Gardner

Heywood Hospital in Gardner will shut down its inpatient pediatrics and transitional care services units by the end of September, citing federal budget cuts, low patient volume and high-quality alternatives at nearby health care facilities.

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

Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) said it has been awarded a $640,000 federal grant to provide scholarships and support services to students studying science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) said it will receive about $74,000 from the state to train Heywood Hospital employees in Gardner in suicide prevention techniques.

Precision Optics Corp. of Gardner posted significant revenue gains and smaller losses in its third quarter, thanks to growing sales of existing and newly developed products for medical applications.

Five health care organizations have received grants totaling $65,000 from the Massachusetts Medical Society's Alliance Charitable Foundation for health care and medical services they deliver.

Mack Technologies, which makes circuit boards and electronics for the telecom, defense and industrial sectors, will save $50,000 a year at its headquarters thanks to one of the largest LED lighting retrofits in a manufacturing facility in New England, the company announced.

Gardner-based Precision Optics Corp. has landed a $660,000 deal to make custom-designed endoscopes for one of its largest medical device customers, the company announced today.

TerraTherm Inc., a Gardner-based toxics remediation firm, has won a government contract to clean up an organic pollutant that has accumulated at a Vietnam airport, it announced.

Gardner-based Precision Optics Corp. increased its sales in the second quarter by 1 percent, but its losses nearly doubled due to several settlements with investors, it reported this week.