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RF Investment Partners, a growth capital investor based in New York and focused on lower-middle market businesses, has partnered with Chicago-based private equity firm Prairie Capital to make the investment.

Upon being approved by regulators, the merger would see the combined entities operated under the Hanscom Federal Credit Union name.

The People’s Bank has seven branches across three counties in Maryland’s Eastern Shore region.

Medical and defense optics manufacturer Precision Optics is relocating its corporate headquarters from Gardner to a larger site at the King Street Common mixed-use development in Littleton.

After weeks of relative calm, a power struggle over control of Tyngsborough-based supermarket chain Market Basket has escalated, after the company’s board fired two longtime executives who have sided with suspended CEO and President Arthur T. Demoulas.

Employees at Bowditch & Dewey, the Downtown Worcester Business Improvement District, and Quinsigamond Community College are moving forward as professionals.

The family scuffle is reminiscent of a situation in 2014.

Known as King Street and located on a former IBM campus near Interstate 495, the company says the project is the largest mixed-use development under construction in the state.

The 2,300-square-foot location at Government Center in Boston features interactive challenges to bring financial concepts to life in a fun and free way for the public.

Workers Credit Union has named its inaugural chief commercial banking officer, promoting Deb Larsen to the Littleton-based company’s new C-suite position.