North County

Warehouses and distribution centers have been popping up throughout Central Massachusetts over the last year. In the last few months, online retail giant Amazon has added several locations throughout the region and appears poised to take over the high-profile location for the soon-to-be-demolished Greendale Mall.

Long before the coronavirus pandemic hit, veterans services groups were facing a deep demographic challenge: Far fewer young vets have been interested in joining their local VFW, American Legion or other post.

Dr. Vinod Mohan, who leads infectious disease operations at Heywood Hospital, has spent just about every day since last December working to figure out the coronavirus, and help the hospital respond to it and plan for the rest of the pandemic.

The Doctor Franklin Perkins School in Lancaster has named 10 new trustees through its new affiliation agreement with Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps, also of Lancaster, the school announced on Tuesday.

Three Central Mass. sober housing groups received a cumulative $201,675 from the Center for Community Recovery Innovations, Inc., a nonprofit subsidiary of MassHousing, the government agency announced on Wednesday.

Two Central Mass. companies have received nearly $800,000 in grant funding from the Industrial Rail Access Program, which aims to enhance rail and freight access, the Gov. Charlie Baker administration announced on Nov 19.

A moving company has sold its former Townsend site for nearly $2.4 million to a pair of buyers from Harvard.

King Street Properties, a Boston development firm that bought three Devens sites this year, is planning a $500-million life sciences complex in a major boon to the former military base.

Tina Sbrega, the president and CEO of GFA Federal Credit Union, will retire next spring after more than a decade as the head of the Gardner institution.

Wachusett Mountain Ski Area in Princeton officially marked the start of its ski season on Friday, sending its first chair out at 8:30 a.m., according to its press release.