Worcester will negotiate with another retail cannabis establishment, Nature's Remedy, bringing the total number of retail stores to negotiate a host community agreement with the city to 14.
Millbury Savings Bank and Oxford-based bankHometown are planning to merge and create a financial institution with $1 billion in assets and 15 branch locations in Central Massachusetts and Connecticut.
An executive for the northeast division of a national healthcare provider has been appointed to be the new CEO of Worcester's Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital.
Caroline's Cannabis s the first woman-owned small business and the first general applicant to be awarded a final state license to sell marijuana products.
Four Central Massachusetts chambers of commerce have received more than $100,000 each in state funding to help with initiatives targeting small businesses.