Blackstone Valley

Tractor Supply Co., a retailer catering to hobby farmers and individual consumers alike, announced the opening of a Millbury store, the third Central Massachusetts location for the national chain.

Three Central Massachusetts organizations have won grant money that will help boost the formation and development of small businesses.

Grafton will be home to Central Massachusetts's largest residential solar electric system, thanks to a project completed Monday, according to the company that designed and installed it.

After nearly 10 years on the job, the president and CEO of the Milford Area Chamber of Commerce (MACC) will leave the post at the end of this year. A statement from the chamber said its board recently accepted the resignation of Barry Feingold, who is returning to Peru to take a job as a vice president of Bevintel, an international hospitality profit management firm.

First Wind, a Boston-based renewable energy company, announced Monday that it's begun solar projects in Millbury and Warren that will generate power for the University of Massachusetts Lowell and UMass Medical School in Worcester.

Plainridge Racecourse in Plainville announced a business arrangement Tuesday that track officials hope will revive its bid for a slot parlor license.

Six weeks before a townwide voter referendum that will either kill or push their plan to the next level, representatives from Mass Gaming & Entertainment LLC (MGE) presented their plans for a $200-million slots parlor in Millbury Monday evening, saying the project would improve traffic in the area.

The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University in Grafton has announced plans to renovate and expand its teaching hospitals through a $68 million project.

The odds of Central Massachusetts becoming home to the state's only slots parlor improved Monday after the state gaming commission ruled the developers for the proposed site in Plainville as unqualified.

With Leominster and Millbury officials having signed host community agreements with developers, there are two Central Massachusetts...