Casino backers touted the economic benefits a $200 million slots parlor could provide to the North Central Massachusetts region, while opponents expressed concerns about traffic and property values yesterday at a public forum in Lancaster.
A new Futures Collegiate Baseball League (FCBL) team will call Worcester home, making it the 10th franchise for the league in New England. The team, which has yet to be named, will fill the baseball void created when the minor-league Worcester Tornadoes folded due to financial troubles last summer.
Wisconsin-based Great Wolf Resorts has begun construction at what will become Great Wolf Lodge New England in Fitchburg. The opening of the indoor water park and renovated hotel at what is now a Holiday Inn and CoCo Key water park is set for 2014, according to Great Wolf.
Bermuda CableVision, Bermuda's top cable and Internet provider, has selected Acton-based Azuki Systems to support its new television services for tablets and smartphones known as TV everywhere.
The City of Marlborough will host its first official event since achieving the state's cultural district designation last October, with the Downtown Village Art Festival slated for Sunday.
Worcester's College of the Holy Cross is getting a boost in its efforts to grow its fine and performing arts curriculum and strengthen its ties to the area's cultural institutions through a $600,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.