North County

Ohio-based Big Lots has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

“This is not the outcome that any of us had hoped for,” a letter to customers on LL Flooring’s website reads.

The Westminster Business Park is set to become the site of a Home Depot distribution building.

Employees at Leominster Credit Union, MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, and Mirick O’Connell in Worcester are making strides in their careers.

Three entrenched Worcester law firms received news of a new challenger arriving from the east in July, when high-profile, Boston-based Prince Lobel Tye announced it would open a Worcester office, convincing about a dozen Bowditch lawyers to join the firm in the process.

For this rural Massachusetts area, the hospital’s closure will mean extended ER wait times at neighboring hospitals already pushing capacity, quadrupled ambulance turnaround times, and ultimately, the potential collapse of a healthcare system already spread thin.

The state is arranging to have ambulances on standby outside both Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer and Carney Hospital in Dorchester for a week after the hospitals close Saturday morning and is in talks to repurpose the Ayer hospital in some way, the governor's office said Friday.

Pelmeds, a Waltham-based closed-door pharmacy specializing in medication management and delivery with a location in Fitchburg, has acquired the Brockton-based pharmacy Apothecare.  

Robert Paulhus, president and CEO of Clinton Savings Bank, is planning to retire from his position of 16-years come March 31.  

Thirteen years after a fire destroyed the Johnsonia Building in Fitchburg, the City’s redevelopment authority has put out a request for proposals for the vacant lot.