Ashland

OnProcess Technology, an Ashland company specializing in service supply chain management, has extended its partnership with Ariba in North America, the company announced Wednesday.

Ashland-based NuVascular Technologies Inc. said it has obtained exclusive licensing rights to commercialize a stem cell device that allows the heart to repair itself and improve its functions in as little as two to four weeks.

NuVascular Technologies is sitting at the intersection of health care and textiles, a startup that's developing such products as artificial blood vessels. Matt Phaneuf, who has worked in medical research for 25 years, co-founded NuVascular.

An Ashland company has created a spinoff to commercialize medical devices that use nanotechnology to treat patients with heart and kidney disease.

The supermarket saga that dominated summer headlines ended Thursday morning as ousted CEO Arthur T. Demoulas took back the reins of Market Basket and employees returned to work after feuding factions of the Demoulas family reached a deal to sell the company.

Fallon Ambulance Service, based in Boston's South Shore suburbs, is expanding west to a new location in Ashland after it was selected as the emergency medical services provider for MetroWest Medical Center, Fallon announced.

Ashland officials are celebrating the recent sale and future occupation of a formerly vacant warehouse building as a significant step toward achieving economic development goals. Assistant Town Manager Michael Herbert said that while the town is not interested in expanding its commercial base, it's important that tenants be found for under-utilized properties, like the building sold recently at 60 Pleasant St. for $1.9 million. The sale was announced earlier this month. The new tenant, who has yet to be announced, will occupy some of the space, according to Herbert. Meanwhile, the new owner, Sixty Pleasant Realty LLC, is looking to lease an additional 50,000 square feet.

A warehouse that sits on more than four acres of land in Ashland has been sold for $1.9 million, a broker involved in the deal said Friday. The property, located at 60 Pleasant St., contains an industrial warehouse of more than 73,000 square feet, according to a statement from Parsons Commercial Group, which represented the buyer, Sixty Pleasant Realty LLC. The seller, Gamewell Realty, was represented by REP Realty Advisors, according to Parsons.

The commonwealth's largest independently-owned ambulance service can move next month into 7,500 square feet of newly-leased office space in Ashland's Ledgemere Park.

Several communities across the state, including Sudbury and Ashland, have raised the age for tobacco sales to higher than 18 years old within the past year, evidence of a slow-spreading movement that activists say will reduce cigarette use among teens.