Worcester Prohibits Trick-or-Treating, Provides List of Safe Activities
The City of Worcester remains at high risk for transmission of COVID, and following guidance from the CDC, which lists traditional, door-to-door trick-or-treating as a “higher risk activity,” the City announced on Thursday it is prohibiting door-to-door trick-or-treating this year.
Worcester is one of three (Lawrence & Springfield) high risk communities to restrict door-to-door trick-or-treating.
See the image below for a list of safe activities and trick-or-treating alternatives:
Worcester’s Election Commission Holding Public Hearing Monday Night
The City of Worcester’s Election Commission is hosting a public hearing on Monday night to discuss moving three precincts.
The hearing will discuss moving Ward 9 – Precincts 1, 2 and 3 from the May Street Building at Worcester State University to the school’s Wellness Center at 486 Chandler St.
The meeting will be held virtually at 6:30 PM. For information on how to participate, click here.
Funeral Home Owner Announces Write-In Candidacy for Governor’s Council Race
Peter Stefan, owner of the Graham, Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors, has announced his eligibility as a write-in/sticker candidate for the vacant office of Governor’s Council District 7 of Worcester County in the November 3 state election.
Stefan will run as an independent candidate.
Massachusetts regulations state that write-in votes can be done with stickers or by manually writing in the candidate’s correct name and address [Peter A. Stefan, 838 Main Street, Worcester, MA].
“There’s so many people in our county who have been marginalized – veterans, indigents, single mothers, or people struggling with addiction,” Stefan said. “They feel like government is dead, that they have no voice. My primary goal is to be the voice of these people, as well as all of the residents of Worcester County, to ensure they are heard and that their needs are taken seriously.”
Wormtown’s Table Talk Pumpkin Pie Ale will Be Released this Week
The annual release of Wormtown Brewery’s Pumpkin Pie Ale — a collaboration with Table Talk Pies — is set to happen this week.
On Friday, Wormtown posted the image below across its social media accounts with the caption “One week…”
Stay tuned and follow Wormtown on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for updates.
National Science Foundation Awards ‘Future of Manufacturing’ Grant to MA
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new ‘Future of Manufacturing’ grant of $499,955 awarded to a collaboration of Massachusetts organizations, including Worcester Polytechnic Institute [WPI].
The project, called ‘Rapid Execution for Scaling Production Of Needed Designs’ or RESPOND, will create a diverse network of transdisciplinary stakeholders across academia and state government that will support and sustain critical ‘super nodes’ that will boost communication between organizations, help accelerate product development, and drive increased manufacturing capacity to address crises like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The grant will be led by UMass Lowell in collaboration with WPI, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech), a public economic development agency, to develop a crisis-resilient manufacturing network.
“At WPI we understand the importance of collaboration to help solve some of our most pressing challenges. We are proud of our collective efforts to address critical needs during a time of a crisis and we look forward to our continued work with the RESPOND team and industry partners.” said Sara Saberi, assistant professor at Foisie Business School at WPI and co-PI on the NSF grant. “This grant also allows us to take what we learned from this crisis and expand our expertise in designing agile business innovations for future applications as well as planning for training, education, and workforce development. Building this capacity and knowledge for our communities based on science and scholarship is an important role for all our institutions.”
