MetroWest

Country Bank, Crossroads Continuum, Advantage Truck Group, the Worcester Red Sox, and Bartholomew & Co. had recent hires, promotions, and accomplishments.

Drones dropping defibrillators from the sky, wearable watches that improve CPR, and telehealth services bringing medical expertise to any location in the world are just a few innovations seeking to improve medical outcomes in hard-to-reach areas.

The move applies to all Reliant locations, which span across Worcester County and the MetroWest area. The move comes in the wake of staffing shortages at the group, a problem augmented across the healthcare industry by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tuesday’s sale was well above the assessed value and the previous sale of 21 Austen Way. The property is assessed by the City of Marlborough at just over $51 million, and was last sold for $65.2 million in 2018, according to the Marlborough assessors’ database. 

SALMON at Medway, a senior living community, is collaborating with Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine in New York City to conduct a study aimed at improving various aspects of life for residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.  

Holliston biotechnology company Biostage Inc. has secured a patent to allow the company known for its esophageal cancer treatment research to pursue treatments for lung cancer.

The honors include Family Owned Business of the Year, Minority Owned Business of the Year, Women Owned Business of the Year, Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and Small Manufacturer of the Year.

Renewable energy firm Ameresco partnered with Hickam Communities LLC, residential homes owned and managed by Lendlease at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii.

Wide-ranging marijuana legislation that targets some of the most persistent issues that activists, regulators, businesses and municipalities have said are holding Massachusetts back from realizing the full potential of the 2016 legalization law cleared the Senate unanimously Thursday afternoon.

Solmetex, LLC, a Northborough-based provider of amalgam separators and other waste compliance products for dentists’ offices, acquired Sterisil, a dental product supplier in Colorado specializing in dental unit water line infection control products.