Greater Worcester

Four Central Massachusetts businesses have received a combined $449,354 from a program designed to assist small and midsize manufacturers.

Heywood Healthcare, the parent company Heywood Hospital in Gardner and Athol Hospital, will have a confirmation hearing on its plan to exit bankruptcy on Monday.

Evelyn Darling, executive director of the Downtown Worcester Business Improvement District, has stepped down from the role.

MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham is in one of the most tenuous financial standings of all Central Massachusetts hospitals, according to a new report from the Center for Health Information & Analysis analyzing the financial stability of hospitals in the state. 

Up to $25 million in grants are available to cannabis business owners who come from communities harmed by enforcement of past marijuana laws.

Significant work lies ahead for Steward Health Care's Massachusetts hospitals as they transition to new owners, warned Sen. Barry Finegold, who earlier this summer feared one facility might close in his district.

Xceedance has acquired Millennium Information Services, an Illinois-based property inspection and data company.

Millbury-based cannabis dispensary Wonderland Cannabis Co. is now open.

Deborah Hall, executive director of Worcester nonprofit YWCA Central Massachusetts, has been named as one of 18 inaugural members of the state’s Cultural Economy Advisory Council, serving as the council’s sole member from the region.

Patrons of Worcester’s DCU Center who have a sweet tooth will soon have access to baked goods from a local confectioner.