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After years of heartbreak, Wachusett wins first playoff game since 2021
HOLDEN — When Thomas Anderson, Mike McGurn and Jack Smith were eighth graders in 2022, the three were invited by Wachusett football coach Mike Dubzinski to stand on the sidelines and watch the Mountaineers play in a Division 1 playoff game in Westwood. “I wanted that to be me one day,” said McGurn, who is now a senior captain for Wachusett. “We ended up losing,” said Anderson, also a senior captain in reference to the Mountaineers’ playoff loss to Xaverian that year. “I would say that really sparked our passion to come here, reset the losing mantra and get us back on track to a winning program.” Four years later, the trio did just that by helping fourth-seeded Wachusett beat No. 13 Shrewsbury , 49-14, in a Division 1 Round of 16 game Friday night. Anderson tossed three touchdown passes while Smith secured two rushing scores as the Mountaineers mustered their first playoff win since 2021. “To finally get a win and move onto the next round, there’s no better feeling than that,” Smith said. Said McGurn: “It means everything.” “To be able to make it through a playoff game and get the win,” Anderson added, “it’s everything.” FINAL: Wachusett
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Fitchburg Company Lays off 62 Employees
Snack food company Powered by From the Ground Up, LLC will permanently close the doors at its Water Street location resulting in the layoff of 62 employees. Chief People Officer Cheslea McCure filed a “Notice of Plant Closing and Resulting Employment Termination,” with the state’s Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development last month.
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Worcester relaunches Recycles Right, will skip contaminated bins starting Nov. 9
Worcester will stop collecting curbside recycling bins that hold unaccepted items citywide starting the week of Nov. 9, as the city relaunches its Worcester Recycles Right campaign. The campaign targets rising contamination in bins at residential buildings with one to six units. Those are the only properties the city serves...
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5 Best Restaurants in Worcester, Massachusetts You Need to Try Before Everyone Else Finds Them
Worcester, Massachusetts — a city where red-brick mills line the Blackstone, where the laughter of college students mingles with the wisdom of old-timers, where the scent of garlic, soy, and woodsmoke drifts through neighborhoods stitched together by memory and migration. Here, the architecture is a patchwork: triple-deckers, Victorian spires, and the gentle sprawl of new ambition. Worcester is a crossroads — of Irish pubs and Vietnamese bakeries, of Polish delis and Dominican grills, of artists, nurses, teachers, and families who gather in parks and on porches, sharing stories and meals beneath the wide New England sky.
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Grease theft in Auburn ends with arrest of man wanted by U.S. Marshals
Two people Auburn police caught taking used cooking oil from a restaurant dumpster included a man wanted on a federal warrant, according to the Auburn Police Department. Officers responded to Auburn Plaza at about 5:37 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, after a T.J. Maxx employee reported two people removing used cooking oil from a dumpster behind Jasmine Restaurant, police said. The pair drove off in a van before officers arrived.
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Alumnus will buy land, drop legal case against Anna Maria College
PAXTON – An Anna Maria College alumnus who alleges the college reneged on a promise to gift him part of the campus has agreed to drop his claim and buy the land, court records show. David Roy of Paxton, who sought in August to bar the college from selling 2.4 acres he claimed was rightfully his, reached an agreement to buy the plot for $175,000, court records show. Roy, whose parents owned the college’s food service for three decades, has presented evidence in court that Anna Maria offered to gift him the land in 2023 to “right” an unspecified “wrong,” but ultimately reneged. A Worcester Superior Court judge last summer barred Anna Maria from selling the disputed land, and his lawyers this summer asked a judge to find he held “equitable title” to it and prevent the college from selling it. The college, citing lack of interest, canceled its bankruptcy sale of the entire campus last month, noting at the time it planned to sell 2.4 acres to an unspecified bidder. Recently filed court documents show a judge approved sale of the property to Roy, and that he had agreed to dismiss his legal claims after the sale closes. Roy,
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The 10 Leominster, Massachusetts Restaurants That Are Better Than Most People Expect
A restaurant in this city lost its building to a fire in July 2021, and it didn’t quit. It moved to a temporary spot a short drive away and kept cooking from scratch while it waited to rebuild. That kind of grit runs deeper than you’d guess here. One...
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Paxton fire vehicle crashes near Paxton Center School while responding to call
A Paxton Fire Department vehicle crashed near Paxton Center School shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, while responding to an emergency on West Street, the department said. The department member driving the fire vehicle suffered minor injuries and went to a local hospital for evaluation, as department policy requires....