Parking at Polar Park: A complete guide of how to get in and out of Worcester Red Sox games when visiting the new ballpark
Updated May 10, 2021;
It’s not difficult to get to Worcester. The Massachusetts Turnpike will guide those from the eastern and western parts of the state. Interstates-290 and 84 can help those from the north and south find New England’s second-largest city.
Signs on the Mass. Pike and I-290 will guide fans of the Worcester Red Sox to Polar Park. But what about when they arrive in the Canal District or downtown?
Parking for Polar Park is located throughout the city including in space by the Worcester Public Library.
The Next Draft: A guide to all your Polar Park beer needs
Matthew Tota
Correspondent
Polar Park’s vice president of hospitality believes success in his line of work comes from remembering the most important adage in minor league baseball.
“People come here to eat and drink and have a good time; it just so happens that there s a baseball game going on,” Cody Malone told me last week as we walked through Polar Park, joined by Rob Crain, a senior vice president for sales and marketing at the Worcester Red Sox.
In part, the two had spent much of the final week before the team’s first homestand preparing the park’s concessions for Opening Day Tuesday. They just placed the largest beer order in Atlas Distributing Inc.’s history and were expecting the kegs and cans to arrive at the stadium by week’s end.
A former Chicago firefighter traveled 1,000 miles in 1999 to honor the Worcester 6, two decades later her connection with the city blossomed into a small ice cream business
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
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Julia Moriconi’s first taste of Worcester came during one of its darkest hours.
As a firefighter in Chicago, Moriconi traveled nearly 1,000 miles east in December of 1999 after six Worcester firefighters lost their lives in the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. blaze.
Photos from the event show Moriconi standing on the stage as part of the honor guard in the ceremony at the then-Worcester Centrum that honored the six fallen heroes. Moriconi, who was 32 years old at the time, stood next to Firefighter Paul Brotherton’s photo as former President Bill Clinton addressed the crowd.
Opinion/The Next Draft: Flying Dreams leaves Worcester – for now
By Matthew Tota
Correspondent
For the first time in more than a decade, a brewery will not call the back of Peppercorn s Grille & Tavern home.
In October, Flying Dreams Brewing Co. moved out of the Park Avenue restaurant after Peppercorn’s owner Tom Oliveri opted not to renew the brewery’s lease. Flying Dreams took over the roughly 1,200-square-foot space in November 2015 when Wormtown Brewery moved production to its new brewery on Shrewsbury Street.
Now, technically, Worcester is down to five breweries: Wormtown, 3cross Fermentation Coop, Greater Good Imperial Brewing Co., Redemption Rock Brewing Co. and Bay State Brewing Co.
Amid COVID pandemic, Bay State Brewing Co. in Worcester opened, created reputation as innovative brewery
Updated Jan 23, 2021;
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About a year ago Chip Jarry and Shawn Rich prepared to open Bay State Brewing Company in a space previously occupied by a pizza shop the Fidelity Bank Worcester Ice Center.
Looking to the future, they saw a mug club, a second-floor space for parties and gatherings and special events throughout the year.
Like most everyone else, a global pandemic wasn’t part of their business model.
Bay State opened last year on Feb. 29.
Despite all that’s happened since, Jarry and Rich can still joke that it’s their quarter-year anniversary next month with a 25% club - highlighting the state’s capacity for restaurants.