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Aquarion Water Co. has completed Phase 2 of a three-year, $2 million water main replacement project in Oxford on Main Street, the company announced.

The holding companies for Oxford-based Hometown Bank and Easthampton Savings Bank will merge during the first quarter of 2016, and the banks will form a “strategic partnership” while maintaining autonomy, according to a statement from the banks Monday.

The Central Massachusetts Convention and Visitors Bureau is dead. Will its successor, the Worcester Regional Visitors and Tourism Corp., pump more life into the region's tourism industry?

Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) will be a partner in a $600 million national effort to boost training in photonics, a discipline that studies and uses light for electronics and other applications.

FLEXcon of Spencer will work with an Illinois manufacturer to provide label and parts finishing to printers and manufacturers, as well as converters, or businesses that combine raw materials, the company announced Monday.

U-Haul and Townline Motor Sales have teamed up to serve as the neighborhood U-Haul dealer in North...

Lauren Plant, investor relations officer at Calare Properties, based in Hudson, was named a recipient of The...

IPG Photonics reported a second-quarter revenue leap of 22 percent, as well as a 25 percent rise in earnings per share, thanks in part to increased sales of its high-power fiber lasers, the Oxford-based manufacturer announced Tuesday.

Southbridge-based Harrington HealthCare System is the latest Central Massachusetts provider to enter the urgent care business, announcing Tuesday that it will open an urgent care center in Charlton.

Hospital administrators — and the public — now have a more complete picture on Massachusetts hospital readmissions, after the state Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) last week released the first report showing readmissions rates for all insurance payers.