Webster

Companies with new hires and promotions include Oriol Health Care, Eagle Clearning Corp., Bay State Savings Bank, and Gorman Richardson Lewis Architects.

Hometown Financial Group, Inc., the holding company for bankHometown in Oxford, plans to acquire Randolph Bancorp, Inc. the Quincy-based holding company of Envision Bank, for $146.5 million.

Spectrum Internet, a communications technology provider affiliated with Charter Communications, Inc., has doubled the starting download speed of its internet service from 100 to 200 Mbps throughout its Central Mass. locations, according to a Tuesday press release.

Curaleaf Holdings Inc., an international cannabis company headquartered in Wakefield with dispensaries in Oxford and Webster, reported a total 2021 revenue of $1.2 billion.

Planet Fitness, the exercise center franchise headquartered in New Hampshire, has opened its location in Worcester’s Lincoln Plaza at 535 Lincoln St.

The United Way of Central Massachusetts has been awarded $4.5 million, to be dispersed over two years, through the federally funded Afterschool and Out-of-School Time Rebound grant, the nonprofit announced Thursday night.

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

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.

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.