New York-based GateHouse Media, the parent company of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, is acquiring a small Central Massachusetts media company, which owns Worcester Magazine.
Digital First Media, the Denver-based owners of the Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise, won the auction for ownership of the Boston Herald with an $11.9-million bid in a lengthy bankruptcy proceeding Tuesday night.
The Colorado-based newspaper group that owns the Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise has submitted a bid to purchase the Boston Herald via bankruptcy court, the Herald reported Thursday.
Nearly $1 million in recycling grants has been awarded to six companies -- including two in Central Massachusetts -- to enable better processing of food, wood and plastics.
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.