North County

GAAMHA, Inc. has received $450,000 in funding from the first-ever $3-million Massachusetts Social Enterprise Capital Grant Program, to improve its facilities and support its mission.

The North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce graduated 17 local professionals as part of the Class of 2022 from its Community Leadership Institute, during which they established a foundation and supported community needs.

After 10 years of owning the Gazbar Sports Grill in Leominster, Erica Grinkis is working on a few small projects to keep the eatery fun and enticing, but its main goal is to keep the space familiar to regulars.

The median price in June of a single-family home in Massachusetts reached $610,000, while that figure for homes in Worcester County rose 9.4% year over year to $432,050.

The owners of Friendly Crossways in Harvard have sold their property at 247 Littleton County Road and a neighboring lot in Harvard for $2.2 million.

Worcester County woodland property owners can now get paid to maintain their forests.

A 366,000-square-foot industrial facility has been proposed by Boston developer GFI Partners off Airport Road on Fitchburg’s border with Lunenburg.

Devens hydroponic grower Little Leaf Farms has hired a former vice president of sales from the California fruit company Dole as its new senior vice president of sales.

The Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts in Fitchburg has granted $24,000 to the Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation to aid north-central Massachusetts students attending Mount Wachusett Community College in the 2022-23 academic year.

Properties in Ayer in Harvard were purchased by Michigan produce company Riveridge Produce Marketing Inc. of Sparta, Mich. for $3 million, according to the Middlesex South Registry of Deeds and the Worcester District Registry of Deeds.