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New York-based Soltas Energy Corp. has agreed to pay $330,000 over allegations it caused two Massachusetts towns and two nonprofit organizations to lose thousands of dollars in energy savings when it failed to honor agreements to sell them net metering credits, Attorney General Maura Healey said Thursday.

As a Quincy-based urgent care center business prepares to enter Worcester, UMass Memorial Health Care has announced its own plans to open multiple urgent care centers in the city and the surrounding area, beginning this year.

Like many communities, Gardner was once a thriving manufacturing city that struggled after losing much of that old manufacturing base. Today, the city's economic base includes a mix of small businesses and manufacturers that are expected to boost manufacturing employment in the "Chair City."

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The board of directors for the Workers' Credit Union approved a payout of more than $2.5 million to members as a result of the credit union's performance in 2014, according to a news release Wednesday from the credit union.

Medical device manufacturer Arrhythmia Research Technology of Fitchburg saw a nearly 13-percent jump in net sales last year and turned its first profitable year since 2010, its CEO said Friday.

Jabil Circuit Inc., the parent company of Clinton-based Nypro Inc., reported net revenue of $4.3 billion for the quarter, a 20 percent jump from the second quarter of 2014.

Education reformer and former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Gabrieli has been tapped by Gov. Charlie Baker to chair the Board of Higher Education replacing Charles Desmond. Baker on Tuesday afternoon also announced that Sheila Harrity, superintendent of Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School District and a former Principal at Worcester Technical High School, would take a seat on the board replacing Keith Peden.

Three Central Massachusetts life sciences companies, including one that's moving its headquarters to the region, will receive nearly $5 million in state tax incentives toward the creation of 275 jobs.

(Updated Friday at 6:15 p.m.) A plan to consolidate two patient-care units at Clinton Hospital is meeting with opposition from the union that represents its nurses.