Mendon

The Power 100 edition is an annual report on how power is shared and expended in Central Massachusetts each year, as told through the 100 people who are most effectively wielding their influence, with a special focus on those creating change and bringing new ideas to the forefront.

New England Futbol Club, a Mendon-based soccer organization, is launching a men’s soccer team starting play this spring.

Twenty-three Central Massachusetts businesses made the 2024 Inc. 5000, an annual list of the nation’s 5000 fastest-growing companies compiled by Inc. magazine.

Custom Home Realty, a female-led brokerage firm with offices in Framingham and Mendon, has become a Century 21 Real Estate franchise.

A former Town of Grafton official is facing federal charges related to his cannabis company.

The new center will be larger than the organization’s current facility at the zoo and allow for an expansion of its educational and outreach programs.

Since 2018, professional men’s or women’s soccer teams have been announced or launched in Boston, Hartford, Pawtucket, and Portland, while New England’s second-largest city has been sitting on the proverbial sidelines.

With more than $1 million in annual sales, The Blessing Barn Home Store and Sharing Center and its sister locations in Mendon and Boston support the nonprofit Compassion New England.

Granite Heights Marketplace on Fortune Boulevard in Milford, home to Staples and Petco retail locations, was sold to an affiliate of Mendon’s Meehan Realty Management Corp. for $10.3 million.

While Beacon Hill searches for solutions to the serious housing shortage that fuels affordability concerns in Massachusetts, a real estate industry organization wants to see the Community Preservation Act program retrofitted to put a greater emphasis on housing production.