Central Mass. South

The seemingly endless rise in foreclosure starts finally leveled out throughout the state and dropped in Worcester County in August, although Middlesex County saw continued foreclosure growth.

MassDevelopment has issued a $7,740,000 tax-exempt bond that will help build and equip a 53,000-square-foot 60 beer barrel brew house in Charlton -- the future second site for Monson-based Tree House Brewing Company.

Karen Spiewak has been named director of development at Harrington HealthCare System and will oversee contact with the community as well as the organization's philanthropic efforts.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester will receive $488,735 to expand laboratory capacity in the computer information technologies lab at its Southbridge location with an eye towards training the unemployed and underemployed.

It's been about four years since Massachusetts residents voted to legalize marijuana for medical use, but the state's health care community as a whole is far from a consensus.

This year marks 100 years of U.S. manufacturing for high-performance soles maker Vibram, and the beginning of a five-year, multimillion dollar campaign that will support innovation for the next 100 years.

A newly minted agreement will have Wormtown Brewery's capacity more than double to 50,000 barrels of beer a year through a 14,000 square foot expansion at its 72 Shrewsbury St. location in Worcester.

Nichols College has received a $1-million gift from 1980 graduate and Nichols trustee Stephen A. Davis that will go towards scholarships for Western Massachusetts-based students as well as construction costs for a new academic building.

FLEXcon was founded in Spencer 60 years ago by the McDonough family and has retained the same hometown and family ownership ever since.

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