Blackstone Valley

The Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce has been awarded a $95,000 grant to implement a work-based learning program to connect students with career opportunities in the region.

Ten Central Massachusetts health offices were awarded in the first patient experience awards from the nonprofit Massachusetts Health Quality Partners.

A Sutton company is being fined nearly $17,000 for violating state Department of Environmental Protection regulations.

The Corridor Nine Area Chamber of Commerce found its member businesses went far outside its core communities along its eponymous roadway, Route 9.

England-based metal mill manufacturer Primetals and Sutton are receiving $2.25 million in assistance from the state to help fund natural gas lines for the company's planned $28-million manufacturing facility in the town.

For the first week, the stores reported a combined 56,380 products sold and an average of just under $40. Customers are averaging 3.4 products per transaction.

It was all hands on deck in Leicester as marijuana dispensary Cultivate opened at 8 a.m. Nov. 20 to thousands of consumers who had been anticipating the rollout of the state's legal marijuana industry for more than two years.

Since the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor was designated in 1986, there were plans for a visitor center in Worcester. Last month, finally, that center came to fruition.

Check out the Central Massachusetts businessmen and women to recently land new jobs.

The first legally purchased marijuana east of the Mississippi River was an eighth of Jack Herer and two pre-rolls for Uxbridge resident and Iraq War veteran Stephen Mandile.