Gardner

The Heywood HealthCare Charitable Foundation has awarded grants to nine area nonprofit groups, totaling nearly $100,000, the Gardner-based provider announced.

The Gardner Redevelopment Authority and the City of Gardner are undertaking a $1.8 million cleanup of a former metals facility as the groups continue to prepare the area for commercial investment.

Demand for high-quality reagents from the pharmaceutical industry has led to growth at New England Peptide, a Gardner manufacturer of the small pieces of protein.

Nichols College reaching out beyond Massachusetts to find community college students looking to transfer.

Gardner's Precision Optics Corporation shrunk its losses in its recently completed first quarter while revenue fell slightly.

The Providence and Worcester Railroad Co. has been awarded $2.38 million in federal grant funds for track improvements along its Gardner branch rail line.

Tourism travel is up in North Central Massachusetts, according to the latest hotel tax data for the region's largest communities.

The abrupt closure of all 137 campuses of the ITT Technical Institute has left approximately 35,000 students out in the cold, and Mount Wachusett Community College has announced it will work with them to find them a place at the school.

The GFA Federal Credit Union announced Thursday it promote Nicole Blais as the manager of the Winchendon branch for the credit union.

All but two of the acute-care hospitals in Central Massachusetts were profitable last year, pushing the overall margin for the region to fourth best out of the seven regions in the state.