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Green Island Grrrl
- Crompton Park June 18, 2021 By Rosalie Tirella Crompton Park Skatepark is gonna be built. Watch the video, below. Wowza. Big plans augmenting what’s already there: the park’s new basketball courts look great. The new playground looks wonderful. The swimming pool, relatively new, built on former City Manager Mike O’Brien’s watch, ...
InCity Voices
- Reposting this GIG column for Father’s Day … I wrote this column about 14 years ago, right after my father died. – Rose On Seeing My Father By Rosalie Tirella Country Boy. Rose’s father as a teen with his dog, Pal. He always owned dogs – loved them! Later he became obsessed with ...
Politically Speaking
- “Saint behind the glass” By Rosalie Tirella pics: R.T. I’m eating lunch, and there he sits, between my make-up “counter” to the left and my cocktail shaker-mini bar to the right, behind the tip of Cece’s tail in the photo: Saint Behind the Glass. Jesus behind the glass. Or, more accurately, the ...
Fashion
- Safeguarding animals and workers in American slaughterhouses: President Biden makes a good start … Slowing down slaughter speeds is a step forward, but we can do far better! By Ingrid Newkirk Ingrid has changed the world❤🌎! President Joe Biden’s recent decision to dismantle a Trump-era program that allowed slaughterhouses to raise slaughter-line speeds should be applauded by all, regardless of politics. The ...
Music
- Worcester’s changes, big and small Text and photos by Rosalie Tirella While eating breakfast today with CeCe … … I thought about the changes – big and small – happening in Worcester, my hometown. Big change: Quinsigamond Village is getting the Blackstone Visitors Center – a bigger-than-I-expected new building now under construction ...
Speaking Out!
- Fireworks shortage presents the perfect opportunity for change! By Michelle Kretzer Jett hates fireworks … Lilac is neutral … In the era of COVID-19, “shortage” is becoming a familiar word. But unlike the absence of toilet paper, cleaning supplies and flour, the fireworks shortage could prove beneficial. In its most recent Fireworks Annual Report, the ...