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Gov. Deval Patrick celebrates Rosa Parks’ 100th birthday at “Remembering Rosa,” an event hosted by Community Labor United on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at the Statehouse. (Photo courtesy of the Governor’s Office)
RoxComp suspends clinical operations indefinitely Howard Manly In the middle of ongoing federal and state investigations over a range of issues, including financial mismanagement, the Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center (RoxComp) temporarily suspended its clinical operations this week. Citing a need “to ensure patient health and safety” while the agency confronts “challenging funding issues,” Dr. Keith Crawford, chairman of RoxComp’s board of directors, said the center’s patients would receive care at several other nearby community health centers until RoxComp resolves its operational problems.
“This is a difficult step to take, but one we believe is necessary to preserve the core mission of RoxComp for the long term,” Dr. Crawford said in a prepared statement. “I feel particularly strongly as a doctor that the best course is to suspend clinical operations for what I believe will be a brief period in order to ensure patient health and safety and ensure that there is no degradation of patient care while we address challenging funding issues.” The suspension of services comes at a time when the center was unable to meet payroll earlier this month. Just last summer, RoxComp was embroiled in controversy prompted by a series of
letters by employees describing a woeful state of operation at the center. Those letters placed the blame on the center’s CEO, Anita Crawford. The problems included mislabeled lab samples, use of expired medical supplies and failures to comply with various Medicaid and Medicare regulations. In his statement, board chairman Crawford (no relation) said that the center would be working with the state Department of Public Health and the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to secure a “revenue stream of federal and other funding” in order to meet payroll and “follow the highest standards of clinical operations and record keeping.”
Ursula James, the daughter of medical missionaries, and they Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller, the moved into a house on Ashmand nation’s first black psychiatrist, en- St. in Monrovia, where Solomon dured employment discrimination Jr. was born. to make significant contributions to Anna, young Solomon’s mother, Alzheimer’s disease research and the home-schooled him until the age development of American psychiatry. of 10 and taught him Latin. Then He was born in Monrovia, Liberia on he enrolled in a private school run Aug. 11, 1872. His grandfather, John by Episcopalian missionaries. At 12 Lewis Fuller, a slave and skilled shoe- years old, he left home to attend the maker from Petersburg, Va., toiled, College Preparatory School in Monsaved his money and purchased both rovia, where he continued to study his freedom and that of his compan- Latin. Distinguishing himself as an ion, Nancy — a white indentured ser- exemplary student, Solomon was vant. The couple had eight children. admitted to the sub-freshman class Seeking greater of Liberia Colemployment oplege at age 16. Fuller’s grandfather, portunities, they In March 1889, moved to Nor- accompanied by his however, halffolk, Va., but by way through his 1847, Nancy had youngest son, Solomon, freshman year, passed away. his daughter, Rebecca, his father died. Racial perseThree months cution and dete- and her family, set later, at the age riorating social sail on Nov. 27, of 17, Soloand economic mon left Liberia conditions in 1852 for Liberia, for the United the antebellum where they helped to States and, in the South induced fall of 1889, enJohn Fuller to establish a settlement rolled at Livingflee the United College in of African Americans. stone States for Africa, Salisbury, N.C. along with thouFormerly the sands of other free black people de- Zion Wesley Institute, Livingstone siring better lives for themselves and College was established for black stutheir families. With financial help dents in 1879 by the African Methodfrom the American Colonization So- ist Episcopal Zion Church. ciety — founded in 1816 to assist free By working as a typesetter in the blacks in emigrating from America to Livingston College Press printing Africa — Fuller’s grandfather, accom- office, Fuller was able to pay his colpanied by his youngest son, Solomon, lege expenses. He graduated in May his daughter, Rebecca, and her family, 1893, earning his Bachelor of Arts set sail on Nov. 27, 1852 for Liberia, degree with honors. Then he set out where they helped to establish a set- for Brooklyn, N.Y. in March 1894 tlement of African Americans. to attend Long Island College HosSolomon C. Fuller Sr., John pital. He paid his tuition by servFuller’s son, became a large land- ing as a waiter in a boarding house. owner, coffee planter and Li- Later that year, in the fall, Fuller berian government official. He transferred to Boston University Fuller, continued to page 7 married Liberian-born Anna
Slavery and the right to bear arms Fred McKinney The Second Amendment is the hottest public policy issue today. It reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the
C O MME NTA R Y security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” After the massacre at Sandy
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Sarah Flint, Rev. Kim Odom (L-R), and Debbie Wornum (fourth from left), founding members of the Boston-based advocacy organization Mothers for Justice and Equality, were in Washington, D.C., for President Obama’s recent State of the Union address; here they are joined by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and other gun control advocates on Capitol Hill. (Photo courtesy of the Governor’s Office)
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tionably one of the most important political documents ever crafted, the Constitution was still not divine. It was the result of political compromise by leaders from different parts of the fledgling union of independent states with widely varying economic and political interests. Some “founders” wanted to see a return to the British way of government, with a strong king-like executive installed for life, a House of Lords, similarly installed for life, and an elected group of representatives with limited power. Alexander Hamilton was in that group whose extreme views failed to carry the day. There were others who wanted to see direct democracy, with a much weaker federal govern-
ment than was finally decided. The “founders” were ultimately forced to compromise. At that time, slavery existed in all but a few of the 13 states and was the foundation of the Southern economy. Efforts to maintain slavery were often controlling issues in political compromise. For example, such a compromise was involved in Section 2 of Article 1 that called for counting Africans as three-fifths of a person in determining the number of a state’s representatives in the House of Representatives. This was done in exchange for the adoption of the Northern interest in allowing the Federal government to regulate interstate trade. These were men who were far from divine as they hammered out political deals in pursuit of personal interests with little concern for humanitarian issues.
Despite all of their differences and the haggling, they were able by 1787 to decide upon the language of the Constitution: “We the People.” The founding document addresses the issue of guns. Section 8 of Article 1 states: “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; “To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the Militia and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.” The above words were ratified four years before the Bill of Rights, which included the Second Amend-
ment. So why was the Second Amendment necessary? The problem was that the Anti-Federalists, who wanted a weaker Federal government, viewed the concentration of power at the Federal level as a threat to individual rights; but more importantly, the Anti-Federalists also feared that the Federal government, as empowered by the Constitution, could use the militia to end slavery. There was a strong and consistent conflict between the Anti-Federalists, who were largely slaveholders who wanted the “peculiar institution” to continue unabated, and the Federalists, who were primarily from the Northern states who wanted slavery to end. The Second Amendment was part of a compromise — an unholy deal that allowed slaveholders to maintain their system of slave patrols and terror. In many sections
of the South, Africans far outnumbered whites, and the only defense slaveholders had against slave insurrections was an armed militia that was under the State’s control, not the control of the Federal government. Hence this right to bear arms was not an expression of liberty, but was an inherent expression of the worst kind of oppression — the enslavement and exploitation of millions of black men, women and children. A careful analysis of the history of the establishment of the U.S. Constitution will lead to the same conclusion. There is clearly no need for the Second Amendment today. How many of the NRA gun extremists are part of a state militia anyway? Fred McKinney, Ph.D., is president and CEO of the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council.
Producers/DJs Bauuer (L) and Just Blaze (R) brought their co-headlining Big League tour to the Middle East Club in Cambridge on Feb. 14. Bauuer’s mix of Southern rap-influenced electronic dance music and the chart-topping hip hop beats of Just Blaze wowed the sold-out crowd. Their set included the jointly produced track “Higher” and the viral sensation “Harlem Shake.” (John Brewer photos)
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New book sheds light on Black Panther Party
Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil As the debate over gun control heats up across the country, the National Rifle Association has tried to portray itself as the supreme defender of the Second Amendment. But less than 50 years ago, the NRA supported gun regulations, backing a California measure that made it illegal to carry loaded firearms in public. The reason: The law was aimed at crushing the Black Panthers. In the face of rampant police brutality, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense emerged in the late 1960s to protect poor people of color in Oakland, Calif. The Party organized police patrols and rallies of armed citizens to confront law enforcement — and cited the Constitution and Cali-
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fornia law to defend their actions. “They used the Second Amendment to build political power,” says Joshua Bloom, a fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles’ Ralph Bunche Center for African American Studies. “What the Panthers do is build upon American tradition in the Second Amendment, but also an African American tradition,” adds Waldo E. Martin Jr., a history professor at the University of California, Berkeley. “Even in the period of nonviolent civil disobedience, especially in the South, African Americans owned guns to protect themselves.” Bloom and Martin are coauthors of the new book, Black Against Empire, which not only explores the Panthers’ well-known advocacy of armed self-defense, but also the Party’s social programs, domestic and international
alliances and sophisticated political philosophy. “There is an attempt in popular culture, and in some political treatments, to dismiss the Panthers, to belittle them, to caricature them,” says Martin. “We see what they’re doing as profoundly serious, profoundly important, and demanding the most serious scholarly and intellectual treatment.” Relying on extensive archival materials and oral histories from the Panthers themselves, Bloom and Martin spent more than a decade researching and writing this 560-page book. The result is the first comprehensive overview of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense was established in 1966, when community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton decided to stand up against the abuses of the local police in Oakland. Drawing a parallel to the colonized people of the Third World, the Panthers called the police an imperial, occupying force and advocated for black selfdetermination. This not only meant confronting law enforcement, but encouraging social uplift as well. In 1967, the Panthers published the Ten Point Program and outlined their desire for freedom, full employment, decent housing, education, exemption from military service and fairness in the justice system. But it was after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 — when cities across the country erupted into violence, opposition to the war in Vietnam raged and frustration over continued economic and political inequality mounted — that the Black Panthers flourished. “What we are trying to do in this book is to capture a different time and place when millions of people thought revolution might happen,” says Martin. As the authors argue, the Panthers tapped into this urban anger more effectively than any other group at the time, allowing them to grow from a small, local organization to one with dozens of chapters nationwide and international recognition. “One of the ways in which people think about the late 1960s is that it’s the ‘bad’ movement,” Martin continues. “Civil Rights
ratist and criminal organization,” says Bloom. Overt violence in the form of chapter raids and assassinations of top leaders also threatened the Panther’s existence. But Bloom and Martin argue that it was not these external threats alone that led to the decline of Panther influence in 1971. Instead, it was a changing political climate — the end of the draft, the release of Huey Newton from prison and greater economic and political opportunities for African Americans — that meant the Panthers’ revolutionary message no longer resonated the way it once did. While the lifespan of the Black Panther Party was brief, Bloom and Martin say that they are the only revolutionary group in recent
“There is an attempt in popular culture, and in some political treatments, to dismiss the Panthers, to belittle them, to caricature them. We see what they’re doing as profoundly serious.” — Waldo E. Martin Jr. thing Bloom says he and Martin have never understood. A “source of a lot of their strength,” according to Bloom, was the Panthers’ alliances with other domestic and international groups. The Panthers gained the favor of moderate blacks by offering programs such as free breakfast for students, free ambulance and first-aid services and free busing to prison to help families stay in touch with incarcerated family members. They also worked across racial lines, with groups such as the Mexican American Brown Berets, the Chinese American Red Guard and the Puerto Rican Young Lords, and forged partnerships with white anti-war organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society and the Peace and Freedom Party. In addition, the Panthers set up an embassy building in Algeria and met with national representatives from China, Korea and several African nations. Even the federal government recognized these robust networks as the strength of the Party, and tried to undermine them as a way to destroy the Panthers. “FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was clear that the main challenge in dismantling the Party was driving it away from its black moderate and white liberal allies by basically making it look like a sepa-
American history — and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future, even though many of the grievances that motivated the Panthers still exist. “What the Party did was develop cultural technology that generated a source of power through disruption, and that built a revolutionary movement,” says Bloom. “The reason there isn’t a revolutionary movement today is that people haven’t done something similar.”
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H-Block: A community standard Americans have a strong belief in the potential for success. As president Obama so persuasively states it, “If you work hard and play by the rules, you can attain the American Dream.” Blacks are able to sustain their optimism even during periods of economic difficulty. According to studies by the Pew Charitable Trusts, blacks remained more positive about the future than whites, even though their unemployment rate in January was 14.3 percent compared with only 7.6 percent for whites. Last week in celebration of Black History Month, the Banner published an excerpt from an article entitled “The Original H-Block,” which was first printed on Feb. 15, 2007, six years ago. The objective was to provide an insight into the functioning of a productive black Roxbury community some 65 years ago. This was a time before the Civil Rights Movement had created a broad public awareness of the evils of racial discrimination. Adults in the community knew that they and their children had to thrive or fail as a result of their own efforts. There was no such concept as affirmative action, and there were few laws to protect residents against blatant discrimination. Emboldened by the spirit of community solidarity and caring neighborliness, the progeny from black families that had settled around Munroe Park produced extraordinary achievements. Wade McCree became the first black Solicitor General of the United States; Cliff Wharton became the first black president of a major university (Michigan State) and the first CEO of a Fortune 100 firm (TIAA-CREF); David Nelson became the first black federal district court judge; and his brother JD Nelson founded RhumbLine Advisers, which now manages $28 billion in assets. The original article can be found in the Ban-
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LETTERSto the Editor The fight for early childhood education In last week’s State of the Union Address, President Obama proposed one of the most important and proven strategies for expanding educational opportunity and closing the achievement gap in our nation’s public schools — universal quality pre-school that is affordable and accessible to all. The National Urban League and many others have long understood that if America is to achieve the vision of a globally competitive nation, we can no longer accept that the quality of education is based primarily on your zip code or the size of your bank account. The availability of early learning opportunities for children is a significant predictor of the level of achievement they will attain throughout their academic careers. Early interventions for the youngest learners also provide a critical ladder to responsible adulthood and the jobs of the future. Many affluent parents spend tens of thousands of dollars each year to provide quality pre-school experiences for their children, an expense which most middle and working class families simply cannot afford. And because of funding inequities, many urban students spend
their entire educational lives playing catch-up in run-down schools with overburdened teachers. The president’s proposal comes as the March 1 “sequestration” budget cut is fast approaching. If Congress and the White House fail to come to an agreement, our economy could face another recession and the education of many urban children will be further weakened. According to the White House, 70,000 young children would be shut out of Head Start and as many as 10,000 teachers could lose their jobs. We must not let that happen. Last year, with the release of the National Urban League’s eight-point
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OPINION Can a non-European pope heal the church? Earl Ofari Hutchinson Following the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, former South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu very loudly and very publicly demanded that John Paul’s successor be an African or Latin American. There was little chance of that happening at the time. The mounting sexual scandal, the tons of lawsuits that bedevil the church and the public erosion in benevolent attitudes toward Catholicism had not yet kicked into high public gear. There was really no reason for the 120 men that ultimately have the final say over who would have been the 265th Pontiff to pick anyone other than another European to fill the top Catholic spot. This time when it comes to tapping the 266th Pontiff, things might be different. Two-thirds of the world’s 1 billion-plus Catholics live in developing nations. There are more than 100 million Catholics in Africa and an estimated 200 million or more black Catholics worldwide. The number of Catholics in the non-white world has soared in the past decade. The number of nominal and practicing Catholics doesn’t tell the whole story of a church that’s undergone a radical shift in the ethnic and regional demographic the past few decades. The church is fiercely challenged in what were once rock solid Catholic countries by a ferocious and proselytizing evangelical movement and spirit that flatly rejects the dogma and practices of Catholicism. It’s now a numbers game that translates into money and power, or loss thereof, that has dogged the church and proved worrisome. John Paul II recognized that the single biggest challenge facing the church was the potential millions of Catholics who could be lost to Islam and the evangelicals, and other faiths in non-white countries, and spent countless time globetrotting to these countries to try and shore up the flock. Benedict XVI tried to do the same, but as was increasingly apparent, he was physically not up to the demanding task. But that’s only one of the two towering dilemmas confronting the church, and that the next pope will have to deal with. The Catholic Church is now very publicly wracked by The church simply ideological, theological and philo- can’t stand pat on sophical battles over the issues of entrenched dogma abortion, gay marriage, women in the priesthood and celibacy. It has and past practices. seen a huge freefall in the number It will have to change of priests and nuns, has shelled out millions to settle priest-child sex those practices and scandals and will spend millions its approach to more on future settlements. non-white Catholics. The church simply can’t stand pat on entrenched dogma and past practices. It will have to change those practices and its approach to non-white Catholics. That opens the door wide for a real change in the face of the man who is the titular boss of the church. The names of well-connected and respected African and Latin American cardinals have been frequently bandied about as having the right stuff to head the church. That doesn’t mean that Catholic Church leaders will take the bold step of naming one of them to the top spot. There has never been a Latin American pope, and the last African pope was 15 centuries back. But the top non-European contenders bring the unique assets that the church desperately needs to staunch fierce competition from other religious faiths in developing nations. These men can bridge the Muslim and Christian divide; make battling poverty, the inter-ethnic and religious violence and the damaging economic side effects of globalization big priorities; and place strong emphasis on social and economic reforms in poor countries. They have written and spoken extensively on these problems that can make or break the church in the next decade in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The political jockeying to fill the papal vestments of Benedict will be fierce. In 1978, it took two days and eight ballots to put John Paul in the papal chair. Then the European cardinals still solidly held the dominant papal cards in the balloting, with the overwhelming majority of papal electors. They still do. But the number of electors from Asia, Africa and Latin America has inched up. Even more crucial, there are several well-qualified African, Asian and Latin American candidates who could fill the top spot. A black or Latin American pope, though, would send the strong message to practicing Catholics and prospective converts in Latin America or Africa that the Catholic Church is committed to making them not only church members, but policy decision makers of the Catholic Church. The bigger question, though, is whether simply changing the ethnic face of the man at the Vatican’s top really makes much of a difference in how the church deals with reform, repairs its badly tattered image, and transforms into a church that can park itself in the 21st century — not the 11th century. Simply changing the color of the pope without seriously tackling reform would cancel out the right signal it sent in recognizing the importance of nonEuropean Catholics. In that case, a non-European pope would not heal an ailing church, but merely continue its ailments. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst.
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INthe news Myra Oria The Board of the Crispus Attucks Children’s Center (CACC) recently announced the appointment of Myra Oria as its new executive director to run and lead the oldest minority owned and operated childcare center in Massachusetts. Oria joins Crispus Attucks after an impressive career most recently as the Director of Children’s Services for the Dimock Center in Roxbury. She received her MS in Infant and Parent Development and M. Ed in Special Education from Bank Street College of Education in New York. “Myra represents a new and fresh beacon of hope and prosperity to both CACC and the community,” said Dan Rivers, chairman of the CACC Board of Directors. “While she undoubtedly has big shoes to fill, the board of directors is ecstatic with her future vision for CACC success.” Oria replaces Brookline resident Leslie Christian, who recently
CACC’s new Executive Director Myra Oria (R) and Mihalia Steele Martin, the center’s supervising head teacher. (Fran Cronin photo) retired after 35 years as the president and chief executive officer. Under her leadership, the center completed over $2.4 million in renovations to the campus
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Visual surprises, emotional truths in ART’s “Menagerie” Susan Saccoccia The classic Tennessee Williams play “The Glass Menagerie,” an ode to the nurturing and constricting power of family, is rendered with aching beauty in a new production at
the American Repertory Theater in Harvard Square through March 17th. In 1943, Williams wrote a semi-autobiographical short story, “Portrait of a Girl in Glass,” and turned it into a play. Soon after its December 1944
debut in Chicago, “The Glass Menagerie” began a Broadway run that lasted more than a year and won a Tony Award. The play launched the Williams’ career; his other great plays include “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. ”
Directed by John Tiffany, this production is true to the intentions of the playwright. With staging as poetic as his language, the characters can work their magic. Loosely based on the author’s own family, Amanda Wingfield and her grown children Tom and Laura could easily be caricatures in a lesser production. Here, we see them as the playwright does, with their humanity as well as their excesses intact. A Southern belle whose husband abandoned her, Amanda
has singlehandedly raised her two children during the Depression. Now Tom, her principal breadwinner, is on the verge of taking off too, stifled by his warehouse job. Laura is a fragile girl who retreats from life, preferring to play old records and contemplate her miniature glass animals. Tiffany staged the play with the same team that helped him
Amanda Wingfield and her grown children Tom and Laura could easily be caricatures in a lesser production. Here, we see them as the playwright does, with their humanity as well as their excesses intact. develop the Broadway musical “Once,” which won eight 2012 Tony Awards, including set and costume designer Bob Crowley, lighting designer Natasha Katz, sound designer Clive Goodwin and movement choreographer Steven Hoggett. Laden with images of extinction, from Laura’s glass unicorn to Amanda’s chiffon ball gown, the play’s lyrical language conjures the emotional truth of its four characters. Visual surprises abound in this magical set. Characters emerge as if summoned by
Zachary Quinto, Cherry Jones and Celia Keenan-Bolger in “The Glass Menagerie” at the American Repertory Theater (Michael Lutch photo)
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School of Medicine. While there, he worked for $4 a week as an elevator operator in a large apartment building on Commonwealth Avenue. He obtained his medical degree in the spring of 1897. Following Fuller’s graduation from medical school, his neurology professor, Dr. Edward P. Colby, impressed with his academic ability, arranged for him to meet with Dr. George Adams. Adams was the superintendent of the Westborough Insane Hospital (later known as the Westborough State Hospital) — a state facility located 35 miles west of Boston, established on June 3, 1884 “for the care and treatment of the insane, upon the principles of medicine known as homeopathic.” Adams immediately hired Fuller as an intern in the hospital’s pathology laboratory. After passing his Massachusetts medical board examinations, Fuller received his license to practice medicine in July 1898. He spent most of his time performing unpleasant work — autopsies — the purpose of which was to collect and analyze tissue sections from deceased mental patients. Adept at his job, he was promoted to pathologist in 1899. The hospital paid him a salary of $25 a month, while paying a more recently hired white physician twice that amount. Fuller recalled, “I was so furious I was about ready to throw in the sponge, but Dr. Adams advised me not to do that.” The doctor decided to stay on as pathologist. That same year, 1899, he was appointed instructor of pathology at the Boston University School of Medicine, becoming one of the first African Americans to hold a post at a medical school other than Howard and Meharry. Sadly, though, his alma mater discriminated against him in compensation as well; the medical school paid him a modest salary of $24 a month for his teaching, compared to $28 a month for other instructors. Despite the fact that turn-of-thecentury racism restricted his pay, Fuller was not one to agitate for equal rights. He took great pride in his work and, to wage war against that racism, wielded the weapon of academic excellence in medical research. He focused that research on manic-depressive psychosis, senility, schizophrenia and hereditary brain disease. Dr. Fuller was best known for two important accomplishments: his groundbreaking research on Alzheimer’s disease — a degenerative neurological disorder in which memory, judgment and the ability to reason progressively deteriorate — and his contributions to the medical literature in the field of psychiatry. He published papers in several medical journals, presenting his first, “The report of four cases of pernicious anemia in insane subjects with a consideration of the nervous sequelae of the disease,” on April 10, 1901 at the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society’s 61st annual meeting, held at Boston’s Pilgrim Hall. The neuropathologist published the paper in the New England Medical Gazette. In the winter of 1900, Fuller took a leave of absence from Westborough Insane Hospital to pursue advanced study at the Carnegie Laboratory in New York, and from November 1904 to August 1905, he performed further research in Germany at the psychiatric clinic of the University of Munich, studying under professors Emil Kraepelin and Alois Alzheimer. In an effort to improve his skills in
analyzing brain tissue and its relation to mental illness, he took courses in pathology. Fuller’s biographer, Mary Kaplan, in her book, Solomon Carter Fuller: Where My Caravan Has Rested, noted that the doctor’s experience in Germany also “gave him proficiency in German and knowledge of psychiatry,” setting “him apart from his American contemporaries.” In the spring of 1916, Fuller participated in a series of free weekly public health talks under the auspices of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital (now known as Boston University Medical Center). He delivered a lecture titled “The brain” at
facility, he helped to train its black psychiatry staff. On Feb. 9, 1909, Fuller married the renowned and talented sculptor Meta Vaux Warwick, a native of Philadelphia. She had studied in Paris, where the sculptor Auguste Rodin praised her work. Dr. Fuller bought land on Warren Road, an affluent section of Framingham, and built a home where the couple settled down and raised three sons: Solomon C. Fuller III, William Thomas Fuller and Perry James Fuller. Dr. Fuller taught in the Boston University School of Medicine Department of Neurology for 34 years.
“With the sort of work that I have done, I might have gone farther and reached a higher plane had it not been for my color.” — Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller the Evans Memorial Department of Clinical Research, located at 80 East Concord St. in the South End. Fuller was a member of numerous professional organizations, including: the American Psychiatric Association, the Boston Society for Psychiatry and Neurology, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the New England Medical Society, the New England Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association, the Association of Neuropathologists, the American Institute of Homeopathy and the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society. He served as pathologist and director of the Clinical Society Commission of Massachusetts from 1897 to 1919 and, for many of those years, edited the Westborough State Hospital Papers, a journal reporting the medical research of the hospital’s staff. Dr. Fuller served on the staff of the Westborough State Hospital for 45 years, 22 years as pathologist and 23 years as consultant. For 11 years, he was visiting neurologist at Massachusetts Memorial Hospital and, for 10 years, consultant neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Fuller served as a consultant at the Framingham Marlboro Hospital as well and remained a consultant of the Allentown, Pa., State Hospital for 30 years. The psychiatrist offered assistance in the development of the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Tuskegee, Ala., the aim of which was to provide medical care for African American veterans in the South. While he himself did not work at the
He decided to retire in 1933 when a white assistant professor was promoted to full professor and appointed head of that department. During his last five years at the university, Fuller had in fact performed all of the duties and responsibilities of head of the department, but was never offered the title. From that experience the doctor deduced, “With the sort of work that I have done, I might have gone farther and reached a higher plane had it not been for my color.” Fifty years after his graduation, in 1943, Livingstone College bestowed the honorary degree of Doctor of Science upon Fuller and proclaimed him one of the school’s outstanding alumni. He enjoyed his retirement as an avid reader and master gardener, and he showed great mastery in bookbinding. Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller died of diabetes mellitus and gastrointestinal cancer at Framingham Union Hospital on Jan. 16, 1953 at the age of 80. He was survived by his wife, Meta, and his three children. In recognition of Fuller’s contributions, Boston University, through an act of the Massachusetts legislature in 1974, opened the Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center — a 10-story building located at 85 East Newton St. in the South End. Two decades later, in September of 1994, the town of Framingham opened the doors of a middle school to reduce student overcrowding, and decided within months to name it the Fuller Middle School, in honor of Dr. Fuller and his wife, Meta.
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Building rapport with “ the girl next door”
Haley Strode talks about her new Nickelodeon sitcom, “Wendell and Vinnie” Kam Williams Haley Strode has proven her skills on both screen and stage, effortlessly executing dramatic and comedic roles for which she has received significant praise. With charm, sharp intelligence and a vibrant personality, Strode is a multitalented actress who has showcased her talent across the board. She was last seen co-starring as Marcia Keeler in “Gangster Squad,” where she shared the screen with Josh Brolin, Giovanni Ribisi, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn and Emma Stone. And her list of television appearances includes a recurring role on “Important Things” as well as guest appearances on “Mind of Mencia,” “CSI: NY,” “Vegas” and “The New Normal.” Bringing her charisma to the theatre stage, Haley received rave reviews for her performance in the Katselas Theatre Company’s production of “Le Ronde de Lunch.” Her previous theatre credits include Oxford Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” as Viola, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” as Hippolyta, “Othello” as Desdemona, “Romeo and Juliet” as Juliet and “A Streetcar Named Desire” as Stella. In “Wendell and Vinnie,” she plays a next-door neighbor named
Taryn opposite Jerry Trainor and Buddy Handleson.
What interested you in “Wendell and Vinnie”? Taryn is the kind of role I’ve always wanted to play: the eternal optimist, sweet and thoughtful, but fiery when she needs to be. She’s got it all and then some. I was enamored, and after reading the entire script, I fell in love. It’s a classic sitcom through and through. One thing I absolutely loved about the show from the beginning was that not only are the characters hilarious, but they’re also incredibly relatable. When a poignant moment unfolds, as it does in every episode thus far, it has the ability to pull on your heartstrings.
Tell me a little about the sitcom. The show revolves around a 30-year-old man-child, Vinnie Basset [played by Jerry Trainor], who is living the bachelor’s life in L.A., when he suddenly becomes the prime caretaker of his bookworm, brainiac nephew, Wendell [played by Buddy Handleson]. The two form a sort of [an] odd couple duo, being that Wendell, on many occasions, can be more discerning and responsible than his uncle. And with the help of their next-door neighbor, my character, Taryn, and Vinnie’s sister, Wilma [played by Nicole
Sullivan], a support unit is formed to help raise Wendell… and sometimes Vinnie. [Laughs]
How would you describe your character, Taryn? As I said, Taryn is the kind of girl that has it all. She’s the quintessential “girl next door.” In the pilot episode, we see her struggling with a new town and existence really, because she’s newly divorced. There’s definitely a vulnerability there, mixed with the fire she possesses to turn down Vinnie’s advances from the beginning. But once she meets Wendell, and sees how much Vinnie loves his nephew and wants to be a good parent, the side of her that wears her heart on her sleeve becomes intertwined in the family unit.
What message do you think the show is trying to deliver? I think ultimately the message is that no matter what life throws at us, no matter what our circumstances are, surrounding ourselves with people who love and support us is the key to leading a happy and fulfilled life. Family doesn’t have to be conventional; it just has to have love and laughter at its core.
You recently played a serious role in “Gangster Squad.” Which do you prefer, drama or comedy? This is a great question; I’m asked this a lot. While I love working on dramatic characters and sto-
ries, it’s comedy that I love the most. For me, it’s incredibly rewarding to make a person laugh. Laughter is one of the greatest parts of life.
What was it like working with such an accomplished cast that included not only Giovanni Ribisi but Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte, Anthony Mackie, Michael Pena and Robert Patrick? It was truly an incredible experience. I’ve been a huge fan of Giovanni’s for a long time; he’s such a chameleon. It was an honor to work with him, as well as the rest of this stellar cast. Being that it was male dominated, it was often fun feeling like a part of the ‘boys club’ that took place on set. Such a talented, fun and luckily for me, welcoming group of men that made the entire experience a memorable one.
What would be your dream role? I’ve often tried to imagine my dream role and what that would truly mean. I’m not sure I’ve reached a clear picture of it yet, but I have always said the reason I wanted to act was ultimately to develop characters that evoke emotion and consequently change lives. So many incredible actors do that for me. It’s something I’ve known about myself for as long as I can remember.
What directors would you like to work with? Cameron Crowe, Michel Gondry, Charlie Kaufman, Wes Anderson, Jonathan Dayton, Rob Reiner and many, many more.
If you could meet any historical figure, who would it be? There are many life stories I’ve heard that are so inspiring, that leave me with such cognizance of myself and the level of work that I want to reach. Mary Cassatt comes to mind as one the most attractive historical figures for a meeting, because her life story, to me, always sounded remarkable in every sense. She overcame the difficulties of having parents that loved her, but did not support her passions. She was a female artist at a time when women were meant to be married, have children and almost forbidden to have a job. She saw her passion clearly, and unapologetically went for it. I love and admire that great amount of gumption that it must have taken. I also read a quote of hers once about how she learned so much from her mentor and, later, best friend, Henry Matisse. She said “I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art.” I love this quote because I think this is how every artist feels while pursuing their art. We all want to scour what inspires us, and learn from and build on it.
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Coming to Art is Life itself! Thurs Feb 21th Screening of a compelling Documentary Short on Fatherhood, “Step Up” by filmmaker Noube Rateau. Dialog + Spoken Word Artist Sofia Snow Hosts Special Open Mic to Support Mama Hip Hop Cindy Diggs Fundraiser Official “Step Up”
Thurs Feb 28th Celebrate Black History Month: Black History: Our Story, Your Story + Open Mic
Thurs Mar 7th Celebrate Women’s Herstory Month with The Fulani Haynes Jazz Collaborative Featuring Drummer Extraordinaire, Bobby Ward + Open Mic. Donations accepted — Program starts at 7pm Come early for dinner!
And don’t miss… Dinner and a Movie Friday March 8th The First Grader is based on the true story of Kimani Maruge, a Kenyan man who enrolled in elementary education at the age of 84 after the Kenyan government announced universal and free elementary education in 2003. Enjoy a delicious dinner, movie and discussion of this stimulating film!
For ticket information: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/335469 Morning personality Pebbles from HOT 96.9FM hosted a “ladies night” for the new movie “Safe Haven” on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at the Showcase Cinema de Lux Legacy Place in Dedham. (L-R): Contest winner Michele A. Harris, Pebbles and contest winner Donna Shaw enjoy cocktails and appetizers before the screening. (Colette Greenstein photo)
Livin’ the fab life… Move over boys, there’s a new radio station in town, and it’s called Hot 96.9FM. And one of the best things about it is it’s being helmed by the one and only, Pebbles. She recently joined the station after being a staple part of JAM’N 94.5. To celebrate the launch of her new morning show, the station held a “ladies night” with the advance movie screening of “Safe Haven.” Attendees were fêted with appetizers and cocktails before the screening in the fabulous Lux Level of the Showcase Cinema at Legacy Place, with complimentary popcorn waiting for each guest at plush seats. And after the film, the audience received a box of chocolates in anticipation of Valentine’s Day. The night couldn’t have been any sweeter.
For all my foodies… The Blue Room is tucked away in a beautiful brick building a stone’s throw away from the Kendall Square Cinema. Frequented by both locals and students alike, its brunch was packed. There was a huge array of food for brunch, but I kept it simple with a very filling helping of buttermilk pancakes, warm maple syrup and butter accompanied by a side of crispy bacon. And brunch wouldn’t be complete without sampling the homemade chocolate chip cookies. The brunch was reasonably priced, the service was great and the whole vibe was just relaxing and cool. Definitely a neighborhood spot that’s open to all those who enjoy and appreciate good food, a warm ambience and a good time. Next up, is the OAK Long Bar + Kitchen (formerly the Oak Bar) in the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel. If you never got a chance to
go to The Oak Bar, it was very traditional and masculine. Now, the dark wood and furniture have been replaced by warm tones of bronze and cream, with an impressive coppertop bar accompanied by soft, high back leather bar stools in the center of the restaurant. The OAK Long Bar now has a wonderful lightness to it, complemented by the high ceilings. It’s a mix of classic design melded with a modern and hip aesthetic, and was buzzing with people, music and lots of conversation. The OAK Long Bar & Kitchen is definitely a place to see and be seen. The Reserve is the champagne lounge in the lobby of The Langham. The lobby lounge features a light and airy design with warm tones of cream, gold and brown and soft lighting. It is a bit formal, but not stuffy in feel. Their special called “The Reserve” features a choice of soup or salad with an entrée, side and beverage. I began with the New England clam chowder (which was really good), followed by the most amazing Grilled Shrimp Tacos that I have had and the house-made potato chips. Dessert was also made in-house. It was a delicate French Macaroon with a raspberry cream in the center. What a perfect treat! As they say, The Langham Hotel is “an ideal haven in which to sip, savor and socialize.”
Coming Up… Tonight, Paint the Mall Red at Copley Place in support of The Heart Truth. Copley Place hosts an evening of shopping and fashion from 5 to 8 p.m. with a fashion show (beginning at 6:30 p.m.), silent auction, mini-makeovers, light bites, style advice and more. You can reserve your ticket on www.eventbrite.com.
Also happening tonight is the “Tropicality” CD Release Party for saxophonist Elan Trotman at Scullers Jazz Club taking place at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at www.scullersjazz.com. Join Haley House Bakery Café this Saturday, Feb. 23 as they launch Community Tables, a pay-what-you-wish dinner series, on Saturday evenings from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Each dinner will focus on locally sourced ingredients to create healthy, delicious menus. www.haleyhouse.org. In honor of Quincy Jones’ 80th birthday in March, Berklee College of Music celebrates Jones with a 30-piece orchestra of faculty and students performing new arrangements of selections from his legacy at the Berklee Performance Center at 7:30 p.m. The Great American Songbook: The Music of Quincy Jones is part of Berklee’s Signature Music Series and will also feature special guests Siedah Garrett and Patti Austin. For more information, call the Berklee Performance Center Box Office at 617.747.2261. Direct from Spain, World Music/CRASHarts presents the Boston debut of Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía at the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College the weekend of March 1. For tickets and information call 617.876.4275 or visit www. WorldMusic.org. The Huntington Theatre Company at the BU Theatre presents Lorraine Hansberry’s timeless classic A Raisin in the Sun, March 8 through April 7. Tickets are available at www. huntingtontheatre.org. If you would like me to cover or write about your event, email me at inthemixwithcolette@gmail.com.
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thought only to disappear when one episode dissolves into another. Surrounding the stage like a moat is a watery surface that suggests the reflecting and
distorting properties of glass — and of memory. Few objects clutter the Wingfield apartment, which is furnished with a vintage sofa, a folding screen, a table, a pentagon-shaped carpet, Laura’s Victrola and cabinet, and Tom’s typewriter. Heightening the dreamlike
quality of some scenes is delicate piano and fiddle music by Nico Muhly and agile, atmospheric lighting that can pinpoint a tiny glass unicorn, suggest the reflecting lanterns in the dancehall next door or highlight the shoulders of actors in a darkening room. Standing in a pool of light in a white shirt, a candleholder in hand, Tom looks like a ghost. All this stagecraft serves the splendid four-member cast, who plumb the chasm between Amanda Wingfield and the people around her — the source of the play’s humor, tension and tragedy. As portrayed by multipleTony Award winner Cherry Jones, beneath her ambition, desperation and delusions, Amanda is also a heroic figure. Clinging to the vestiges of her girlhood as a Southern coquette, Amanda
is now a matron selling magazine subscriptions to survive and a mother desperately trying to secure a future for her helpless daughter. In one scene, Amanda wears the crisp white lace collar of a determined matriarch. In another, she dons the ball gown of a faded Southern belle. Her defenses against an unbearable reality are her fierce resourcefulness, jonquilscented memories and a nonstop barrage of words, including her oft-told tale of entertaining 17 “gentleman callers” in a single day. She nags Tom to sit up straight, chew his food, stop smoking and above all, to bring home a gentleman caller for Laura. Zachary Quinto is a convincing Tom Wingfield, despite an overly broad Southern accent.
Quinto conveys both his character’s rage and sardonic humor. He also has a light touch as he teasingly lets his mother know that indeed, a gentleman caller is coming. Although she is as fragile as her glass figurines, Laura Wingfield, like her brother, sees things as they are. Celia Keenan-Bolger is compelling as a delicate but sturdily self-contained Laura. She quietly holds her own against her volcanic mother. Also ideally cast is Brian J. Smith as the Gentleman Caller. He exudes the wholesome charm of a young man on good terms with life. He and KeenanBolger achieve real chemistry when they are alone together. Laura undergoes a poignant transformation as she relaxes with the Gentleman Caller. Yet happiness is fleeting in the Wingfield household, where, says Tom, the Gentleman Caller represents “the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.”
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Service to honor radio personality Lovell Dyett
Religious Worship Guide
The First Church of Christ, Scientist Sunday Church Services & Sunday School
10 am and 5 pm (no evening service July & Aug.)
Wednesday Testimony Meetings
A free memorial service open to the public will be held Saturday at Roxbury Community Col-
lege for the late Lovell Dyett, a pioneering radio personality who hosted a radio show for nearly 40 years before his death last year. He was 77 years old. His career at WBZ began on Dec. 3, 1971, as host of “The Lovell Dyett Program,” which was promoted as a “telephonetalk show that dealt with all issues affecting the black community,” according to WBZ. Born in Florida in 1934, Dyett grew up in a household with his father, an Episcopal minister and history professor, and his mother, a college administrator. A graduate of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla., Dyett worked in the late 1960s to
elect Edward Brooke to the U.S. Senate. Brooke was the first African American senator to be popularly elected. Dyett also worked as an organizer in the campaign to elect Tom Atkins, Boston’s first black city councilor. Outside of work, Dyett was involved with the Boston chapter of the Urban League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Roxbury YMCA and the Congressional Black Caucus. The memorial service will be held this Saturday at RCC’s Media Arts Center between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. A reception will be held between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the Student Center Café.
LEGALS Notice of Community Meetings and Request for Public Comment The City of Peabody and the City of Haverhill, in cooperation with the North Shore HOME Consortium, an organization comprised of thirty cities and towns in the Merrimack Valley and the North Shore, will convene two Community Meetings in preparation for the creation of its One-Year Annual Action Plan for the Program Year 2013, beginning on July 1st 2013. The City of Peabody, the City of Haverhill, and the Consortium are hoping to receive comments from interested parties concerning 1.) The use of HOME funds for the development of affordable housing in the North Shore HOME Consortium region in the coming year; and 2.) The use of CDBG funds in the City of Peabody and the City of Haverhill in the coming year. The Consortium's member communities include: Amesbury, Andover, Beverly, Boxford, Danvers, Essex, Gloucester, Georgetown, Hamilton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Lynnfield, Manchesterby-the-Sea, Marblehead, Merrimac, Methuen, Middleton, Newburyport, North Andover, North Reading, Peabody, Rockport, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Swampscott, Topsfield, Wenham, West Newbury and Wilmington. These meetings are being held to obtain information from the public on how needs have changed in the region from the prior years and to evaluate how well the City and the Consortium are carrying out the goals set out in last year’s action plan. After the conclusion of the community meetings, a draft of the Annual Action Plan will be created and made available for public comment. At that time two additional public hearings will be held to obtain feedback on the document. The public comments received will then be incorporated into the final draft of the Annual Action Plan, which will then be submitted to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The two public meetings will be conducted for the purpose of receiving comments on local housing needs and community development needs at the following dates and locations: (All of these locations are accessible.) Thursday, February 28th, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. At Haverhill City Hall – Room 308 – 4 Summer Street, Haverhill Thursday, February 28th, 2013 at 5:00 P.M. At Peabody City Hall, Lower Level Conference Room, 24 Lowell Street, Peabody Citizens, all interested parties, representatives from the City of Peabody, the City of Haverhill, and from the Consortium’s member communities, and nonprofit providers are urged to participate in these hearings. Written comments are also encouraged, and may be addressed, on or before March 25th, 2013, to: For Peabody and the NSHC: The Department of Community Development City Hall, 24 Lowell Street Peabody, Massachusetts 01960 FAX (978) 538-5987 e-mail addresses: lisa.greene@peabody-ma.gov or stacey.bernson@peabody-ma.gov For the City of Haverhill: Andrew Herlihy, Division Director 4 Summer Street Room 309 Haverhill, MA 01830 e-mail: aherlihy@cityofhaverhill.com
MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY TRANSPORTATION BUILDING 10 PARK PLAZA BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02116-3975 NOTICE TO BIDDERS
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Rating of Prospective Bidders." Copies may be obtained from the Contract Administration Office at the above address. Requests for prequalification for this Project will not be accepted by the Authority after the tenth (10th) day preceding the date set for the opening of bids.
the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.
Prequalified bidders may obtain from the Contract Administration Office a "Request for Bid Form" which must be properly filled out and submitted for approval.
NOTE:
Bidding documents may be obtained from the Contract Administration Office at the address above from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., beginning on February 13, 2013, Monday through Friday, at no charge. Copies of the Bidding Documents will be available in electronic format (CD). Contract Specifications shall be available in searchable portable data file (.pdf) format and Contract Drawings shall be available in portable data file (.pdf) format. If requested, Bidding documents will be shipped for a fee of $25.00, made payable by check to MBTA. For overnight mail service, a completed mailing label, with an approved carrier account number (i.e. Federal Express), must be included. All bidding documents requested by check will be shipped via U.S. Postal Service. NONE OF THESE CHARGES ARE REFUNDABLE.
The work includes REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT OF THE EXISTING ROOFING, FLASHINGS, INSULATIONS AND ASSOCIATED WORK.
Bidders attention is directed to Appendix 1, Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action to Insure Equal Employment Opportunity; and to Appendix 2, Supplemental Equal Employment Opportunity, Anti-Discrimination, and Affirmative Action Program in the specifications. In addition, pursuant to the requirements of Appendix 3, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Participation Provision, Bidders must submit an assurance with their Bids that they will make sufficient and reasonable efforts to meet the stated DBE goal of 15 percent.
The estimated contract cost is $825,000.00
Bidders will affirmatively ensure that in regard to any contract entered into pursuant to this solicitation, minority and female construction contractors will be afforded full opportunity to submit Bids and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, age, or national origin in consideration for an award. Bidders will be required to comply with Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Regulations and the President's Executive Order No. 11246 and any amendments or supplements thereto. Bidders will also be required to comply with the Governor’s Executive Order No. 481, prohibiting the use of undocumented workers on State Contracts and any amendments and supplements thereto. A prebid conference will be held on February 22, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at 500 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, Terrence P. McCarthy, 617-222-4166, TPMcCarthy@MBTA.com. Any request for interpretation of the Plans and Specifications should be submitted in writing at the same time. Bidders will be required to certify as part of their bids that they are able to furnish labor that can work in harmony with all other elements of labor employed or to be employed on the work. This Contract is subject to Federal wage and hourly laws and minimum State wage rates as well as all other applicable labor laws. Bidders are advised that the "Buy America" provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (Pub. L-97-424) as amended, apply to any Contract, procurement or agreement which results from this solicitation. Bid Guaranty shall consist of a bid deposit in the amount of five (5) percent of the value of the bid, in the form of a bid bond, cash, certified check, treasurer's or cashier's check. The successful Bidder shall be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Labor and Materials Payment Bond each for the full amount of the Contract price.
Work consists of bus stop alterations including the lengthening of bus stops, addition and upgrading of amenities (shelters, benches, trash receptacles, and solar trash compactors), new bus stop signage, sidewalk widening and reconstruction, curb ramps, pavement markings, and traffic signal improvements and, at some locations, the elimination of bus stops, the addition of new bus stops and/or significant curb realignment to provide curb extensions. Bus Route 23 work will extend from Talbot Ave at Dorchester Ave (Peabody Square) to Washington St at Blue Hill Ave in Grove Hall (via Talbot Ave, Codman Square and Washington St). Bus Route 39 work will extend from South St at St. Mark St in Jamaica Plain/Forest Hills to Huntington Ave at Gainsborough St in Back Bay.
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Each prospective bidder proposing to bid on this project must be prequalified in accordance with the Authority's "Procedures Governing Classification and
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Sealed bids for MBTA Contract No. D01CN02, ENHANCEMENTS TO KEY BUS ROUTES 23 & 39, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS (CLASS 1, GENERAL TRANSIT CONSTRCTION AND PROJECT VALUE - $1,666,181.00) will be received by the Director of Contract Administration at the Contract Administration Office, 6th Floor, Room 6720, Transportation Building, 10 Park Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts, 02116-3975, until two o'clock (2:00 p.m.) on March 7 , 2013. Immediately thereafter, in a designated room, the Bids will be opened and read publicly.
This Contract is subject to a financial assistance Contract between the MBTA and the Federal Transit Administration of U.S. Department of Transportation. FTA Participation is 100 percent under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
12 noon and 7:30 pm (2 pm online)
The Authority reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, to waive informalities, to advertise for new Bids or proceed to do the work otherwise, as may be deemed to be in the best interests of the Authority. This information may be viewed at the MBTA website:
MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
Date: February 13, 2013
By: Richard A. Davey Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of MassDOT
Beverly A. Scott, Ph.D. General Manager of the MBTA & Rail & Transit Administrator of MassDOT
MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY
PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT WORCESTER REGIONAL AIRPORT WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS AT 10:00 a.m. LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013.
Bid documents will be made available beginning MONDAY FEBRUARY 25, 2013. In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of ROOFING.
Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority's Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form. Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub-contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44J inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub-bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub-bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer's or a cashier's check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and /or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater. The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $3,000,000 (Three Million Dollars) Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details. No filed sub-bids will be required for this contract. This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than THREE PERCENT (3%) of the Contract be performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible. This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non-Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor's Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246). The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non-Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000. Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. W198-C1 TERMINAL ROOF REPLACEMENT, WORCESTER REGIONAL AIRPORT WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at
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LEGALS Darius Janvil be allowed to change his/her/their name as follows:
INVITATION TO BID The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following:
Eden Darius
BID NO.
DESCRIPTION
DATE
TIME
*WRA-3590
Control of Invasive Aquatic Plants at Stillwater Wachusett Reservoir
02/26/13
11:00 a.m.
IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 03/14/2013.
*WRA3596
Purchase of 11,000 Cubic Yards of Gravel Burrow MA Highway Spec M1.03.0 Type B (or Equal)
02/27/13
11:00 a.m.
*A586
RFQ/B Automated Vehicle Locator Tracking System
03/15/13
11:00 a.m.
Sealed bids will be received at the offices of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, Charlestown Navy Yard, Document Distribution Office, 100 First Avenue, First Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02129, up to the time and date listed above at which time they will be publicly opened and read.
WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: February 1, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU11P0445EA
Citation on Petition for Order of Complete Settlement of Estate
*(indicates) Bid Documents available on the Comm-PASS Website (www. comm-pass.com).
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS PROBATE COURT CASE NO. SU11P1064
SUFFOLK ss.
To all persons interested in the estate of Johnnie L. Kirksey late of Boston, in said County, deceased April 22, 2011 in testate. A petition has been presented to said Court for license to sell - private sale - private - certain real estate of deceased - and that the petitioner may become the purchaser of said real estate. If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appearance in said Court at Boston before ten o'clock in the forenoon on the 7th day of March, 2013, the return day of this citation. Witness, Joan P. Armstrong, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this 5th day of February, 2013. Patricia M. Campatelli, Register
Estate of William M. Bennett Date of Death: 01/19/2011 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Anthony Bennett of Middleton, MA requesting that an Order of Complete Settlement of the estate issue including to adjudicate a final settlement and other such relief as may be requested in the Petition. You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 03/14/2013. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: February 05, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
Docket No. SU13C0036CA
SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU09P1777EA
In the matter of Gabriella Athena Cassinette of Dorchester, MA
Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication
NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME
Estate of George Lorenzo Evans Jr. Also known as: Pastor George L. Evans Date of Death: 05/24/2008
To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Janelle Small requesting that Gabriella Athena Cassinette be allowed to change her name as follows: Gabriella Athena Cassinette Small IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 03/28/2013. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: January 22, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU13C0047CA In the matter of Eden D. Janvil of Mattapan, MA
NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME
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To all interested persons: A Petition has been filed by Franki L. Evans of Roxbury, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Franki L. Evans of Roxbury, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond. You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on March 8, 2013. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you. The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: January 18, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate
To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Stephanie Darius requesting that Eden
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$70,260.00
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$74,820.00
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