Leominster

Waltham-based utility National Grid will donate $800,000 to eight chambers of commerce in Massachusetts, including $100,000 to the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce in Fitchburg.

People are on the move at UMass Memorial Medical Group, Fidelity Bank, and Clark University.

Bisousweet Confections will renovate and purchase equipment for its new 20,000-square-foot facility in Leominster with a $1.25 million loan from MassDevelopment.

RE/MAX Diverse, based on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester, acquired RE/MAX Patriot Realty and will take over its 55 Mead St. office in Leominster.

A Worcester-based group of angel investors has banded together to form Wire Group, which invests up to $150,000 a year in high-growth startups and has already made three commitments to Massachusetts companies.

UMass Memorial Health intends to shut down its maternity ward at the HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital, Leominster Campus this fall. Legislators and the nurses union oppose the proposal.

People are on the move at ERA Key Realty, Cunningham Equities, and more Central Massachusetts businesses.

Worcester Business Journal has been honored by the New England Newspaper & Press Association for coverage of diversity, equity, and inclusion issues, along with Polar Park, opinion commentary, editorial cartoons, and special sections on Worcester’s 300th anniversary and the 40 Under Forty awards.

Metro regions across Central Massachusetts experienced lower unemployment again in April after a drop in March.

The Leapfrog Group, a Washington D.C. based healthcare watchdog nonprofit, has released its biannual Hospital Safety Grade scores, giving one Central Massachusetts hospital an A rating while another received the second-lowest D rating.