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The moment the ballot initiative passed in November 2016 allowing for recreational marijuana in Massachusetts, economic development officials across the state should have been sharpening their pencils.

When Chinese firms virtually stopped buying recycled mixed paper from the United States, the effects didn't take long to become visible at E.L. Harvey & Sons' Westborough facility.

The Baker Administration has given $784,000 to five sites in four Central Massachusetts communities to help clean contaminated properties.

Funding cuts to prevention services are one cause for a rise in gonorrhea and other STI's. That's brought a stronger response from health officials in Central Massachusetts.

Two Central Massachusetts hospitals gave sharply diverging news on labor relations Thursday.

Fidelity Bank's assets grew by 14% last year, landing it in what the Leominster bank says is in the top one-tenth nationally in growth rates.

Rollstone Bank & Trust has opened its ninth branch location, at 788 Boston Road in Groton.

Precision Optics, a Gardner maker of optical equipment, has received an order for $2.2 million to manufacture a cardiovascular endoscope for a Marlborough firm.

Check out these movers and shakers of Central Massachusetts.

The Worcester Planning Board has now signed off on three recreational cannabis retail stores in the city, after approving two more earlier this week.