Auburn

The Worcester City Council on Tuesday again opted to decrease the tax bill for homeowners at the expense of commercial and industrial property owners.

Clinton town officials have taken another step toward lessening the town's tax burden on commercial and industrial properties with the new year's tax rates.

Ten Central Massachusetts health offices were awarded in the first patient experience awards from the nonprofit Massachusetts Health Quality Partners.

Since 1984, the city council has shifted a portion of the residential tax burden over to the business property tax payers. By doing so, it puts Worcester at a competitive disadvantage to its surrounding communities.

For Reliant Medical Group, there has seemed to be a new office opening to go with each month. Monday will mark the latest, as Reliant opens 225 Lancaster Road in Leominster.

Group Benefits Strategies, a business consulting firm in Auburn, has been bought by an Illinois insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting company.

Atlas Distributing, already identified by WBJ as a founding sponsor of the Worcester Red Sox, officially announced the deal with the team on Thursday.

A Toronto foundation has donated $1.4 million to UMass Medical School in Worcester to advance a gene therapy to treat genetic disorder Tay-Sachs.

So far, 19 companies have signed on to be founding partners of the Worcester Red Sox minor league baseball team, including Polar Beverages, MGM Springfield and Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

The Sears store in the Natick Mall is the only of the troubled retail giant's stores to close in Massachusetts after it filed for bankruptcy Monday.