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When Barre Savings Bank President and CEO Guy Boyer went looking for a partner bank to merge with, it was the culture of Fidelity Bank, headquartered in Leominster, that drove his final decision, not figures and numbers. With 146 years of serving the community in and around Barre, it was important to him that a partnering bank have the same outlook and attitude toward its customers and employees as Barre has.

Michael W. Ames has been named the seventh executive director and CEO of Perkins, the Lancaster-based human services agency that includes the Doctor Franklin Perkins School.

The past two years haven't always been good for small community hospitals. Challenged to keep up with technological advances and squeezed by competition from larger health systems as they struggle for reimbursement, three have closed across the state.

A 2.3-percent tax doesn't sound like much, but taking it directly off the top of medical device companies' sales could have widespread impacts on businesses large and small, industry experts say.

Jabil Circuit Inc., the parent company of Clinton-based Nypro Inc., reported preliminary third-quarter net revenue of $4.4 billion on Wednesday. That is a 15 percent rise from the third quarter of fiscal 2014, when net revenue was $3.8 billion.

More than 2,200 unionized nurses at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester have voted to ratify one-year contracts after negotiations that the union called “relatively smooth.”

Twenty-seven Central Massachusetts companies are among nearly 200 companies in the Bay State that have been awarded state-funded workforce training grants.

Moody's Investors Service has upgraded its debt outlook for UMass Memorial Health Care from negative to positive, citing an upturn in the Worcester-based organization's finances.

Jabil Circuit Inc., the parent company of Clinton-based Nypro Inc., reported net revenue of $4.3 billion for the quarter, a 20 percent jump from the second quarter of 2014.