North County

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.

When they looked in their email a few weeks ago and found subpoenas from U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling's office looking into their relationships with marijuana businesses, leaders in communities across Central Massachusetts, and the rest of the state, were surprised.

A Harvey Building Products facility in an industrial area off Water Street in Fitchburg has sold for $3.2 million.

Gov. Charlie Baker announced Tuesday the state has provided $3 million in small business technical assistance grants to four dozen nonprofits, including six in Central Massachusetts.

Construction on a 58-unit senior independent living complex in Devens will reach its ceremonial three-story peak at an event Wednesday.