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While the economy was growing into the longest economic expansion in the nation’s history, most Worcester County neighborhoods missed out – not only failing to capture rising income and attracting new residents but even going backward in many cases.

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.

The College of the Holy Cross on Tuesday announced its president, Rev. Philip Boroughs, would step down from his role at the end of the academic year, ending his nine-year run leading the Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester.

Vaillancourt Folk Art in Sutton has named Luke Vaillancourt its new president, the chalkware and decorative ornament maker announced on Wednesday.

The design-build construction of Primetals’ Technologies’ new 183,000-square-foot, $30-million manufacturing and office facility in Sutton has been completed, Maynard contractor JM Coull announced on Tuesday.

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.

As an essential business dedicated to cleaning oil spills and disposing of hazardous waste, New England Disposal Technologies, Inc. of Sutton was primed to add coronavirus disinfecting to its offered services. 

If debates about the Affordable Care Act and proposed universal health care haven’t already made it clear, the idealized version of access isn’t the norm for many Americans, especially not for those who belong to vulnerable population groups who struggle with mental health challenges.

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.