Worcester Business Journal

wbjournal.com | August 6, 2018 | Worcester Business Journal 7 978.757.3003 • www.devenscommoncenter.com Your destination for corporate meetings! A convenient location in Middlesex County and easily accessed from all major routes, Devens Common Center offers an ideal location for corporate meetings of all sizes and styles, along with two onsite hotels offering 250 overnight room accommodations. Contact us to find out how we can help make your event the very best it can be! Worcester files suit against opioid makers Worcester has filed a lawsuit against makers of opioid drugs the city argues have contributed to a deadly epidemic. e city first said in February it intended to sue drugmakers, and on July 30 it said it has now done so. In each of the last three years, more than 100 people have died in Worcester of an opioid overdose, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Worcester's complaint alleges prescription opioids are a gateway drug to heroin, with data showing approxi- mately 80 percent of heroin users started with prescription opioids. Former Fitchburg school sold for residential project A plan to renovate a former Fitchburg school into affordable housing has taken a step forward. Fitchburg Mayor Stephen DiNatale approved a $5,000 sale of the B.F. Brown School to NewVue Com- munities, a Fitchburg nonprofit. e transaction included $1.6 million the city received in an insurance settlement aer a fire in the building. NewVue, a nonprofit that assists businesses and owns affordable housing, has said it envisions 50 to 60 units at the former school aimed at housing for artists. Worcester's Hangover Pub reopened in July e Hangover Pub, the Green Street bacon-based restaurant shuttered amid an ongoing inquiry into other Worcester restaurants being a launder for drug money, reopened on July 27. e restaurant opened three months aer it and its sister restaurant Broth were closed in March when its former co-owner, Christopher Slavinskas, pleaded guilty to misleading federal investigators in a drug investigation involving the former owner of e Usual and the Blackstone Tap, Kevin Perry. Prosecutors allege Slavinskas con- cealed $330,000 in Perry's drug money and used $130,000 on himself. Nat King Cole "You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss. " Standard Time weekdays 3:00 to 6:00 pm. The Great American Songbook and jazz standards. And great radio is still great radio. Herman Hupfield Nat King Cole "You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss. " Standard Time weekdays 3:00 to 6:00 pm. The Great American Songbook and jazz standards. And great radio is still great radio. Herman Hupfield The Hangover Pub in the Canal District W

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