North County

After two decades, the Healing Garden has evolved into a place where anyone fighting cancer can participate in a meditation, yoga, knitting or writing class, or take part in group mindfulness session or another on living a life of meaning.

Fitchburg has received a $3-million infrastructure grant from the state to remake Main and Boulder streets downtown, the Gov. Charlie Baker Administration announced Thursday.

The Fitchburg City Council eliminated the split-tax rate where commercial property owners pay a higher rate than residential property owners.

Nurses and supporters held a candlelight vigil at the Leominster campus of UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital.

An effort by a Massachusetts coalition of nursing homes to secure funding for nursing home patients appears to be headed for the ballot.

Fitchburg tool manufacturer Simonds Saw, which had planned to trim operations, has closed on a $5.6-million sale of its site in the city.

Fitchburg Gardens, a 79-bed nursing and rehabilitation facility at 94 Summer St., has sold for $2.5 million.

Fidelity Bank is donating its former headquarters in downtown Fitchburg to Fitchburg State University.

While Bay State home sales increased by less than 1% and median single-family sales price rose 3.5% in October, Worcester, Framingham, Leominster, and Marlborough bucked the trend.

When Spectrum Health Systems got its start half a century ago, the agency was located in Methuen, was named the Challenge House, and the addiction treatment industry thought little of the complex ways people could be helped.