Arts & Entertainment

The winter edition of local arts fair stArt on the Street is set to bring nearly $25,000 in sales to Worcester in December, the organizing committee announced Tuesday.

The Paxton Sports and Tennis facility has sold for $840,000 with the new owners planning on keeping the location open as a tennis and fitness center.

The Worcester Art Museum has added an exterior bridge that plays off of the building's architecture while creating an accessible main entrance.

Millbury Federal Credit Union opened a new branch at 117B Stafford St. in Worcester. The credit union has assets more than $300 million and more than 50,000 members.

Andy Proos first got the idea for Bluewire Audio in 2009 while training for the Marine Corps Marathon.

With at least five states -- Massachusetts possibly among them -- expected to vote on proposals to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana for recreational use next year, activists said the failure of a legalization ballot question in Ohio will have "no bearing" on the outcome on future legalization efforts.

The hoopla surrounding this month's announcement of a $33-million, high-end luxury hotel for downtown Worcester may seem a bit overhyped, but given the step-by-step nature of economic revitalization, business and city officials have the right to be excited to get another important piece of the puzzle in place and can't be faulted for shouting their successes from the rooftops.

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For local nonprofits, it can be a never-ending marathon to gather the dribs and drabs of money that keep the lights and the paychecks signed, which explains the enthusiasm in the voice of Joseph Cox when he talks of the $2 million his EcoTarium received from the Worcester-based C Jean and Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation.

Working for Worcester – a group founded by students at the College of the Holy Cross in 2012 to make improvements around the city – has won a $29,000 grant from The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts to help the organization upgrade and expand.