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The colder climate might make it surprising, but Massachusetts is the seventh-best state to retire, according to a new report by the website Bankrate.com.

Southwick's Zoo in Mendon has unveiled a new logo, the first change to its visual identity since it opened in 1963.

Jillian's, a billiards, bar and arcade center on Grove Street in Worcester, will close at the end of the month, it said on its website.

Nichols College in Dudley has received a $1-million donation for scholarships from the chairman of its board of trustees.

The deadline for nominations for Worcester Business Journal's 40 Under Forty awards is May 5.

Middlesex County added nearly 9,000 residents in a 12-month period ending last July, an average of 24 people a day, according to new U.S. Census data.

Worcester's College of the Holy Cross has elbowed out Harvard, Boston College and smaller picturesque campuses in the Berkshires to claim Travel + Leisure's "most beautiful" campus in the state.

In just over a year since clients started paying Jason Eastty to lock them in rooms with creative puzzle-solving required to exit, he has hosted corporate groups with 270 people, bachelor parties and one failed marriage proposal.

Economic downturns cut into players' disposable income, and the Great Recession caused many Boomers to put off their retirement plans, forcing courses to adapt to changing demands.

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