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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation granted $800,000 for the College of the Holy Cross to conduct humanities-based research to enrich its understanding of Worcester and create partnerships between the community and the Jesuit liberal arts school.

The City of Worcester spent nearly $11,000 to be among the 238 bids to lure online retail giant Amazon's second headquarters, according to public records specialist MuckRock.

These firms incorporated with the Mass. Secretary of State from Sept. 1-15.

Worcester Business Journal has moved its Family Business of the Year award to its annual Business Leaders of the Year award ceremony and is soliciting nominations now.

For the second year in a row, Worcester Business Journal will honor an Innovator of the Year, and readers are being asked to submit their nominations for that award.

Fill out the five-minute questionnaire for a chance to have your responses featured in the 2018 Economic Forecast issue, coming out Dec. 25, and for a chance to win a $50 gift card to an area restaurant.

Since it began offering free pain management courses in 2015, more than 13,000 individuals have taken one or more of the courses, according to the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Joe Cox, president of the Worcester children's museum Ecotarium, will resign from his position on Jan. 26, the museum announced Monday.

Worcester physician group Reliant Medical on Monday consolidated its offices in Milford to a much larger 54,700-square-foot building on Cedar Street in Milford.

A 65,000-square-foot shopping plaza at the former Worcester Regional Transit Authority site on Grove Street has been approved after the developer changed the design to better fit in the neighborhood.