Blackstone Valley

A man who formerly served as an accountant for the town of Uxbridge was sentenced to three years in jail for stealing more than $900,000 from multiple municipalities in Central Mass. South.

The Millbury Board of Selectmen last week heard a proposal for a 192-unit, 40B housing complex on Rice Road, which has been the site of controversial housing proposals in the past.

Milford Federal Bank, UniBank, UMass Memorial Health, and GFA Federal Credit Union are among those with recent hires and promotions.

Finding stable housing has always been a challenge for low-income earners, but the problem has ballooned in places like Worcester where the average rent is growing about 10 percentage points faster than the average income.

The cannabis entrepreneur duo who announced plans in the fall to expand their cannabis microbusiness into a former chocolate store in Hopedale has sold the property where they were planning to do business.

UN1F1ED² Global Packaging Group, a packaging supplier headquartered in Sutton, purchased a 99,000-square-foot industrial warehouse in Webster for $7.5 million, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

The Power 50 may not necessarily hold the most power in the region, but they are the people who most effectively wielded their power to have an outsized influence on the economy and the community within the last year.

Friday is the last day to submit nominations for Worcester Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty Award.

Alexander MacDougall, most recently a staff writer at the Innovation Leader in Boston, has joined WBJ's newsroom to cover the health care and diversity & inclusion beats.

The commercial property is vacant and located off Route 146 at 48 Worcester Providence Turnpike. It is zoned B2, allowing for development projects including a hotel, office park, church, or educational use, according to online real estate listing service LoopNet.