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Green Island Grrrl
- WHY NOT MAKE COLUMBUS DAY “ITALIAN HERITAGE DAY”? October 10, 2021 By Rosalie Tirella I get it: We must ditch Columbus Day. Let’s forgeddabout the Nina, the Santa Maria and the third ship Christopher Columbus sailed over from Italy in his global quest for rare, exotic spices (that’s what we were taught as students at Lamartine Street ...
InCity Voices
- Candidates forum – for Worcester City Councillors at-Large Text and photos by Jim Coughlin CECELIA political reporter Jim Coughlin The YWCA at Salem Square was the scene of a candidates forum this past week for Worcester City Council at-Large. Our city’s Municipal election will be held on November 2. The forum was co-sponsored by the ...
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
- New Worcester column by Jim! Ol’ Worcester Boy Returns to New Worcester Scene! By Jim Coughlin Jim. photos submitted. Jim’s family puppy! I was born in Worcester in the mid-1950s, and whenever I travel to the city of my birth, I must say I am unquestionably impressed by how she has progressed in ...
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!
- Why should animals have rights? From PETA.ORG: Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. Many of us bought our beloved “pets” at pet shops and kept beautiful birds in cages. We wore wool and silk, ate McDonald’s burgers, and fished. We never ...