Unionized janitors and an association of the region’s largest cleaning contractors union agreed to a tentative agreement early Wednesday, avoiding a strike that could have seen 12,500 area cleaners walk off the job.
GreatNeck, a tool manufacturing company headquartered in New York, has sold a Millbury property containing three manufacturing buildings for $3.5 million.
The National Institutes of Health have awarded $1.1 million to a Worcester Polytechnic Institute-led research project aimed at reducing racial bias in care for premature infants.Â
Voters will not be asked next year whether Massachusetts should revive local-option rent control after organizers working on a 2024 ballot question suspended their campaign.