Fitchburg

The owner of the Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise, Lowell Sun and the Boston Herald has acquired a 9.4% ownership stake in GateHouse Media and could vote against a proposed merger between that company and Gannett, the publisher of USA Today. 

Fitchburg nonprofit The Arc of Opportunity has added two new executive leaders to the positions of chief operating officer and chief financial officer. 

Thanks to a $250,000 investment from Atlanta parent company Cumulus Media, Fitchburg radio station WXLO can now be heard from listeners in the Boston area. 

Three companies have completed Garden Remedies' Catalyst Mentorship Program.

VERC Enterprises, a convenience and gasoline station operator headquartered in Duxbury, has acquired a new station in Westminster.

The Baker Administration has given $784,000 to five sites in four Central Massachusetts communities to help clean contaminated properties.

Funding cuts to prevention services are one cause for a rise in gonorrhea and other STI's. That's brought a stronger response from health officials in Central Massachusetts.

Rollstone Bank & Trust has opened its ninth branch location, at 788 Boston Road in Groton.

Median single-family home prices hit $268,250 in Worcester County in March, outpacing state price increases from last year, which across Massachusetts marked a record high.

Good Chemistry was given notice Friday from the state to begin operations in three calendar days and become Worcester's first cannabis shop.