Monica Benevides

CEO Jim Knott spoke with WBJ about the company’s relationship to shellfishing, the search for skilled workers and what brought Riverdale Mills to Northbridge.

The Sterling Academy of Gymnastics has received a $50,000 microloan from the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. for working capital for pandemic-related relief and recovery, as well as to help start a remote education program, NCMDC announced on Tuesday.

Single-family home sales were still on the rise in Worcester County during October, according to a monthly report from Peabody real estate data company The Warren Group. 

Randal Webber will be named Cornerstone Bank of Worcester’s next president, effective Jan. 1, the financial institution announced on Tuesday.

Childcare nonprofit Guild of St. Agnes will run a daycare center as a future tenant of the Creative Hub Community Arts Center Worcester, powered by a $1-million grant from the Early Education and Out-of-School Time grant program.

Millbury company Midstate Sewerage will pay up to $500,000 in fines and will not seek state or municipal contracts as part of a settlement over illegal dumping, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office announced on Friday.

Medusa Brewing Co. in Hudson is moving its beer garden indoors for the winter, co-owner Keith Sullivan confirmed on Thursday, in an effort to continue serving customers in a space more accommodating to COVID-19 restrictions.

Massachusetts is joining regulators from 19 states to found a new organization aimed at connecting state cannabis regulators, the state Cannabis Control Commission announced on Thursday.

The Worcester Together: Central Massachusetts COVID-19 Fund will distribute $1 million to organizations that present plans to disrupt systems which uphold societal inequities, the Greater Worcester Community Foundation announced on Tuesday about its third and final stage of funding.

The Botanist, the retail arm of the cannabis firm Acreage Holdings, which maintains U.S. headquarters in New York City, has opened an adult-use marijuana dispensary in Shrewsbury, and added adult-use sales to its Worcester location, the company announced on Wednesday.