Greater Worcester

A new urgent care option has arrived in Central Massachusetts as New Hampshire-based ConvenientMD has opened its second Worcester clinic located at 18 Belmont Ave.

Steward Health Care's retreat from Massachusetts is continuing, with the bankrupt company officially moving in court Monday to abandon the under-construction Norwood Hospital property and close four affiliated outpatient clinics nearby no later than Nov. 5.

The Cannabis Control Commission is poised to vote later this month on regulations that would finally put into motion policy changes they agreed to last year, and which struggling cannabis delivery businesses say would make a big difference to their bottom lines.

The City of Worcester has agreed to extend management of the DCU Center by ASM Global for an additional 10 years.

Victor Ambros, a scientist at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has been named the recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of microRNA. 

Voting is now open for WBJ’s 11th annual Best of Business Awards.

Neither Table Talk nor NorthBridge immediately responded to requests for comment on the sale, but it’s unlikely these transactions from one real estate firm to another will have an impact on the company’s operations at the sites.

Stop & Shop locations in Worcester and Shrewsbury are set to close at the end of October, as the company faces questions over allegations of price gouging.

Massachusetts cannabis regulators took a guided tour of a outdoor cannabis farm on Thursday, in an attempt to learn more about issues facing the relatively-small number of businesses in the state who have attempted to take marijuana production back to its outdoor roots.

Bay State Savings Bank’s chief community engagement officer Diane Giampa plans to retire following a 27-year tenure with the Worcester-based bank come Dec. 31.