Greater Worcester

This past fiscal year, Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner quietly achieved a milestone.

Despite featuring technology that might be considered ancient by someone just coming of drinking age, nostalgia and curiosity for the seemingly simpler times of the late 20th century are a major driving force behind bar arcade’s popularity, according to current and prospective owners.

Just before the new year, United Way of South Central Massachusetts appointed nonprofit veteran Kristin McCarthy as its new leader.

Pho Sure will move to the former location of The Wexford House restaurant at 503 Shrewsbury St., with its last day of operation in Shrewsbury slated for Sunday.

Worcester Historical Museum is marking its 150th anniversary with a name change, free admission, and the reinstallation of a $1.3-million gallery.

The hub will include an innovation studio offering a 12-month residency and a three-month accelerator program.

In the two weeks since UMass Memorial Medical Center held the grand opening of its $220-million acute-care facility the North Pavilion, the top executive of Central Massachusetts’ largest hospital is seeing it begin to alleviate the strain on its emergency department. 

When they adopted the catalog of events approved for wagering, commissioners included an explicit prohibition to ban betting on "any sports or sporting event overseen by Russian or Belarusian governing bodies, leagues, events and players," the commission's website says.

Massachusetts could receive more than $100 million as part of a tentative new settlement between attorneys general, Purdue Pharma and the company's controlling Sackler family that reshapes some of the previous liability terms rejected by the nation's highest court.

Bay Colony Development, a Waltham-based economic development financing company with an office in Worcester, has named Erik Adams as the firm’s incoming president and CEO as current leader Mary Mansfield will step down from the position later this year.