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Earth Day Celebrations, DevensConnect, Mirror Lake Passes, and Calendar of Events.
Read moreAt Bandoleros in Concord, an American dream worth waiting for
Where to: Bandoleros in Concord.
Why: For Mexican food in a suburban shopping plaza, with lines out the door in the middle of the week, coupled with a uniquely American success story. The backstory: “Every day is a fiesta in Concord,” says Bandoleros owner Elmer Melendez. In 1999, he fled violence in El Salvador to come to the United States with his wife, Delmy Madana, and two young children. He found a cooking job at Savory Lane in Acton. Later, he became a cook at Serafina’s in Concord. In 2007, he began opening his own restaurants with his wife: Dario’s in Fitchburg; Bandoleros in Devens.
His latest triumph is opening a second Bandoleros in the very space where he got a job all those years ago: This is the former Serafina’s, where he was once a young cook.
“It’s an achievement for me, 20 years later. I started out working 100 hours a week. Now, I own my own business. Life has come full circle,” he says.
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Watson-Marlow hosted a "Massachusetts Economic Outlook", DevensConnect event, and Mirror Lake Beach Passes.
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Ayer-Devens Pocket Forest Project Pilot, The Great Exchange, Earth Day Celebrations, and more.
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Devens 2024 Events Calendar, Studio Space for Lease, Loaves & Fishes 5K, and more.
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New Date for the Easter Egg Hunt, Devens Census Due, New Devens Amenity Canteen, and Bandoleros highlighted in the Boston Globe.
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Time magazine's list of America’s Top Green-Tech Companies 2024, Join Our Team, Shriver Job Corp Open House, and more.
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Devens Easter Egg Hunt, Shirley & Devens Community-wide Yard Sale, and calendar of events.
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Devens Business Directory, Devens Easter Egg Hunt, and more.
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Local happenings and calendar items for February and March.
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Parker Charter School Info Session, Devens Census, and more.
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K9 Basic Life Saving, Devens Resident Census, and more.
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Drone footage of the muralist Kim Carlino, DEC annual report, join our team, and more.
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Devens DPW hiring Maintenance Specialist, Dragonfly Wellness Center classes, Kindergarten registration, and more.
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Sand/salt mixture is available for Devens residents, Call for Artists, and more.
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Firefighter Maggie Gabriel, Recreational Cross-country Skiing and Snowshoeing, and more.
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The Great Exchange featured on WCVB, OnSolve signup information, Public Art Installation, and more.
Read moreHappy New Year!, Christmas Tree Pickup Schedule, and Election Results.
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Happy Holidays, Election Results, Call for Artists, and more.
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Toys for Tots collection, Little Leaf Boston Globe Article, Little Bee Bookshop, and Loaves & Fishes Holiday Distribution.
Read moreWhile high-tech agricultural startups wilt, Little Leaf Farms flourishes
DEVENS — Indoor farming startups seeking to revolutionize the nation’s food supply have endured a rocky year. Investors have significantly pulled back funding, forcing several companies once worth billions of dollars into insolvency.Paul Sellew has been watching the situation with a mix of pride and hard-earned realism. Little Leaf Farms in Devens, which he cofounded and serves as chief executive, has been flourishing even as the bubble surrounding such startups appears to have burst.
Read moreEditorial: New facility shows Devens prioritizes zone’s public safety
As the main driver of the Central Mass. economy, Devens has demonstrated a knack for attracting a variety of businesses that take advantage of its fast-track permitting process.
And in a few years, Devens will have a public-safety facility commensurate with its responsibility to protect those valuable commercial assets as well as the residents that call this economic development zone home.
Recently MassDevelopment, the state’s developmental finance agency and land bank, hosted federal, state, and military leaders for a walk-through of the future Devens public-safety building, a $20.8 million initiative that will bring all local public-safety operations under one roof.
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Holiday Tree Lighting, Voting Information, Little Bee Bookshop, Loaves & Fishes, and more.
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2023 Devens Annual Report, Future Devens Public Safety Building, Toys for Tots, and more.
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Happy Thanksgiving, Congratulations to the Bromfield School and Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School cross country teams, and more.
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Toys for Tots Information, The Great Exchange, and the Devens Tree Lighting Ceremony.
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Thank You Veterans, Devens Fire Department Promotions, Devens Tree Lighting, and more.
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Patton Water Treatment Plant completed, Quintin Burks and Gary Teague retire from Devens Department of Public Works, and Calendar of Events.
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Sterling Street Brewery is coming to Devens, OnSolve information, Devens Halloween Parade, and more.
Read moreClinton brewery to open second location inside Devens biomanufacturing campus
Worcester Business Journal, Eric Casey
Sterling Street Brewery, a microbrewery based in Clinton, is planning on opening a second location in Devens next year, according to a Facebook post made by the company. The new location will occupy a 8,300-square-foot building in Pathway Devens, a biomanufacturing campus operated by King Street Properties.
King Street, a private real estate management firm headquartered in Boston, announced earlier in the year it is seeking a brewery to occupy the building, which it expects to be ready for occupancy in the first quarter.
Read moreMassDevelopment breaks ground for new Devens public safety building
The Harvard Press, John Osborn
At their once-a-year meeting in Devens last week, members of the MassDevelopment board of directors approved and broke ground for construction of a new, cutting-edge public safety building to serve the businesses and residences of the agency-managed community.
The project involves transformation of a partially vacant MassDevelopment-owned building at 270 Barnum Road into a state-of-the-art facility that will serve as the new home for the Devens Fire Department, the Massachusetts State Police, and the Nashoba Valley Regional Dispatch District.
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Devens Fire Department Training, Clear Path for Veterans Devens Dog and Craft Festival, Devens Halloween Events, and more.
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Ground broken on new Devens public safety building, Dragonfly Wellness Fundraiser 10/15 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Upcoming hydrant and sewer flushing information, and more.
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Devens Harvest Fest photos, Devens Farmer's Market, MWCC First Line Supervisor Training, and more.
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Devens Harvest Fest, Devens Intersections of Cultures and Communities Temporary Public Art Project, and more.
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Eat & Play in Devens September 27, The Great Exchange, Devens Farmer's Market, and more.
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Applewild Preschool Open House, Eat & Play in Devens September 27, Flu Shot Information, and more.
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Eat & Play in Devens events, The Great Exchange highlighted on WCBV Boston, and more.
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Nashoba Valley Celebration of Service this Saturday, OnSolve CodeRED Alerts, and Calendar of Events.
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Register for OnSolve CodeRED Alerts, Nashoba Valley Celebration of Service, and Devens Farmers Market.
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New Commercial Real Estate Signage, Nashoba Valley Celebration of Service, Devens Farmer's Market, and Calendar of Events.
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Nashoba Valley Celebration of Service August 19, Director of the Devens Enterprise Commission Peter Lowitt retires, and Calendar of Events
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Pathway Devens has taproom opportunity, CFS updates, Devens Farmer's Market, Yoga on Rogers, and more.
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Welcome LTC Joshua Bloom, new Commander of the Devens RFTA, Yoga on Rogers, Devens Water Quality Report, and more.
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Bristol Myers Squibb news, Devens Farmer's Market, Yoga on Rogers, and more.
Read moreFDA signs off on Bristol Myers Squibb’s latest Devens biomanufacturing venture
Bristol Myers Squibb, a global pharmaceutical company with U.S. headquarters in New York, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for commercial cell therapy manufacturing in Devens.
The Devens facility is the company’s newest cell therapy manufacturing site, according to a June 8 release from Bristol Myers Squibb. The new site will allow expanded production and increase supply of the therapies, according to the release.
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Dick’s Market Gardens returns to Devens, Mirror Lake Family Fun Day, Yoga on Rogers, and more.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems highlighted in the WBJ, Devens Family Fun Day, Yoga on Rogers, and more.
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Devens Food Truck & Craft Fest this weekend, Boston Globe article featuring Vulcan Forms, and more.
Read moreDevens fusion company awarded slice of $46M DOE milestone program
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is one of eight companies nationwide to receive funding as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s $46-million Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program, as part of an effort to produce a pilot-scale demonstration of fusion energy generation within a decade.
Read moreThe most interesting startup in America is in Massachusetts. You’ve probably never heard of it.
DEVENS — About 40 miles northwest of Boston, in a shiny silver building on a long, open road, is a factory.
A most unusual factory.
There is no noisy assembly line. No assembly line at all.
Just a row of tall white machines that hum like servers at a data center.
Inside each, a gantry moves swiftly from side to side, training the power of 150 laser beams onto a bed of metallic powder below. The powder melts and solidifies in layers, none thicker than a human hair. And in time, a plate of impossibly intricate parts takes shape.
It’s easy, really.
“We just need to change the instructions,” says John Hart, standing on the factory floor on a recent afternoon. “We just need to change the code.”
Hart is a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and cofounder of the most interesting startup in America.
It’s called VulcanForms. It’s valued at over $1 billion.
And it’s at the leading edge of a push to transform 3-D printing from a niche technology — best known for new-product prototyping and art-class experimentation — into an industrial force.
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Memorial Day, Devens Food Truck & Craft Fest June 4, Lifeguards Wanted for Mirror Lake, and more.
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Devens Food Truck & Craft Festival, Food Truck Survey, Devens Firefighters Graduate, Annual Registration for Pets, and Calendar of Events.
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"Amazon-backed startup to open major cleantech factory in Devens", Pet Registration, 2023 Mirror Lake Beach Passes, and more.
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Congratulations to Devens Firefighter and Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) Mark Boucher, The Great Exchange udpates, Loaves & Fishes 5K, and Shirley & Devens Community-Wide Yard Sale.
Read moreAmazon-backed startup to open major cleantech factory in Devens
Natick-based Electric Hydrogen plans to build what it's calling the world’s largest electrolyzer factory in Devens, a big step in its quest to decarbonize the production of hydrogen for industrial tasks like making steel and fertilizer.
Since it launched two years ago, Electric Hydrogen — also known as EH2 — has announced $222 million in fundraising from big names like Amazon.com Inc.’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) Climate Pledge Fund, the Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Honeywell International Inc. and Rio Tinto.
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Earth Day Round Up, Mount Wachusett Community College Course, Loaves & Fishes 5K Walk/Run, Mental Health Awareness Month, and more.
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Area Earth Day events, Shirley & Devens Community Yard Sale information, and events calendar.
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Devens Resident Info, Shirley & Devens Community-Wide Yard Sale, Dick's Farmers Market, and more.
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Community Wide Yard Sale, Dick's Market Garden, Dragonfly Wellness Center, and April Calendar.
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Hildreth Elementary School is now enrolling Kindergarten, Devens Easter Egg Hunt, and Calendar of Events.
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Devens Events Calander for 2023 is now available, Hildreth Elementary School is accepting Kindergarten applications for Fall 2023, Devens Egg Hunt, and more.
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Check out this year’s Devens events calendar for details about all of the community events, games, tournaments, races & other activities taking place in the coming months.
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Snow Day and Winter Sports, CFS Tours, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and more.
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Devens Emergency Assistance Intake Center (EAIC) – Closing, Commonwealth Fusion Systems tours, and Devens Egg Hunt.
Read moreLearn more about the Commonwealth’s temporary Emergency Assistance Intake Center in Devens.
The Emergency Assistance Intake Center (EAIC) currently located in Devens will cease operations on Monday, March 13, 2023. Any clients still in Devens will be moved to a new EAIC facility in Concord, MA. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) and Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) will spend the week of March 13 demobilizing the Bob Eisengrien Community Center and it will be turned over to MassDevelopment shortly thereafter.
FAQs (as of 12/22/22)
Baker-Polito Administration Announces New Intake Center to Facilitate Emergency Shelter Needs
Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA)
DHCD Housing Stabilization Notices
Devens residents and businesses can reach out to Meg Delorier at 978-784-2929 or mdelorier@massdevelopment.com with any questions or concerns.
Members of the media can contact the Department of Housing and Community Development by emailing Samantha Kaufman at samantha.kaufman@mass.gov or calling 617-874-0126.
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Parking Ban information, The Great Exchange update, IridESSENCE Community Health Collaborative offering free classes, and more.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems news, Devens Fire Department news, Donations Needed, and more.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems ribbon cutting, Devens Fire Department's FF Maggie Gabriel and FF Jonathan Gallardo participate in the 7th annual BFit Challenge, Donations needed, and more.
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Devens Fire Department training, Seqens Group, Skating on Rogers, and more.
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Devens Fire Department training, Donations for the Emergency Assistance Intake Center, DEAC Update, and Calendar of Events.
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U.S. Congresswoman Lori Trahan visits Devens, Donations needed for the Emergency Assistance Intake Center, ChargePoint EV charging stations, and more.
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Clear Path for Veterans NE Comedy Show, Dicks Market Garden Delivery, Bird Watching, and more.
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Devens DPW & Recreation Update, Harvard Spring Sports Registration, and Calendar of Events.
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