Holliston

Voters in Milford yesterday said “no dice.” No blackjack or slots either. In fact, there was nothing ambiguous about the denial they delivered yesterday to the developers of the proposed resort casino near the junction of Interstate 495 and Route 16.

Consolidation of an Avery Dennison segment acquired by Toronto-based specialty packaging company CCL Industries, Inc. will result in the closure of supply chain operations in Holliston and the majority of its employees will be laid off as of Feb. 1, according to Sean Washchuk, chief financial officer for CCL. The segment, a consumer office products business called Avery, is part of a consolidation of operations in the United States, Canada and Mexico, according to a statement released by the company Oct. 30. The company's other Massachusetts supply chain operations in Chicopee are also slated to close. The consolidation will impact 250 Mass. employees, with only a small group of employees relocating and keeping their jobs, according to Washchuk. He declined to disclose the number of employees located in Holliston. No one answered the phone Monday afternoon at the Holliston location at 89 Cross St.

Holliston-based Harvard Bioscience completed the spinoff of the regenerative medical device portion of its company last week, the company said.

Holliston-based Harvard Bioscience has spun off part of its business, which makes regenerative medical devices, the company announced.

After nearly 10 years on the job, the president and CEO of the Milford Area Chamber of Commerce (MACC) will leave the post at the end of this year. A statement from the chamber said its board recently accepted the resignation of Barry Feingold, who is returning to Peru to take a job as a vice president of Bevintel, an international hospitality profit management firm.

Holliston-based Harvard Bioscience reported an 8.4-percent drop in revenue for its second quarter, as well as a net loss of $186,000. That marked a $962,000-turnaround after the life sciences manufacturer turned a $774,000 profit in the same quarter last year.

Businesses often find federal standards for clean air cumbersome, but one Holliston company is thriving on them.

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Chane Graziano, the CEO of Holliston-based Harvard Bioscience Inc., has resigned for personal reasons after 17 years in that role and will retire, the company's directors announced today.

Cost of living in the nine-town stretch of MetroWest between Hopkinton and Natick ranks above that of Boston, according to a report released last week by Framingham State University. The school's MetroWest Economic Research Center (MERC) issued its cost of living index – which it gathers and shares with a national organization called C2ER that tracks national prices – last week at its 21st annual conference at the Verve Crowne Plaza in Natick.