Grafton

After an eight-month search for a replacement to retired President Charles Monahan, MCPHS announced on Wednesday it has promoted Richard Lessard to the position permanently, after he has served as interim president since Monahan left in January.

While the economy was growing into the longest economic expansion in the nation’s history, most Worcester County neighborhoods missed out – not only failing to capture rising income and attracting new residents but even going backward in many cases.

The College of the Holy Cross on Tuesday announced its president, Rev. Philip Boroughs, would step down from his role at the end of the academic year, ending his nine-year run leading the Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester.

Milford developer D&F Afonso Builders has been given the go-ahead to pursue plans to develop a 15-acre parcel along Westboro Road and Institute Road in North Grafton, according to a Thursday press release. 

A Grafton apartment complex has been sold for $4.9 million to a Franklin businessman in an expansion of his apartment holdings in the region.

Idexx Laboratories, a Maine-based veterinary diagnostics and water testing provider, has paid more than $7 million to buy its 30,000-square-foot Grafton site.

The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation awarded nearly $70,000 to three Central Massachusetts nonprofits to provide healthy food to the community.

A Worcester firm has paid $19.1 million for the Stop & Shop-anchored Country Plaza Shopping Center in Grafton.

Anzio's Brick Oven Pizza is leaving its Grafton location to be the latest new tenant at Northborough Crossing.

A New York real estate investment firm has purchased a newly built self-storage facility in Grafton for nearly $3.9 million.