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WORCESTER The City Council Tuesday managed to get the $733.8 million fiscal 2022 budget moved out of the Finance Committee, but held off on final approval of the measure for another week.
And unless the state Legislature adopts permanent changes to the state Open Meeting Law this week regarding remote participation, the council could be voting on that budget next week in the first open meeting held in City Hall since March 2020.
City Solicitor Michael Traynor told the council Tuesday that Gov. Charlie Baker s executive orders issued at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic are set to expire June 15, and with it will expire suspension of provisions of the Open Meeting Law that allowed the council to meet remotely for more than a year.
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By Laura Porter
If you pay attention, there are remnants of Worcester’s past on every block: a cornerstone from a different century; distinctive arches above a set of windows; a building’s original name preserved in stone.
Although much has been lost to time and new construction, there are also a surprising number of historic homes across the city that survive. Built by Worcester’s most prominent citizens, their wealth often rooted in industry, houses impressive in style and materials continue to dominate quite a few neighborhoods.
Many are in good shape, occupied by families or adapted for business or nonprofit use. But mistreatment and neglect have nearly destroyed others, leaving them ramshackle and broken, both inside and out.
‘The day the world stopped’: The 413 Worcester residents who died of COVID remembered one year after Massachusetts declared state of emergency
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
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About a dozen community leaders stared stoically at the podium inside the Levi Lincoln Jr. room in Worcester City Hall on Wednesday evening.
A mask covered each of their faces - like many gathering over the last 365 days. But the words spoken at the podium felt different as Tim Garvin, the President & CEO of the United Way of Central Massachusetts, lit a candle.
The flame flickered as the number “413” displayed on a large screen. Roses filled each digit that represented the number of city residents who died of COVID-19 to date.