At WooSox Season End, Players Giving Away Their Shirts: Patch PM

MASSACHUSETTS — It's Wednesday, Sept. 22. The fall equinox was at 3:10 p.m. Here's what else you should know this afternoon:

• The WooSox will play their final home game this weekend and are giving away a lot of stuff.
• In a letter, the Framingham superintendent pushes back on MCAS headlines.
• A Marlborough man was one of two people killed in a Connecticut crash over the weekend.

Scroll down for more on those and other stories Patch has been covering in Massachusetts today.

Today's Top Story

The Worcester Red Sox will play their final home game on Sunday. This was the team's first season after moving to Polar Park from Pawtucket.

To mark the occasion, the team will give away about 900 gifts, including tickets for next season, gift cards to local restaurants, and merchandise like T-shirts and coolers. A few lucky fans will actually get to take home a player's jersey — the team will be giving the shirts off their backs (literally).

"We simply seek an opportunity to say thank you," WooSox President Dr. Charles A. Steinberg said in a news release. "We want to thank fans directly; our players want to thank fans directly; and we want to thank the leaders of the city of Worcester and the commonwealth of Massachusetts who have worked so hard to make Worcester and our region an even more wonderful place to live, work, and play. We hope that is a day for positive sentiments and optimism for next year.”

The 2022 season begins at home on April 12, 2022.

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Wednesday's Other Top Stories

Exhibit 'A' at 5: The Framingham brewery is celebrating its five-year anniversary this month. The Morton Street indoor taproom is open for the first time since the pandemic began, and there will be a special beer release.

Fatal Connecticut crash: A Marlborough man and a Clinton woman died on Sunday when they were hit while standing along I-91 outside Hartford. Police are still searching for the driver.

Pushing back on MCAS results: In a letter, the Framingham superintendent says headlines and social media chatter about falling MCAS scores don't tell the whole story of school life during the pandemic.

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Picture This: Can't Get Enough Fluff!

You can keep your potatoes, Idaho. In Somerville, we're fine with our Marshmallow Fluff. The city's quirkiest – and most famous? — export will be celebrated this week at the 16th annual "What the Fluff?" festival. The festival runs from Sept. 22-26, honoring the invention of Fluff in Union Square.

Previously on Patch: Who Invented The Fluffernutter?

They Said It

"For too long, the Worcester Police Union Facebook page has been very divisive and extremely insensitive to a number of people in our community under president Cipro's leadership. Enough is enough."

• Worcester City Councilor Sean Rose talking about a Facebook group founded by his 2021 opponent, Richard Cipro, a police sergeant. A member of the group posted a photo of the Worcester mayor with a Hitler moustache this week.

In Case You Missed It

Theft, vandalism part of latest TikTok trend: There are reports of students at Massachusetts schools participating in "Devious Licks," a TikTok challenge which encourages kids to steal school property or personal items from staff and post their hauls on the popular social media website. Police in Arlington say the challenge goes beyond theft, and includes vandalism like ripping soap dispensers off walls, clogging toilets and dismantling sinks.