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WORCESTER The Planning Board Wednesday approved the site plan for the transformation of the old Worcester Boys & Girls Club building on Ionic Avenue into a creative arts space and childcare center.
Board members were enthusiastic in their support for the project, which when completed in 2022 will be the Creative Hub Worcester Arts Center, a mix of artist studios, event space, and educational classrooms. This is a fantastic example of reusing a building for an excellent purpose for the community, board member Ellie Gilmore said before the board voted 5-0 to approve the site plan for 661 Main St. and 2 Ionic Ave.
WORCESTER Members of the Planning Board said Wednesday they liked the idea of reviving a discussion about allowing residents to have chickens.
The board didn t make a recommendation on a petition from resident Brian Grinnan asking for chickens to be allowed in areas of the city zoned for single family residences, but continued the discussion, and spoke favorably about allowing poultry to be raised in the city as a way to complement the city s urban agriculture ordinance.
Grinnan s petition recently went before the City Council, and was sent to the Planning Board for a recommendation. Staff Wednesday recommended the board recommend that the council not adopt the ordinance allowing chickens in RS-7 zones because of a lack of detail and specificity, but told board members that staff could draw up a decision that signaled their support for a more in-depth look at the possibility of passing a more comprehensive ordinance.
Celebrating the Knight s Centennial in Cuba
This article appeared in the July 2009 issue of Columbia and is reprinted here with permission of
the Knights of Columbus, New Haven, Conn and of Maria de Lourdes Ruiz Scaperlanda, author.
by María de Lourdes Ruiz Scaperlanda
The year was 1909. Plastic was invented. Censorship of motion pictures began. And 53-year-old American explorer Robert E. Peary became the first to reach the North Pole. It was also the year that the Order founded chapters in both Cuba and Panama.
Between the 1899 census and 1908 the population of the island of Cuba, celebrated as “The Pearl of the Antilles,” increased by 30 %, reaching over two million. Roughly the size of England and smaller than Virginia, the Caribbean island struggled to come into its own, politically, economically, culturally, after a fierce battle for independence from Spain. The Catholic Church in Cuba was no exception.