After a five-year hiatus, publicly-available candlepin bowling lanes are set to return to the city the sport was invented in. American Flatbread is set to open its doors in Worcester’s Canal ...

The plan by the landlord, Law Family Cos., has changed and the bowling alley struck out. (A baseball term, I know).

WORCESTER ― "Three sports were invented right here: basketball, volleyball and candlepin bowling," said Vanessa Bumpus, exhibit coordinator at the Worcester Historical Museum. And while ...

Forty years ago at a now-defunct alley in Westfield, Semb bowled a 245 (out of 300) — the highest score in the history of candlepin bowling ... “For me to get seven strikes in a row ...

A picture by local photographer George Cocaine of a candlepin bowling alley in the mid-1900s hangs in the Worcester Historical Museum's exhibit. New England has a lot of unique, quirky customs: ...

HARVARD – When Jim Shook bought the Harvard Lanes in January, the longtime candlepin bowling business at 204 Ayer Road faced an uncertain future. So did candlepin bowling. Now, Harvard Lanes is ...

He goes, ‘We’re going bowling.’ I say, ‘Bowling?’ He says ‘Yeah. You bowl candlepin?’ So we go in, and he’s telling me, ‘You’re joining a league.’ Suddenly, I’m in this ...

But while many of our customs have become commonplace outside of the region, one rainy-day pastime has remained a uniquely New England oddity: candlepin bowling. (Or, as many locals like to refer ...

After the Olympics, Black returned to lobstering off Bailey Island and took up candlepin bowling, winning a state championship ... “Paralympic sailing sort of found me; I didn’t find it,” Freund said ...