through Congress that would limit insider trades on Capitol Hill
For more information, click on the slideshow to the right.
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Cartwheels Gymnastics Center opening in Clifton Park
Cartwheels Gymnastics Center signed a lease to fill nearly 4,000 square feet at North Country Commons in Clifton Park, New York.
The business is scheduled to open Feb. 11 in the former Boat and RV Warehouse storage garage at the outdoor shopping center, located on the corner of Vischer Ferry Road and Route 146.
Cartwheels will provide programs for children up to age 18. The business is owned by Jason Dammer and Dana Marion, who both live in Malta.
Dammer, a U.S. Navy veteran and athlete, taught nuclear electronic operations at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Ballston Spa...<div class="feedflare">
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Prestige Hospitality in Albany now running Radisson Hotel in Newark, New Jersey, area
Prestige Hospitality Group, a hotel owner and management firm in Albany, New York, has been awarded the operations and management contract of the 117-room Radisson Hotel in Carteret, New Jersey.
The contract boosts the size of Prestige?s portfolio to 12 hotels with 1,313 rooms, said Justin D. Smith, president and chief operating officer. The firm owns one of those hotels: the 92-unit Northwoods Inn in Lake Placid.
Prestige manages the rest.
Most of the hotels are in the Albany region, including the 120-unit Hyatt Place in Malta and 76-unit Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites in Clifton Park...<div class="feedflare">
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Delta traffic down slightly in January
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/2011/01/19/DeltaPlanes*100.jpg?v=1'>Delta Air Lines Inc.?s traffic dipped 1.5 percent in January on a 0.6 percent rise in capacity, the airline reported Monday.
Domestic traffic was down 0.3 percent, while international traffic was down 3.2 percent.
The company?s preliminary U.S. Department of Transportation on-time arrival rate of 86.4 percent was 11.8 points higher year-over-year
Delta (NYSE: DAL) carried 11,642,608 passengers in January -- up 0.6 percent.
Click here for the full traffic report for January.
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Wolff?s Biergarten owners buy Miss Albany Diner
The owners of Wolff?s Biergarten in Albany, New York, have purchased the Miss Albany Diner in a move that allows them to choose their neighbors.
Matt Baumgartner, Jimmy Vann and Demetra Vann closed last week on the diner, which is located at 893 Broadway in Albany?s warehouse district. Wolff?s address is 395 Broadway.
The partners bought the historic diner from Jane Brown. The lender is NBT Bank. The parties declined to release the purchase price. Brown and her late husband, Cliff Brown, operated the diner, built in 1941 to resemble a railway dining car, as Miss Albany Diner since they purchased it in 1988...<div class="feedflare">
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VSPC to sponsor DMAI Washington conference
Visit St. Petersburg Clearwater has signed on to sponsor Destinations Showcase Washington, a daylong conference and expo for conference, convention and trade show professionals scheduled in Washington on Feb. 28.
VSPC Director of Meetings and Conventions Suzanne Scully and Deputy Director David Downing will represent the region along with 13 hotel partners, VSPC said in a blog post.
Scully and Downing are scheduled to give a presentation about the area and to screen new 30-second commercials during the show?s keynote luncheon...<div class="feedflare">
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BofA investors win class-action status in suit over Merrill Lynch deal
Bank of America got more bad news Monday when a federal judge approved class-action status for a lawsuit accusing the bank and some of its senior executives and directors of fraudulently misleading them about the 2008 takeover of Merrill Lynch, sister publication the San Francisco Business Times reports.
The shareholder suit takes issue with the size of Merrill Lynch's losses and bonus payments made at the time.
U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel rejected BofA's arguments that the case should not be granted class-action status...<div class="feedflare">
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Buckhorn's mission: Changing Tampa's DNA
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/tampabay/feature/Buckhorn,-Bob_New_2011_4c*100.jpg?v=1'>Biotechnology companies and other tech firms are paving the path for a brighter employment outlook in Tampa, said Mayor Bob Buckhorn.
Those changes are needed to keep young people in the area, Buckhorn told about 300 attendees at the Moffitt Cancer Center's Business of Biotech program.
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Local officials push for more foreign trade
Foreign trade has not been a large enough portion of the local economy and officials are vowing to come up with a plan to boost local exports.
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn met with Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, and Francisco Sanchez, the undersecretary of commerce, on Monday to pledge a renewed emphasis on local exports, according to the Tampa Tribune.
There was no discussion in Monday?s meeting on which local exports would be a part of the plan. Officials from economic development agencies, airports and seaports were on hand for the announcement...<div class="feedflare">
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Former St. Petersburg mayor, architect dies at 77
A former mayor and visionary architect in St. Petersburg died on Monday at age 77.
Randy Wedding was St. Petersburg's mayor from 1973 to 1975, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Wedding helped to convince the state of Florida to build Interstate 375 and 175 arteries that extend to downtown St. Petersburg. He also is credited with helping to develop a regional water wholesaler.
Wedding earned his architecture degree at the University of Florida and opened his practice in St. Petersburg in 1960.
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Investigation: Lawmakers steer money near their property
A Washington Post investigation has found as many as 50 members of the U.S. Congress who have helped to direct millions of dollars in earmarks to projects near their own property. Congress wrote ethics rules that make this practice legal and undisclosed.
Among the lawmakers found to be earmarking money toward their own property interests, none were from Florida.
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Scott appoints Burgin, Melendez to HART Board
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/tampabay/blog/morning-edition/John%20Melendez.jpg?v=1'>Gov. Rick Scott has appointed Joshua Burgin and Carlos ?John? Melendez to the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority board.
Burgin, of Plant City, has been the vice president of information technology and social media for the Holtec USA Corp. since 2008. Melendez, of Tampa, has been an engineering consultant with CPH Engineers Inc. since 2004, according to a statement from the governor's office.
In 2010, Burgin ran for the Republican nomination against incumbent Hillsborough County Commissioner Mark Sharpe...<div class="feedflare">
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Walker Wilkerson named Lakeland Chamber chairman
Walker Wilkerson has been named chairman of the Lakeland Chamber of Commerce. He replaces Alice Hunt, whose one-year term has expired.
Wilkerson will be recognized at the chamber?s annual meeting at the Lakeland Center Exhibit Hall Tuesday night, where a traditional ?passing of the gavel? is scheduled.
His post officially began Jan. 1.
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Florida remains undecided in foreclosure deal as 40 states opt in
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/tampabay/ForeclosurePromoArt*100.jpg?v=3'>Florida is among a handful of key states that remains undecided whether it will support to a draft deal settling claims of improper mortgage servicing.
More than 40 states opted in as the deadline for joining the proposed state-federal mortgage service settlement passed Monday, CNN Money reported.
California, New York, Nevada and Delaware are among the states that remain undecided, the report said. The effort is aimed at relieving homeowners struggling with loans bigger than their home's value...<div class="feedflare">
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Publix deal brings new owner at Celebration shopping center
A shopping center in Celebration has a new owner after Publix signed up to be a 50,000-square-foot anchor tenant.
A group based in New York bought the 124,000-square-foot Water Tower Shoppes from General Electric Credit Equities in January. The center had been struggling for almost seven years since the previous tenant, Gooding?s Supermarket, went bankrupt.
The Publix deal was a key factor to bringing in Clarion Partners LLC, which is a stakeholder in the new ownership group, according to the Orlando Business Journal...<div class="feedflare">
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