WORCESTER — Congressman Jim McGovern will tour a stretch of Worcester from City Hall to Elm Park and Newton Hill on foot with Mayor Joseph Petty on Friday. The tour is intended to highlight ...

Multiple entire city blocks immediately east of Worcester's Elm Park are now protected under a "local historic district" designation — the fourth and largest such designation in the city to date.

Nevertheless, Art in the Park, Worcester's biennial public art outdoor sculpture exhibit, was beginning to take shape at Elm Park Tuesday morning, and excitement and anticipation was in the air.

More: Laurel: Elm Park, then and now Laurel: Worcester's Elm Park, then and now. It was in 1882 that Elm Park, or the Common as it was known at that time, saw its first visitors.