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Green Island Grrrl
- 🌲MY OLD HOME December 17, 2022 By Rosalie Tirella ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I visited my old Green Island neighborhood a week or two ago. My birthplace and stamping grounds for my first 18 years! The locus of so many childhood joys and horrors: my angel mother, my loving Polish immigrant grandparents, Bapy and Jaju … ...
InCity Voices
- DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. REMEMBERED BY THE WORCESTER COMMUNITY AT TWO SPECIAL EVENTS! Martin Luther King, Jr: a prophet of peace and social justice By John Monfredo, retired WPS principal and teacher and former Worcester School Committee member “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – MLK, Jr. The legacy ...
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
- 💕The Worcester Public Schools – always in style! New column from John Monfredo … For the New Year … MY THREE WISHES FOR OUR WPS STUDENTS AND SCHOOLS By John Monfredo, retired Lamartine Street School teacher and Belmont Community School principal and former Worcester School Committee member This September on Highland Street: a dad walking his son to school. photo: R.T. 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!
- 🍾It’s Veganuary! Resolve to do more than lose weight in 2023!🍾🥔 By Heather Moore Get educated – and change your life! Art: PETA Let me guess: You’re resolving to lose weight in the new year, right? You want to fit back into your favorite jeans, the ones that have been stashed in the back of your closet for ...