Webster

Two new Main Street businesses -- one recently opened and one forthcoming -- were each granted a $10,000 grant from the Town of Webster, as well as a $10,000 refundable tax credit from the state, the Massachusetts Economic Assistance Coordinating Council announced on Monday.

In Worcester Business Journal's annual list of the most influential people in the Central Massachusetts economy, the Power 50, one-third of those listed have ties to the manufacturing industry.

People are on the move at Community Harvest Project, Nichols College, Country Bank and more.

Webster Five Cents Savings bank has hired Kathryn Megraw as senior vice president and chief information officer, the Central Mass. South financial institution announced on Wednesday.

The Gov. Charlie Baker Administration has awarded $1.1 million to Central Massachusetts municipalities and nonprofits as part of a new Regional Pilot Project Grant Program aimed at helping bolster economic recovery by supporting uniquely regional challenges, according to a Thursday announcement. 

People are on the move at Worcester Art Museum, Spectrum Health System, Open Sky Community services and more.

Six Central Massachusetts communities earned a total of seven state grants announced late Thursday aimed at improving urban neighborhoods.

Fallon Health received 300 doses of Moderna's vaccine and by Friday it expects each of the 1,200 or so participants in its Summit ElderCare program will have received at least the first of the required two doses, either from Fallon's efforts or at other vaccination sites.

A bustling, storefront with many eager staff members on-hand to assist customers, The Vault General Manager John Bogdan sat down with WBJ to discuss its customer service business model, the decision-making behind its lengthy menu, and how it plans to distinguish itself from other adult-use dispensaries in the region.

Nearly $7 million in state funding announced Tuesday will go toward neighborhood and housing improvements in 10 Central Massachusetts cities and towns.