Greater Worcester

The Worcester City Council has delayed its planned tax classification hearing to set the city's fiscal 2015 property tax rates a week due to an error in supporting tax tables.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) has penalized Jamaheja, Inc. of Worcester $10,312 for allegedly violating the Wetlands Protection Act on property located in Southbridge.

Worcester's bonds have received a strong rating, indicating a “very strong capacity for payment” of the city's financial commitments, according to a release from Fitch Ratings.

Nichols College in Dudley said it will raise tuition by 2.9 percent for the 2015-2016 academic year, but will hold the line the following year, marking the college's second tuition freeze in three years.

The Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts (GSCWM) said it will divest of three of its seven outdoor facilities while leaving open the possibility of expanding its four remaining properties in the future.

The Beechwood Hotel will undergo what it calls a “major” multi-million-dollar refurbishment that its owners say will upgrade the Worcester facility into a “modern, state-of-the-art, upscale boutique” hotel with the goal of making it the “most luxurious” west of Boston.

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When news of the first confirmed Ebola case in West Africa broke in March, Patricia McQuilken, a University of Massachusetts Medical School doctor working at a hospital in Liberia, felt confident the virus could be contained. But it was not, and today she and a UMass team are back in Liberia

Worcester city councilors next week are expected to hold their annual tax classification hearing, and the business community is again lobbying to shrink the gap between the residential and commercial/industrial rates. The council has done that in two of the last three years, and should do so again.