Here's what's happening in and around Worcester today
In The News
+1:00: It's Saturday! Check Dining Out and Bars & Bands before making plans
-Bars & Bands (brought to you by Wachusett Wine & Spirits): The Mayor’s Live Music & Live Streaming List by Jay Berman
-5 Great Ways to Spend Your Weekend in Worcester
+9:30: 2 dead, 14 injured in Rochester, N.Y., shooting
+8:00: 4.5 quake rattles Southern California overnight
-Victim ID'd after divers recover body from Auburn's Dark Brook Reservoir. Press conference
-Worcester lodging house fire displaces 17 residents. Photos
-Former Worcester priest gets 6 years for child porn
-Worcester police arrest West Boylston man for cocaine trafficking
-Southbridge man indicted for cocaine sent by mail
-TODAY! A chance to walk down the halls of St. Stephen’s one more time
-Good Worcester development news: $55M rehab of downtown building proposed
-Bad Worcester development news: Hotel, apartment development surrounding Polar Park shrinks and is delayed 2 years
-Earlier: Polar Park's looming uncertainties
-Ray Mariano: Readers respond to ‘Worcester is filthy’
-Bob Moylan: If the City Council wanted a cleaner Worcester, it would have acted on recycling bags
-Those missing in action remembered in Worcester on POW/MIA Recognition Day
-Holy Cross, WPI land in Wall Street Journal's top 120 colleges
-Congressman McGovern pushes for $120B in restaurant relief
-The Burbs (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Leaf and brush disposal today in Holden
-Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87. Photos. Her biggest cases
-Confused with your Medicare options? Help to Retire can help you! (1:07)
-Cars: The whole team at Bertera Nissan looks forward to serving you
-Holy Cross Athletics' Beat the Buzzer with Brendan McCabe (1:17)
-TV/Streaming: New movies + shows to watch this weekend
-Shopping: Up to $2,000 in rebates with purchase of select GE Profile appliance packages at Better Electric
-Homes: Don't miss these 5 open houses in Worcester
-Good news (brought to you by Bertera Nissan): First responders build handicap ramp for WWII veteran in Oxford
-Meanwhile, in Florida, city's new 'welcome' sign erected in the wrong city
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
-Area market closes 'immediately' because of COVID-19
-Worcester student athletes react to postponed fall season
-Worcester researchers part of nationwide plasma study
-ICYMI: 2 Worcester restaurants cited for COVID-19 violations
-Mass. reports 431 new cases, 8 additional deaths
-Mass. unemployment rate down to 11.3%, biggest drop in country
-Tufts doctor on what's a realistic timeline for vaccine
-U.S. case rates are ticking up after weeks of decline
-Tips to cope with seasonal depression during pandemic
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In The News
-'They didn't think twice': Hero cops carry elderly woman out of burning building in Worcester
-Man to be sentenced for kidnapping girl from Webster Park, sexually assaulting her
-Filmmaker's latest project, shot in West Boylston, available on Amazon Prime
-5 Great Ways to Spend Your Weekend in Worcester
-Sunday Funday! Check Dining Out for the latest specials
-ICYMI: Area restaurant introduces outdoor dining huts lined with lighting and heaters
-Under reevaluation in Worcester, school resource officers retain support in region
-Rosen's Roundtable #430 & #431: Racism in Worcester
-Black History Month in Worcester featuring actress Zara Cully
-Bars & Bands (brought to you by Wachusett Wine & Spirits): The Mayor's Live & Streaming Music List
-The Burbs (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Shrewsbury locals plan to restore Edgemere Drive-In sign
-Pandemic creates opportunity in parish
-Atlantic Union College agrees to sell 135-acre Lancaster campus
-GEM Marketing Solutions: 5 Reasons Why Everyone is Not Your Client
-Fuller RV Rental & Sales is hiring. See the positions
-Enter to win 2 tickets to the WooSox, courtesy of North End Motor Sales
-Spirits: Wachusett Wine & Spirits' Whiskey Wednesday (21:44): Whiskey Bracket Challenge Play-In Tasting
-Homes: See inside the Grand Worcester Tudor that hit the market for $480,000
-TV/Streaming: New on Netflix in March (7:46)
-Cars: February is the month of huge Savings at Bertera Nissan (5:00)
-Was its name Manny Quinn? Meanwhile, in California, carpool lane driver found to be using mannequin passenger
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
-DCU Center hospital to scale down patient capacity next week
-DCU Center hopeful to start steps soon towards reopening for events
-Worcester County Sheriff's Dept. providing vaccination card protectors to seniors
-Doctor from Ghana volunteering at Southbridge vaccination clinic
-Utility shutoff moratorium extended until July in Massachusetts
-Here's what you could get from the $1.9 trillion House stimulus
-ICYMI: Worcester teachers say they’re being forced to choose between health and paycheck
-Ch. 5 visits Fuller RV to discuss how RV sales are soaring as people hit the road during pandemic (1:42)
-Over 500,000 Mass. residents have received both doses of vaccine
-Mass. officials announce 1,516 new cases, 41 deaths, 7-day positivity rate holds at 1.9 percent
-FDA authorizes emergency use of single-shot vaccine from Johnson & Johnson
-Health experts explain impact of Johnson & Johnson vaccine
-Why Americans shouldn't turn their noses up at Johnson & Johnson's vaccine
-Plunging demand for tests may leave U.S. exposed
-Vaccine may create ‘Terminator’-type antibody response in those who have had virus
-Good news (brought to you by Bertera Nissan): Elderly couple in New York falls in love during pandemic, planning wedding after vaccination
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