WORCESTER After three years, 1,250 volunteer hours, 22 directional signs and kiosks, 23 mileage marker posts and two murals, the East-West Trail is taking a new direction.
The East-West Trail is a 14-mile cross-city hike, stretching from Lake Quinsigamond to Cascades Park. The trail, while winding through timeless nature and numerous historical spots in the city, is a fairly new project, born in 2015 as a patchwork of green spaces and city streets.
The trail project was spearheaded by Worcester-based nonprofit Park Spirit, a volunteer-run group established in 1988 by Colin Novick of the Greater Worcester Land Trust and Rick Miller, former Park Spirit president.
WORCESTER City residents who died during the COVID-19 pandemic were honored on Arbor Day with the planting of three trees Friday at Elm Park.
To date, 421 Worcester residents have died as a result of the pandemic, City Manager Edward M. Augustus said.
In addition to recognizing those residents who have passed away during the pandemic, the trees are also a tribute to the city s health care professionals and other essential workers, organizers said.
“All of those people are heroes. They allow us to get through this pandemic,” Augustus said.
City Councilor Sarai Rivera said people have learned and gone through a lot, so it means a lot to Worcester residents to have a beautiful park to enjoy and to remember others.
In more ways than one, Redemption Rock Brewing Co., located on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester, is not like other craft breweries.
For one, while minimalism remains in vogue among the aesthetically minded, Redemption Rock is colorful, known for its bright, multi-colored murals on-site, as well as its rotating growler labels designed by local artists.
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And for two, it’s also a certified benefit corporation – the first craft brewer in the region to achieve the certification. In many ways, the B-corp status makes official what Co-founder and CEO Danielle Babineau said was a goal from the start: to be a purpose-driven, impactful business.
The Next Draft: Getting beer fridge of news ready for a busy spring, summer
Matthew Tota
Correspondent
In anticipation of a spring and summer filled with many more brewery visits than last year, I have started working furiously over the last few weeks to clean out my beer fridge.
Rough task, I’ll tell you: shoehorning in that extra beer or two during dinner. Then there have been the challenging, life-defining decisions of which older purchases to pour down the drain.
But like the news, the beer never stops flowing, so it’s time to get to the stories and brews that would have gotten lost behind the new stuff.
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