North County

Bisousweet Confections, a Shirley-based wholesale bakery supplying baked goods to retailers nationwide, is expanding into a new facility in Leominster.

Eleven Central Massachusetts communities are receiving a portion of the 2.1-million at-home COVID tests set to be distributed by the Gov. Charlie Baker administration, per a Monday announcement.

The Strand in Clinton announced Thursday the historic theater will close permanently at the end of December.

A nearly 346,000-square-foot Clinton warehouse sold for $55.8 million as part of a four-building, $173-million investment sale, according to the real estate database CoStar.

UMass Memorial-Harrington will not allow visitors in the emergency departments of its Webster and Southbridge campuses, the hospital announced Friday afternoon, citing an increase in COVID-19 cases.

People are on the move at UMass Memorial Medical Group, Bryley Systems, Shrewsbury Federal Credit Union and more.

Boys & Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster, a youth development nonprofit, has hired a veteran of Coca-Cola to be its new CEO.

Fitchburg State University was awarded $475,000 from MassDevelopment for its Main Street Theater Block rehabilitation project, according to a Friday press release from the school.

Red Tail Heights in Devens, a 26-acre parcel of land overlooking Red Tail Golf Club, was sold by MassDevelopment for more than $3 million in early November, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

The Worcester metropolitan area, which includes Worcester County and Windham County, Conn., saw a drop to a 5.2% unemployment rate in October, down 0.2 percentage points from the previous month, according to Thursday’s report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.