Webster Head Start Center completes $2.8M renovation
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The Worcester Community Action Council renovated a former senior center into a new early-education center in Webster.
An early-education program in Webster run by the Worcester Community Action Council will hold a grand opening celebration Friday following a $2.8-million renovation.
The Head Start Center takes the place of the former Webster Senior Center at 116 School St. The WCAC has a 25-year lease with the town for the new center, which has served 71 children from income-eligible families since the second week of January.
Extensive renovations to the 8,400-square-foot building included heating and cooling systems and installation of an elevator. The WCAC ran an early education program in Oxford until 2015 when a winter storm badly damaged the building's structure. In the meantime, children in the program were transported to another Head Start Center the WCAC runs in Southbridge.
The new center allows children in and around Webster to receive educational services much closer to home, the WCAC said.
The WCAC has received several rounds of grants and loans for the center, including $1.7 million in federal and state grants and a $1-million state loan the agency announced in December. The Worcester anti-poverty agency serves 46 Central Massachusetts communities.
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