Greater Worcester

The owners of Canton-based Prestige Car Wash and Gas bought a portion of a Milford shopping plaza for $4.7 million. They plan to build a car wash on part of the site.

Family Health Center of Worcester has received $2.9 million from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, part of the agency’s Community Health Center capital grant investment program.

Amid uncertainty about a future recession, a pause in interest rate hikes, and a continuing tight labor market, Central Massachusetts business leaders turned pessimistic in June.

The U.S. EPA awarded $2 million to the Worcester Business Development Corp.’s nonprofit arm, New Garden Park, for environmental cleanup at a site formerly owned by manufacturer Saint-Gobain slated for redevelopment.

A UMass Chan Medical School professor has received $500,000 from a North Carolina private foundation to research using cholesterol metabolites to regulate the immune system.

A group calling itself the Massachusetts for Mental Health Options committee filed paperwork with state campaign finance regulators signaling plans to pursue a ballot question that could decriminalize psychedelics.

Worcester artists collective El Salón and community radio station, WCUW, each received MassDevelopment Transformative Development Initiative (TDI) Creative Catalyst Grants for projects serving their communities.

Connecticut-based insurance agency, Smith Brothers Insurance, acquired Rawson & Sons Insurance Group of Worcester.

Aspiring nurse aides should be allowed to take the certification exam in languages other than English, lawmakers and advocates said Thursday as they sought to revive support for a measure that died at the legislative finish line last year.

Massachusetts has more than enough solar energy potential to support the decarbonization requirements enshrined in state laws, according to a report officials released Thursday.