North County

Several Central Mass. organizations were among the 28 community hospitals to receive awards totaling $60 million from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC), it announced on Wednesday.

Geronimo Properties of Leominster said it purchased the SouthFitch Shopping Center, a 30,000- square-foot retail property at the corner of John Fitch Highway and Summer Street.

The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts has announces five grants to support a range of projects throughout the region — all of which are expected to improve the health of the area population.

Precision Optics of Gardner closed its fiscal year by reaching a sales record while reducing losses, the company said Tuesday.

It may not have profits, but AMSC, of Devens, does have prospects. Analysts say the troubled clean energy technology company is not in dire straits, but needs to execute on current orders and sign new deals to recover from several years of legal woes with overseas companies.

Gardner received a $200,000 MassWorks grant Monday that will assist a $1.5 million expansion of New England Peptide (NEP) in the city's Summit Industrial Park.

Despite beating analyst expectations on the strength of iPhone sales for which it makes casings, manufacturing services firm Jabil Circuit Inc., the parent company of Clinton-based Nypro Inc., reported rough times for both its fourth quarter and fiscal year on Wednesday.

Nypro, of Clinton, opened a new 200,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Devens on Thursday as the plastics manufacturer turns up the production of products for its health care-industry customers.

Fidelity Bank of Fitchburg has agreed to pay $3.5 million toward a relief fund for Massachusetts investors who were defrauded by an alleged pyramid scheme involving TelexFREE of Marlborough, the secretary of state's office announced Monday.

A hazardous waste cleanup professional from Clinton has lost his state license for eight months after he allegedly concluded that there was no imminent hazard at a former dry cleaner in Ayer when, in fact, there was, according to a statement from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).