Monica Benevides

The New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund, a fund established this year by senior-level Black and brown corporate executives in Massachusetts, announced its first round of grant funding Friday, including $100,000 distributed between Family Health Center of Worcester and African Community Education, also based in Worcester.

The Worcester Regional Airport has lost all of its commercial service due to the coronavirus pandemic, but 93% of respondents to a survey conducted by Massport and the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce said they would be likely or very likely to use the airport if more direct service was available.

A new Market Basket location will open at Maynard Crossing on Friday, the grocery store chain announced on social media on Sunday.

Three Central Mass. sober housing groups received a cumulative $201,675 from the Center for Community Recovery Innovations, Inc., a nonprofit subsidiary of MassHousing, the government agency announced on Wednesday.

The Greater Worcester Community Foundation has awarded $1.935 million to 114 organizations as part of its 2020 Community Grant Program cycle, the organization announced on Tuesday.

Worcester restaurant Shawarma Palace is moving from its Pleasant Street location and into a vacant restaurant space at 20 Franklin St., a building owned by the Worcester Business Development Corp., WBDC announced on Wednesday.

As of Nov. 16, the number of open small businesses in Massachusetts is down 37% compared to January, according to data from the Opportunity Insights Recovery Tracker, which is overseen by a research and policy analyst group based at Harvard University.

Riverdale Mills Corp., a welded wire mesh manufacturer in Northbridge, was awarded the John McArthur Community Commerce Innovation Award from the Venly Institute in Cambridge, the company announced Nov. 24.

Two Central Mass. companies have received nearly $800,000 in grant funding from the Industrial Rail Access Program, which aims to enhance rail and freight access, the Gov. Charlie Baker administration announced on Nov 19.

National clean energy company Nexamp, which maintains an office in Sturbridge, has won a customer acquisition award from the Northeast Clean Energy Council, the company announced in November.