Worcesterites will have another busy election season starting this November. Voters will hit the polls in November for city elections, on December 8th for the special election primary for Sen. Ted Kennedy’s former seat, and again on January 19th for the actual special election.
Just imagine if Worcester had needed a primary in September.
The special election [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 31, 2009
Election, Primary, Special Election
August 27, 2009
McGovern coming home for Kennedy funeral
Despite being at the tail end of a week-long congressional trip to Iraq and Afghanistan, Congressman Jim McGovern is making special travel plans to be home by Friday afternoon, in time for Sen. Ted Kennedy’s funeral. McGovern’s aides arranged a 26-hour cross-globe trip to get the Congressman home in time, the Boston Globe reports.
August 27, 2009
Turtle Boy Music Awards
With over 20 bands already committed, the 2009 Turtle Boy Music Awards throughout the Canal District is lining up to be the most intense single night of music in Worcester’s history.
Confirmed acts include:
Hey Now Morris Fader, Jason James and the Bay State House Rockers, Dan Burke, The Jesse Fontaine Trio, Dental Plan, Delta Generators, New [...]
August 27, 2009
Super 88 Chain sold
Asian supermarket chain Super 88, whose plans to move into downtown Worcester dried up amid tough competition in the Boston area, has been sold to Hong Kong supermarkets, another similar chain of stores.
August 26, 2009
Next in line for Lion’s seat
Who will succeed Kennedy?
The two most prominent Central Massachusetts names mentioned are Congressman Jim McGovern and Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray, though the chances of either running is slim, especially if state law doesn’t change to allow the governor to appoint an interim successor. McGovern has more sway in House than he would as a [...]
August 26, 2009
The Lion’s Legacy
Even knowing this day was coming; even knowing it was coming soon, the loss of Senator Ted Kennedy took the air out of the room Wednesday morning. He was the Last Lion, the last of a dynasty, the institution and rock of Massachusetts politics.
Any longtime Massachusetts resident, anyone with the smallest tangential tie to [...]
August 25, 2009
Hazy Future
Spiritual Haze has always been something of a media favorite, if not a hospitality industry curiosity-cum-pioneer in Worcester. The hookah lounge was the first true hookah-focused business in town, an act quickly followed by several other spots around the city. And the business’s story – proprietor Victoria Mariano started it as an outgrowth [...]
August 25, 2009
Blog Log Digital
Posted by “Jeff”on wormtowntaxi.com
It’s been a long, slow evaporation of manufacturing jobs, here in Worcester. Over the course of many years I’ve seen it happen. Weasel used to have a factory job, and it was a good one, too. Once upon a time, you could just walk in to one of the many manufacturing businesses [...]
August 24, 2009
Globe/Telegram suitors to two?
The Boston Globe reported last week that two of the three would-be purchasers of the New England Media Group – including the Telegram and Gazette – have been invited to tour operations sometime in early September.
The two groups are California-based investment firm Platinum Equity, and a group led by Stephen Taylor, whose family sold the [...]
August 20, 2009
Rosen, on the ball
If we didn’t know better, we’d think City Councilor Gary Rosen had already left the City Council, despite the fact he has over four months left to serve.
In an email to us this morning about last night’s Central Massachusetts Labor Council Endorsement meeting, Rosen refers to himself as WCRN’s “political reporter and commentator,” promises the [...]
