WORCESTER - In the 1960s Kiddie Corner toy store ... was bought by Mid-State Insurance Co. The building now houses Central Shoe Repair and Perfect Fit Tailors on the first floor and Bodkin ...

contracted with the Worcester Housing Authority to supply dozens of homes for low-income families. Hooper Street Apartments, as the complex is now known, opened in fall 1970. From start to finish ...

Decades later, in 1939, a then-22-year-old Ted Williams ... Timothy Murray, a former Worcester mayor and lieutenant governor who now heads the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, said that ...