Monica Benevides

Old Sturbridge Village announced on Monday it has named Jasmin Rivas to fill a new position at the living museum: director of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection announced on Monday it has fined Northbridge’s D & G Recycling, Inc., of 2040 Providence Road, $31,000 to settle violations of the state’s waste site cleanup regulations.

Haley Ward, Inc., a Maine engineering and surveying consulting firm, has acquired Whitman & Bingham Associates, LLC of Leominster and Chelmsford, a surveying and civil engineering company, according to a Monday announcement.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass & MetroWest has hired Connie Askin as its new CEO, the board of directors announced on Monday.

The homogeneity among news editorship in Central Massachusetts is not unique to the region, but it does bring with it inherent questions about who decides what stories are newsworthy, and who decides how they are told.

Inequalities in the industry persist, and large multistate operators continue to dominate the cannabis market, even in the face of several Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission programs designed to give certain groups of people a leg up in entering the industry.

Geisel Software of Worcester announced on Tuesday it has partnered with Fayetteville State University in North Carolina to perform multi-robot perception research under a NASA grant.

The Reactory Summit, a one-day biomanufacturing conference to be held at the Beechwood Hotel, has been postponed from Oct. 13 to April 6, according to The Reactory’s website.

Clark University has named Margo Foreman as permanent vice president and chief officer of diversity, equity and inclusion, the school announced on Tuesday.

Cresco Labs, a publicly traded Chicago-based cannabis company operating in multiple states with $476 million in annual revenue, announced on Friday it had completed an acquisition of Cultivate.