Worcester marked five years of its Green Worcester Plan this week, touting real progress on trees, flooding and waste. City officials say the plan has delivered measurable gains but warned that longer-term climate and renewable-energy targets may be unreachable without more state and fe…
Proposed boundary changes for Worcester Public Schools are drawing debate among families this week, according to new reporting. The Worcester Guardian's weekly roundup reports pushback over shifting enrollment lines, even as the Telegram & Gazette reports Grafton's School Committee appo…
Worcester closed Coes Pond Parks and Stearns Tavern indefinitely Friday amid an ongoing police investigation. The city's announcement did not name the case, but search crews spent a fourth day combing Coes Reservoir with divers, sonar and helicopters for Karen Solomon, 58, wife of Worce…
Worcester's home sales climbed and inventory tightened in July, per a new Patch report on the local market. The city also saw New Hope Behavioral Health LLC celebrate its grand opening, adding a local behavioral health care option as Worcester continues confronting addiction and mental …
Worcester will hold an International Overdose Awareness Day event Aug. 31 as a local charter school lands a statewide top-25 ranking. The city announced the awareness-day event in a notice posted to its website, though further details on time and location were not yet available. Abby Ke…
Crompton Park Pool will stay open through Aug. 29, giving Worcester swimmers an extra week before summer closes out, while city beaches and spray parks follow their own staggered closing dates. Worcester Regional Airport, per Worcester Patch's "Worcester Airport Adding Nearly 200 Parkin…
Worcester Public Schools is weighing another expansion of full-day preschool amid steady demand from caregivers. The move, first reported by Worcester Patch on Aug. 17, comes as the district also works to clarify lottery, zone and transfer rules following concerns from Nelson Place Scho…
Worcester police killed a second aggressive fox Sunday after attacks injured a woman and a 6-year-old girl this week. The incidents, on Jones and Granite streets, are among several fox encounters that have residents on alert; police euthanized an earlier fox for rabies testing after Sun…
Worcester Public Schools has proposed new student assignment zones that could shift which schools many city children attend, according to Worcester Patch. The announcement comes as federal and city officials, including US Sen. Ed Markey and US Rep. Jim McGovern, marked groundbreaking on…
Indian Lake was closed to swimmers after cyanobacteria levels exceeded state health thresholds, city officials confirmed this week. The closure comes as Worcester also grapples with a third mosquito sample testing positive for West Nile virus this season, prompting renewed warnings from…
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