Four MetroWest communities — Ashland, Marlborough, Shrewsbury and Stow — have received $15,000 state grants each for planning efforts to improve their downtowns.
Downtown Hudson is taking advantage of new buzzed-about businesses by forming a business improvement district to help with aesthetics, parking and marketing.
Hudson's Medusa Brewing Company has filed plans for a 10,000-square-foot production brewery and tasting room just feet away from its current brewery and taproom on Main Street.
A man who led authorities to $20 million hidden in a mattress has been sentenced to 33 months of prison time for his role in the TelexFree pyramid scheme.
Grocery shopping can be a mundane experience, a get-in-and-get-out exercise not exactly stirring up passion.
Then there's Whole Foods Market and Market Basket.