Fitchburg

The VNA Care Network of Worcester has landed a $14,000 grant from The Tufts Health Foundation for a program that helps prevent senior citizens from falling.

Unitil Corp., the utility that serves Fitchburg, Lunenberg and Townsend, reported a loss of $100,000 for its most recent fiscal quarter, a 75-percent drop from the loss it declared in the second quarter of 2012.

Unitil Corp. is asking the state to approve a rate increase that would account for $6.7 million in revenue for the company — an 11.5-percent increase — but have a minimal impact on customers due to other charges ending.

Despite annual losses, Arrhythmia Research Technologies of Fitchburg posted revenue gains in the first quarter of 2013, according to an earnings statement.

Beginning in the fall, Fitchburg State University will offer one free college course to parents of children who are first-generation college students at the school.

Worcester County was among the majority of areas in the state that saw their unemployment rate tick up slightly in May, rising to 7.5 percent, up 0.5 of a percentage point from April, according to the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

The Fitchburg City Council unanimously approved a special permit authorizing an expansion at Fitchburg's Holiday Inn and...

Perhaps feeling as if they had always been taking a back seat to the Boston area, officials...

Arrhythmia Research Technology Inc. (HRT), a Fitchburg-based medical manufacturing and software firm, announced it will submit a plan to the New York Stock Exchange to prevent delisting, after the company said it failed to file its quarterly report on time.

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