WBJ Staff

This Wednesday, the WBJ hosted a live-viewing of its socially distanced 40 Under Forty awards ceremony, featuring short speeches, videos and photos of the Class of 2020 honorees.

Coronavirus cases in Worcester County rose by 249 in the past week and the death count by 15, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

The ribbon has been cut at a new manufacturing facility in Hopkinton where Lykan Bioscience is anticipated to create 125 new jobs.

Girouard Tool Corp., a Leominster injection molding company, was approved Thursday by the state for tax breaks to help make possible a $2.8-million expansion, and a Fitchburg restaurant has received a tax credit to move downtown.

Ascentria Care Alliance, a Worcester social services nonprofit, has appointed three new members of its board of directors.

Harrington HealthCare System has expanded its public coronavirus testing with a new test location at its Webster campus.

UMass Medical School has named a professor of population and quantitative health sciences as its first vice provost for health equity.

A retail plaza on Route 12 just south of downtown Leominster has been bought by a Paxton resident for just under $2.4 million.

A Houston-based real estate development and management company has paid nearly $3.4 million for a 59,000-square-foot industrial building in Northborough.

Quinsigamond Community College has received a $1.3-million federal grant to support first-generation or economically disadvantaged students, or those with disabilities.