UpdatedFri, May 7, 2021 at 11:08 am ET
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Twenty-four candidates for City Council and School Committee had returned signatures as of May 6. (Neal McNamara/Patch)
WORCESTER, MA An important milestone in the 2021 Worcester city election is coming up on with candidates under a Tuesday deadline to submit signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
As of Thursday, two dozen candidates had already submitted enough signatures to get on the ballot, including all but two incumbents and a slew of challengers.
Although many candidates have been campaigning for months, some surprising new contenders have emerged recently.
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Two police officers have gathered enough signatures, including state police Sgt. Gregory Stratman and Worcester police union leader Richard Cipro known for clashing with city officials, and co-administering a Facebook page that often features right-wing memes.
WORCESTER Despite frigid temperatures, a small group gathered Sunday around a large, black granite monument on the corner of Main and Agawam streets to honor and remember those who tragically lost their lives to the devastating, nondiscriminatory and destructive wrath of fire.
William T. Breault, chairman of the Main South Alliance of Public Safety, led the solemn ceremony that has been held every March 7 since the monument was dedicated in 1992 to recognize the fatal fire two years earlier at 21 Florence St., in which four people perished.
Each year on March 7, names of those who died the previous year are added to the cold slab of stone, forever etched as a constant reminder of the devastating, non-discriminatory wrath of fire.
The Indiana Supreme Court has ordered the Department of Correction to pay more than $500,000 in legal fees in a fight over one of the state s deepest, darkest secrets.
At stake was whether the state had to reveal the mix of drugs the department plans to use to execute inmates on Indiana s Death Row. And last week, nearly 7 years after the case started, the Indiana Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that ordered IDOC to release the information.
The ruling will hinder Indiana s ability to carry out death penalty sentences and leaves many unresolved issues that will likely end up back in court, Solicitor General Thomas Fisher, who represented the state in the case, said in an email response to questions from IndyStar.
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UNION BLUES: Not only do we have to keep on guard for COVID-19 and the common flu this winter, it appears Worcester has also been possibly plagued by a case of “Blue Flu.” Writing for the Telegram & Gazette, Steven H. Foskett reports that, The city is investigating an allegation that a group of city police officers recently coordinated a sick out action following the discipline of a fellow officer. In a statement released Wednesday, City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr. said the city is aware of the allegation, and is taking it seriously. He said the Police Department and the city Human Resources Department are conducting an investigation.” The action, according to Foskett and pretty much anyone on local social media, was “to protest discipline … the department meted out against an officer who was recorded on video appearing to slap a man on a gurney in July on Main Street.” Now, investigations are underway, so we ll hopefully find out what really hap