Milford

KPM Analytics, a Westborough-based scientific instrumentation firm, announced on Tuesday it will open a new office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, expanding its presence in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Leapfrog Group has released its bi-annual Hospital Safety Guide scores, giving three Central Massachusetts hospitals A ratings for their dedication to patient safety.

Valdivia Logistics LLC, a shipping company based in Atlanta, has laid off 52 employees from its Milford facility, where it provided delivery services for online retailer Amazon, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act filing with the state.

The Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, headquartered in Worcester, announced Wednesday its Milford facility is moving across the street, tripling the center’s current square footage and increasing the resources it provides to town residents.

Massachusetts State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg announced on Tuesday five appointments to the Cannabis Advisory Board, a 25-person group which studies and makes recommendations to the state regulatory body Cannabis Control Commission.

Central Massachusetts is home to a wide range of manufacturing companies, including healthcare, industrial, and technology. Here are the five largest manufacturers in the region when ranked by number of local employees, according to surveys completed by the WBJ Research Department.

An industrial warehouse on 357 Fortune Blvd. in Milford sold to a quartz manufacturing company for $5.3 million, according to the Worcester County Registry of Deeds.

Rentschler Biopharma, a global contract development and manufacturing organization with offices in Germany and Milford, has named Christian Schetter as its new chief scientific officer, effective this past Wednesday, according to a Monday announcement.

Milford Regional Medical Center was awarded by the American Heart Association for its commitment to treating stroke...

The homogeneity among news editorship in Central Massachusetts is not unique to the region, but it does bring with it inherent questions about who decides what stories are newsworthy, and who decides how they are told.