‘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.
Updated on January 8, 2021 at 12:41 pm
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Students at Worcester Public Schools will continue learning from their homes for the foreseeable future after the school committee voted to indefinitely delay the start of in-person learning due to troubling COVID-19 trends in Massachusetts.
The Worcester Schools Committee unanimously supported the decision in a meeting Thursday night, and it was also backed by the Educational Association of Worcester.
The plan had initially been to bring high needs students back into classrooms on Jan. 25, with other students tentatively scheduled to return to in-person learning in March but that s now indefinitely delayed after Thursday s decision from school officials.