WEST BRIDGEWATER – "We won't make fun of the way you talk if you don't make fun of the way we talk," said Richie McDonald shortly after taking the stage Wednesday night at the Charlie Horse Restaurant.
His band, Lonestar, the multiplatinum-selling country music group, played a rare live show to benefit Music Drives Us, Massachusetts car dealer and entrepreneur Ernie Boch Jr.'s foundation dedicated to providing music education programs and musical instruments to schools in New England. According to its website, the nonprofit also supplies grants to aid music programs that aim to create positive changes for people of all ages and seeks out those who want to use music to better the lives of others.
The state Gaming Commission on Thursday declined to award a license for a commercial casino on the Brockton Fairgrounds in southeastern Massachusetts near where the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe has broken ground on a resort casino of its own.
After about two and a half days of discussion and deliberation, the five-person commission chose not to offer a license to Mass Gaming & Entertainment/Rush Street Gaming, a team planning a commercial casino at the Brockton Fairgrounds.
