Bill Shaner
Telegram & Gazette
Worcester, MA, United States
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Worcester Quaranzine gives voice to pandemic feelings
“Try to remember this,” Gabe Rollins wrote in the first edition of the Worcester Quaranzine, a new project seeking to give a platform to → Read More
Greater Worcester Land Trust challenges hikers to step out
We’ve been cooped up a long time, haven’t we? The Greater Worcester Land Trust wants to change that. This week the organization is launching a challenge to get out and hike the surprisingly dense and diverse network of trails in Worcester. If you complete all 10 trails in the challenge, you get a patch, similar to the one you get if you hike all the 4,000 foot peaks in the White Mountains. “The… → Read More
Was everyone too quick to delay plastic bag bans?
Wait, why did we delay the plastic bag ban again? Worcester, like thousands of communities across the country, put policy into place in March to → Read More
UMass Memorial Medical Center support staff seek hazard pay, testing
Amid a growing pandemic, workers at UMass Memorial Medical Center are demanding hazard pay, testing for employees and more protective gear. United Food → Read More
UMass Memorial Medical Center support staff seek hazard pay, testing
Amid a growing pandemic, workers at UMass Memorial Medical Center are demanding hazard pay, testing for employees and more protective gear. United Food → Read More
UMass Memorial Medical Center support staff seek hazard pay, testing
Amid a growing pandemic, workers at UMass Memorial Medical Center are demanding hazard pay, testing for employees and more protective gear. United Food → Read More
Harley-Davidson threatens Worcester diner over sign that honors Harley-Davidson
An online petition has quickly racked up hundreds of signatures in support of the Miss Worcester Diner, which faces a cease-and-desist letter from Harley- → Read More
Harley-Davidson slaps Miss Worcester Diner with cease-and-desist letter
WORCESTER - An online petition has quickly racked up more than 1,000 signatures in support of Miss Worcester Diner, which faces a cease-and-desist letter → Read More
Harley-Davidson slaps Miss Worcester Diner with cease-and-desist letter
WORCESTER - An online petition has quickly racked up more than 1,000 signatures in support of Miss Worcester Diner, which faces a cease-and-desist letter → Read More
Harley-Davidson slaps Miss Worcester Diner with cease-and-desist letter
An online petition has quickly racked up hundreds of signatures in support of the Miss Worcester Diner, which faces a cease-and-desist letter from Harley- → Read More
New life for Aurora Gallery: Creative Hub resurrects vacant art space
The Aurora Gallery, a longtime hub of the Worcester art scene, is back in the game after sitting vacant for the better part of a year. The Creative Hub, a youth-focused art nonprofit in the Main South neighborhood, is expanding to the space. The organization’s first gallery showing, “The Feeling Of Otherness,” opened over the weekend. The exhibit is one of four planned for the space between now… → Read More
Acting locally: EcoTarium examines personal impact of climate change
A new exhibit at the EcoTarium aims to spread awareness of the effects of climate change by giving it a personal touch. Titled “Community → Read More
Crossing The Bridge: Community fights to turn mill building into youth center
We were early into a tour of 300 Southbridge St. — an old mill building lovingly nicknamed "The Bridge" by members of the surrounding community — when we came across a 1966 Chrysler Imperial in the basement with six other old, classic cars.The Imperial, like the rest, was beat up to a point of disrepair. But the bones were beautiful — a big, sleek boat of a car, like the one John F. Kennedy was… → Read More
Vote: The Worcester Red Sox want suggestions for the team's name
Apparently unsatisfied with "WooSox," the widely accepted nickname of the Triple-A affiliate since news of the move to Worcester broke, the → Read More
Federated Church in Ashland loses out on CPC money after church v state debate
ASHLAND – When it came time to speak on a $5,000 Community Preservation Fund article to fix the foundation at the Ashland Federated Church, → Read More
Ashland votes for permanent MWRA connection
ASHLAND – With a Town Meeting vote last week, Ashland is permanently connected to the Metropolitan Water Resource Agency supply.Well, on the books at least. What Town Meeting voted to authorize Wednesday, by a wide margin, was consent to make the connection.Actually creating the permanent connection will likely take more than a year, Town Manager Michael Herbert said Friday. There are more than… → Read More
Ashland: Riverwalk Project becomes reality with Town Meeting OK
ASHLAND – With funding approved from three sources at Town Meeting, the Riverwalk Project will get underway.The project will connect the MBTA Commuter Rail station with Downtown Ashland via a trail that snakes along the Sudbury River.Much of the trail already exists, but it's not handicap accessible, and lacks key bridges to connect certain sections.The project will widen the trail, flatten it,… → Read More
Framingham: Ark Builders unveil new puppet theater at McAuliffe branch library
FRAMINGHAM – Two-year-old Olive Rousseau may not have known that the McAuliffe Branch Children's Room she played in Thursday was dedicated to her grandmother, Sherry.But her grandfather, Charlie Rousseau, did. The moment proved special for him as Olive and Charlie were among a few dozen people there to admire the room's newest feature, a puppet theater built by the Ark Builders, a group of… → Read More
Ashland Town Meeting approves noise bylaw; rejects alternative
ASHLAND – Though it was one of the most hotly debated articles of the night, the new noise bylaw drafted by Selectman Carl Hakansson passed by a show of hands.And a countermeasure, proposed by Board of Health member Judy Margulies, was shot down on similar vote after Board of Health Chairman Jon Fetherston made a motion to dismiss the article.The central change in the new noise bylaw is the… → Read More
New capital plan and $55.6 mil budget approved in Ashland
ASHLAND – Town Meeting approved a new plan for capital that relies more heavily on borrowing, and rejected a counter proposal by a resident to vote on projects individually.The new capital plan, developed by government consultants at the Collins Center, gives town officials $750,000 to spend on projects, as the town has historically done, but also $680,000 worth of projects to be borrowed… → Read More