Monica Benevides

Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner and Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester will require students, faculty, and staff to have been vaccinated against COVID-19, starting in January.

Retail parent company TJX Cos., Inc., headquartered in Framingham, announced on Friday a quarterly dividend of 26 cents per share of its common stock.

George’s Coney Island in Worcester is closed Monday because of a reported staffing shortage, the iconic restaurant said in a Sunday night Facebook post.

Citing a month-to-month coronavirus case count which tripled from June to July and again from July to August, the City of Worcester announced on Friday a revived mask mandate for all indoor private common spaces in workplaces and indoor private spaces open to the public.

Resource Management, Inc., a family-owned human resources outsourcing company in Fitchburg, announced founder and current CEO Rey Lopez will step into a new role as director of sales while his daughter and current company president, Rachel Lopez, takes on the CEO.

Nichols College in Dudley will use a $20 million tax-exempt bond from state agency MassDevelopment to build a new four-story, 19,000-square-foot residence hall, as well as cover other renovations and campus projects, MassDevelopment announced on Thursday.

Stop & Shop presented Framingham State University with $100,000 to establish a scholarship for diversity in the food & nutrition, an endowed fund to provide financial assistance for students studying to become registered dietitians.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester will once again offer free medical administrative assistant training, as well as a free nurse assistant/home health aide program later this fall and early in spring.

Leicester voters overwhelmingly approved two warrant articles to pay for the purchase of and cover operational costs of the bulk of the former Becker College campus at a special town meeting on Tuesday night.

Clark University has named Joseph Corazzini as vice president for government and community affairs, the Worcestet school announced Tuesday.