Monica Benevides

Bud’s Goods & Provisions, a cannabis company based in Worcester, was named the Best New England Cannabis Company 2021 at the New England Cannabis Convention.

BlueHive Group and BlueHive Exhibits of Worcester has named Caitlyn Correia, who has been at the company since 2013, as its next president, per a Tuesday announcement.

Cytiva, the former GE Healthcare Life Sciences, based in Marlborough, has entered an agreement with the pharmaceutical company Lakes BioScience, based in the United Kingdom, to help the European company optimize its manufacturing processes, Lakes BioScience announced Tuesday.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Clark University in Worcester were ranked #63 and #103 in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings, released Monday.

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.