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Here's what's happening in and around Worcester today
-Election 2021 in Worcester
*Radio Worcester (10:26): Mayor Joe Petty on being elected to a historic 6th term
*Etel Haxhiaj, Thu Nguyen celebrate historic firsts on journey from refugees to new city councilors
*Jermaine Johnson was the top vote-getter for School Committee on his first campaign; here’s how he connected with voters
*5 takeaways from the City Council race
*At-Large Councilor Moe Bergman thanks supporters (2:02)
In The News
-Latest weather: Chilly again, high of 47 today in Worcester
+6:00: Boston Globe: Worcester Regional Airport celebrates its 75th anniversary with the return of commercial flights
+6:00: Radio Worcester (7:37): Jermaine Johnson on being the top vote-getter in the School Committee race
+6:00: Diwali — Festival of Lights to be celebrated at Worcester Art Museum
+6:00: No one hurt in Jeep rollover in Holden
+Noon: WPI confronts crisis following 4 recent student deaths, including one Monday night
+Noon: The Mayor’s Live Music List for Thursday
+Noon: 5 Things You Need To Know Today in Worcester - November 4th
+Noon: Five Things to Do: Get the Led Out, Jessye DeSilva and more ...
+Noon: 41 movies and shows filmed in Massachusetts and ready to stream
+Noon: Walmart early Black Friday Deals for Days
-Plane makes emergency landing at Davis Farm in Sterling (:19). Raw video (:59)
-Canal District Fall Stroll on Saturday offers dozens of discounts, prizes at nearly 50 small businesses
-Here are November menus from 3 local doughnut shops
-ICYMI: Planet Fitness to become Lincoln Plaza's newest tenant
-36-year-old Worcester man with suspended license stopped, arrested on gun, drug charges
-Worcester named worst winter holiday destination in U.S.
-Worcester hosts groundbreaking for new Doherty high
-Fallen Worcester Officer Manny Familia to be honored with beer called "Worcester’s Finest"
-NEW Episode of Wachusett Wine & Spirits' Whisky Wednesday (14:46): American Single Malt - Virginia Distillery
-Last Call with Leo Negrón Cruz, activist in the Latinx LGBTQ+ community
-Listen Up: Worcester hip-hop artist Atlas Jenkins digs deep with "Doomsday Device"
-Tribute to a Worcester woman who was a nurse at St. V's for 43 years and taught nursing at Fanning Trade
-Historic Worcester bar to open Thursday for first time since early 2020
-$100,000 Mass Cash winner sold on Chandler Street in Worcester
-See the rest of the day's Worcester news
-The Burbs (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Don’t order that Grafton Fire shirt! It’s a scam
-Shrewsbury Town Center Association announces the Yuletide Market and Light the Common celebration
-Next Open House at Saint John's on Tuesday, November 9th (:30)
-Shrewsbury PD recognizes 2 for lifesaving actions
-SELCO to install electric vehicle charging station at Town Hall
-East Brookfield veterinary nonprofit opens hospital in Southbridge
-Sports: 21 Central Mass. football teams will play in the state playoffs?
-High school football Gridbits
-Enter to win a Patriots hoodie, courtesy of North End Motor Sales
-Brown nets 28, Celtics use 3rd-quarter run to beat Magic
-National College Cornhole Championships Qualifier to be held in area
-Cars: Bertera Nissan in Auburn has a wide selection of new and preowned vehicles for you (5:38)
-Take a look at new 2022 Four Winds RV now in at Fuller RV in Boylston
-Business: Greater Worcester’s unemployment rate decreases to 5.2%, but labor force dwindles
-Colleges: Clark University securing $100 million in new financing to fund future strategic investments
-UMass Chan researchers receive $2.5 million grant for post-viral illnesses
-National: Woman stole items from victim in mall shooting, police say
-California zip line worker sacrificed himself to save rider, witness says
-New England: Maine voters say yes to right to food, in first across U.S.
-Animals: Tiniest abandoned puppy makes unreal transformation (3:13)
-Celebrity: "Happy Days" star Henry Winkler auctioning off Fonzie jacket
-TV/Streaming: Here are the must-watch November shows
-Movies: "Hocus Pocus 2" new details, cast members revealed
-Shopping/Deals: Best Christmas gifts on Amazon: 118 ideas for everyone
-Health: UMass Memorial docs continue to urge patients to stay on top of cancer screenings
-History: Callahan Supply Co., 32 to 34 Foster St., 1901
-Homes: 5 open houses in Worcester to scope out
-Good news (brought to you by Bertera Nissan): 4-year-old Australian girl rescued 2 weeks after being snatched out of camping tent
-Meanwhile, in Michigan, hunter claims he encountered Bigfoot and took shocking photo "proof"
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Classifieds (Help Wanted)
-Temporary Part Time Snow Plow Operators in Shrewsbury
-Research Associate, Worcester Regional Research Bureau
-Multiple positions, Town of Holden
-Opportunities at the Boys & Girls Club of Worcester
-Full time carpenters needed in Boylston
-Full-time cleaners needed in Boylston
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Coronavirus (COVID-19)
+6:00: Parents can now make appointments to get children between ages of 5 and 11 vaccinated
+6:00: Moderna warns vaccine shipments are falling short
+Noon: Now that younger kids can get shots, when could they be fully vaccinated for the holidays?
+Noon: COVID survivors describe long-haul effects, daily struggles
-Meet the faces of Worcester’s #PostVaxLife youth vaccination campaign
-Walgreens, CVS to begin offering vaccines for kids under 12 this weekend
-Mass. doc explains importance of COVID vaccination in kids (3:09)
-Pediatricians are ready to calm nerves about vaccine
-Free testing this week in Worcester
-3 area schools can lift mask mandate
-ICYMI: 10 myths about the vaccine for kids, busted by pediatricians
-Half a million Mass. residents have gotten booster shots; state reports 1,290 new cases, 15 deaths
-Are booster shots same formulation as original vaccines?
In The News
>WEATHER: Mark Rosenthal's 7-day forecast (1:12). High of 37 today in Worcester
>TOP OF THE NEWS
-Driver hospitalized after car crashes into Dollar Tree store in Worcester (:20). Article
-Worcester apartment project on Shrewsbury Street faces parking concerns
-A year after scathing report on use of force, sex acts, Worcester police have new policies
-Worcester Public Medical Director Dr. Michael Hirsh retires
-TODAY! Guns to Gardens gun buyback
-Related: Radio Worcester (12:45): Dr. Michael Hirsch on Worcester’s “Guns to Gardens” program
-TODAY! The final Village Marketplace of 2025
-Worcester police officers honored at City Hall promotion ceremony
-Proposed development would bring 270 units, supermarket and a half-dozen other businesses to abandoned Shrewsbury factory site
-Dark Downeast Podcast (35:45): The murder of John E. Volungis Jr.
-Worcester Guardian week in review: Legacy businesses, tax rate debate, winter prep
-Radio Worcester Roundtable (49:36): Worcester snowstorm response, police oversight & affordability
-Radio Worcester's The Rundown (27:03): Tax rates, infrastructure challenges and a major coaching milestone
>DINING OUT: Table Hoppin': Bonchon, from owners of Gong cha, sees crowds, lines
-ICYMI: Couple arrested after 5-hour standoff in Worcester (1:37). Article
-Related: Worcester officers treated for hypothermia after standoff
-Water restored as crews continue work on Shore Drive in Worcester
-Winter homeless shelter to open at former Quality Inn near Lincoln Plaza
-Worcester woman wins Lucky for Life, takes lump sum of $390,000
-See the rest of the day's Worcester news
>HOLDEN (brought to you by Lamoureux Ford): Wachusett Echo: Phone-free school by 2026? The newest phone policy controversy
-Merry Christmas from Lamoureux Ford! (:47)
-Chief Tim Sherblom sworn in as head of Central Mass. Chiefs of Police Association
>THE BURBS (brought to you by North End Motor Sales): Pedestrian struck and killed on Providence Road in Northbridge
-Police determine threat at Sterling school not legitimate
-West Boylston town administrator, hired after flag controversy, headed to Rutland
-TODAY! Santa visits Paxton Fire Department
-Apple store opens in Millbury
-Disabled veteran tax exemption available in Shrewsbury
-Kindled Planning hopes to "spark" more for customers
-The Item's calendar of events
>BARS & BANDS: The Mayor's Live Music List for Saturday
>SHOWTIME: Things to Do: Assabet Valley Mastersingers, High Command and more ...
-"Sister's Christmas Catechism" coming to Worcester
-"Night Lights" named best holiday garden display in nation
-Anxious Taylor Swift was scared to continue Eras Tour after Vienna terror threat
>OPINION: Tom Marino: Extremist views of Worcester’s self-proclaimed moderates
-WCCA-TV's Soapbox No. 1399 (24:41): John Stanford, Executive Director, Incubate
-Unity Radio's The Susanity Life (59:28)
>OBITUARIES: Tribute to Professor Emerita at UMass Medical School
>SPORTS: What’s impressed Josh McDaniels the most about Drake Maye this season
-Jayson Tatum looks spry in latest workout videos amid injury recovery
-Holy Cross baseball, men's lacrosse announce schedules
-A banner day: St. Paul honors championship history of former high schools
>CARS: List of the most stolen cars in 2025 revealed
>NATIONAL: Terrifying gas explosion caught on doorbell cam (:49). Article
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-Tragic: 8 high school athletes injured during training run after car veers onto sidewalk in suspected D.U.I. crash
>NEW ENGLAND: Brian Walshe trial recap (21:57): After closing statements, the jury deliberates
-Driver shaken after alleged road rage shooting on I-495 (1:47)
>COLLEGES: WPI professor named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
-Assumption named peacebuilder and conflict-resolution expert Alice Nderitu Civic Friendship Fellow
-Late-night breakfast at Clark, in photos
>TRAVEL (brought to you by Fuller RV & Rental): Where to go in Charlevoix, a French-Canadian snow globe
>BUSINESS: Lawmakers mull action on "dynamic" A.I.-powered pricing in wake of "shocking" Instacart report
-Open AI, Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT’s alleged role in Conn. murder-suicide
-Radio Worcester (7:03): Holiday spending budgeting and scam-proofing advice
-Former Worcester City Councilor candidate founds organization to address systemic oppressions
>HOMES: Foreclosures are soaring in the U.S.: study
>SHOPPING: Shoppers say ’tis the season for inflation, poll finds
>HEALTH: Tips to protect your sleep during the holidays (4:56)
-Under 7 hours of sleep shortens your life — 5 tricks to snooze faster
>TV/STREAMING: How to stream Taylor Swift docuseries, "The End of an Era," on Disney+
>MOVIES: New movies on streaming: "Die My Love," "Christy," and more
>CELEBRITY: Jason Bateman makes eyebrow-raising remark about sister Justine
-Judi Dench believes Harvey Weinstein has "done his time" for sexual assault, says she forgives him
>ANIMALS: Bear cub runs across frozen Hubbardston pond (:37)
>HISTORY: Then & Now: 187 Washington St., Worcester
>GOOD NEWS: Steve Hartman’s 10 most memorable stories over the years (29:41)
-Meanwhile, escaped horse visits New York's J.F.K. Airport
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