Blackstone Valley

Nearly $7 million in state funding announced Tuesday will go toward neighborhood and housing improvements in 10 Central Massachusetts cities and towns.

Joshua Brier, GFA Federal Credit Union’s executive vice president and chief operating officer has been named the company’s next president and CEO, the Gardner credit union announced on Tuesday.

Home prices are soaring, and there’s virtually no inventory on the market. It’s a phenomenon not at all unique to Central Massachusetts.

A lawyer representing cannabis company Resinate, which operates dispensaries in Worcester and Northampton, has threatened to take legal action against the Town of Grafton if the town does not allow its forthcoming dispensary to open.

Camping World Holdings of Illinois has acquired Flagg RV locations in Uxbridge and West Boylston, the Illinois company announced on Thursday. 

The three real estate agents who comprise the 5-Star Homes Team in Hopkinton have joined ERA Key’s Whitinsville office, ERA announced on Friday.

The Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, based in Northbridge, announced a spate of newly elected board officers and members on Thursday.

Central Massachusetts communities have received a combined $1.3 million in grant funding through the state’s Shared Winter Streets and Spaces program, MassDOT announced on Tuesday.

A self-storage site on Providence Street in Millbury has sold to buyers in New York and Ohio.

Worcester may have improbably managed to keep shoppers coming into the city in the age of new highways and suburbanization, but it didn’t last. In the past decade or two, Worcester has seemed to lose its place as the shopping heart of Worcester County.