Beekeeping housing advocate guilty of attacking deputies with honeybees, sheriff reports Rebecca “Rorie” Woods, 59, was found guilty of four counts of simple assault and battery and two counts of reckless assault, according to a statement from the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department.

Amazingly -- not Worcester.

Councilor Toomey would like you to know she didn't forget.
She finally got around to discussing Shotspotter.

Boston pays $12M settlement to wrongly imprisoned man after ‘egregious misconduct’ The City of Boston paid a $12 million settlement to a man accused of killing his cousin in Dorchester in 2001 after investigators' "egregious misconduct" was exposed.

Boston pays $12M settlement to wrongly imprisoned man after ‘egregious misconduct’

New Doctor Who Show ‘Gallifreyan Academy’ from Alex Kurtzman Coming to BBC and Paramount+ New Doctor Who spin-off will finally reveal the Doctor's early life.

First time I've laughed at any of the Academy hate.
H/T to someone.

Doctor Who Show ‘Gallifreyan Academy’ from Alex Kurtzman Coming to BBC and Paramount+ | Doctor Who TV

One of the many items Etel proposed and tried to move forward that the naysayers just sat on.

Keep up the fight Rob!

Fun Worcester Development Fact:
Walker Development and Construction was the General Contractor that built out the Menkiti Group Offices and project at 455 Main St.

Exactly. He had all the answers and was supposed to be challenged.

Agreed... but this also links back to Bob Moylan and Worcester's inability to demolish townie politics.

This reeks of of the townie "don't worry about it" "stop asking questions" "we're taking care of it" playbook.

Flagging this for folks. This is an incorrect use of the phrase "Direct Action Training" and shouldn't be used to promote a training for Marshalls or for De-Escalation.

Councilor Toomey now arguing a tax subsidy isn't a tax subsidy.

We'd love to have folks join us at City Hall today.
Why do we reward unapologetic developers that take millions of our tax $'s and then make no effort to follow our laws?

Worcester needs housing, but we need affordable and accessible housing. And the ends, never justify the means.

They saw Rutland had one and so they needed to get one.

Yes...
and let's keep handing out TIFs w/o any oversight and compliance.

Feels like some folks need a little reminder.
Mayor Petty and Councilors King, Toomey, Ojeda, Bilotta and Rosen all signed Worcester's 2025 Responsible Development Pledge in which they agreed to "work and vote to claw-back part, or possibly all of the TIE tax subsidy to the Menkiti Group"

Once again we're in the situation of a developer asking Worcester taxpayers to approve a major tax-break but they decide they don't need to meet face to face with Worcester taxpayers, they think they can just phone it in.

Why does Worcester continue to allow developers to hide behind a veil?

Getting underway in a few minutes in Courtroom 22. If you're, able please come by for court support.

Etel takes the stand this morning.

If you're able, please come tomorrow.
Thanks to everyone that came today.

Jury in place, trial starting shortly and then lunch break.

We're in curtain COURTROOM 22 for anyone wanting to support Etel. Lunch at 1pm, trial resumes at 2pm.

Source: YouTube
search.app/2y5oG Three students were arrested... wow

Nice job Natick. The Select Board unanimously ended the police pilot of Flock license plate readers in response to resident concerns. Watertown too.

2 Framingham officers no longer with department after misconduct probe Two Framingham police officers placed on leave in September 2025 are no longer employed by the department after an internal misconduct probe.

“Two #Framingham police officers placed on administrative leave in September 2025 are no longer employed with the department. … [Framingham Police Lieutenant Rachel] Mickens did not identify either former Framingham officer, nor specify whether they were fired or resigned.”

#Massachusetts

It must be some kind of miracle.

Where are all the angry posts about how terrible it is to drive and live on Mill St. ?

100%
There's so much that's broken. The Carpenters continue to raise frustrations about how building permit review has been removed.

It took 2+ years, residents weren't included in the planning/review and we now got a mess.

Nice job by @adambassofmass.bsky.social summarizing where things stand with the Menkiti Group's request for taxpayer subsidy (TIF/TIE) for the bldg it purchased in 2018 at 401-409 Main St. If approved this would be Menkiti's 3rd TIF.

We'll be planning to attend the Econ Dev. mtg when scheduled.

I'm nominating Fr. Jonathan Slavinskas for a 2026 Toomey.

Every part of his performance at tonight's Human Rights Commission was impeccable.

The Worcester Human Rights Commission is meeting virtually on Monday and has a 45minute discussion on the Civilian Review Board on the agenda. Zoom in link.

worcesterma.primegov.com/Public/Compi... (PDF)

The Carpenters and other construction unions are asking the Mayor and City Council to NOT give the Menkiti Group another tax break since they have shown no willingness to take Worcester's Responsible Development Ordinance seriously.

In October, Mayor Petty, City Councilors and State electeds signed the Responsible Development Pledge which included the call to take back some or all of TIF for the current project because of these "minor" citations.

The Menkiti Group has sought to minimize and dismiss everything that has happened calling the citations a minor infraction, but for the workers that were cheated out of $73,000+ wage theft is actually a very very big deal.

These aren't "allegations" as Councilor Bergman describes buy the results of months long investigations by the AGs Office. This was all after both the Carpenters and the City of Worcester had expressed to Menkiti the expectations behind Worcester's Responsible Development Ordinance.