In and around The 016 - Thursday, August 18th

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  In The News

  >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

  -Head Women's Volleyball Coach (Part-time) at QCC

  -Holden Before & After School Program 

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