Framingham State University has received approval to rename North Hall in honor of Mary Elizabeth (Miles) Bibb, the college’s first African American graduate and a pioneering abolitionist.
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection penalized Foxboro company Resource Control $20,000 for violating solid waste and air pollution control regulations at the Fitchburg-Westminster Landfill.
Chroma Color Corporation has completed a $1 million investment at its flagship Leominster site that will take on the work previously being done at its Clinton site.
Walmart has leased 181,000 square feet in Westminster for a new distribution center, according to the Connecticut real estate agency that represented the lessee.
The Massachusetts state government has purchased a 465-acre site in Templeton to be conserved as part of a new wildlife management area stretching for more than 2,650 acres.