Transportation

Truck repair center Costello’s Truck Service at 317 Southwest Cutoff in Worcester has partnered with U-Haul as part of a dealer affiliation. 

The average gasoline price in Massachusetts is sitting at $3.39 per gallon of regular unleaded, 3 cents up from last week, according to a Monday report from the American Automobile Association Northeast.

The property with a Buick GMC and Cadillac dealership at 495 Main St. in Leominster was sold for $4.3 million to Richard Durand, who owns another dealership in Hudson, according to the Worcester North District Registry of Deeds.

Buoyed by an injection of federal relief funds during the pandemic, the MBTA will redirect half a billion dollars toward major safety investments, electric bus infrastructure, workforce retention efforts and matching grant programs.

National Grid energized 32 new electric vehicle charging ports on the UMass Chan Medical School campus in Worcester on Thursday, a $320,000 investment from the utility and the school.

The Worcester Regional Food Hub, an organization focused on strengthening agriculture and economic development, has received $1 million to expand into a new space at Worcester’s Union Station.

The Worcester Business Journal editorial staff is seeking readers' ideas for this year's Power 50, WBJ's annual list of the most influential professionals in Central Massachusetts.

A six-acre parcel in Westborough, including the site of closed garden center The Green Thumb, Inc., was sold to a Newton-based car dealer for $2.5 million, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will temporarily eliminate its local Framingham trains and alter its Worcester express services due to staffing shortages related to the surge in COVID-19 cases, according to a Thursday announcement from the MBTA.

In 2021, Massachusetts had the seventh highest rate of residents moving out of the state, according to Monday’s annual report from United Van Lines, a Missouri-based moving service which tracks national moving patterns.