Gardner

A Gardner manufacturer, Garlock Printing & Converting, has sold its two sites in town for more than $7 million to a New York firm.

A pair of buyers has paid $5.3 million for two properties hosting long-term care facilities in Gardner and Leominster.

Dr. Vinod Mohan, who leads infectious disease operations at Heywood Hospital, has spent just about every day since last December working to figure out the coronavirus, and help the hospital respond to it and plan for the rest of the pandemic.

Three Central Mass. sober housing groups received a cumulative $201,675 from the Center for Community Recovery Innovations, Inc., a nonprofit subsidiary of MassHousing, the government agency announced on Wednesday.

Tina Sbrega, the president and CEO of GFA Federal Credit Union, will retire next spring after more than a decade as the head of the Gardner institution.

Colleges in New England were already on the lookout for an expected drop in high school-age graduates locally, and struggling in some cases to balance high costs with keeping education affordable for students.

Tina Sbrega, the president and CEO of GFA Federal Credit Union, has been inducted into the Cooperative Credit Union Association after more than a decade leading the Gardner institution.

The Gov. Charlie Baker Administration announced this fall 13 Central Massachusetts communities would split $1.25 million in Shared Streets and Spaces emergency grants, in order to make roads more pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly, part of $10 million handed out statewide.

Enrollment at public colleges in Central Massachusetts has dropped substantially, including by more than 10% at Framingham State University and Mount Wachusett Community College, a trend echoed statewide as higher education has been upended by the coronavirus pandemic.

Rick Walton, owner of Moon Hill Brewing Co. in Gardner, has received a $50,000 Economic Recovery Fund loan from the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp., the financing arm of the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce, the chamber announced on Monday.