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Bagpipes echoed in Worcester Sunday evening to mark the 24th anniversary of the 5-alarm fire at the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. that killed six firefighters.
When firefighters look at an abandoned, dilapidated building, they see the blight and eyesore many others see.
A recent event celebrated faculty who had earned promotion and/or the grant of tenure, were appointed to named and endowed professorships or had earned membership in the National Academies or the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
WORCESTER — Despite frigid temperatures, a small group gathered Sunday around a large, black granite monument on the corner of Main and Agawam streets to honor and remember those who tragically lost their lives to the devastating, nondiscriminatory and destructive wrath of fire. William T. Breault, chairman of the Main South Alliance of Public Safety, led the solemn ceremony that has been held every March 7 since the monument was dedicated in 1992 to recognize the fatal fire two years earlier at 21 Florence St., in which four people perished. Each year on March 7, names of those who died ...