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The Worcester City Council has signed off on a new oversight board for Polar Park after a long struggle between the council and the city administration over exactly how the city-owned $160-million baseball stadium should be managed.

The Worcester Red Sox will be able to have 2,377 fans in attendance, or 25% of Polar Park's capacity, for its first home game May 11, under new state coronavirus pandemic guidelines announced Tuesday by Gov. Charlie Baker.

The Worcester Red Sox are the only one in their 20-team minor league to have a new stadium to show off this season. Unfortunately for them, they're also one of very few not yet selling single-game tickets or announcing the start of such sales.

The first game at Polar Park for the Worcester Red Sox is three weeks away, and team and city leaders were excited to show off the nearly complete baseball stadium Tuesday.

Less than 1% of construction contracts awarded for Worcester's $160-million Polar Park baseball stadium went to certified minority-owned businesses, according to a news report published Thursday by Boston media outlet GBH News.

Work is underway on a new cabinet-making shop at Old Sturbridge Village, marking the first addition to the Village’s Common in more than 50 years, the living museum announced on Thursday.

Golf needed a boost, and the pandemic gave it to a sport that lends itself well to social distancing. Now courses are working to keep the golfers playing all those extra rounds.

The Regal Theatres at the Solomon Pond Mall in Marlborough and the Charles River Center in Bellingham are slated to open as soon as April 9.

The Worcester Red Sox may be limited by state guidelines for how many fans they'll be able to have at Polar Park this season, but it's their own cap that's put a lid on how many full-year season tickets they can sell for their inaugural season.

Gordon Lankton, founder of the Museum of Russian Icons and the man who transformed Clinton manufacturer Nylon Products into a billion-dollar, employee-owned company, died on Sunday at the age of 89.