North County

Worcester-based Webster First Federal Credit Union has agreed to merge with a small one-branch credit union in Merrimac that will become its 16th location.

New York-based GateHouse Media, the parent company of the Telegram & Gazette, the MetroWest Daily News and dozens of other daily and weekly newspapers in the state, is spending $1.2 million to acquire the Worcester Magazine and other five small papers in Central Massachusetts.

A Clinton cereal manufacturing facility owned by Missouri-based Post Holdings will close by August 2019.

The Westminster-based Wachusett Brewing Co. has unleashed a new beer called the Fergal Project, a collaboration between the brewery and former Guinness brewer Fergal Murray, now a brewery consultant.

The Board of the Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts has elected two new members to three of its committees, including Kevin Grozio, Fallon Health senior vice president and CFO.

Westminster retailer Aubuchon Hardware is converting its onsite merchant and intelligence software to the cloud, thanks to a Florida-based company.

New York-based GateHouse Media, the parent company of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, is acquiring a small Central Massachusetts media company, which owns Worcester Magazine.

Wachusett Brewing Co. in Westminster has partnered with a renowned Irish beermaker to release a New England-style stout, his first partnership with a U.S. craft brewer.

Lancaster human services agency Perkins has hired Kathleen Savage Mills as its director of research and innovation.

Atlantic Union College, a small Christian school in Lancaster struggling with finances and a lack of accreditation, will effectively close after the spring semester.