WORCESTER - A Texas businessman and former graduate of St. Joseph’s School is the mystery person who donated $1 million to the Worcester elementary school earlier this year.
The identity of the donor, Richard A. Nowak, executive vice president of GAF Materials, a Dallas-based roofing materials company, has been kept a secret since April. Nowak, a 1955 graduate of the school, and his wife Marie, were honored during a parish dinner Friday.
Woman charged in Boy Scouts theft
WORCESTER - A Massachusetts woman is headed to court to answer allegations that she stole $225,000 from the Boy Scouts.Cheryl Allen, 44 , of Millbury is scheduled to be arraigned today on three counts of larceny over $250 by a single scheme and one count of larceny over $250 in Worcester Superior Court. Prosecutors say Allen, 44, performed bookkeeping services for the Mohegan Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the organization’s governing body in Central Massachusetts.
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