Blackstone Valley

Motels and their managers in Shrewsbury and Sutton will pay $65,000 in restitution and penalties for labor...

Rockland Trust Co., which has nine branches in Central Massachusetts, and its parent company Independent Bank Corp. appointed Jeffrey Tengel as the new CEO, replacing Christopher Oddleifson, who has been serving in the position for 2003.

Beer has become big business. In Massachusetts, the industry supports more than 14,000 employees and, according to the Brewers Association, had an economic impact of more than $1.6 billion in 2021.

Galaxy Links, LLC, registered to Galaxy Development principal Michael O’Brien, has purchased Sutton’s Pleasant Valley Country Club.

In December 2022, the WBJ Editorial staff made 10 predictions of what this year’s headlines would bring. They were bold, and they were mostly wrong. We got three right. Here are our predictions and what actually happened.

Every December, the WBJ Editorial staff predicts possible news events for the coming year. Here are our predictions and why they will happen.

A retail plaza in Millbury was purchased by Ring City LLC of Westborough for $1.2 million on Dec. 7.

The number of Worcester County home sales saw a 35% decline year-over-year in November while there was a 30% decline in the number of sales statewide, as Massachusetts prices hit their lowest level of increase in two years.

Sutton-based UN1F1ED² Global Packaging Group and the Town of Sutton have renegotiated a new $46.1-million tax-increment financing agreement for the company’s $475-million expansion.

Boston real estate investment firm The Seyon Group purchased a 275,620 square-foot warehouse in Lancaster for $48 million from Foxborough-based The Kraft Group.