Hospitality

The reports came from Plainville, Springfield and Everett early on Monday afternoon: the state's three casino-style gambling centers look ready to go for the 10 a.m. Tuesday start of legal in-person sports betting in Massachusetts.

The former location of Scooby Doo’s Bar in Clinton at 675 Main St. was sold for $850,000 to a corporation with plans to demolish the building.

Legal sales of marijuana in Massachusetts hit a new record in 2022, the fourth full year of adult-use cannabis sales in the state.

Acoustic Java has sold its original Main Street location to Zaida Melendez of Belen Casa de Pan, a Salvadoran panaderia. Acoustic Java will continue to operate its Brussels Street flagship location.

Time to brush up on biathlon, refresh yourself on the rules of rugby and dive into pro darts -- the Massachusetts Gaming Commission this week approved those events and dozens of others as part of the catalog of sports and events that adults will be allowed to place bets on beginning next week.

The Worcester Red Sox plan on temporarily taking over the space set aside for the delayed Left Field Building, which is part of a five-building planned development slated to help pay for the $160-million public baseball stadium.

Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing Co. will release a new beer and host a fundraiser for the Framingham after-school and summer program Hoops & Homework on Saturday.

Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner, along with three Central Massachusetts vocational schools and the nonprofit Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership in Auburn, received $1.57 million in funding for workforce development programs which partner with local businesses.

Despite falling prices and increasing competition, marijuana business officials across the state, and particularly in Central Massachusetts, still see the cannabis market as primed for opportunity, with operators having to be smarter about the way they operate their marijuana businesses.

Massachusetts’ unemployment rate was down one-tenth of a percentage point in December.