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Article: Center for Crafts shuts doors.(NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- January 7, 2009
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Byline: Nancy Sheehan
The Worcester Center for Crafts, one of the city's oldest cultural institutions and one of the oldest craft schools in the country, has suspended daily operations and may have to close permanently if it cannot raise $1 million by the end of the month.
Doors closed to the public at the end of the business day yesterday, and almost all the center's staff of about 45 people, most of them part time, have been laid off, said Barbara Walzer, executive director. "This is really tough," one longtime staffer said. "This has been our life for years."
Ms. Walzer, hired only last July, will remain, at least temporarily, to work with ...
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