WORCESTER – Hundreds of students signed up for the city’s first at-school COVID-19 vaccine clinic Tuesday, where some hoped to protect family members, give themselves peace of mind and help ensure there will be no more mandatory remote learning this fall.
According to school officials, around 260 students had enrolled for the event, which was hosted at Worcester Technical High School – nearly one-fifth of the school’s population. Another two clinics are scheduled for Wednesday at North High School and South High Community School, followed by ones Thursday at Doherty Memorial High School, Claremont Academy and University Park Campus School, and one more Friday at Burncoat High School.
Last Call with Andrea Cameron, Forest Grove teacher and community gardener
Sarah Connell Sanders
Correspondent
Andrea Cameron spent the last year developing a flexible curriculum for the Community Teaching Garden and Literacy Project. Woodward Day School has already begun to use elements of the curriculum and Forest Grove Middle School, where Cameron teaches, will launch this project as an after-school club when COVID-19 protocols allow for it.
How long have you been in Worcester?
I grew up in Worcester over by St. Peter Marion. Now, I own a house in the Indian Lake neighborhood. I bought it about seven years ago. I work at Forest Grove, which is right down the hill from the lake. I met Carl Gomes two summers ago. He had an end-of-the-summer neighborhood block party. When I met him, he started talking about his vision for a community garden. I shared with him that I worked at Forest Grove and I loved his idea. Shortly after, I began working with him on a curriculum that we coul
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WORCESTER Despite the city’s flower beds being entombed in a frozen crust, the Indian Lake Community Association is looking forward to start phase one of its “Community Teaching Garden Literacy Project.”
The association was planning to complete phase one Saturday, Feb. 13, but Mother Nature had other plans. They are now shooting for March 13, the one year anniversary of the Commonwealth-wide shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The site of the garden will be on West Boylston Drive on the parcel of land that was part of the West Boylston Drive Barrier Wall replacement project, Carl Gomes, president of the Indian Lake Community Association Inc., said.
Verizon awards grant to Worcester providing internet hotspots to students
WORCESTER School officials Thursday night announced the district had received a new grant from Verizon to provide internet hotspots to students at 11 secondary schools for up to four years.
According to the School Department, the telecommunications company, which Worcester contracted with prior to this school year to provide hotspots to thousands of homes, will provide hotspots to any student without reliable internet service at those schools.
There was not a monetary amount for the grant available as of Thursday night, however.
Access to internet has become one of the major issues facing the district this year as it continues to instruct students remotely at their homes during the pandemic.