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A $2 million renovation project that will bring 15 additional full-time jobs to the city has been completed at the 100 Mayfield St. Big Y in Worcester, the company announced Tuesday.

Staples' bid to buy its chief rival, Office Depot, has been knocked by the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), which told Federal Trade Commission investigators that the merger proposed by the Framingham company would create a monolithic entity akin to “Godzilla” that would dominate rivals in the office-supply market.

Attorney General Maura Healey said Tuesday she believes an Amazon facility in Stoughton that plans to open on Thanksgiving qualifies as a "distribution warehouse," rather than a retail store that would be barred from opening on the holiday under state law.

The winter edition of local arts fair stArt on the Street is set to bring nearly $25,000 in sales to Worcester in December, the organizing committee announced Tuesday.

Camille Carrigan wants to spend Thanksgiving with family just like many other Americans who don't have to work on the national holiday.

Westborough-based eClinicalWorks is a company near the top of its field. It's one of the top vendors of electronic health records systems for U.S. doctors' offices and a big player in the development of mobile tools that let patients track their vital signs and communicate with doctors.

Local stakeholders are in the process of re-pitching a $34-million downtown Framingham satellite campus of Massachusetts Bay Community College to the Baker Administration after a host of community college capital projects across the state have been put on hold.

HEIDI M. LANDERS and REBECCA LYNCH were hired by Worcester social service agency The Bridge of Central Massachusetts. Landers is director of nursing. A resident of Barre, she is a graduate of Worcester State University, with a bachelor's degree in nursing and earned a master's degree in healthcare administration from Salem State University. Lynch was named director of development and marketing. Before joining The Bridge, she worked for Natick Visiting Nurse Association and The Price Center in Newton. Lynch has a bachelor's degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif., and a master's degree from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif., both in English.

The Classic Toy Shop that has been providing toys and games to the children of Worcester and surrounding communities for the past 35 years will shut its doors before the end of the year.

Total Wine & More, a national liquor retailer, has opened its first Massachusetts store at the Clover Leaf Mall on Speen Street in Natick.