Arts & Entertainment

Tracking Central Massachusetts tourist locations’ decisions and challenges – and how they handled them over the last three decades – is an exercise in business strategy. How do you get people to keep coming to your attraction?

As leaders, they ably represented two of Central Massachusetts’ longest-running institutions: each intricately tied to Isaiah Thomas. One turned his bequeathed library into the world’s preeminent repository of pre-20th-century print materials in what is now the United States. The other invoked the patriot printer’s name for its annual award to citizens who serve Worcester with distinction.

As candlepin bowling undergoes a bit of a renaissance in Central Massachusetts, a Millis bowling alley was the site of a new world record game.

Tom and Nick Bedrosian always knew they wanted to go into business together. Growing up, the brothers did not know what their business would look like, but after creating an all-purpose seasoning in their family kitchen, an idea for a spice company was born.

Employees at Vision Advertising, Rockland Trust, and the Worcester Art Museum are makeup upward moves in their careers.

Worcester science and nature nonprofit museum EcoTarium will break ground on its first expansion project since 2000, as the museum plans to construct a 8,300-square-foot traveling exhibit gallery. 

Hendler Family Brewing was already the largest brewer in Central Massachusetts.

The City of Worcester has agreed to extend management of the DCU Center by ASM Global for an additional 10 years.

Kim Golinski made the transition from craft beer to professional sports on Aug. 1, when she officially became the team president of the Worcester Railers.

Deborah Hall, executive director of Worcester nonprofit YWCA Central Massachusetts, has been named as one of 18 inaugural members of the state’s Cultural Economy Advisory Council, serving as the council’s sole member from the region.