Four organizations in Central Massachusetts received grants totaling more than $264,000 to help expand the collection of mattresses, textiles, and food materials as part of the Commonwealth Recycling and Reuse Business Development Grant program on Thursday.
After months of growing unemployment across Central Massachusetts communities, rates decreased in all three of the region’s metropolitan areas tracked by the state between February and March.
With national retailer Bed Bath & Beyond declaring bankruptcy on Sunday, the owners of shopping plazas may have a challenge in filling the large spaces left empty.
Fitchburg State University received $500,000 from a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant to support the construction of a 250-seat black box theater adjacent to a historic theater in downtown Fitchburg.