Urban Gardener: Composting For Winter

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Leonard Moorehead, GoLocalWorcester Gardening Expert

Streetlights illuminate my city garden. I often walk the grassy lanes and lose myself among the living breathing and ever active garden. The recent full moon and Venus are bright enough to shine through the urban haze. Gardeners are ever mindful that gardening is an endless generative act. We are in harmony with seasonal changes. There are always interesting natural phenomena or opportunity at hand. For me, it’s a gigantic heap of leaves cresting the driveway between house and garden wall well over my head. This glacial force is fragrant from months of sunny warm days. Soon, it will flow into the garden spaces transformed and shredded to form a thick layer of organic material on top of the already manured garden spaces. Or maybe the compost heap!

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An Early Holiday Gift: the Geminid Meteor Shower

Saturday, November 29, 2014

David Huestis, GoLocalProv Astronomy Expert

Stargazers are a hearty group of people. During the muggy months of the year we often fight the onslaught of mosquitoes while trying to enjoy the starry sky. Then once the cold of winter sets in, you will still find many dedicated souls bravely bundling up to observe the heavens under often frigid temperatures.

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Sharks Fall 3-2 To Falcons in OT, Lose 6th Straight Game

Saturday, November 29, 2014

GoLocalWorcester Sports Team

The Worcester Sharks (8-8-2) lost 3-2 in overtime to the 914-7-1) Springfield Falcons on Friday night in front of just over 2,600 fans at the DCU Center. The Sharks have now lost six games in a row. 

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Holy Cross Suffers First Loss of Season, 72-48 to Syracuse

Saturday, November 29, 2014

GoLocalWorcester Sports Team

The Holy Cross Men's basketball team (3-1) lost 72-48 on the road against the (5-1) Syracuse Orange on Friday night at the Carrier Dome in front of just over 19,000 people. The loss is the Crusaders firs of the season. 

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The Repeated Audacity of High School Bomb Threats

Friday, November 28, 2014

Patrick Sargent, GoLocal Worcester Contributor

On Monday, Leominster High School postponed their Tuesday pep rally for their Thanksgiving Day Football game due to a shooting threat. Two students reported to administration that a Leominster High student threatened to shoot up the pep rally.

The shooting scare is one of many recent threats to local high schools.  Since December, in Central Massachusetts there have been a reported seven high schools evacuated because of bomb threats.

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5K Road Race to Honor St. Peter- Marian’s Kevin Kirk

Friday, November 28, 2014

Patrick Sargent, GoLocal Worcester Contributor

On Saturday, St.Peter-Marian High School will host it's First Annual Kevin Kirk 5K Memorial Road Race in memory of former teacher Kevin Kirk. A teacher at SPM for 38 years, Kirk passed away in June after a long and courageous battle with cancer. At SPM, Kirk taught English and coached Cross Country.

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Friday Financial Five: November 28th, 2014

Friday, November 28, 2014

Dan Forbes, GoLocalWorcester MINDSETTER™

It’s a busy time for the economic calendar, with some slightly negative indications looking forward. GDP for the third quarter will be revised upward to 3.9, but the fourth quarter isn’t expected to be as strong.

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Finneran: Lord, For These Many Things I Am Grateful

Friday, November 28, 2014

Tom Finneran, GoLocalWorcester MINDSETTER™

Americans need Thanksgiving. So blessed are we in the history of the world that it is as if God himself ordained a holiday, as a test, just to see if his people would gather in thanks.

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Happy Thanksgiving Central MA

Thursday, November 27, 2014

GoLocalWorcester Team

This holiday season, be sure to give love, thanks, and praise to all of those who make you your best each and every day. 

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Major Retail Outlets’ Thanksgiving Day Shopping Hours

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Patrick Sargent, GoLocal Worcester Contributor

Leave it to the most important national holiday of the year to interrupt an uncivilized shopping spree of door-busters and markdowns. How selfish of Thanksgiving to gather family and friends. We could be out there spending money on those loved ones, but no, we have to eat dinner with them first. 

How dare Massachusetts force us to talk over turkey?

The notorious 'Black Friday' has suddenly become a three-day long shopping event where Worcester locals try to get their Christmas shopping done and over with during a holiday so they can spend more time with their friends and family over the holidays. 

For those of you that can't wait to finish your Thanksgiving dinner and sprint out the door with your credit cards in hand, here's a list of opening early Friday morning. We've provided the links to each store for those that actually enjoy their relatives company and can wait until dinner is over and the pie plates are cleared:

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