Monica Benevides

Less than two months after announcing the departure of former president and CEO Lucy Hale, the EcoTarium science museum in Worcester has named a second temporary president and CEO, Michael Halperson

Trulieve Cannabis Corp. of Florida announced on Wednesday it had completed a $13.5-million acquisition of Nature’s Remedy’s Worcester assets.

Tree House Brewing Co. in Charlton produced more barrels of beer in 2020 than any other brewer in Central Massachusetts, according to new data from the WBJ Research Department.

The Worcester Art Museum has received a $400,000 grant from the National Endowment for Humanities to help fund the installation of the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection.

A former Quality Inn on Donald J. Lynch Boulevard in Marlborough, close to the Solomon Pond Mall, has reopened as an extended-stay hotel The Residences at Solomon Pond, following a $3-million sale of the land.

A Houston-based real estate developer has bought a parcel of vacant land on Donald J. Lynch Boulevard for $7 million, according to public documents filed with the Middlesex South Registry Of Deeds.

Nichols College’s Institute for Women’s Leadership will be named for outgoing president Susan West Engelkemeyer, who retired in June after 10 years at the Dudley school, the college’s board of trustees announced on Wednesday.

The YWCA Central Massachusetts announced on Tuesday it has completed a $24-million renovation of its Salem Square facility in Worcester, lauding both the work itself and the diversity of and wages paid to the crews who saw the project through.

Paragus Strategic IT of Hadley has acquired Worcester information technology firm Comportz Technologies, the Western Massachusetts company announced.

VNA Care of Worcester has acquired Westborough’s Health Care Staffing, Inc., the nonprofit nursing agency announced midday Monday, along with plans to add long-term caregiver services to its list of provided services, as a result of the merger.