Hospitality

After nearly four years with a streamlined system in place to permit outdoor dining and permission to sell takeout alcoholic drinks, both practices lapsed Monday as the calendar flipped to April.

Larry Lucchino, the former president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox and the person most instrumental in moving the Pawtucket Red Sox to Worcester, has died at age 78, according to reporting by the Boston Globe. 

Developers and business owners expect that growth to continue, saying new businesses and even more residents will soon make the area home, creating the next chapter in the long history of the Canal District.

stART on the Street Co-Founder Tina Zlody will step down from her position as director of the Worcester art festival after 19 years and be replaced by the co-founders of the nonprofit Creative Hub Worcester.

John Perten, an attorney from Boston-based law firm Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, which represented Chiller in the case, declined to disclose details of the settlement to WBJ.

A new coffee shop will open in downtown Gardner later this year, as husband and wife duo, Alexis and Osiris Vallejos, are planning their third Brilla Coffee location at 25 Main St., better known as the Bullnose Building with its two lion statues.

Golf simulators harmonize well with green-grass courses, said Jesse Menachem, executive director and CEO of Mass Golf.

The Vaccaro family has always shared a lifelong passion for baseball, which includes decades of coaching experience for the Shrewsbury American Legion Post 397 baseball team.

Since the publicly owned Polar Park stadium opened in 2021, the value of the Canal District has risen at more than double the rate of the city, according to a WBJ analysis of more than 200 properties within the district.

Councilor Joseph Ferreira, a former police chief, said he still had "a lot of questions" and needed further investigation into potential "unknown ramifications" -- like ones that could pop up if the simple possession charge was coupled with another offense, or was a predicate offense to seek a greater sentence.