Chances are now very high daily community news coming out of Central Massachusetts will be from a publication owned by a large media corporation, with a strong commitment to the bottom line.
A medical marijuana company with a 25,000-square-foot cultivation facility in Milford is hoping to expand into the recreational cannabis growing business.
Another powerful nor'easter, this one on the heels of a storm that battered the East Coast last week, has caused power outages to more than 368,000 Massachusetts homes and businesses on Thursday.
Lobisser Building Corp. has proposed to buy a vacant middle school on Milford's Main Street, with plans for either a two-story commercial building or senior living apartments.
If efforts to prevent the closure of a beer bottle plant and the loss of 250 jobs are not successful, Milford's Statehouse delegation is working to help workers with relocation and training.
The Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise will close its longtime offices this month, leaving its shrinking staff to work remotely just three months after its editor was laid off.