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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
-Head Women's Volleyball Coach (Part-time) at QCC
-Holden Before & After School Program
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>WEATHER: Mark Rosenthal's 7-day forecast (:34). High of 47 today in Worcester
>TOP OF THE NEWS
-1 killed in crash on Route 20 in Shrewsbury
-Area officers rescue man trapped under car in parking lot
-Woman admits stealing $220K from Worcester rest home, residents
-Worcester residents tired of winter as ice and rain close schools on Friday (1:23)
-Former White City liquor store to become outpatient space
-Iconic Harry’s Restaurant celebrates 80 years in business
-Massachusetts Maple Month celebrated locally with Pure BS Maple Shack
-Worcester nonprofit proposes affordable apartments on Hammond Street
-Worcester Iranian college students find hope amid strikes
-Worcester police staffing shortage raises concern at City Hall
-Worcester Guardian Week in Review: Budgets, schools, safety and playoff pushes
-Updated Worcester trash and recycling schedule through March 9th
>DINING OUT: Popular Worcester restaurant closed by fire in Sept. announces reopen date
-ICYMI: Mass. and N.H. school vacations bring crowds to Worcester airport
-Controversial 44-apartment Worcester development heads to Planning Board
-Worcester motorists keep one eye on the pump, other on world affairs
-WPI researchers develop tool to predict Alzheimer’s disease
-See the rest of the day's Worcester news
>HOLDEN (brought to you by Lamoureux Ford): Wachusett Echo: College prep in the digital age: Students divided on SchooLinks
-Winter snow brings great values at Lamoureux Ford (2:00)
-Vacancies on Zoning Board of Appeals
>THE BURBS (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Training for life: C.P.R. skills save man's life along Sturbridge trail
-Clinton police arrest man with warrant while responding to parking lot crash
-Worcester judge meets Grafton eighth graders
-Dudley man with shotgun surrenders after violent box cutter attack at Webster apartment
-Lake Quinsigamond water level rising
-Auburn substitute teacher terminated following reports of inappropriate behavior
-"We lost contact": Auburn family concerned for missing woman who has not been seen in months (2:08). Article
-Jabil set to move manufacturing out of downtown Clinton; NyproMold to stay
>BARS & BANDS: The Mayor's Live Music List for Saturday
>SHOWTIME: Things to Do: "Fairy Tales and Fables," "Lest We Forget" and more ...
-TODAY! Bob Marley Birthday Bash 1 to 5 at Worcester Youth Center
-"Never give up, never surrender!" "Galaxy Quest" in Con spotlight
-Neil Sedaka’s songs see streaming boost following death
>OPINION: Shaun Connolly: March Horrorscopes
-What's Up Worcester Crossroad Conversations (1:00:08): Ivette Monge on leadership, community and purpose
>OBITUARIES: Tribute to one of the original nurses on New England Life Flight
>SPORTS: Jayson Tatum returns from injury in Celtics' 120-100 win (2:08). Article
-Tatum on his return: "I still got a long way to go" (3:24)
-Patriots trading starting center Garrett Bradbury to Bears
-Will Elias nets overtime winner to lift Holy Cross men’s hockey over RIT
>CARS: Data suggests uptick in car crashes during daylight saving
>NATIONAL: D.O.J. to release more than 47,000 additional Jeffrey Epstein files
-Probe into whether Jeffrey Epstein was working as a Russian spy is underway
-F.B.I. warning parents of new online threat targeting kids
-Tragic: Dad, daughter fatally shot while trying to buy PS5 from Facebook Marketplace
>NEW ENGLAND: Plastic E-ZPass transponders being phased out in Massachusetts (:26)
>COLLEGES: Worcester State community raises $33,580 in WOOGIVES campaign
>TRAVEL (brought to you by Fuller RV & Rental): 6 U.S. cities you can't actually visit
-Should you travel during U.S.-Iran conflict? Travel insurance expert weighs in
>BUSINESS: U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February in surprisingly weak report
-Dow falls 560 points, U.S. oil surges to $90
-Economic Forecast keynote: 2026 will be an improvement over the year of uncertainty
>HOMES: How long does it take to sell a house in Worcester?
>HEALTH: Doctor warns against believing claims about testosterone (1:04)
>FOOD: Baked ziti with mozzarella
>TV/STREAMING: New shows & movies to watch this weekend
>MOVIES: 11 best new movies on Netflix
>CELEBRITY: Madonna revisits her "Like a Virgin" look 42 years later in bridal lingerie
-Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes make first official appearance together in more than a decade
>ANIMALS: Neglected rescue doodle can't stop crashing moms bath time (1:47)
>HISTORY: Exploring the abandoned Worcester Memorial Auditorium (22:22)
>GOOD NEWS: Woman one-ups husband's $1 million lottery prize with $5 million jackpot
-Meanwhile, in Cincinnati, raccoon burglar making daily visits to apartment
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