Gardner

The unemployment rate in Worcester continued a downward trend in July, according to the latest numbers from the state.

Fidelity Bank has hired Brenda Woods as the bank's new Gardner branch manager and a vice president.

Mount Wachusett Community College has received a five-year, $1.18 million Federal grant that will help adults in the region successfully transition to college or other postsecondary education.

Telemedicine is opening doors to treating patients throughout Massachusetts.

Laurie Benson has been hired to lead Fidelity Bank's consumer banking as senior vice president and head of retail banking.

The license of Gardner-area doctor Robert B Shepherd, D.O. was suspended by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine in an emergency meeting.

The unemployment rate in Central Massachusetts fell in June year-over-year, although the numbers were an increase from last month's figures.

Mount Wachusett Community College has received $573,600 in state funds to help educate students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

A television pilot based on a book by a Chelmsford doctor is being filmed at Heywood Hospital in Gardner this week, according to the hospital.

Urgent care centers are rapidly popping up across Central Massachusetts, as the region starts to feel the ripples of a national trend.