Framingham

The September unemployment rates in the Central Massachusetts metropolitan areas surrounding Worcester, Framingham, and Leominster-Gardner all dropped.

Framingham State University has named Jeffrey Coleman, the Kennesaw State University deputy chief diversity officer, as FSU’s vice president for diversity, inclusion, and community engagement.

The Massachusetts Growth Capital Corp., a Boston-based quasi-public corporation, awarded $759,687 to Central Massachusetts chambers of commerce, development corporations, and micro-lenders.

Framingham-based DTiQ announced that it will acquire Summit Innovations, an international drive-thru technology firm.

Golf equipment research company Parsons Xtreme Golf is set to open its first store location in Framingham.

Ameresco, a renewable energy company based in Framingham, has begun construction on its new 131-acre solar energy plant in Hawaii.

Weekday hourly Commuter Rail service will return to the Framingham/Worcester line out of Worcester’s Union Station starting on Oct. 17.

Will a big bank like Chase put Central Massachusetts-headquartered banks at a disadvantage? Industry leaders here don’t think so.

Talk of CO2 shortages has become commonplace among brewers in Central Massachusetts.

Unemployment in the Framingham area fell significantly in August, with the local area rate dropping by 1.6 percentage points compared to the same month the year before.