Webster

The former Webster location of a Toronto glass manufacturer has been sold to a Boston real estate investment firm for nearly $6 million. 

Massachusetts marijuana company Curaleaf, with its cultivation and manufacturing facility in Webster, has been warned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for illegally selling CBD online and claiming that products treat cancer, Alzheimer’s, opioid withdrawal, pain and pet anxiety. 

Curaleaf, with its Massachusetts medical and retail cannabis operations largely in Worcester County, says it is now the world’s largest marijuana company after announcing and agreement Chicago-based Grassroots for $875 million. 

Dressbarn is the latest retail casualty, and the company's seven Central Massachusetts locations will add to the latest storefronts to close across the area.

Harrington Hospital has been designated a lung cancer screening center by the American College of Radiology.

IPG Photonics' growth in its CEO's home country of Russia has coincided with a $45 million investment in 2010 from a Russian government-backed business entity.

Bookstores are making a comeback across the country, with the New York-based American Booksellers Association seeing a 50% rise in the past decade in the number of its member locations.

Fallon Health is looking to move its elder care program to a new medical building on Grove Street in Worcester, pending regulatory approvals.

Lou Brady took as president and CEO of Family Health Center of Worcester on April, replacing Frances Anthes, who helmed public service agency for 22 years.

Friendly's is closing its Holden and Framingham restaurants among 23 corporate-owned locations across the Northeast, leaving seven stores in Central Massachusetts.