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Drivers in Worcester, Massachusetts, frequently park on sidewalks, impacting access for pedestrians with disabilities

The Beacon School is preparing its students to enter the workforce by teaching them entrepreneurial skills and job readiness. The school’s vocational program began as an idea of the previous principal, Sheryl Wood, and was carried on by current principal, Titi McKenzie-Moss, who recognized the lack of job opportunities for graduating students. “When students graduate

The Planning Board has approved revised plans to redevelop a former screw factory on Shrewsbury Street.

WORCESTER — The Planning Board Wednesday approved a definitive site plan amendment for the nearly complete Polar Park that effectively memorializes small design changes, including tweaks that the board had suggested when it approved the original site plan in Nov. 2019.  Discussion of some of those changes came with hints at how the newly reconfigured Summit Street will function as a sealed off extension of the park on game days at Polar Park, the city-owned ballpark that will be the home of the top minor league baseball affiliate of the Boston Red Sox starting in May.  Stephen Rolle, the...

Retail pot storefront gets special permit to open on Mountain Street East The Planning Board Wednesday granted a special permit for a retail marijuana storefront on Mountain Street East.  The board unanimously approved the special permit for Munro Associates LLC at 15-17 Mountain Street East, at the corner of Burncoat Street in the city's Summit neighborhood.  The establishment will be Munro's second local storefront; the company recently opened The Vault in Webster.  Joshua Lee Smith, a lawyer with the Bowditch & Dewey firm in Worcester representing Munro on the application, said the ope...