Central Mass. South

Nichols College in Dudley has elected a new chair and vice chair of its 29-member board of trustees.

Laser manufacturer IPG Photonics, based in Oxford, is facing an investigation into equipment shipments, the company disclosed in its third quarter earnings report in 2021.

Five multi-families in downtown Webster were sold by Worcester-based 7 Hills Property Management for $2.4 million, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

The owner of the Vietnamese restaurant in Shrewsbury has purchased a Shrewsbury Street property with his sisters, where they are hoping to find more space and cost savings.

Charles “Chip” Norton, director of Franklin Realty Advisors in Wellesley, has breathed new life into once boarded up buildings by developing them into Southbridge Innovation Center.

Over 200 years and several ownership changes later, the vacant 1864-era complex remaining today is on the brink of being redeveloped into loft apartments.

The Southbridge Innovation Center, a mixed-use development located in Southbridge, will be the official flagship location for the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Center (MPTC).

Athena Health Care Systems, a Connecticut-based healthcare management company, has sold the properties housing four of its six facilities in Central Massachusetts for a total of more than $40 million, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

In the summer of 2020, Webster developer Galaxy Life Sciences announced plans to build a $50-million biomanufacturing facility at Worcester’s 46-acre life sciences campus, The Reactory.

After a rocky year, Worcester science museum The EcoTarium has announced Noreen Johnson Smith, an experienced community health leader, as its new president and CEO, according to a Thursday press release from the organization.