Retired District Fire Chief DeCourcy dies after long illness
Worcester Telegram
Funeral services for Chief DeCourcy will be Thursday with a funeral Mass at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of The Rosary Parish, 25 Fales St. Burial will follow at Worcester County Memorial Park in Paxton. Calling hours at the Callahan & Fay Brothers Funeral Home ...

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Walter H. Sharawara
Woonsocket Call
His funeral will be held Saturday, June 1 from Jackman Funeral Home, 12 Spring St., Whitinsville, with a Mass at 11 a.m. in St. Patrick's Church, 1 East St., Whitinsville. Burial will follow in St. Patrick's cemetery. Calling hours at the funeral home ...

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Facing the Path of Time: Alice in Chains Remembered
PopMatters
One of us immersed himself in a variety of Worcester, Massachusetts-based hardcore scenes; the other was a fan of progressive and industrial rock; I was a mopey Anglophile who preferred everything on Creation Records to anything on Sup Pop. Yet, for ...

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Religious Barbarians
CounterPunch
Although not matching the Georgians in intensity, those who belonged to the “no burial in my backyard” crowd gathered in front of the funeral home in Worcester, Massachusetts, to protest the presence of the corpse in their fair city and to make sure it ...

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New Yorker (blog)
Unburied: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the Lessons of Greek Tragedy
New Yorker (blog)
So ran the bitter slogan on one of the signs borne last week by enraged protesters outside the Worcester, Massachusetts, funeral home that had agreed to receive the body of the accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev—a cadaver seemingly ...

New York Daily News
Civilization and Its Discontents: Burying the Boston Marathon Bomber
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As Peter Stefan, the stubbornly principled Worcester, Massachusetts, funeral home director who arranged Tsarnaev's burial explained to the Boston Globe: “We can't separate the sins from the sinner…. Everybody who is dead has the right to be buried.”.
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