Greater Worcester

RE/MAX Diverse, based on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester, acquired RE/MAX Patriot Realty and will take over its 55 Mead St. office in Leominster.

The Worcester Red Sox are partnering with Canal District and Green Island businesses to encourage fans to patronize businesses in the neighborhood by offering discounts and reward points.

A portion of a commercial lot at 1059 Grafton St. in Worcester was sold for $775,000 to a company planning to build a car wash at the property.

State tax revenues surpassed expectations in May after an unexpectedly steep nosedive in April, yet the total haul remains hundreds of millions of dollars short of projections with the budget year drawing to a close, officials said Monday.

While the business community throughout Massachusetts have begun to feel pessimistic about the state’s economic outlook for the first time in three years, company leaders in Central Mass. remain cautiously optimistic, according to the monthly index from the Associated Industries of Massachusetts.

More than 12,000 people left MassHealth coverage in April, and top state officials expect those numbers to grow significantly in the coming months as the process of redetermining eligibility for about 2.4 million Bay Staters ramps up.

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development granted Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester $200,000 to fund a training program for previously incarcerated individuals.

Saint John’s High School trustee and alumnus Dennis Crowley has committed $1 million to support the school’s Curriculum of Care in Support of Community Wellness priority of the private Shrewsbury boys-only high school’s strategic plan.

Former Worcester City Manager Ed Augustus was sworn in on Thursday morning as the state's first Cabinet-level housing secretary in three decades, saying he is focused on increasing housing production, but staying mum on specific policies that housing advocates say are necessary.

Trulieve, a Florida-based cannabis company with dispensaries in Worcester, Framingham, and Northampton, will close all three of those operations on June 30.