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Leadership is a journey, and we are all capable of learning from both positive and negative experiences by identifying the traits that lead to the ultimate outcome and using those to guide how we grow as leaders. Whether you believe leaders are born or made, there is much we can learn by applying these traits to our own habits.

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The imminent closing of the Front Street CVS begs the question: Is downtown Worcester a food desert? How far do you need to walk to buy an orange?

The first Vintage Fashion Show cancer benefit is set for Sept. 29 at Maxwell's Luciano's at Union Station in Worcester.

'We're here to celebrate': A fashion show benefit for UMass’ colon cancer research drew a caring crowd Sept. 29 at Maxwell's Luciano's.

Victor D. Infante ends his run on Listen Up with a Halloween playlist featuring New England artists.

A few things to do in the Worcester area in the week ahead.

We turned to Worcester's comedy community for suggestions as to how the city cna spend its "revenue-making" days at Polar Park. Things got dark fast.

We present new chronologies that inform the timing and tempo of shell ring and shell mound construction on the South Atlantic Bight. Our project combines recently acquired dates with legacy radiocarbon dates from over 25 rings and mounds to provide a higher-resolution chronology regarding the occupation and formation of this larger landscape of the earliest fishing villages along the East Coast of the United States. We resolve the ordering and timing of occupation of these rings and mounds through Bayesian statistical modeling. These new models historicize and contextualize these shell rings in ways previously impossible. Specifically, our new chronologies of these villages indicate that the earliest villages were established prior to the invention of pottery. The early period of village establishment evidences isolated village rings, whereas later periods seem to have more villages, but these appear to have been relocated to other areas and/or islands over time. Shell mounds are fewer in number, are spread throughout the time period, and may represent special purpose sites compared to shell-rings. Once villages spread, they quickly adopted new technologies (i.e., pottery) and created new institutions and practiced village relocation, which allowed this way of life to persist for more than a thousand years.

Abstract Shell ring archaeological sites are one of the most visible site types along the lower South Atlantic Coast of the United States.