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Big Lots Expands Store Closures Amid Bankruptcy Filing: Here's Rundown In Mass.
Discount retail chain Big Lots has filed for bankruptcy as its list of planned store closures expands. It currently has around 1,425 stores nationwide. The company announced on Monday, Sept. 9 that it will sell its assets to an affiliate of private equity firm Nexus Capital Management. In announcing initial store closures late in late July, Big Lots said a bankruptcy filing could be coming. Stores in the Northeast now slated for closure are as follows: New York Delaware Avenue, Buffalo South Ogden Street, Buffalo Route 5 & 20, Canandaigua Voice Road, Carle Place Centereach …
Business
Big Lots To Close Hundreds More Stores, Including Several In Massachusetts
It's more bad news for discount retailer Big Lots. The nationwide chain announced in June that it would close 40 stores following dismal sales and rising costs, but in a new filing last week, the company said it may need to shutter nearly 300 locations — several of them in the Northeast. Big Lots announced in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday, Aug. 2, that under an updated term sheet, the company would need to close 20 percent of its 1,392 stores — about 290 in all. Here are some of the local closures. Connecticut — Eight stores Manchester — 1…
Police & Fire
62-Year-Old Motorcyclist Killed In Holliston Crash With Car ID'd
Doctors were unable to save a 62-year-old man after his motorcycle was involved in a crash with a car on Sunday evening, July 21, in Holliston, authorities announced. Andrew Palumbo, of Ashland, was identified as the man killed in the crash at the intersection of Prentice and Mill Streets just before 7:50 p.m., Holliston police said. Police and firefighters treated Palumbo at the scene until he could be taken to an area hospital. Paramedics airlifted Palumbo to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, where he later died of his wounds. The 72-year-old driver…
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Massachusetts' Littlest Garbage Man Makes His Rounds Thanks To Make
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For four-year-old Alan, there was always something special about the garbage trucks that came through his Ashland neighborhood each week. He fell in love with the big green machines and wanted to be like the men and women who drove them. He even dressed up as a garbage man for Halloween one year. So, it was a no-brainer when Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island offered him the chance to make a wish that he would don the high-vis vest and hard hat and climb aboard a WM truck to put in a hard day's work. They even gave him a time card to punch in and out. …