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The Worcester Art Museum has five new board of trustees members and a new president following the trustees' annual meeting Tuesday.

In one of the largest private grants it has ever received, Fitchburg State University has received $240,000 to fund student-faculty collaboration on research focused on issues of personal fitness and the health of the Nashua River over the next three years.

The troubling worldwide signals of a potential recession are more smoke than fire and are unlikely to lead to a U.S. recession in 2016, according to an economist speaking Thursday in Worcester.

GARETH CHARTER is now director of sales for the Worcester region at MassLive, a news service. He...

GLEN MARTIN was promoted at Continental Woodcraft, a millwork subsidiary of BlueHive Strategic Environments of Worcester, to vice president. He was previously manufacturing manager for the company. Martin, who joined BlueHive in 2012, formerly worked for Iaccarino and Son Inc.

The mortgage market for home purchases in Central Massachusetts is growing on a rising tide of sales, just in time for an expected slowdown in refinancing.

Vice President/Investments, Senior Financial Adviser, Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, WorcesterBirthplace: Augusta, Ga.Residence: WorcesterHigh school: St. Peter-MarianCollege...

Four of the nation's largest banks have agreed to pay $2.7 million and repair defective property titles to resolve claims that they unlawfully foreclosed on properties in Massachusetts to which they did not hold the mortgages, according to Attorney General Martha Coakley.

Anything worth doing in the first place is usually worth repeating. When we launched our first “Best of Business” awards contest last year, we were dipping our toe into unfamiliar waters. Yet we thought it was a worthwhile idea to do it again. So, here are our readers' picks of 39 companies in Central Massachusetts that stand out.

Lenders are finding themselves walking a tightrope between providing lower-income Americans with quality housing and keeping their...