North County

Three Central Massachusetts companies will be honored Tuesday at the 13th annual Massachusetts Economic Impact Awards for their contributions to the region's economy.

Gathered below are recent milestones for Harrington HealthCare under the direction of President and CEO Edward Moore.

Full commuter rail service for the recently opened, $93-million Wachusett Station on the Fitchburg Line will commence next week.

Gardner's Precision Optics Corporation shrunk its losses in its recently completed first quarter while revenue fell slightly.

Laddawn, a packaging maker headquartered in Devens, prides itself on its giving nature. The company, which has 304 total employees in five different states, participates in several charitable events every year, and manufactures entirely with renewable energy.

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito is bouncing from town hall to town hall in central Massachusetts on Monday, meeting with officials from Boylston, West Boylston, Milford and Princeton, and signing Community Compacts with those towns.

The second-largest healthcare provider in the state is making moves to extended outside of its Eastern Massachusetts stronghold through a new partnership with a 200 physician independent practice association based in Central Massachusetts.

The 48-bed Recovery Centers of America (RCA) drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility opened in Westminster last week.

The North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce has secured 75 new members as a result of its latest member campaign, the organization announced Monday.

In one of the largest private grants it has ever received, Fitchburg State University has received $240,000 to fund student-faculty collaboration on research focused on issues of personal fitness and the health of the Nashua River over the next three years.