Fitchburg

Central Massachusetts colleges say they don't expect to change their admissions reviews as a result of the Trump Administration's advisement that colleges no longer consider a student's race or ethnicity in the admissions process.

When Fidelity Bank in Fitchburg decided a year ago it wanted to expand its presence in Worcester, the bank tabbed Pitcher to make all the economic and community connections necessary to turn the expansion into a success.

Francis Dauphinais has been appointed as the new senior vice president and chief financial officer at Worcester's Bay State Savings Bank.

Worcester lawyer Robert White has been elected to serve as president-elect of the Worcester County Bar Association, the group announced last week.

An increasing amount of primary care is being provided by agencies set up specifically with low-income and marginalized people in mind: federally qualified community health centers.

UMass Medical Center and Memorial Hospital merged two decades ago, wanting to keep local control and changing health care in the region.

The owner of a Fitchburg private wastewater treatment company and an engineering company has been sentenced to three years of probation and other penalties for falsifying wastewater supplies and test results.

A research group advocating against mandated nurse staffing ratios said hospital unit closures like the pediatric unit at UMass Memorial Health Alliance-Clinton Hospital in Leominster will continue if a ballot question is passed.

Fifteen local artists hope to create the largest paper airplane ever assembled, taking ideas from some of Central Massachusetts' largest manufacturers and paper from historic paper-making businesses in the Fitchburg area.

The president of Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital in Boston has been named to lead UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester where he will begin duties on Sept. 1, UMass announced Thursday.