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.
All but two of the acute-care hospitals in Central Massachusetts were profitable last year, pushing the overall margin for the region to fourth best out of the seven regions in the state.
Harrington HealthCare System on Wednesday announced a partnership with the Southbridge Police Department, local recovery coach volunteers and other town services that the organizations hope will help reduce the number of opioid and heroin overdoses in Southbridge.