North County

Heywood Healthcare in Gardner is replacing the CEO who has led the hospital system for 12 years, citing the changing healthcare landscape and the need to continue meeting its community's goals.

RE/MAX Diverse, based on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester, acquired RE/MAX Patriot Realty and will take over its 55 Mead St. office in Leominster.

A Worcester-based group of angel investors has banded together to form Wire Group, which invests up to $150,000 a year in high-growth startups and has already made three commitments to Massachusetts companies.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is one of eight companies nationwide to receive funding as part of an effort to produce a pilot-scale demonstration of fusion energy generation within a decade.

Five life science companies with significant operations in Central Mass. were among the 43 firms across Massachusetts chosen to split $24.4 million in tax incentive awards.

The Clinton Area Chamber of Commerce, an affiliate of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, named 12 local business leaders to its first board of directors.

UMass Memorial Health intends to shut down its maternity ward at the HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital, Leominster Campus this fall. Legislators and the nurses union oppose the proposal.

The Devens Eco-Efficiency Center is a nonprofit providing programs to help companies make more efficient choices, such as by creating The Great Exchange, a marketplace for the reuse of materials destined for the trash.

People are on the move at ERA Key Realty, Cunningham Equities, and more Central Massachusetts businesses.

Electric Hydrogen is opening a manufacturing facility in Devens to begin building its advanced electrolyzers, which can run off of renewable energy thanks to technological advances the company has made.