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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...

Leominster, MA · 1d

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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.

Fitchburg, MA · 1d

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Gardner man surrenders after seven-hour standoff at Waterford Street apartment

A Gardner man who barricaded himself inside his Waterford Street apartment and threatened officers surrendered early Saturday, Nov. 7, ending a seven-hour standoff, police said. Gardner police arrested David Margeson, 42, on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, according to a press release from Sgt. Ryan Coates. Officers...

Gardner, MA · 16h

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Business Matters: Central Mass. by the Numbers, Sunday, Nov. 8

20 Dad's Restaurant in Charlton, a Route 20 gathering spot since 1993, will close for good on Nov. 8. The yellow-sided cottage has been run for years by Anne Cote, whose father, Donald Alyre Daigle, started the business after many years as a meat-cutter. Cote is now in the process of selling her home to move with her husband, Jeff, to Indiana to live with her son. 2443 Ten months after a fire ravaged the popular grocer Ten West Market, 2443 Main St. in the Jefferson section of Holden, the shop is preparing to welcome back customers on Nov. 16. Despite the damage, owner Darlene Walsh, who operates the market with her sons, resolved to reopen as soon as the fire was knocked down . Lilac Hedge Farm, a nearby business, helped raise money to pay the wages of Ten West employees out of work after the fire. 771 Harte’s Home, 771 Washington St., Auburn, a furniture store that opened in 2023, through the efforts of former Rotmans Furniture employees has closed after three years in business following the sale of the building. The store's inventory of about 100 new mattresses and over 500 items was auctioned online in Oct.

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Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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

Holden, MA · 2d

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Marlborough man charged after officer hurt in Southborough arrest

Southborough police arrested a Marlborough man Thursday, Nov. 5, after he pushed an officer to the ground and ran from a Turnpike Road parking lot, according to Police Chief Ryan M. Newell. A second officer hurt his arm in the pursuit. Anyelo Gonzalez Escarate, 25, faces the following charges:. assault...

Southborough, MA · 2d

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Trip to popular Massachusetts convenience store turns into $500,000 State Lottery win

You just never know when your typical trip to a Massachusetts convenience store can turn into a big State Lottery pay day as it did this week. According to the Massachusetts State Lottery, Jo’s Dime Trust of Worcester has claimed a $500,000 top prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s “$500,000 Frenzy” $50 scratch ticket game.

Massachusetts · 2d

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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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Leominster breaks ground on new elementary school this month

The Leominster School Committee announced Monday that a formal groundbreaking ceremony for the new Fall Brook School project is scheduled for Nov. 19. The announcement came during a facilities and infrastructure update at the committee's regular meeting. Committee members noted that the milestone marks the start of construction following five years of planning and design work.

Leominster, MA · 2d

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Southbridge police investigate Marcy Street shooting that left 1 wounded

Southbridge police are investigating a shooting on Marcy Street that sent one person to a hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg Wednesday, Nov. 4. Officers responded to reports of gunshots near Marcy Street at about 6:09 p.m. and found spent shell casings, according to a statement the Southbridge Police Department released Thursday, Nov. 5.

Southbridge, MA · 2d

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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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Westborough's Stop & Shop Plaza Faces Dec. 8 Foreclosure Auction

The Westborough Shopping Center, the Route 9 plaza anchored by Stop & Shop and Staples, is headed for a foreclosure auction scheduled for Dec. 8, 2026, at 11 a.m. The sale comes as the property's owner also holds town approval for a very different future: a redevelopment plan that would bring more than 100 new housing units to the site.

Westborough, MA · 7h

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Twenty years later, QCC basketball brotherhood still going strong

It all started in the summer of 2005 when new Quinsigamond Community College basketball coach Jon Winer rolled up to the Great Brook Valley public housing complex in a button-down, collared shirt and what Maurice “Mo” Horton could only describe as “church” pants. Perhaps visually out...

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Fitchburg moves toward posting legal notices online, not in a newspaper

FITCHBURG – On Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, the Fitchburg City Council referred a petition asking the state for permission to post legal notices digitally instead of publishing them in a print newspaper to its Legislative Affairs Committee. The petition, listed as 192-26 on the council’s agenda for the Nov....

Fitchburg, MA · 1d

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Gardner man arrested for distributing crack in apartment raid that turned up pistol stolen from security truck

GARDNER – On Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, Gardner Police Detective Anthony Webb obtained a search warrant from the Gardner District Court authorizing the search of Apartment 2 at 242 Pine Street for cocaine and other items pertaining to the illegal distribution of narcotics. (The account and quotations in this...

Gardner, MA · 1d

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Shrewsbury Tears Down 1922 Beal School, Clearing Way for Housing

Demolition crews have begun tearing down the century-old Major Howard W. Beal School at 1-7 Maple Avenue in central Shrewsbury, closing the book on a building that once served as the town's high school and later as an early childhood education center before sitting vacant for years. The site is slated for a mixed-use development that will bring housing and retail to the heart of town, according to the Community Advocate.

Shrewsbury, MA · 2d

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Mortgage Lender Sues Owners of Shuttered Worcester O'Connor's Over $82K in Taxes

The owners of Worcester's shuttered O'Connor's Restaurant & Bar are facing a new lawsuit from a mortgage lender, which alleges they owe $82,000 in city taxes and have not done enough to find a buyer for the long-closed Irish pub. The lawsuit, reported Monday by the Worcester Telegram, targets the...

Worcester, MA · 5h

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