Framingham

Assisted Living Locators, a senior placement and referral service based in Phoenix, Ariz., has awarded a dozen franchise agreements across the U.S., including in Framingham and Worcester.

Revenue at TJX-branded stores in the U.S. fell short of expectations in the second quarter, which the company attributed to high inflation.

Home prices continued to increase in several MetroWest towns and in Middlesex County, as Massachusetts as a whole saw a dramatic drop in the number of home sales.

Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain and owner of Worcester’s Telegram & Gazette, Framingham’s MetroWest Daily News as well as several other local papers, has laid off personnel across its publishing empire.

Led by Worcester manufacturing tech firm Solvus Global, 19 Central Massachusetts firms made the 2022 Inc. 5000, a national list of the fastest growing companies from the New York City magazine.

New York City-based The Lightstone Group, with its partner Outshine Properties, has purchased 100-150 Staples Drive in Framingham for $24.7 million, which is more than double the price the property sold for in 2021.

Framingham State University announced on Thursday that it will receive $1.7 million over three years to fund a residency program in the city’s public schools from the Boston-based Massachusetts Service Alliance, a nonprofit state affiliate of the federal agency, AmeriCorps.

The Worcester Metropolitan Statistical Area unemployment rate rose to 3.7% in June, up from 3.5% in May, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development on July 26.

Ellen McGovern, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Clinton Savings Bank, has been named board chair of Framingham’s United Way of Tri-County as of Aug. 1.

The TJX Companies Inc. has agreed to pay a civil penalty for selling recalled products several years ago.