North County

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.

Nearly $16.4 million in MassWorks funding will be spread across nine Central Massachusetts towns and cities to help cover infrastructure projects during economic recovery, state officials announced on Thursday.

Roy Nascimento, CEO and president of the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce, joins The Weekly Business Report to discuss the results of the chamber's survey showing in-depth how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting the business communities in Leominster, Fitchburg and the rest of North Worcester County.

The Sterling Academy of Gymnastics has received a $50,000 microloan from the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. for working capital for pandemic-related relief and recovery, as well as to help start a remote education program, NCMDC announced on Tuesday.