Millbury

A Sutton packaging company, which has four sites in Central Massachusetts and others abroad and nationally through affiliates, has paid $9.5 million for a 383-acre site straddling the Millbury and Sutton town lines.

Millbury company Midstate Sewerage will pay up to $500,000 in fines and will not seek state or municipal contracts as part of a settlement over illegal dumping, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office announced on Friday.

The building supply chain Wallboard Supply Company has moved out of its Worcester location to a new site at 1535 Grafton Road in Millbury.

Aquarion Water Company, based in Bridgeport, Conn., has issued water restrictions for customers located in Millbury, following statewide drought designations by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental affairs, the company announced on Tuesday.

Former WBJ Editorial Intern Devina Bhalla and News Editor Grant Welker discuss Bhalla's two-month deep-dive into slavery's history and legacy into the Central Massachusetts economy in this episode of the WBJ Podcast.

A Hopedale property developer has bought Millbury's Clearview Country Club, two years after the town turned down an opportunity to buy the nine-hole golf course.

The modern Massachusetts economy has been growing for 400 years, since settlers first landed in Plymouth in 1620. And for 245 of those 400 years – more than 60% – the Massachusetts economy was tied to the legal institution of slavery.

A site off Route 20 in Millbury that's planned for a cannabis cultivation facility has sold for the second time since late last year, this time for $9.9 million.

An unusually large share of coronavirus deaths in Worcester County — nearly four out of five — have taken place in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes, according to state data.

Pints of cherry tomatoes grown in Beverly, hundreds of pounds of salmon and haddock from a Boston pier, jars of curries and chutneys prepared by a Newton retailer, and communications support for local farms and fisheries are among the kaleidoscope of options up for sale on a new state-run online marketplace.