Blackstone Valley

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.

A nearly 15-acre property in Grafton’s CenTech Park sold for $3.3 million, about two months after the sale of another large plot in the technology and business park.

Companies with new hires and promotions include Oriol Health Care, Eagle Clearning Corp., Bay State Savings Bank, and Gorman Richardson Lewis Architects.

Now, in its seventh year, the Manufacturing Excellence Awards seeks to accentuate the top performers in a highly complex and varied industry.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion leaders have some of the highest turnover rates among executives. The cause is manifold, but it often has to do with the organization a CDO is serving.

A nearly seven-acre industrial site in Uxbridge, which is the home of Nature’s Medicines cannabis dispensary, sold for $3.45 million to an Arizona-based firm, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

Hometown Financial Group, Inc., the holding company for bankHometown in Oxford, plans to acquire Randolph Bancorp, Inc. the Quincy-based holding company of Envision Bank, for $146.5 million.