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Worcester is getting its first mass vaccination site, and Massachusetts’ sixth, later this month, officials announced Thursday. The site will open Feb. 16 at...

Web-based CommunityHELP offers Worcester County residents access to resources such as food, housing, healthcare Updated Feb 04, 2021; The city of Worcester, Reliant Medical Group and UMass Memorial Health Care have collaborated to allow easier access to to CommunityHELP, a web-based platform helping those in the community connect to resources such as food, housing, transportation, health and care. Information about CommunityHELP can be accessed through a cellphone, tablet or laptop in 104 lang...

Like any good set of rules, the 39-page Worcester City Council rulebook lays out a straightforward framework on how the body should operate, but it also leaves some areas open to interpretation. The council rules serve as a guide for everything from how and when to schedule meetings (never before 4 p.m.), to when certain reports should be on the agenda, to whether councilors can switch seats (they cant, at least not without the permission of the mayor).  Ever wonder what Mayor Joseph M. Petty...

Worcester officials said 3 straight weeks of declining COVID-19 numbers are a good sign, but cautioned residents against letting their guard down.

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Telegram & Gazette WORCESTER—City officials said Thursday that in light of news this week of a person from Worcester County testing positive for the highly-transmissible "U.K. variant" strain of COVID-19, it is critically important for residents to continue to wear masks and follow social distancing guidelines.  City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr. and Dr. Michael P. Hirsh, the citys medical director, did not provide much more information on the person, other than to say they had returned ...

WORCESTER — The Civic Center Commission voted Thursday to start charging UMass Memorial Health Care rent for the use of the DCU Center as a COVID-19 field hospital.  Commissioners Thursday said they have been incredibly supportive of the arrangement that allowed UMass for the second time to erect a field hospital at the DCU Center, but noted that the facility has suffered staggering losses due to the pandemic, and thought it was fair to start charging rent. City Manager Edward M. Augustus, h...

WORCESTER - The Stearns Tavern Relocation Project at Coes Pond has been named a 2021 Audrey Nelson Community Development Award recipient by the National Community Development Association. The award recognizes exemplary uses of the Community Development Block Grant program and the partnerships between local government and nonprofits to assist low- and moderate-income households.  The relocation of the historic Stearns Tavern to the shores of Coes Park is a collaborative effort between the city ...

Council gives nod to expanded ShotSpotter area, balks at new crime forecasting technology Steven H. Foskett Jr., Telegram & Gazette © T&G Staff/Christine Peterson WORCESTER - Police converged on May St. and Dewey after a shooting Tuesday, January 5, 2021. WORCESTER — After hearing a raft of concerns from the public about a planned expansion of the Police Departments ShotSpotter program, the City Council voted Tuesday to split the item to give new technology included with t...

WORCESTER — After hearing a raft of concerns from the public about a planned expansion of the Police Departments ShotSpotter program, the City Council voted Tuesday to split the item to give new technology included with the upgrade a more public airing.  Councilors overwhelmingly supported an expansion of existing ShotSpotter technology, which detects gunshots and leads police to their source. The program has been in use across six square miles of the city for the past seven years.  But al...