Milford

A German biopharmaceutical manufacturing company has shifted its governance structure and hired an industry veteran as its new vice president and top executive at its Milford facility. 

Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain and owner of Worcester’s Telegram & Gazette, Framingham’s MetroWest Daily News as well as several other local papers, has laid off personnel across its publishing empire.

Rentschler Biopharma, a German contract development and manufacturing company with a growing presence in Milford, has added two newly created senior-level positions to its leadership team.

Milford lab equipment manufacturer Waters Corp. is working with University of Minnesota researchers to advance the science of plant-based proteins. 

Milford life sciences manufacturer Waters Corp. will collaborate with South Korean researcher BioInfra, Inc. to establish the ASEAN Academy for Bioanalysis in Seoul, in the hopes of lowering prescription drug prices.

Al-Sadiq Islamic Center Inc. has purchased the former location of The Crystal Room Milford for $1.4 million as the nonprofit is moving its headquarters from Framingham.

Whitinsville-based Koopman Lumber has acquired Boilard Lumber, a family-owned lumber yard based in Indian Orchard, a neighborhood of Springfield, marking its first incursion into Western Massachusetts.

The Worcester County Bar Association picked attorney Leonardo Angiulo as its new president-elect at its annual meeting on June 14. 

Central One Federal Credit Union of Shrewsbury purchased a former Bank of America location at 82 Prospect St. in Milford for $1.3 million, in order to open a new branch at the location.

Freilich spent more than 16 years at Milford-based SALMON Health and Retirement, working first as an executive director at Willows of Worcester before assuming the same role at the Willows and Whitney Place at Medway.