Category: News

Business is good at Abby’s House Thrift Shop as the 30-year-old business tries to make the most of a new location since the start of the year.

One look at our Running Calendar, and there’s no shortage of road races this October. It doesn’t take a knee surgeon or tree surgeon to know it’s the finest time of the year to run.

A historic building in downtown Worcester is undergoing a $16.2 million renovation to better provide services for women in need.

WORCESTER - An $8.2 million tax-exempt bond will allow Abby’s House to modernize its High Street facility, increasing the number of housing units and making improvements long needed to the nearly 100-year-old building.

WORCESTER — In her 60s, retired and unable to afford market-rate housing in Worcester on her limited income, Mary J. Chenaille turned to Abby’s House when she could no longer stay with a friend who had let her sleep on her couch for more than a year.

Abby's House awarded "Best Thrift Store 2017".

WORCESTER — Yacaira Diaz was pregnant with her third child, had lost her job and faced homelessness because of domestic violence when she and her children arrived at a shelter in Worcester.

This past summer, on June 7, Abby’s House officially turned 40, an anniversary that has been celebrated with pride and some reflection about how this “bright spot in the city” has only grown brighter over time. Since 1976, Abby’s House has been a life force for the women it has helped as well as for the Greater Central Massachusetts community.

Abby’s House started 40 years ago with the goal of providing homeless women and children with a safe, secure place to call home while they got back on their feet. That goal still remains, and in celebration of 40 years of effort, Abby’s House is hodlding a 40th Anniversary celebration at Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St., Friday, Nov. 4.