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Benchmark Deli closing over dispute with landlord

September 30, 2009 11:57:40 AM

Here’s one I’m really sad about. The Benchmark Deli in the mint green building on Framingham Road (map) will close for good on Saturday over disputes with their landlord.
I heard the rumor this weekend, and today the Metrowest Daily News confirms it’s true.
It can’t be easy to run a restaurant in this economy, but Benchmark

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EMC to hold memorial service for cofounder on Thursday

September 1, 2009 11:28:48 AM

By now you’ve surely heard the news that EMC cofounder and billionaire entrepreneur Richard Egan died last Friday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Egan had been diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer earlier this year.
A public visitation and memorial service for Egan will be held on Thursday at EMC’s Southborough facility at 21 Coslin

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Beat the sales tax at Panzano

July 31, 2009 07:02:55 AM

If you buy a bottle of wine (or beer or spirits) today you won’t pay any sales tax. But all that changes tomorrow when the state will start imposing a 6.25% sales tax on alcohol purchases.
Panazano Market wants to help you stock up on tax-free wine. Through today, they’re offering a 20% discount on mix

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Red Barn gets a jolt from the federal government

July 24, 2009 07:08:51 AM

Hopkinton-based Red Barn Coffee Roasters got a $250,000 loan thanks to stimulus funds from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Owner Mark Verrochi told the Boston Globe he’ll use the money to purchase a much bigger coffee roaster, one that will let him increase his operation tenfold.
“We will be aggressively pursuing business I know

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Southborough’s top 5 taxpayers

July 21, 2009 12:26:16 PM

The Worcester Business Journal ran a brief profile of Southborough the other week. The most interesting bit from my perspective was a list of the town’s top five taxpayers in FY2009.
I wasn’t familiar with any of the names on the list except for EMC, so I looked them up in the FY2009 Real Estate Tax

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In the media: Genzyme snaps up parcel in Framingham/Southborough

July 13, 2009 12:40:51 PM

The Metrowest Daily News reports biotech company Genzyme purchased a 1-acre parcel of land at 251 Boston Road (map) for $1.8M. The company recently has been expanding in the technology/industrial park in that area of town, but says it has no immediate plans for the Boston Road property.
“As far as what we’ll do with the

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New business hopes to replace Country Gourmet

July 10, 2009 09:31:27 AM

The Metrowest Daily News has the latest on the future of the Country Gourmet. Property owners, and former Capasso Farms proprietors, John and Liz Sherry told selectmen on Tuesday night that the Country Gourmet’s lease was terminated last fall.
The Sherry’s want to see the liquor license transferred to Shohdy Ziada, who also owns Turnpike Liquors

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Southborough resident named finalist for CEO of Year Award

July 2, 2009 11:56:43 AM

Southborough resident Brian Zanghi, president and CEO of Kadient, has been named a finalist for he 2009 Mass Technology Leadership Council’s CEO of the Year Award.
“I’m incredibly honored to be chosen as a finalist for CEO of the Year Award,” Zanghi said. “Certainly my success at Kadient is due, in part, to the team of

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Southborough’s unemployment rate continues to rise

June 25, 2009 12:01:31 PM

Southborough’s unemployment rate increased from 5.1% in April to 5.8% in May according to numbers released recently by the state.
Even so, unemployment in Southborough is still well below state and national levels. The unemployment rate in Massachusetts in May was 8.0%. Nationally it was 9.1%.

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Future of the Country Gourmet remains uncertain

June 10, 2009 04:04:55 PM

Selectmen last month approved the transfer of the liquor license from the Country Gourmet on Framingham Road to Shohdy Ziada who owns Turnpike Liquors on Route 9.
Ziada told selectmen he was going to establish a convenience store on the property, but apparently those plans are still up in the air.
Country Gourmet proprietor Bob Ciccarelli recently

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Energy bars to the stars

May 28, 2009 09:20:57 AM

Earlier in the week you read about Southborough businesses like Falconi Bros. and the Southborough House of Pizza that are profiting from the movie being in town. Here’s a story about another business seeing an upside thanks to a little bit of initiative.
Dan O’Rourke, owner of Southborough-based NRG BAR a manufacturer of all-natural energy bars,

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Where buffalo once roamed, a convenience store

May 26, 2009 11:46:52 AM

It hasn’t been the Buffalo Farm for a long, long time. Still, I swear I smell the penny candy every time I walk into what is now the Country Gourmet, formerly Capasso Farms, formerly Willow Brook Farms (aka, the Buffalo Farm).
The property has undergone a number of incarnations since buffalo roamed in the pasture across

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Country Gourmet may be changing ownership

May 14, 2009 02:07:28 PM

It appears the Country Gourmet on Framingham Road may be changing hands and changing names.
According to a public notice, the owners of the Country Gourmet have applied to transfer their liquor license to a new owner. And not just any new owner, but Shohdy Ziada, proprietor of Turnpike Liquors on Route 9.
The new business would

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Southborough salon hosts charity fashion show

April 15, 2009 01:14:09 PM

Southborough’s Salon Entre Nous will host their second annual charity fashion show, “Fashion With A Voice,” on Thursday, April 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hopkinton Country Club (map). All proceeds benefit Voices Against Violence, a nonprofit organization in Framingham that provides free services to victims of domestic abuse.
Read the full details in the Milford

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