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Virtual_Announcer t1_ivdh0pd wrote

Reply to Here for the week by Schematizc

If you like sports Holy Cross men's basketball opens the season tomorrow night at seven. I got a spare ticket I could leave for you at the ticket window.

Best time in Worcester is Wrestling Open Thursday night at 8 at the White Eagle on Green Street. Ten bucks for the most fun two hours of the week.

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your_city_councilor t1_ivd8mu6 wrote

Reply to comment by KCC416 in Down Lonely Street: Longtime businesses depart from Main Street downtown by HRJafael

I don't know. I remember people always talking about "Will the last person to leave downtown Worcester please turn off the lights" well into the 1990s. Nationally foot traffic is down in business districts, because workers are not in the office as much, but there are all kinds of new businesses downtown, like Brew on the Grid, Fuel America, etc.

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your_city_councilor t1_ivd8gjp wrote

Reply to Down Lonely Street: Longtime businesses depart from Main Street downtown by HRJafael

This article is weird. Did someone in the city administration offend someone at the T+G? This article sounds like it was written in the late 1980s through the early 2000s, when it was common for every article and discussion of downtown to bemoan how the business district was becoming a ghost town. The only difference is that there was a very brief mention of the pandemic.

There are new things downtown that have opened, like the place where you can throw axes, the new steakhouse, the new restaurant that's opening on top of the Mid-Town mall and a bunch of stuff in the mall itself, not to mention that the whole mall has been/is being renovated.

This really is a strange article.

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jbezorg76 t1_ivd2q39 wrote

Reply to Does anyone know the curly haired Spanish kid that always walks around main south? by [deleted]

I don't know this person, because I don't go down south Main very often. I'm usually in around the Elm Park area, and from there somewhere on Park Ave down to May St. In that area, especially where Chandler St and Park Ave meet, there's a lot of folks there that have been down on their luck for some time. I came here almost exactly 2 years ago, and it's stunning to me that the same people that were flying signs when I arrived here are still doing so today.

There was one who is missing, my kids began to call him "One Dollah," because he would walk out into traffic and ask "Do you have one dollah, do you have a cigarette," and he wasn't shy about it. If my window was up, he'd knock on it. It kind of upset me a little when I was in the Walgreens drive-thru and he came up from behind me in the line of cars waiting to get to served and knocked on my window. I almost jumped into the passenger seat.

I saw him sitting outside of the DD near Mason St, on Chandler St. It was like 8am and he was sitting on the curb, smoking a cig. Since I'd seen him for so long, I wanted to ask him why he was out doing this for so long. He replied "Well, I smoke crack, so..." and shrugged. He stated it so matter-of-fact that I just replied "Oh, ok well that makes sense," and went about my day.

As I said, he's not been seen in quite a while, I've asked some of the other people about him but they seem to not know who I'm talking about. If anyone happens to know what happened to him, I'd love to know. My hope is that he got some help, that he's with his family, and that he's doing better.

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jbezorg76 t1_ivd1iia wrote

Reply to comment by phoenixofsevenhills in Does anyone know the curly haired Spanish kid that always walks around main south? by [deleted]

Are you talking about Mikey, he was rather heavyset, had lots of piercings and worked at a gas station? I just found out like a month ago that he passed. Overdosed, in fact. Really sad, he was trying to get his life together, got the job at the gas station and was doing well there. In fact, I saw him interacting with his manager a few times, and it really seemed like the manager was depending on him quite a bit, which was a good thing job-wise I thought at the time.

When I asked about him... this was about maybe 6-7 weeks ago, I was told he had passed away. So very effing sad. :(

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