Stow

Though the construction industry may still feel like a boys’ club to Jennie Lee Colosi, she seems to have navigated it well over the past five decades.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Stow clean energy firm River Otter Renewables have been granted $75,000 each for climate-related initiatives, as part of a $2.5-million award statewide from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

The expansion of elderly housing in Stow has received a large financial boost.

The Collings Foundation, a nonprofit educational foundation based in Stow, has decided to ground all of its aircraft and put them on static display at its American Heritage Museum.

Massachusetts snagged an additional $80 million in Federal Highway Administration money, the Healey administration announced, as part of a redistribution of funds that occurs annually.

Five organizations in Boxborough and Stow received a combined $232,209 as part of nearly $600,000 awarded in Central Massachusetts and $1 million statewide from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection grants to small public water suppliers.

A long-anticipated conservation and residential development project at the Stow Acres Country Club is approaching its final stages as a 189-unit mixed-income housing development project awaits approval by the Town of Stow.

Maynard-based JM Coull, Inc., one of the larger commercial contractors in Central Massachusetts, will close, according to an announcement posted on its website.

A 1.1-acre commercial property at 1034 Massachusetts Ave. in Boxborough sold to an entity registered to Robert Aurellano, owner of Montenegro Landscape Corp., for $1.9 million, according to the Middlesex South Registry of Deeds.

Five affordable and low-income housing projects in Framingham, Stow, Webster, Westminster, and Worcester will take part of $50 million in direct funding and $90 million in in state and federal tax credits announced by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development announced on Tuesday.