Had a good experience with Central Auto Body on Park Ave.

F&S on Franklin st. Nick is a great guy

UMass has a pediatric primary care location in Spencer. There's also Baystate Quabbin Pediatrics in Ware.

Second child health associates. We go to the Shrewsbury location, but have been to Auburn for sick visits. The docs are all great and the nurses are awesome.

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The first one isn't about "feeling bad" it's about reducing strain on the power grid.

Always had a good experience with Moran's on Belmont St.

I lived in a poorly insulated building dowtown and racked up 1500 in electric bills in three months. Had to pay it all too. No help from the leasing office. Took me over a year to pay it completely off. Stay away from Bancroft on the grid!

spread out too far too...

Hiram Baker, known as "Doc Baker" to the locals. He's both a doctor and a veterinarian who services the Walnut Grove area. /s

We're in Charlton and our family and all of our friends in the Grafton, Auburn, Charlton, and Sturbridge area with kids between the ages of 4-13 go to Child Health Associates in Auburn. Great younger female PCPs if you have daughters and are looking for a female PCP.

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Pay bonuses to those willing to cover needed shifts. Iirc employers do have options regarding FMLA/pFMLA if there are patterns that suggest abuse.

Thanks I always forget to do a simple search before posting

I’ve also used audettes over the years and have always been satisfied.

Audette's and Advanced Auto Body on Park Ave are two that routinely praised on Reddit.

If you use the search you will find lots of auto body related threads with some other options. But those two always bubble up to the top.

Mare e Monti is my vote.

Get the fresh house made pasta.

AH yes this is definitely something that is indicative of an "up and coming" city.

While I agree with all your points, the cost of living is not and likely will never be that of Boston or NYC lmfao. I agree, more industry diversity for jobs - better transportation, with that comes more parking (like it or not, people do drive here) - more affordable apartments - better upkeep of the cities infrastructure. What the hell are we paying our taxes towards anyways?

And I know the City doesn’t have power over the WRTA admin in terms of hiring/firing but Jesus, the WRTA needs an admin team the cares about, and dare I say, TAKES the bus.

I know! It makes me so sad. They can’t even do basic things - like promoting their service!

They hired a new marketing person a few months ago and I saw a slight change in their Twitter presence that promoting using the bus.

But that seems to have fallen off again and all we see are canceled buses.

Also, I looked at that marketing role out of curiosity (as a former marketing person), and it was a very bloated job description for like, pretty low salary.

One of two things would happen: they either get 2) someone young out of school who will just use it as a stepping stone and move on quickly or 3) someone with slightly more experience that will burn out quickly and get tired of the BS - and move on

Is it walk in only?

WRTA admin have no interest in improving beyond the status quo.. it took them a year to even advertise fare free

If it’s a good sized project, I recommend D-Day plumbing in Fitchburg. He’s too far for me to ask him come out for leaks or anything, but he just replaced a hot water tank for me last week at a good price and reasonable timeframe. I got him as a recommend from a contractor I know

They do this all the time, they’re gonna drop prices 44% because “they care about the customers and the feedback” then they can get good publicity AND a 20% day at raise

Best steak and cheese in the city