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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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In The News
>WEATHER: Mark Rosenthal's 7-day forecast (1:07). High of 23 today in Worcester
>TOP OF THE NEWS
-Worcester Public Schools will have 2-hour delay on Wednesday, January 22nd
-Worcester Public Schools will deny immigration agents access without criminal warrants signed by a federal judge
-Worcester residents battle leaky pipes and cold temps; warming centers open (1:47). Article
-Related: City of Worcester opens warming centers Wednesday
-Worcester man charged with murder in death of former employee (:25). Article
-"Do better or step aside": Supporters rally for nonbinary Worcester city councilor
-Firm managing 2,700+ Central Mass. apartments facing second federal lawsuit over rents
-5 Worcester men arrested for fentanyl trafficking
-2 men in stolen car arrested on drug charges in Worcester
-Worcester County High School Club offers bowling to local high schoolers
-Trash & recycling pickup delayed by a day in Worcester
-Aislinn Doyle: A road map for improving literacy in Worcester. Part 2 of Worcester’s Literacy "Crisis"
-Related: Worcester's Literacy "Crisis" (Part 1)
-Radio Worcester (14:30): City Manager Eric Batista addresses allegations of transphobia
-Radio Worcester (16:49): District 3 City Councilor George Russell announces retirement, addresses council controversy
>DINING OUT: Worcester Restaurant Week will be back from February 24th through March 9th
-ICYMI: Worcester digs out from snow before cold sets in (2:10)
-Report, video show how Assumption "To Catch a Predator" case escalated
-King's teaching a reminder of conflict, unity at Worcester breakfast
-Worcester food hub fast-tracked to Union Station via fed, state funds
-See the rest of the day's Worcester news
>HOLDEN (brought to you by Lamoureux Ford): Holden the town, like the Harvard chapel, takes name from London banker
-Longtime customer salutes Lamoureux Ford (3:53)
-Holden Fire Department C.P.R. training February 2nd
>THE BURBS (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Sutton swears in new police chief
-Hundreds pay respects to Auburn man killed in Vermont car crash
-Ernest Sawyer, owner of Northborough candlepin center for 70+ years, dies at 96
-Uxbridge School Committee names interim super after O.U.I. arrest (2:09)
-Woman with suspended license fails to stop for police, is released, then rearrested 2 days later
-Shrewsbury police and fire departments team up for Child Safety Day February 1st
-Millbury-Sutton Chronicle goings on
>BARS & BANDS: The Mayor's Live Music List for Wednesday
-Recap of Central Mass. Mom's Sip & Shop and Candle Making Workshop at Flock & Flourish
>SHOWTIME: Listen Up: OK Go, Carlos Odria and Between the Waves offer new music
-Central Mass. Jewish Film Fest is back with 3 "outstanding" movies
-WCCA-TV wins award for production of Mechanics Hall concert
-Unity Radio's Talking Wellness (57:16): Jose Vargas Zapata
>OBITUARIES: Tribute to area man who passed away on his 57th birthday
>SPORTS: Josh McDaniels expected to be named Patriots offensive coordinator
-Ichiro leads 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame class
-Crusaders record 3.40 G.P.A. during Fall semester
-Holy Cross' Abby Hornung named to Women’s Goalie of the Year Award Watch List
-Holy Cross men's basketball and women's basketball to face Army
>NATIONAL: Radio Worcester (16:39): Rich Rubino discusses unprecedented inaugural speech
-Historic snow amounts are falling in Florida, Louisiana and Texas as a once-in-a-generation storm hits
-Tragic: Fire chief shot, killed after helping drivers who hit deer
>NEW ENGLAND: Border Patrol agent killed at Vermont-Canada border mourned
-Footprints in snow help police solve vandalism spree during storm
>COLLEGES: Nichols student Pablo Arnau Beltran makes shoes that are good for the soul
>TRAVEL (brought to you by Fuller RV & Rental): 7 fascinating abandoned airports around the world
>BUSINESS: 10 Things I know about ... Estate planning
-LPL Financial Research: Q4 earnings preview — Mix of solid growth and policy uncertainty
-Cash App ordered to pay $175 million for weak security, feds say
>SHOPPING: Revolve sale — Save on Norma Kamali, Veja sneakers, Marc Jacobs
>HOMES: See all homes sold in Worcester County, January 12th to 18th
>HEALTH: Ways to fight recent spike in viral infections (2:40). Article
-Fiber could help protect you against infections: Research (1:05)
>FOOD: New-style ham and cheese
>TV/STREAMING: Survey reveals best TV shows and movies of 2024
>MOVIES: Trailer for new John Malkovich, Ayo Edebiri horror movie, "Opus"
>CELEBRITY: "Wicked" star Cynthia Erivo named Harvard's Hasty Pudding Woman of Year
-Award-winning actress Dame Joan Plowright, wife of Laurence Olivier, dies at 95
>HISTORY: Worcester's Isaiah Thomas — legendary patriot, printer, collector
>ANIMALS: Guy who rescued duckling from pool still gets visits (1:44)
>GOOD NEWS: Wellesley man grateful to first responders who saved self, dog from icy lake
-Meanwhile, Florida's 7-foot-9 center meets Shaq in epic video
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>HELP WANTED
+Full-time firefighter/paramedics, Town of West Boylston
-Multiple positions, Holden D.P.W.
-Part-time maintenance position, Canal District bar/restaurant
-Hosts, wait staff & bussers, Worcester restaurant
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