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>Latest weather: Mix of clouds and sun, high of 79 today in Worcester
>TOP OF THE NEWS
+6:00: Effects of drought conditions can be seen at natural landmarks in Worcester
+6:00: Weekend traffic advisory: Streets closed for Latin American Festival in Worcester
+6:00: Swimmer, 27, drowns in Brookfield pond
+6:00: 5 new Worcester properties on the market
+Noon: Worcester beaches, Crompton Park pool close for summer on Sunday night
+Noon: WPI researchers receive $347,843 U.S. Navy award for system to estimate underwater plumes in real time
+Noon: 5 Things You Need to Know Today in Worcester - August 18th
+Noon: Holy Cross football receives largest gift in program history
+Noon: Five Things to Do: Home Free, She's Busy, Pride Pageant and more ...
+Noon: WATCH: Worcester's Crompton Skate Park in action
+Noon: Writing on the walls: The cost and value of public art
+Noon: Dizzy Wright headlines TourForLife’s stop at Electric Haze
+Noon: First Person: Memories of neighborhood bonds, tinged by intolerance
-Worcester police ask for help finding missing teen
-REPORT: Affordable housing for renters in Worcester currently "out of reach"
-Popular Worcester restaurant plans to fix longtime parking woes
-Worcester staffing agency reports client’s 106 layoffs
-Layoffs at T&G parent company hit smaller Central Mass. newsrooms
-Worcester's new buses will have tracking technology (2:02)
-Worcester looking to hire more school bus drivers ahead of new school year
-Education leaders in Worcester share concerns about raised MCAS passing score
-John Monfredo: Summer slide can be prevented – with the help of parents
-Bill Shaner: Another camp eviction highlights the city's poor homelessness policy
-Worcester resident Amanda Shearstone petitioning to legalize raising chickens in city
-Barbershop living in Worcester
-The Faces of Worcester: Jamie Burke
>BARS & BANDS (brought to you by Wachusett Wine & Spirits): The Mayor’s Live Music List for Thursday
>SHOWTIME: Authors share summer reading selections
-Crooked Coast comes to rock Terptown Throwdown at Spencer Fairgrounds
-Worcester-area LGBT teens join national designer, performers at Queer AF fashion show
-Jazzed Up Trio shows Thursday and Sunday
-Bad Advice: Pet proves catastrophic to otherwise perfect relationship
-Connecting the Dots No. 118 (30:00): Bemis Farm
>OBITUARIES: Tribute to a woman who retired to become a caregiver to the elderly for more than 10 years
-ICYMI: Former Doherty, WSU hoop standout killed in I-290 hit-and-run Saturday leaves behind a 4-year-old son; GoFundMe seeks to help
-Fundraiser started to purchase headstone for 13-year-old victim of deadly Chandler Street crash
-Amazon building hiring center in Worcester
-See the rest of the day's Worcester news
>THE BURBS (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Firefighter injured in 2-alarm Grafton fire; neighbor came to aid
-Fire heavily damages single-family home in Fitchburg (:20)
-Holden animal control officer rescues owl
-Get ready for the return of Holden Days, slated for Saturday
-Feedback Earth seeks TIF from Grafton for company expansion
-Naked Athol man threatens police & cat with butcher knife
-Worcester County 4-H Fair set for August 26th to 28th with contests from poetry to poultry in Barre
-Insurance costs up for Sterling Fair
-Teen Whatever Book Club at Sutton Public Library
>SPORTS: Pats offense makes strides in Panthers joint practices
-Patriots, Panthers brawl again during joint practice
-2022-23 NBA schedule released: Here's when the Celtics play NBA's top players
-Red Sox beat Pittsburgh, 8-3
-Enter to win WooSox tickets, courtesy of North End Motor Sales
-WooSox beat Rochester, 2-1
-Holy Cross football team visits Polar Park (1:49)
-Revs tie Toronto, 2-2
-Golf camp for kids at Green Hill Golf Course not just puttering around
>CARS: Bertera Nissan has it all (5:05)
-RVs at Clearance Prices at Fuller RV Rentals and Sales (1:07)
>NATIONAL: The West’s historic drought is threatening hydropower at Hoover Dam
-Tragic: Alligator kills 88-year-old South Carolina woman who slipped into a pond while gardening
>NEW ENGLAND: Massachusetts named 2022's "best state to live in"
-Northern Lights may be visible to some in New England Thursday night
-Infant seriously injured in fall from fourth floor Boston window
>BUSINESS: Inc. magazine names 19 Central Mass. companies to fastest-growing list
-Former Cannabis Control Commissioner Shaleen Title launches think tank
>COLLEGES: QCC recognized as the best community college in Mass.
-Assumption's "Fast Track" program allows rising high school students to skip essays, references to get accepted
>HEALTH: Is COVID reaching the endemic stage? UMass Medical School virologist Jeremy Luban weighs in
-Free testing and COVID vaccinations on Thursday: 10-3 in Downtown Worcester, 11-2 on Worcester Common
>HISTORY: 300 facts for Worcester's tercentennial
>HOMES: Worcester real estate roundup
>TV/STREAMING: The future of HBO is riding on "House of the Dragon"
>MOVIES: "Top Gun: Maverick" is coming to digital: Here’s everything we know
>CELEBRITY: "Empire" actress Lindsey Pearlman died by suicide
-Priscilla Presley remembers Elvis on the 45th anniversary of his death
>FOOD: Dunkin', Goldfish to release Pumpkin Spice Grahams on September 1st
>SHOPPING: 30 best back to school sales of 2022
>ANIMALS: Abby the dog, missing for 2 months, found alive inside Missouri cave
>GOOD NEWS (brought to you by Bertera Nissan): Father-son duo to bike 100 miles so sick children can go to camp
-Meanwhile, Snoop Dogg enters breakfast game with "Snoop Loopz" cereal that Master P calls "berry delicious fo shizzle"
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-Part-time cashier, stock clerk at West Boylston package store
-Full- and part-time civilian dispatchers, Town of Auburn
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-Holden Before & After School Program
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In The News
>WEATHER: Mark Rosenthal's 7-day forecast (:32). High of 65 today in Worcester
>TOP OF THE NEWS
-This is why some tap water is brown in Worcester
-Worcester's Union Station closing Wednesday for "Walking Dead" production
-Earlier: "Walking Dead" sequel series shoot brings zombies to Worcester (1:42). Article
-Worcester Glass Tower top floors reopen as event space
-Saint John's urged to address sexual abuse allegations made by former students
-Culinary students from Worcester Tech travel to France for break
-Aislinn Doyle: Worcester Public Schools in Brief for April
-Here’s how much overtime pay Worcester police made in 2023
-City Council: David Clark Co. T.I.F. sent for review; Rental Registration Program examined
-Mother's Day in Worcester; How to show Mom how much you care
-Water, sewer rate increase in Worcester coming this summer
-Supreme Court to rule on city's homeless encampment ban. What will it mean for Worcester?
-Habitat For Humanity holds fourth annual clothing drive
-Meanwhile, in Holden, police to monitor courts for pickleball pirates
>DINING OUT: Pulse Magazine's Eat Beat for May
-ICYMI: Worcester police ask for public's help finding missing 17-year-old
-Why a helicopter will be hovering above Worcester this month
-Wanted man bites Worcester officer's ear during arrest, police say
-Worcester Human Rights Commission calls for end to Civil Service
-See the rest of the day's Worcester news
>HOLDEN (brought to you by Lamoureux Ford): Holden election features 3 contests, 2 questions
-Lamoureux Ford salutes the UConn Huskies (:54)
-Water use restriction May 1st to September 30th
>THE BURBS (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Northbridge stabbing victim died defending younger brother, family says (1:43). Article
-20-year-old man fatally stabbed outside Leominster apartment complex (1:34). Article
-Attorney General sues septic company over waste dumped into Blackstone wetland
-Flynn, Wensky re-elected to Shrewsbury Select Board, School Committee
-Radio Worcester (10:11): Nick Lazzaro talks Millbury issues post-election win
-Override on Paxton's May 13th election
-Princeton prepared to delay annual meeting
>BARS & BANDS: The Mayor's Live Music List for Wednesday
-Jazzed Up gig at 961 (Union Station) Wednesday canceled because of TV show production
>SHOWTIME: Worcester band Berm haunts on "some passable ghost" E.P.
-How to buy tickets for Lana Del Rey's concert at Fenway Park
-Capturing life with Clark prof and photographer Stephen DiRado
-WCCA-TV's Soapbox No. 1340 (24:52): Worcester Symphony Orchestra
>SHOPPING: You still haven't bought Mother's Day presents? Aren't you lucky WoMag has your gift guide
-WCCA-TV's Activate Worcester No. 324 (29:06): Jay Givan
-Unity Radio (58:34): The Susanity Life
-WCCA-TV's Tech Safe No. 33 (27:52): Minneapolis for Safe Tech
>OBITUARIES: Tribute to man who spent 38 years at Wyman Gordon and was very active in the community
>SPORTS: Celtics clobber Cavaliers, 120-95, in Game 1
-Eliot Wolf the "overwhelming favorite" to be named Patriots’ top exec
-Red Sox lose to Braves, 4-2
-This week in Holy Cross Athletics
-Paying college athletes appears closer than ever. How could it work and what stands in the way?
-WooSox Rewind — Worcester takes 5 of 6 from Lehigh Valley
-WooSox fall to Buffalo, 7-5
>CARS: Bertera has the all-star team to help you find your next Nissan car or truck (:39)
-Some Hyundai, Kia owners finding themselves uninsurable
>NATIONAL: Boeing faces 10 more whistleblowers after 2 die
-Killer nurse sentenced to hundreds of years behind bars for deaths of 17 patients
-Tragic: Newborn twins diagnosed with rare condition denied treatment
>NEW ENGLAND: Karen Read trial: Defense calls lieutenant's credibility into question (20:22)
-9-year-old boy from Orange left on school bus after he fell asleep
>COLLEGES: Anna Maria celebrates students and faculty at the Academic Awards
-Annual Clark alumni awards to be presented during Reunion Weekend
-Obstacles, opportunities, optimism: The journey of women in science
>TRAVEL (brought to you by Fuller RV & Rental): Budget hotel vacancies top 50% as inflation-weary Americans cut back on travel
>BUSINESS: African Business Expo draws business leaders to Worcester
-LPL Research: Sell in May? Maybe not
-Radio Worcester (24:48): Worcester Emerging Workforce Forum Thursday
>HOMES: Homeowners say this clean energy industry has dirty secret
>HEALTH: Could A.I. help diagnose cancer with one drop of blood? (1:05)
-New survey shows more young people believe skin cancer myths (:57)
>FOOD: U.S. to test ground beef in states with bird-flu outbreaks in dairy cows
>TV/STREAMING: Tom Selleck says CBS should “come to their senses” and renew "Blue Bloods"
>MOVIES: Trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie, "Trap": Josh Hartnett is a serial killer
>CELEBRITY: Susan Buckner, who played spirited cheerleader Patty Simcox in "Grease," dies at 72
>ANIMALS: Mama leopard reunites with her baby (:52)
>HISTORY: B & M R.R. Bridge from Dam in Clinton
>GOOD NEWS (brought to you by Bertera Nissan): Boston police officers bring cake and sing "Happy Birthday" to man who called 911
-Meanwhile, in Connecticut, 2 vultures found "too drunk to fly"
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