The Gaming Commission on Thursday approved three days of horse racing at Suffolk Downs, the East Boston racetrack that lost out on its try for a casino license last year.
The past two years haven't always been good for small community hospitals. Challenged to keep up with technological advances and squeezed by competition from larger health systems as they struggle for reimbursement, three have closed across the state.
Town officials are pleased that Intel Corp. remains a strong presence in Hudson after it halted manufacturing operations last year. The computer chip maker still has about 850 employees working in its Massachusetts Design Center, a research and development facility at 75 Reed Rd.
But that doesn't mean the officials are not not curious to see what Intel will do with the land on which the vacant manufacturing facility rests. Manufacturing operations officially ceased in May after the company announced in 2013 that they would end, because the facility wasn't fit for production of today's chips.