North County

For years, Princeton and other smaller towns in Central and Western Massachusetts missed out on high-speed internet. Now, finally, Princeton has its broadband.

A Pennsylvania real estate firm has paid $4 million to buy the land on which the Wachusett Animal Hospital and Pet Retreat sits and an adjacent lot in Westminster.

In 2017, Revolutionary Clinics Co-founder Ryan Ansin launched his cultivation facility in Fitchburg at the family’s 135-year-old factory. The 32-year-old entrepreneur talked with WBJ about the challenges and opportunities facing the budding industry.

Three long-term employees of the IC Federal Credit Union have been promoted to its executive team, according to Anthony Emerson, president and CEO of the Fitchburg-based lender.

Wachusett Brewing Co. will launch a new hard seltzer line this spring, joining another it launched in 2016.

A Duxbury-based convenience store and gas station operator, has opened two locations in Central Massachusetts. A 5,000-square-foot station has opened in Athol and a Citgo station in Bellingham has been replaced with a Shell station.

Two Central Massachusetts share in more than $2.6 million in Massachusetts Brownfields Redevelopment Fund awards to support the environmental cleanup of three contaminated parcels.

The co-founder of Revolutionary Clinics led a tour of the company's marijuana cultivation facility in Fitchburg on Wednesday to tout the industry’s effort to revitalize the regional economy.  

The Athol property on which the Quabbin Valley Healthcare nursing home sits has sold for $10 million.

Most of Central Massachusetts' biggest communities saw single-family home sales fall or remain flat last year while median prices continue to rise, according to data released Wednesday by The Warren Group, the Peabody-based real estate market tracker.