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Filling the void Two challengers aim to step into Paul Clancy’s council seat Jeremy Shulkin Biohazards found by a dog walker f there’s any district race in this year’s municipal election off Cataract Street end up being petri where each candidate could be considered local heavyweights, it would be District 3—both Arthur Ellis and George dishes ﬁlled with peanut butter for Russell have the qualifications. a school science experiment. Who Ellis works for the state as a housing and employment uses tape labeled “poison” in public? coordinator for the Department of Mental Health, and as a 0 member of the Worcester Democratic City Committee and Ward 5

Senate approves casino bill, moving the state closer toward feeding gambling and alcohol addictions and raising foreclosure rates. -2 Occupy Worcester further organizes, actually occupies somewhere. +1 Asian Longhorned Beetle encroaches into Shrewsbury. Rumor is the beetle transported across Lake Quinsigamond by building hundreds of very tiny canoes. -2 St. Vincent breaks ground on cancer center in the CitySquare zone. Hopefully that place won’t be relied upon to drive foot trafﬁc in the area. +1 Election Commission recruits high-schoolers to act as interpreters and helpers at Worcester polling places in November. +3 Frank Carroll packs the Hanover Theatre full of celebrities to raise money for the St. John’s Soup Kitchen. +2 Main South Celebrates brings a festival atmosphere to Crystal Park with music, free food, a farmers market, boating, tree climbs and more. All they needed was better weather. +3 This week: +6 Last week: 0 Year to date: +29

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Committee; he’s forged ties with members of Worcester’s political class. His campaign boasts endorsements from major labor unions like the AFL-CIO, and he’s lived in District 3 for 21 years. Russell has a similar resume. No stranger to campaigns, Russell ran for council and state representative decades ago (losing the latter race in the primary to current Rep. Vincent Pedone) but has experience on the zoning board and spent time as a Democratic committeeman. His family ties go back to District 3 for generations, and as a realtor with an office on Hamilton Street, he has signs with his name on them all over the district even when he’s not campaigning. Ellis and Russell both agree that the neighborhood needs more police presence and stronger crime-watch groups, and both want to make local hiring a priority for government and businesses opening in Worcester. Beyond those points, the candidates have very different perceptions of what a councilor should do and what their causes would bring to the district. “People in the district are hurting. They really are,” says Russell, who believes that his experience running a business means he knows what to do to create jobs in the city: loosen up red tape and regulations in zoning ordinances that wouldn’t hit new business owners with fees and extra costs. One example, strict requirements for the number of parking spaces that accompany building projects limit areas in which entrepreneurs can erect new tax-paying parcels. Russell singles himself out as the candidate most averse to the council’s decision last year to dip $2 million into the tax levy to pay for a broad street-and-sidewalk-repair program, and the only one advocating for spending cuts. (The multimillion dollar school repair project, on the other hand, he supports because the efficiencies will “save money in the long run.”) “I wonder if some of those expenses could’ve been put off,” he says. Other areas for trimming include filling vacant city hall positions, for instance, if an employee who made $100,000 leaves, advertise the vacated opening for $70,000. Since Russell’s business hinges on selling residential properties – as he puts it, he’s in business for the homeowner

– he’s been able to dance around the lowest-residential-tax-rate question by separating the tax rate from a homeowner’s tax bill. Russell echoes the views of Worcester Citizens for Business, pointing out that homeowners pay 80 percent of the tax burden now, versus 65 percent years ago, drawing the conclusion that the lowest residential tax rate doesn’t always mean the lowest tax bill. “They have to show business that it’s profitable to do business in Worcester,” he says of last year’s decision to vote in a tax rate slightly higher than the lowest for residents. He does add that he wouldn’t be in favor of lowering the commercial rate any more than where it stands this year, though. It’s a distinction that Ellis has begun to hammer on, calling it the “defining issue” in the election. Staunchly in favor of the lowest residential, he notes that the next council will probably see three tax classification votes, thanks to the full revaluation of properties. With so many seats up for grabs and a number of candidates not explicitly for the lowest residential rate, “it’s possible it could be a very different council” making those three votes. continued on page 7

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ith Occupy Boston almost at the same level as Occupy Wall Street in terms of longevity, numbers and organization, it’s no wonder that the Occupy movement in Worcester first had to reconcile their ambitions with the fact that one of the country’s most sought out movements already existed only 50 miles away. Hell, the Boston and state police’s raid on Camp Rose last week made national news before Occupy Worcester had even finished two general assemblies, and seemed no closer to reaching consensus on what the local version of the multinational movement would look like. In the days since, however, Occupy Worcester and Occupy Boston have developed a supportive relationship. Whereas Worcesterites first traveled to Boston and camped there, Boston has begun helping Worcester establish its own Occupied area in Lake Park.

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“I certainly understand Occupy Boston telling Occupy Worcester to grow out there,” says Alexia Prichard, a member of Boston’s media team, who adds that the more little encampments the better. “That’s perfect. That’s what it’s all about.” “People here don’t always have the ability to travel to Boston,” says Cheyne Ordonio, a Central Massachusetts resident who has attended GA’s in Boston and Worcester. On Sunday he told the 100 people assembled on the common that Occupy Boston no longer wanted Worcester to provide it with logistical support (like donations or bodies) but to “do [its] own thing right here.” Ordonio didn’t see the differences in the populations of the two cities as obstacles. “The longer they’re out there, the more people come.” It’s an observation other Boston-goers have noticed. The longer a few people camp out, the more others are attracted to do so too. Sunday night, Occupy Worcester took

its most relevant and concrete steps. Occupy Boston heard that police would be moving to the common and sent members of Occupy Boston’s media, medical and legal teams. “They really wanted to help out,” says Occupy Worcester’s Sarah Nicole, who added that Occupy Boston mobilized some members out to Union Station. Those from Boston gave advice on everything from setting up a sanitation area for medics, ﬁrst-aid-kit training, what to do if pepper-sprayed or teargassed, and what to do if arrested for demonstrating.

Police response praised; Occupiers debate location Not everything has gone smoothly for the nascent Occupy Worcester movement. According to various sources—Twitter, Occupy Worcester members, the Occupy Worcester forum and the Worcester Police Department scanner—Sunday night could’ve gone very differently for those planning to set up tents on the Common. Most accounts of interactions between protesters and officers went civilly, beginning with two officers visiting the group on the common on Sunday afternoon. One officer put his name on “stack” – the list of people who will speak – and explained the situation to Occupy Worcester. “The officer said that at 10:00 the [common] would be closing, and if we chose to stay, we would first be given a warning and then be subject to arrest,” according to recorded minutes from the general assembly. “Through a series of clarifying questions, the officer explained that walking single file on the sidewalks (not obstructing them) outside of the commons and city hall would make the group less likely to be arrested (he could not guarantee this). When asked what course of action he thought would be best, he said private property with permission from the owner.” Despite counts of more than a dozen cruisers and a paddy wagon, a number of those at the common on Sunday night and Monday morning praised the Worcester police for a “laid-back” and understanding approach, with some saying that the option for protestors to move to Lake Park – which is under state, not city, jurisdiction – came as a spur-ofthe-moment comment from one member of the police force. Around 1:30 p.m. Occupiers held another general assembly as police looked

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Ellis says District 3 has room for economic growth, and he wants to leverage comments made by CouncilorAt-Large Kate Toomey and outgoing District 3 Councilor Paul Clancy for water and sewerage up and down the Route 20 corridor, making parcels pad-ready for new businesses. While Russell criticizes government trying to be “everything to everyone” and saying the past city council involved itself in arguments that it should not continued from previous page

on and voted to move to the park. Police continued to watch as Occupiers packed up their tents and belongings. A Worcester Police Department press release counted 100 protesters and mentioned “several units” arrived at the scene. “After advising the group they decided to set up at Lake Park located on Lake Avenue and exited the common peacefully. Approximately 15 members of the group went to the state park and set up their tents and spent the night,” wrote Worcester Police Sergeant Kerry Hazelhurst. “There were no calls regarding disturbances with the remaining group at Lake Park.” One demonstrator said throughout Monday employees of the Department of

have (like the Arizona debate or the smoking ordinance), Ellis takes a broader approach. Union Hill Elementary School, for example, one of the city’s Level 4 underachieving buildings, could be improved with city council involvement. “It’s about the neighborhood around it,” he says. Both Russell and Ellis helped companies and community groups erect a playground there this past month, but Ellis says improving the school’s performance also means building partnerships with other schools, companies and nonprofits

and finding ways to reduce student transience in the area. While many political campaigns said they paid little attention to the preliminary election results – District 3’s were hard to ignore: Russell finished wellcemented in first place, gathering nearly 40 percent of the vote in a four-person race. Since then former candidate Mat Taylor has pledged his support to Ellis, but it’s unclear how much impact he made on nonpreliminary voters.

Conservation and Recreation, state police and Worcester police have checked on them at Lake Park, with no problems reported from either side. Despite the newfound balance between civil disobedience and civic understanding, Occupy Worcester still needs to decide on a long-term plan for its occupation. A number of protesters Sunday night and Monday morning did not like that the group agreed to move per police request (and this was also vocalized at Sunday’s general assembly). “’Occupying’ Lake Park seems to be pretty pointless to me…at the first sign of resistance (which was to be expected, and in a way welcomed) the movement caved and was herded like sheep to a place that the city didn’t care about,” wrote VeganStephen on Occupy Worcester’s forum.

“I hope we retake the common…I am positive by the overwhelming police presence last night, that it’s not going to be the only time they try to break us up and intimate us. We are losing our civil rights at a frightening rate. We have a right to free speech and a right to assemble,” responded Lisa Wilson. Not everyone saw a point to a mass arrest, at least not on the first day, noting that going to jail before even occupying a space is really just getting arrested. Others say the Lake Park location serves the purpose for now. Not only will they not be threatened with arrest, but there are showers, bathrooms and fire pits. “It seems pretty favorable,” says Sarah Nicole. She adds that the major downside is visibility – it has nowhere near the car or foot traffic of the common, or Elm and

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Institute parks, two other places considered for occupation. “I went into tonight’s GA thinking that the group at Lake Park wanted to stay there indefinitely. Personally, I felt like that was a terrible idea. I can hardly fathom a more remote location in the city limits,” Sean Ewing emailed to Worcester Mag. But if there will be a re-location, it sounds as if Occupy Worcester will take it slowly. “Until the group can build numbers and become better organized, that can serve as a loose base of operations…From watching [the 508 podcast], it looked to me like a good place for people to get some rest and familiarize themselves with the logistics of encampment.”

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Legislature’s Special Committee on Redistricting released a rough version of new maps that redrew House and Senate boundaries on Tuesday. After lamenting the lack of specific information on the maps, local representatives took stock in what they gained and lost. District 13 Rep. John Mahoney and District 15 Rep. Vincent Pedone saw the most dramatic changes, with Mahoney losing the entire town of Paxton and adding Ward/Precinct 10-1 (Elm Park area) and 3-2 (WPI), taking both from Pedone. In response, Pedone pushed further into Main South, picking up new neighborhoods in 10-4 and 10-5 because of the city’s reprecincting and adding 10-3, creating a minority-majority district – a first for Worcester. “It was already very close anyway,” said Pedone of the change. Rep. Jim O’Day in the 14th District saw a minor precinct line change north of Ararat Street in Worcester and 16th District Rep. John Fresolo had a similar minor adjustment between 5-3 and 5-4. Rep. John Binienda ceded some of his Main South territory to Pedone, but still has a strong presence in Leicester. Worcester’s population and voter registration of college students contributed heavily to these changes, particularly around the inner core of the city. State Reps now have geographically smaller areas, but represent more sizable populations. And with Mahoney’s district now solidly in Worcester, it means with three of five state reps who have only the city to focus on, the Worcester delegation can have a more urban-centric agenda.

Jeremy Shulkin

AND IN THE SENATE: On the Senate side, Michael Moore lost parts of Ward 8 but picked up two precincts in Northbridge while Harriette Chandler gained some of Moore’s old Worcester territory… These changes aren’t ﬁnal yet, as the House and Senate still have to ratify them.

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A WORCESTER ACADEMY STUDENT KNOWS WHAT THIS MEANS. It means ‘pursuing excellence.’ And, these days, that means preparing our students for leadership roles in a rapidly changing world. By offering Mandarin. By collaborating with a partner school in Denmark on biotechnology and public policy. By creating a challenging, safe, inclusive environment where students from over 20 countries learn and grow, side by side, on our historic urban campus. And help shape the future of our local community. We offer ‘classrooms without walls’ because real world experience is an important part of the curriculum. And a ﬁve-day boarding program, because campus life is, too. It’s not just lip service. Academic excellence is an honored tradition at Worcester Academy. And has been since 1834.

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FOREGOING GREEN?: City council candidate Jim Kersten thinks he’s found millions of problems with the city council – namely, it didn’t save that much money last year when members voted to approve $11 million in spending for school repairs. Through the Massachusetts School Building Authority’s reimbursement programs, Kersten says the city could’ve received up to 80 percent of money spent to improve work done over the summer to improve bathrooms and hallways. “The council approved this money without doing their work or getting the reimbursement,” Kersten charges. Those in charge of these financial decisions have said they’re seeking reimbursements for weatherization repairs and some significant “asks” down the line, like total overhauls of Nelson Place, Burncoat High, South High and Doherty High and dozens more Statements of Interest for repairs around the district. But Kersten says the city has pigeonholed building authority reimbursements into these two funding streams when others are available. A spokesman for the Massachusetts School Building Authority said reimbursements can be filed outside of green repairs and that the number of Statements of Interest’s doesn’t impact the amount of projects the authority approves.

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NUMBERS, CRUNCHED: Konnie Lukes’ good election fortune continues, ﬁrst with the sudden departure of Joe O’Brien from the mayoral race in September and now with her name randomly drawn to appear ﬁrst on both the mayoral and at-large candidate ballot – a small advantage, especially in elections where voters can choose more than one candidate. What are the chances of any candidate having this good luck? Ed Soares, associate professor at Holy Cross, crunched some numbers for us and came up with the probability: 2.08 percent.

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EOPLE STREET One of the demands of the Occupy Movement is for college debt forgiveness. Do you think college tuition is too expensive? AS K E D O N M A I N ST R E E T

The price of college is too high. There are circumstances where they should make it easier for people to pay for college.

Tom McNamara CHICAGO, ILL Education is so important and it’s now unaffordable for a huge broad class of people. I don’t think it’s fair people have to pay until their 50 years old for their college education.

Heather McCrann WORCESTER Yes. College is an expensive place to go especially when you’re getting out and you can’t ﬁnd a place to work.

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Ourturn Worcester Mag: Wanna make something of it?

Sounds like fighting words, right? Actually, read on a bit and you’ll get to an invitation to help us make even more of Worcester Mag in the years ahead. OK, so the odds are that you haven’t been reading Worcester Mag for 35 years. Fine, for whatever period of time you’ve been faithfully checking us out, we say, “thanks.” By the way, I write to you as a proud owner of Worcester Mag. Worcester Magazine, WoMag, or Worcester Mag as we now affectionately brand ourselves, has been around for quite a long time. Our ownership era only reaches back to 2008. Publisher Gareth Charter and I were fortunate to acquire the magazine then, notwithstanding the fact that we perfectly timed our purchase to coincide with the collapse of the financial markets and the mother of all recessions. And some argue she’s still hanging around. We’ll always be grateful to Allen Fletcher, former owner and publisher, for entrusting the publication to us. He and his staff did a remarkable job for many years. It was clear to us that he cared deeply about Worcester Mag and wanted to ensure a bright future for it. At the time, we were publishing a handful of titles in Worcester County such as The Landmark, based in Holden, Millbury-Sutton Chronicle, and the nationally award-winning baystateparent magazine, to name a few. We believed then, as we do now, that Worcester Mag occupied a special role in the city and would fill an important void in our company. And that’s where we stand.

Wanna make something of it? I think it is. A lot of times it seems to me you’re not paying for an education moreover, you’re paying for the connections that you receive when you go to a higher-class school. I went to American University, it’s one of the most expensive schools in the country and I had a job walking out of college but I paid for it.

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s we turn 35, we are excited about the future and remain quite confident and ambitious. We’re open-minded, too. We wanted to take this opportunity to not only thank you for your support, but to also invite your feedback on how we might evolve the publication – in print and online. Are there issues or areas of coverage that you would like to see us delve more deeply into? Are there area writers you would like us to feature? What could we provide online each day that you would find most useful? Are there ways

you would like to partner with us? Do you have thoughts about how we could expand our services? We would be most grateful if you would drop our editor a note and share any ideas you have. The best way to do that is to email us at editor@ worcestermag.com. Your questions are welcome, too, but let me tackle the most frequent one right upfront. PHOTO SUBMITTED

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Worcester Mag is dedicated to the people who live here – and it will remain FREE, both in print and online. Thankfully, our fabulous staff and the local business community have a pretty good thing going. Worcester Mag receives strong support from local businesses – our advertisers, and our weekly frequency allows the math to work. Readers embrace this model as we find we have precious few copies remaining each week when the new edition arrives. That’s what sustains us – we want to be read! Thanks so much for reading Worcester Mag. We’re proud to be part of the local publishing community. We would love to hear from you. Kirk Davis Owner

WORCESTER I would say so. It’s taking kids forever to pay it back because they can’t ﬁnd the jobs and you’re not getting the pay you would have 20 years ago.

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Tell us how you really feel Letters to the editor should be legible, signed and brief (preferably no more than 200 words). A daytime telephone number must be provided for veriﬁcation. Worccester Mag reserves the right to edit letters for length, clarity, libelous or offensive material and style. Send letters to: Letters, Worcester Mag, 101 Water St., Worcester, MA 01604 or E-mail: editor@worcestermag.com, or fax: 508-749-3165

NATIONAL HEADLINES: 1976: The Boston Celtics defeat the Phoenix Suns 128-126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of the NBA Finals at the Boston

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35 years of history … as seen through the pages of Worcester Mag. Like a ﬂip book of local culture, take a look at what was on the minds of Worcesterites throughout our history. FILE PHOTO/RYCK BIRD LENT

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN:

January 1978: Gene Petit and Tom Devlen at the WICN station, striking a pose and getting ready to type up today’s news. (Yes, that’s a typewriter).

A CITY’S DILEMMA; A NEIGHBORHOOD’S TRAGEDY A childish prank leads to the tragic death of 15-year-old Lee Rivernider and prompts the Worcester community to acknowledge a lack of communication between the city and its youth. Did Walter Stearns, Jr., retired resident of Worcester, ﬁre the shots that killed Lee out of impulsive spite, or does it have deeper implications for Worcester’s developing distrust toward the city’s kids? (10/76)

FILE PHOTO/BRITTANY DURGIN

November, 1977 – After a $5 million donation campaign, a restored Mechanics Hall re-opens.

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Garden. 1977: The world’s first personal computer, the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. 1978: The N

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In Southboro, Stan Tanenboltz invents the Electromobile by outfitting his Vespa with an electric motor and batteries. The Italian coupe is able to cruise noiselessly for up to 60 mph and about 80 miles on one charge. (10/76)

1977

Can the rules change end Council meeting madness? For most of the year, the majority of Worcester City Councilors have been pushed around by Councilors Jordan Levy, Paul Leahy, Alfred Cotton and a vocal, borderline abusive, group of citizens. The abuse has finally reached its breaking point, as the other six Councilors have voted to eliminate the petitioner’s automatic right to speak at City Council meetings. This rule change is meant to rid the unnecessary speeches that had previously consumed the assemblies. To prove this point: During the meeting, it took almost two hours for the Council to act on this rule change. The six Councilors spoke for a total of 22 minutes. And the opposing three? They spoke for over an hour and a half. (02/77)

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September 14, 1981 – The Rolling Stones play a not-sosecret show at Sir Morgan’s Cove (now the Lucky Dog) after recording “Tattoo You” on a North Brookfield farm – their first live show in three years.

1978

Baseball season lowers the local political interest rates Former Worcester Mayor George Wells once advised impatient city council campaigners “Don’t expect anyone to pay until after the World Series.” His words could not be truer, as a general lack of interest in current politics seems prevalent. Is it because of poor economic opportunities? Could voters be put off by the disunity of politicians? Perhaps, it’s just that “with the Red Sox, at least, there’s a chance of winning.” (09/78)

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Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 hits the New England region and the New York metropolitan area, killing about 100 and causing

n December 1992, my friend Walter Crockett and I were the kings of Franklin Street. We were both popular columnists at the Telegram & Gazette, a still-vital daily newspaper. Neither of us could go anywhere in the county without meeting people who wanted to talk to us about something we had written. We were both happily married and had families. We played music together on Saturday nights in the Crockettsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; kitchen with Walterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife Valerie and many friends. Life was good. Walter wrote about entertainment for the T&G but always found a way to expand that into politics and the human condition. I wrote mostly about my life and the lives of interesting people in the Worcester area. One of the people I had written about was my daughter Jewel and her battle with leukemia that started when she was 20 months old. Three years after that diagnosis, Walterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 6-year-old daughter Emily* was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Walter and I were at the top of the Worcester journalism heap, but the Big C in our children FILE PHOTO/NAVIN laid us low and taught both of us how ephemeral life is. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How small a part of time we share till we hear the sound of wings,â&#x20AC;? is the way Texas songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard describes it. One day, our friend Allen Fletcher, scion of the family that owned the T&G before it was sold to the San Francisco Chronicle and then the New York Timesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a man described by T&G wag Joe Pinder as â&#x20AC;&#x153;as normal as anyone with $50 millionâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;made us an offer. He, Peter Stanton and Paul Giorgio had purchased Worcester Magazine. By the early 90s, once proud WoMag had fallen on hard times. It was so bad that no respectable haddock would be wrapped in it. Worse, no one was reading it. Allen promised Walter and I carte blanche to run Womagâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s editorial side. He offered to match Walter and my T&Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s salaries and threw in a few incentives. Walter was readyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he hated the T&Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conservative leadership. I balked at ďŹ rst, but on Christmas Day 1992, Walter convinced me after a three-hour conversation to jump ship. We can write what we want, he said. We can make WoMag wonderful and relevant again! Allen put together great ad, graphics and layout staffs. He rehired Patrick Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor, one of the best photojournalists Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever known, and Claire Karis, an all-star copy editor. The three partners invested a small fortune in promoting the new magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;remember the billboards: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love it. Hate it. Read it?â&#x20AC;? We worked 80 hours a week, had passionate staff meetings that regularly featured screaming and table pounding, and within a year, by adding great reporters like Meg Woolhouse and Ellen Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor and wonderful writers like Janice Harvey, Karen Hart (now Karen Sharpe, my wife), Tom Ewart, Bill Tappley and so many more, started winning award after award as the best alternative weekly in New England. The hard work and acrimony that fueled this creative ďŹ re produced great magazines, but exacted a price in constant arguments about headlines, stories, direction and editorial policy. Even Walter and I started quarreling. After two years, I opted to lessen my involvement and ceded my co-editorship to Walter. I would just write for WoMag while I taught part-time at Clark and Northeastern. It worked greatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;under Walterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leadership, hard work and clear vision, WoMag kept cleaning up at awards ceremonies, the magazine started making money (I think) and more importantly, Walter and I remained best friends. In 1996, with nothing but good feelings, I left WoMag to start my own newspaper company in Lancaster and Clinton. Dianne Williamson, who replaced me as a columnist at the T&G, is still there. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t left Franklin Street for Shrewsbury Street in 1992. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be in line for a nice pension, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for sure. But I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have had the chance to be so involved in the renaissance of one publication and the birth and success of another. I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a Clinton High English teacher nowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a job I love. They say the chances you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take are the ones you regret. I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true. In the past 15 years I have relearned the lesson that the only things that matter in this small part of time we share are family and friends. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a grandfather now and have no complaints. Valerie died after a long battle with cancer in 2009 and Em has been battling the brain tumor for 20 years now with epic highs and lows. Through it all, Walter and I have kept playing music and remain in the rarest of male relationshipsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;best pals. And Worcester Magazine remains the vital publication that Walter envisioned in 1992. On Sept. 18, my daughter Jewelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 25th birthday, she and I were at Fenway Park singing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sweet Caroline,â&#x20AC;? while Walter was in Mass General with 26-yearold Emily after yet-another tumor-related setback. Now, six days later, the autumn rain is beating on my window and Walter is still sitting in Emâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s room in Mass General. Doreen Manning has asked me to write about my time at Worcester Magazine, and all I can think of is my friend, who for most of the 1990s, was Worcester Magazine. We can make it wonderful again, Walter said. He did. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Paul Della Valle *Emily Crockett passed away this past Sunday, October 16, 2011.

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over US$520 million in damage. 1979: The Music for UNICEF Concert is held at the United Nations General Assembly to raise money for UNICEF

1979

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Other bands have left Worcester and gone on to national recognition (remember Orpheus?) or may seem immediately poised for it (such as American Standard), but somehow no other band seems to have typified Worcester to quite the same extent, or in the same way, as Zonkaraz. Much like the city itself, Zonkaraz has waded through the broken promises and disappointments, scaled the heights, and changed with the times, all in order to have survived in spite of it all. (10/79)

1980

Beds make waves in local bedrooms Waterbeds, those shape-conforming water-filled mattresses, have come out of their kinky confines and into

the bedrooms of middle-class Americans throughout the country. In Worcester alone, furniture dealers report sales of up to 100 waterbeds each month, inventories that top 1,000 and showrooms that boast more than 30 different waterbeds on display at one time. (10/80)

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1981

Cellblock Suicide. Inquest will look at why this prisoner took his life while in jail The Worcester County District Attorney’s office digs into the death of 32-year-old Peter Hulett, a Vietnam veteran who hung himself while in the Worcester Police Dept.’s custody two months prior. Arrested on assault with a dangerous weapon – a knife – details of the arrest were sketchy at best. According to Worcester Police Chief Halstead Taylor, Hulett’s suicide was the first in the cellblock since the new Worcester jail opened in August,

September 2, 1982 – Frank Sinatra opens the Centrum, which many years and renovations later, evolves into the DCU Center.

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and promote the Year of the Child. Hosted by The Bee Gees, other performers include Donna Summer, Rod Stewart and Earth, Wind & Fire.

1982

during the past five years, some parents, psychologists and even local governments have sounded the alarm. The games, they say, are sapping the time, energy and money of a large number of children and teens. They fear the games may give rise to a whole generation of video zombies. “You’d be amazed how many kids blow their lunch money on Pac-Man,” says Mary Beth Murray, a social worker. (3/83)

1978. (2/81)

The Grove Street Shufﬂe. Worcester’s artists’ co-op changes its color. In the beginning, it seemed like a great idea. Twenty-six of Worcester’s most ambitious artists came together to found The Grove Street Gallery Artists Cooperative. The group secured and refurbished 6,000 square feet of converted factory space at 100 Grove St., charged tenants only $175 per month, and received tax-exempt nonprofit status. Yet now, two years later, half of the original 26 artists have left following a schism over the group’s organizational structure. (1/82)

1983

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1984

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The problems faced by interracial couples aren’t always as simple as black and white. Despite the diverse community in Worcester, many view “racial intermingling” with scorn. Some cite the loss of ethnic culture while others equate ‘different’ with ‘bad.’ However, against the

November, 1985 – The Powers That Be rewrite the city’s charter, expanding the city council from nine atlarge members to six at-large and five district councilors. It also provided residents the opportunity to elect a mayor for the first time, but still made sure Worcester was stuck in the past by not giving the job title any legislative or administrative powers beyond those of a regular city councilor.

discriminations at jobs or with landlords, the number of marriages involving different races is on the rise. As one woman puts it, “If two white people feel that they’re really meant for each other, I don’t see why a white and a black couldn’t feel the same.” (10/84)

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1980: Pac-Man (the best-selling arcade game of all time) is released. 1981: U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot outside a Washington, D.C. hotel

computer to balance his checkbook and turn off the lights? Heck, for $1000, the Mac couldn’t even save three sketches on a disk! So maybe for now, there is no need for the machine. However, when his typewriter breaks, the story might just be different. (01/09/85)

1985

Surviving in the face of a Mac attack A writer at Worcester Mag tests a Macintosh for the weekend and realizes his lack of tech gadgets in a decade of technology. But does he really need a

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1986

Women and Politics. Reexamining the gender gap

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are women. There are and have been no female U.S. senators from MA, nor are there any distaff Bay Staters in the U.S. House. Nationally, women constitute only five percent of the U.S. congress, 15 percent of state legislators and 11 percent of mayors. Worcester’s current crop of women in office hope to lead the path to change. (1/86)

1987

U2. Once again, they came, they played, they conquered Although it’s hard to hear Bono above 12,500 screaming people at the Worcester Centrum this past weekend, the passionate Irish quartet sold out three nights the second year in a row. High on the success of The Joshua Tree, the group was faced with near hysteria from the audience, at one time provoking the lead singer to say, “Would you just shut up for this one? This isn’t the Beatles, it’s U2.” (5/87)

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by John Hinckley, Jr. Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded. 1982: Michael Jackson releases â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thriller.â&#x20AC;?

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rom the earliest days when we at Worcester Publishing cast our acquisitive eyes upon Worcester Magazine, we were aware of what a signiďŹ cant legacy was involved. In a local universe dominated by the hidebound T&G, WoMag was the hope of the young, the disenfranchised, the progressive â&#x20AC;&#x201C; those who were rooted or stranded in a city, which they both loved and hated, and for which they had higher aspirations. It was also abundantly clear that the publicationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mojo was at a low ebb â&#x20AC;&#x201C; produced as it was out of a windowless bunker on Route 20 by a skeleton staff. The previous ownersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; romance with alternative journalism had run its course. It was a product in need of a rescue. As the excitement of secret negotiations and preparations transmuted into the hard reality of a purchase, we had little time to ponder what we had wrought. The Boston Phoenix â&#x20AC;&#x201C; jilted suitor that it was â&#x20AC;&#x201D; immediately announced that it was launching a Worcester product; and the T&G sent out signals that it was neither thrilled nor amused by our hubris. Suddenly, we found ourselves in the middle of a newspaper war; and we hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even come to terms with putting out a product. We hired a couple of editorial stars from the T&G; we shut our best graphic designers in a room and told them to re-design the paper; and we went out into the marketplace to sell, sell, sell â&#x20AC;&#x201C; telling advertisers that we were going to be better and fresher and more engaging and relevant than ever before. Then we put out our ďŹ rst edition â&#x20AC;&#x201C; feeling as if no one before us had ever accomplished such a feat. And then we put out another, and another, until the products of our labors began accumulating behind us like pickets on a picket fence. Fifteen years it was, more or less. Fifteen years of writing and designing and selling; 15 years of journalistic excitement; 15 years of external engagement and internal strife; 15 years of ebbs and ďŹ&#x201A;ows of our own publishing energy. Now and again we got it right: we captured the attention of the powers that be; we did real journalism; we inďŹ&#x201A;uenced policy; we captivated our readers; we won prizes. As is true with all newspapers, however, there was never time to rest. Each publication date simply reset the relentless cycle of ad deadlines, editorial deadlines, press deadlines â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the invigorating and unforgiving rhythms of publication that continue with different owners today. In retrospect, it was all about the people. Before we took over the product, we were aware of how many stalwarts of the local publishing and advertising scene had cut their teeth at Worcester Magazine. Her alumni dotted the ranks of local companies â&#x20AC;&#x201C; always notable for their competence and creativity. And we continued that tradition. WoMag has never been a resting place. It has been an incubator and a breeding ground; an environment of perpetual change. Walter Crockett, Paul Della Valle, Doug Hanchett, Megan Woolhouse, Richard Phelps, Ellen Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor, Martha Akstin, Jeff Hinkle, Brian Goslow, Janice Harvey, Charlene Arsenault, Noah Schaffer, Michael Warshaw, Chet Williamson, Scott Zoback; Lester Pacquin, Kris Kirkos, Clare Karis, Rosalie Tirella; Patrick Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor, Dan Vaillancourt, Tammy Woodard, Amelia Kunhardt, Jeff Loughlin; Jim Casey, Jean Beckwith, Tom Cronin, Chris Miller, Denise Kallagher, Linda Haber, Jean Burgess, Sean Harvey, Adam Kelley, Marlo Tsirimanos, Leslie Allen; Kathy Real, Trish Aponte, Regina Stillings, Betsy Kravitz, Katie McEvoy, Josh Wright, Ryan Curtis, Kim Sansoucy, Helen Lennihan; Jennifer Collentro, Bonnie Harmon, Emily Roche, Nysheka Briddell, Steven Rodman, Peter Wilson, Craig Thornton. However many come quickly to mind, just as many lurk just around the corners of memory. The ranks of WoMaggers have ďŹ lled her pages with a continuous display of talent, wit, energy, creativity, industry, and ambition. May it never cease. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Allen Fletcher

1988

1989

Dr. Peter H. Levine, chief of medicine at Worcester Memorial Hospital, a consultant to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and director of the National Hemophilia Foundation, is uniquely qualified to discuss the subject of AIDS. In a frank and wideranging interview with WoMag writer Mathew Maranz, Levine details the progress to date in the search for an AIDS cure and the need for better education to help stem the epidemic. (2/88)

What could someone be doing with a live Blandingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Turtle or a stuffed mongoose? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what officials at the New England Science Center have been wondering since a person or persons made off with the turtle and stuffed mongoose sometime Saturday. (3/89)

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WPI Chief retires – one more time Alfred T. Whitney is like an aging boxer who keeps coming back to fight in the title bout. His first “retirement” came in 1969. Unfazed and shaken, he came back later that year to work 21 more years. When the final bell sounded this month, Whitney had completed more than 40 years of public service as a state policeman and later, police chief of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (1/90)

came across the first issue of Worcester Magazine while visiting the long-gone West Street Laundromat, which featured one of those steel Coca-Cola machines that served up the best version of the fabled drink in glass bottles, a few doors down from the paper’s first offices. It was the start of a 35-year relationship in which I’ve engaged this publication as a reader, subject and competitor and an array of writing capacities. Originally, it was as a DJ at community radio station WCUW, where I was a punk-rock DJ, and we oversaw the birth of what would become known as “Wormtown” from a Clark University basement. Considering how many media options exist today, it’s hard to believe that back then, if you didn’t get written up in Worcester Magazine, chances were your hopes of world domination were dead in the water. In September 1980, a group of us local punk rockers ended up on the cover of Worcester Magazine; the pictures were taken at the Midtown Dinette and Silver Ball pinball arcade in the Mid-town Mall. Flash to 1993, when Allen Fletcher bought the paper and hired Walter Crockett and Paul Della Valle as its editors. One of the first new features

Weeding out the truth. Pro-pot activists take their show to Elm Park.

For Elvy Musikka and friends, legalization of marijuana is more than just a good idea. It’s a moral imperative. Musikka and the Project Hemp Tour hit Worcester last week to preach pot’s virtues and our own Joel Watts caught up with them for a smokin’ interview. (11/91)

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they installed was the ability for readers to submit their own stories for publication on the op-ed page. That summer, I sent in a story on how Worcester people love their coffee hot, even on the hottest day of the summer. I followed up that piece with a second, advocating to bring the buildings that would be taken down for what is now St. Vincent’s Hospital (AKA Medical City) back to life one more time. Paul encouraged me to keep writing and eventually, Walter enlisted me to do some music writing. As 1994 began, I started to alternate with Chet Williamson as the local music columnist, and was fed listings by events editor Charlene Arsenault for use in compiling the “Picks of the Week” column that would indirectly lead to meeting my future wife. I penned this column for a year and a half during which I got to do a behind-the-scene story on the initial season of the Worcester IceCats, review our fabulous diners and cover a whole new generation of Wormtown rockers. The relationship “ended” in mid-1995 when the opportunity to work full-time for The Worcester Phoenix arose for me. We were “competitors” for six years, but The Worcester Phoenix never really recovered after the entire Worcester Magazine staff bonded together to produce an issue on 1999’s Worcester Warehouse Fire, and in May 2001, the paper closed. Worcester Magazine called me back, this time as a reporter,

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in the summer of 2003 and as the case can be in a city many love to call incestuous, I found myself surround by a collection of people I had worked with at WCUW, in college and as interns and reporters at the Worcester Phoenix, so it felt as if I was coming home. For the next 27 months, I got to dig deep into the tiles of the city’s fabric and capture the everyday people who don’t always get the accolades for making Worcester what it is, whether it be the volunteers at the Worcester Youth Center and Boys & Girls Club, the people who oversee Worcester’s water supply and the manufacturers who keep the city’s industrial heritage alive. I was laid off on the same day the Red Sox were eliminated by the Chicago White Sox in 2005; I sent out “Wake Me Up When October Ends” emails to all my contacts. I’ve since found my way back into these pages every now and then, whether to do a long-desired story on the Catholic Worker House, a historical look at the city’s professional sports history, or help put forth the dreams of local activists trying to improve their neighborhoods. That’s always been the lasting thread of Worcester Mag/azine: a dedicated group of writers and reporters — and the unheralded graphics design staff whose job it is to supply the visuals that make those words sing — getting the word out on people who want to make Worcester a better place to live. — Brian Goslow

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had only grown as a result of my hard-won insights into publishing local newspapers. I thought back to those first impressions of the fun, award-winning Worcester Mag when Kirk Davis and I walked out of the offices of Bowditch & Dewey on Aug 29, 2008. We remember when I first heard of Worcester walked down Main Street as the new legal owners of Magazine. It was the early ’90s and I was in the the paper with financial obligations to creditors, each ballroom of the Park Plaza in Boston where its other, and employees. But I felt a lot more weight staff was 1) having a good time and 2) getting up that day than the massive legal a lot to receive a bunch of journalism STEVEN KING documents I was carrying. I felt awards. enormous pride that my name I remember reading the winning would top the masthead as entries that were posted later on and Publisher of Worcester Mag liking the paper immediately. It was in its next issue, and I would gritty. It was well written. It mixed a be continuing a legacy of little bit of opinion or at least a point of meaningful journalism started view and some humor with what seemed back in 1976. to be very solid reporting. And it wasn’t Anyone who has spent a magazine. Not in my traditional sense any time in this business will of the word – glossy, good-looking, and tell you that “mattering” is shallow. Not to say it wasn’t good looking. what it really is all about. But it had character. Personality. It struck We put our names on stories, we put me as the Boston Phoenix for Worcester photos and headlines on pages or websites, we say without all the poser, liberal attitude. “yes this should run” and “no that’s not worthy” Fast forward 15 or so years and I’m working in because we think we have something to offer. We Central Mass, writing much less than I was back then think there’s interesting, cool, funny, maddening, but loving all aspects of the local media business confusing, wonderful, and stupid things going on more than I ever could have guessed. My admiration everyday in some corner of the world we care about for Worcester Mag and its ability to survive and adapt

February 1, 1994 – Paxton Police Chief Robert J. Mortell is shot and killed while pursuing three suspects in the woods after responding to a burglary call.

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and we think (hope) you do too. Worcester Mag matters here. I knew it that day at the Park Plaza, I knew it as I began to read it regularly, and I knew it the day we made staff changes necessary to keep it from bleeding money. It’s been a real ﬁght these past three years to prove that mattering is enough. Enough when General Motors goes bankrupt and cities the size of Seattle stop delivering daily newspapers seven days per week. The one-two punch of this historic recession and breakneck digital change hit hard. But this is Worcester, a place that knows how to take a punch. And it inspires us to take these hits and keep going. I’ve learned that too. We think we’ve broadened the focus of both the news and arts coverage of Worcester Mag. We totally revamped the website with exclusive content and contributions. But what hasn’t changed a bit is our focus on Worcester and its immediate neighbors. I came to Worcester Mag loving journalism and loving this business. I have learned to love Worcester, and Worcester Mag set me up: Her pages, her staff, her stories. She has reminded me why I got into this business in the ﬁrst place – I’ve seen things I would not have of, met people I would not have of, learned secrets I should not have. Worcester Mag did that for me. I hope we continue to make it a better place for you. — Gareth Charter, Publisher

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1992

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October 1, 1994 – The Worcester IceCats begin independent, then minor league, hockey play at the Centrum. They would move to Peoria, Ill., in 2005.

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In 1976, Worcester – the city – was still firmly in the hands of a small establishment of mostly rich, middleaged or elderly men. They owned the city’s employers. They had engineered the city’s government so that unpredictable voters could not elect their own leader; and they dominated the city’s media. This was the small circle of friends that made astoundingly bad decisions, like moving the city’s airport from the intersection of routes 146 and 20 to a foggy tabletop only accessible by goat path, or wiping out the city’s commercial core to build a giant bubble of a mall, or slicing the city in PHOTO SUBMITTED half with an elevated highway. Few people could question that outdated culture of industrialist paternalism, until Worcester Magazine came along. It didn‘t take long for Dan Kaplan and Ryck Lent, the founders of Worcester Magazine, to realize how important a voice it would become. By the early ’80s, they’d gathered together a vital young staff of real talent, most native to the area, all from a post-Watergate generation that venerated the good work that energetic alternative journalism could do. And they cut them loose to give voice to the huge swaths of Worcester’s community that had no voice. In the early ’90s when I was working at the city magazine Worcester Monthly, and the tabloid that became the Worcester Business Journal, Worcester Magazine was a faded rival, past its golden age. The work we did at those other publications was in its original spirit, though. We fought to save Union Station, to reshape the development that was then called Medical City, and to cut room in the city’s business community for those who did not fit into the Chamber of Commerce’s idea of suitable. And sometimes, we won. After a number of years in Boston and New York, I came home to finally work at Worcester Magazine in 2001, eight years after Allen Fletcher bought the weekly. In his eternal quest to assemble a group of friends joined in satisfying enterprise, he had supported the magazine through lean economic times, just one of the good community works for which he doesn’t get enough credit. Although our resources continually shrank in the five and a half years I was there, he did give us complete editorial independence, and I think we did some good things with it. I remember the work: Martha Akstin’s reporting that revealed how the city never turned down a business tax break; Chet Williamson’s account of broken leadership at the Y; Michael Cohen’s exposé of the cozy way some tax title properties were sold to friendly owners; Noah Schaffer’s history of Norton Co.’s German operations during and after World War II; Charlene Arsenault’s guardianship of the Spag’s mentality; Janice Harvey’s “whatta ya, huh?” authentic Wistah voice; Scott Zoback’s dangerous Worcesteria column. I hope we did well, that we were street smart, that we helped readers enjoy their city’s culture, that we were funny when we meant to be, and that we kept the bastards honest. And I hope that for Worcester Magazine now, no matter what it calls itself. We need that voice, before someone decides to knit downtown together with 80 acres of rail yard so we can have inadequate commuter-rail service to two cities instead of only one. Oh, wait; too late. I was proud to work with the talented people I met at Worcester Magazine. I wish that work was still online, but in the end, there’s nothing older than yesterday’s paper. I’m glad Worcester Magazine is still here, still giving voice to communities that would otherwise be unheard. It’s unbelievably important for this frustrating, glorious city I call home. — Michael Warshaw

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exuberance. Chandler and Main streets have become the breeding ground, with frequent rogue sightings a stone’s throw from City Hall. People are talking about it. Those who live and do business in the thick of it are raising their voices. And police have started to crack down. (3/93)

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In the past three years, at least five women with a history of prostitution have been found dead in Worcester. Maritza Canderlario becomes the latest victim, when police retrieved her body from an area of Coes Pond. The news comes as a shock to April 20, 1989 - Temple Emanuel hosts the funeral for WorcesterCanderlario’s sisters, who born radical leader Abbie Hoffman. Guests include two of his fellow claim that Maritza had Chicago Seven conspirators and Celtic great Bill Walton. given up possession and drugs to live a better life with her loving boyfriend in Milford. So how did she end up dead across town? (10/94)

1993

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appy Birthday Worcester Magazine! I’m happy to see that after 35 years, the magazine is still an important part of Worcester and the Central Massachusetts community. Worcester Magazine has followed the city and region’s politics and diverse culture over the last 35 years. With the ﬂexibility as a weekly publication, Worcester Magazine can often cover local issues and news stories in greater depth than other outlets that have a daily, or even hourly deadline for print, broadcast or web posts. All forms are useful, and it’s

the mix of multiple, credible voices in our media that are so important for covering our city and region. Over the past few years we’ve been experiencing a transformation, and a mudding of the waters, in what is often called the “news media.” I believe, that now more than ever, we need to have multiple, credible outlets in our community where journalistic practices and values are still held to be the important standard. Anyone may be able to put up a website or blog, post photos, videos and stories espousing their views. But not everyone is a journalist, dedicated to the craft, and committed to exploring a story without pre-conceived notions or an agenda. Additionally here in Worcester and Central Massachusetts, Worcester Magazine has carved out an important role, in promoting the city and region’s arts, culture, and various artistic venues and events which have greatly strengthened our local creative economy over the past three decades. This has enhanced both our quality of life and our economy. Personally, I always look forward to reading what columnist Janice Harvey has to say on various matters and her sense of humor usually makes me laugh. Worcesteria also provides timely updates on political happenings in Central Massachusetts. Congratulations, and I hope the mission continues for another 35 years. —Timothy P. Murray Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Latino voting drive under way. City’s fastest growing minority ﬁnding its voice. The lack of Latino involvement in Worcester elections has been a cause for concern for years now. The numbers have been signiﬁcantly low. In Great Brook valley, home to thousands of Latinos, only 58 of the 460 registered voters cast ballots in the 1993 election. The Worcester Latino Voter Registration and Education project is making efforts to increase Latino voter registration and turnout. Centro Las Americas, a multiservice organization, is the host agency for this project. (9/95

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Albert Sacco, a chemical engineering professor from WPI, achieves local celebrity when he joins a 16-day NASA space mission. The scientist shares his experience in being one of only 327 people (at the time) who have flown into space since the first Russian cosmonauts. Coming back to Worcester, Sacco states, “Until you have been in space, you don’t realize what this world has. It crosses political boundaries… you think of the globe as an entity and humankind as one big family, because that’s what it is.” (01/96)

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memories I’ll always carry: the 8-foot-tall sliding piles of paper on Schaffer’s desk; endless staff meetings debating the merits and tone and timing of stories; feeling content about a feature piece and getting it tossed back on my desk crossed-out with a gallon of red ink; that giddy feeling when a story came out perfect; that sinking, wave of nausea when I got something wrong, and we had already gone to press. And then there were the stories and classic Worcester characters I covered so closely, I knew their shtick better than they did. I was lucky enough to work with some really great people who I never stopped learning from: brilliant editors and storytellers like Mike Warshaw and Noah Schaffer; art-savants like Charlene Arsenault and Chet Williamson; punctuation perfectionists like Lester Paquin; fountains-of-Worcesterknowledge like Brian Goslow...and I’m leaving out legions of others (word count limit!) who I consider close friends, talented journalists, photographers and designers. (Well, not legions; I don’t think the lifetime roster of Worcester Magazine technically comprises one single legion. Staff shortages are a chronic issue.) Five years ago, as we were researching the 30th anniversary issue, I had a bit of an epiphany: every time

y first freelance story—my first cover story—was assigned on a Friday at 4 p.m. as I sat in a Westborough hotel lobby waiting for a boxing weigh-in. The story was due exactly 44 hours later. Deadlines never got easier, though I learned to expect the calls from Mike Warshaw and Noah Schaffer at odd hours of the weekend to make sure we got a feature story just right. Worcester Magazine (Sorry, current crop of the Water Street ink-stained; I still can’t get used to using the colloquial ‘Worcester Mag’ as an official name!) has always been a large part of my existence here in Worcester. I read the paper as a college student to learn about the city; I learned the ins-and-outs and dirty secrets of this place working for it; and, in my current role as district press secretary for Congressman McGovern, it’s a daily and weekly must-read. I loved my time at Worcester Magazine. But in retrospect, some of my favorite moments at Worcester Magazine were a far distance from anything you saw on the printed page. Those moments are the visceral

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Housing savior. Father Fred Enman rehabs the soul of Main South A former Holy Cross professor, Fred Enman is the brain behind Mathew 25, a ten-year-old nonprofit organization that breathes life into houses that are knocking on death’s door. With the help of handy students from Worcester Vocational High School and Holy Cross, Enman renovates the houses from the inside out, turning them into top quality apartments and renting them out to low income families – who rent for 25 percent of their monthly income. (3/98)

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years have passed since I walked to the mailbox on Vernon St. and dropped my first submission to Worcester Magazine into the postal abyss. I’d recently read that Allen Fletcher had purchased the independent freebie, luring away from the Telegram & Gazette two of its more popular writers: Paul Della Valle and Walter Crockett. Della Valle had been penning a column that Dianne Williamson would eventually take over, while Crockett was the T&G’s entertainment guru. The new WoMag would include something called “First Person,” a page that showcased local fledglings eager to see their words in print. I was a newly minted divorcee raising two young kids alone, working as a teacher’s assistant in a special-needs preschool. Writing had always been my semi-secret passion. I kept spiral-bound notebooks filled with poetry and half-written short stories, but essays were my favorite form of expression. Long before email existed, computers in the home were a rarity and everything I wrote came from the tip of a Bic pen. When I learned that the new editors of Worcester Magazine were encouraging closeted scribes to submit their work, I took the advice of every writing instructor - “write what you know” - and when I was done, a piece entitled “What I Learned at School” was ready to fly. Almost. I had to send it in typed. This meant borrowing a word processor from the kid who lived on the first floor of the Ames Street three-decker where we lived. Her mom – Trudy the landlady – lugged the unwieldy machine up to the second floor for me, where I set up a corner of the kitchen as a writing space. In my life I’d never had a private space for such a private purpose. My hands trembled as I feed paper into the processor. The next day Trudy knocked on the door and handed me a brand-new thesaurus. I still have it. My post-divorce battered self-confidence nearly kept me from ever appearing in the pages of Worcester Magazine. Panic set in after I slipped the envelope into the mailbox, and I desperately tried to retrieve it by cramming my arm into the drop-off slot. Who and what did I think I was – a real writer? Fortunately, at 5’ 2”, I was too short to reach. It was done. I walked home holding the hand of my six-yearold, my cheeks burning with shame. When Paul Della Valle called to say that my piece had been chosen as the first “First Person,” I felt my legs shake like those of a wet pup. I had long admired

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his writing, and I was unprepared for the voice on the other end, so gravelly one might think he gargled with a handful of pebbles. “I loved your piece,” he growled, a comment which now, nearly 20 years after the fact, would most certainly be a double entendre over which we would snicker. “What I Learned at School” led to many more submissions, all accepted, until one day Walter Crockett asked if I’d like to write a cover story. So began my stint as a reporter of sorts, writing first about DSS, then a series of neighborhood covers that were a joy to pen. One of my favorite assignments was rating local haunted houses; for three Octobers, I visited every ghostly attraction I could find and ranked them according to creativity and dollars-worth of terror. This job brought me head-to-head with the owner of Spooky World, who wanted me fired for saying that rather than return to that rip-off and stand in a cattle-herd line 20 rows deep, I would prefer to be “shot in the forehead with a nail gun, hung up and bled out” like a cow. Maybe it was over the top, but I think my point was made. Spooky Dave, however, thought it would be a fine way to dispose of my sharp tongue. Three years into my work as a contributing writer, Della Valle resigned to start his own paper in the Lancaster area where he resides. That’s when Crockett called and asked me if I happen to have any columns up my sleeve. It so happened that I did – I’d been writing columns for a while, and stuffing them in my desk drawer. With Della Valle gone, there was a half page to be filled – quickly. The rest is ink-stained history. This month I’m celebrating my 15th year as Worcester Mag’s columnist. I’ve toiled under umpteen editors and two owners. Over the years, I’ve been privileged to work beside some of the city’s best writers, from whom I learned much: Ellen O’Connor, Martha Akstin, Mike Warshaw, Charlene Arsenault and Chet Williamson are just a few of the talented people who’ve made writing a pleasure. I worked with the best copy editor on the planet – Lester Paquin – who caught every erroneous “fact” and grammatical faux pas I made, saving me from embarrassment on several occasions, though he couldn’t possibly know that the guy I said was dead wasn’t dead after all – until a letter to the editor from the “deceased” arrived. Thirty-five years, and the little paper that could still chugs along. I consider myself a lucky woman to have a podium from which to spout, and a readership willing to both praise and condemn me. I lift my lipstick-stained coffee mug to the paper that gave me a chance and gives me a voice. —Janice Harvey

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uring the 17 years that I taught chemistry at Doherty High School, I had the itch to run for Worcester School Committee, but conflictof-interest laws forbade me from serving on the city’s school board while still a Worcester teacher. The opportunity to make my first run for school committee, however, came in 1985 after I had taken a job as executive director of Junior Achievement of Central MA. I felt that my insight into teaching and learning would make me an asset to that body. Thankfully, the Worcester Magazine of those days agreed with me. Recognizing that this political novice knew education and had unlimited enthusiasm and passion for the campaign, they wrote, “Of all the new faces on the campaign trail, Gary Rosen’s is by far the brightest.” Those printed words were so encouraging to me. Oh, how I loved Worcester Magazine. It was during that first of five successful schoolcommittee campaigns that I noticed how our local elected officials were faithful WoMag readers. They always wanted to know what the paper was saying about them. But they also appreciated the paper’s sense of humor and insight into various issues. To them it was an alternative voice and a welcomed change from the city’s staid and stodgy daily newspaper. As the years passed, and I made the jump from school committee to city council, Worcester Mag sometimes endorsed me and sometimes abandoned me. “How fickle they had become,” I thought as our original love affair soured a bit. For example, only weeks after my 2007 first-place finish for at-large council, I was damned with faint praise on a WoMag cover. To make up for a small campaign organization and an empty war chest, I had put my name and face in front of Worcester’s voters by holding my campaign sign all alone in the sun, rain

August 24, 2002 – Worcester’s Jesse Burkett Little League finishes runner-up in the Little League World Series to the Little League AllStars from Louisville, Ky. The team’s secondplace finish was the best in the history of Massachusetts Little League baseball.

and cold at numerous city intersections. Worcester Mag used that highly successful campaign strategy as the centerpiece of the cover on its end-of-the-year issue. Titled “GARY ROSEN FROZEN,” it had a caricature of me holding my redand-white campaign sign in my red-and-white T-Shirt, in the freezing cold, icicles forming at the mouth of my blue head. The cover labeled my predicament a “campaign tragedy” and showed a caption of me, teeth chattering in the icy cold, asking, “Now can we get rubber sidewalks?” The sarcasm referred to my request of the city council to consider new rubber sidewalk technology popular in American cities that FILE PHOTO/PATRICK J. O’CONNOR

were much more progressive than ours. Evidently the WoMag columnist who criticized me on that cover failed to do his homework and had no idea that rubber sidewalks were all the rage. So, through the years, Worcester Mag has both complimented and bashed me. But my love affair with this newspaper is stronger than ever because I now am a proud WoMag columnist. As a columnist, I have tried to be fair to our thickand thin-skinned city ofﬁcials and the candidates who challenge them. But my responsibility is to the readers of Worcester Magazine. They expect me to put political friendships aside and to be honest and outspoken. I’ve succeeded at doing that. And now I have a much better understanding of Worcester Magazine’s criticism of me over the years. They were only doing their job. — Gary Rosen

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Barry’s Animal House. The West Side may be the wrong part of town to pick a ﬁght with neighbors It appears that local businessman Barry Krock, who’s been lambasted over the years for several projects, including the 1996 razing of the historic Flagg Building downtown and the earlier demolition of the Harrington-Richardson factory on Park Avenue, has sparked another controversy. This time the problem is being felt by some of his influential West Side neighbors, who complain that he’s allowed his property at 274 Salisbury Street to become a lodging house. The city’s Health & Code department has twice ordered Krock’s lessee to stop operating the building as such. (12/01)

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Improv Woosta. Foothills new venture off the cuff Newcomers to Worcester from cities like Portland and Providence and Pittsburgh, industrial towns that died and came back as fertile ground for the arts, often scratch their heads and wonder why this place isn’t more hip. With all the colleges around here, swarming with forward-looking souls, why isn’t there more evidence of a growing edge? If you ask someone like Colleen Kelley, she’ll tell you there’s hope for us yet, and she’s working the ground. As founder and producer of Improv Woosta, an improvisational theatre group set to debut on May 10 at Foothills Theatre, she is pinning her hopes on the same demographic core that has made “Whose Line is it Anyway?” a huge success in recent years. (2/02)

November 20, 2004 – The Bijou Cinema, the one remaining bright spot of the downtown mall and last movie theatre that actually felt like it was in the city, closes after one more showing of “The Last Picture Show.”

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September 15, 2005 – The Worcester Tornadoes, in their inaugural year, clinch the CamAm League championship at Hanover Insurance Park at Fitton Field on the grounds of the College of the Holy Cross.

When Worcester’s first Gay Pride Parade was held in 1975, onlookers pelted marchers in Crystal Park with beer bottles and rocks. In recent years, the June GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender) Pride march from City Hall to Institute Park has been more peaceful. Perhaps too peaceful. The biggest problem over the past few years has been a small turnout that numbered in the low hundreds. The march through a deserted downtown made for few viewers, and even fewer stayed to hear music and speakers in Institute Park. It made for a particularly sharp contrast to Pride events in Providence and Boston, which attract tens of thousands of participants. (7/03)

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t news stands, many magazines sit on the rack, collecting dust. No compelling cover story or image compels you to lean over and pick one up. It’s like an inﬁnity of time and space between you and the mag. Then, there are the rare ones that virtually leap into your hands. So it was with the premier issue of Worcester Magazine (as it was then called) in October 1976. “Who Killed Lee Rivernider?” asked the simple, eye-grabbing headline accompanying the grainy, black-and-white photo of the Worcester boy who had been the victim of an unsolved murder. It wasn’t the sort of story and image that you would have seen in the Old Gray Lady, as the then-named Worcester Telegram and the Evening Gazette were - not always affectionately - called. I was beginning my career in journalism as a staff reporter for WNCR/1440 AM (now WVEI), an all-news-and-talk radio station in Worcester. I’d never written for a magazine or newspaper, and so was surprised when Dan Kaplan, co-founder along with Ryck Bird Lent of WoMag, asked me in the fall of ‘77 to write a cover feature on the troubles at then-named Worcester Municipal Airport. (The more things change,

the more they stay the same.) Dan put me under the impressive mentoring of Staff Writer Charlie Pierce, who’d go on to a stellar career in national journalism. The result: “Airport ‘78,” titled after a popular airplane-disaster movie. The article caused political turbulence. I was hooked on print. While I remained full-time in broadcasting for the next four-and-a-half years, I also freelanced numerous WoMag articles – several of them, investigative. With my print conﬁdence built up, I joined WoMag’s staff full-time in 1982. Over the next four-and-a-half years, I spent most of my time and energy on investigative reporting. It was a sometimes nerve-wracking, neverboring way to learn about the good, the bad and the ugly of this curious smalltown city called Worcester – and share it with our loyal readers. Not always to favorable reviews. Here are three of my favorites: • “Voter’s Block: Is City Clerk O’Keefe thwarting Hispanic voters?” April 10, 1979: The evidence showed that Bob O’Keefe was. He denied it. I wrote a subsequent article on his policy to stamp “illegitimate” on the birth certiﬁcates of babies born out of wedlock.

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• “All in the Family: Crisis of confidence in county government,” October 23, 1985: After then-County Commissioner Paul Tivan told the Evening Gazette, “Patronage hasn’t existed in Worcester County for 12 or 13 years.” For me, reporting on this one was like shooting fish in a barrel. I confirmed at least 70 county jobs held by 63 employees – some held more than one county job – related to 25 county officials or their friends. No wonder that county government was eventually abolished in Worcester County. Too bad for local journalists, though. It was always fodder for a good story. Not every reader liked these or any of my other articles. But respond, they almost always did, by reaching down each week at the news stand to pick up a copy of WoMag. It’s why the not-so-secret reason for this paper’s continued success can be summed up in six words: “Love it. Hate it. Read it.” And it’s why I remain hooked on both print and Worcester Mag. — Steve Jones-D’Agostino Steve Jones-D’Agostino was associated in some way, shape or form with Worcester Mag from 1977 through 2004. He is now the full-time social media/ public-relations strategist at CommCreative, a marketing, public-relations and digital media firm in Framingham, and the volunteer host of The Business Beat, a weekly, half-hour show on WICN/90.5 FM in Worcester.

He called me a “moral leper.” Considering the source, I wore it as a badge of honor. • “The Sheriff’s Free Dinner: Sheriff Ted Herman has been illegally taking food from the jail,” September 5, 1984: Both Herman and his deputy master, Mike Flynn, who’d one day go on to replace Herman as sheriff, declined to comment. They sued WoMag and me for libel. Fittingly, Flynn, who allegedly grabbed more free food than Herman, FILE PHOTO

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orcester Magazine’s early days were wild and wolly – it was a place brimming with young talent. Founders Dan Kaplan and Ryck Lent, a yin and yang pair of didn’t-know-any-better recent college grads may have struggled early, but in relatively short order earned their mettle as entrepreneurs who ﬁgured out not only how to meet a payroll, but how to build a business. I joined the team as a sales representative in 1980, later serving as publisher for close to 10 years. The editorial team in the early days was an all star lineup that included a local Shrewsbury kid (Charlie Pierce), a recent Harvard grad (Frank Connelly) a sharp elbowed lawyer (John Reilly) as well as a rock band leader in their editor Michael Bingham. They all moved on after a few years, but they nonetheless set the tone for what Worcester Magazine was all about. This was a place where bright, young people got their start. I began on the business side in 1980 where I earned my stripes selling ad space alongside Mike Donovan, Mark Murray, Joe Zwiebel, Betsy Kravitz, Jane Grant and many other bright minds who still work in this marketplace today. It seemed like everyone was in their 20’s, and there could not have been a greater contrast between this fearless alternative upstart and the oh-so-stodgy T&G. A 1979 Holy Cross grad, I worked for the company through 1986 (leaving to run the newly separated Business Worcester) and learned a ton about sales, marketing, journalism and leadership - lessons that have been invaluable to my publishing career. Worcester Magazine was a place where the culture was all about growth and new ideas, where we simply decided that we would not participate in the economic turmoil of the early 1980’s. We grew because we willed it to happen. Twice the parent company – Central Mass PHOTO COURTESY OF WORCESTER BUSINESS JOURNAL

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The tides of NIMBY. There’s a hot debate going on over the placement of a treatment center on Paine Street

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Last summer, a firestorm erupted when the Willis Center proposed placing such a program near Newton Square. Before the neighborhood protests could be organized, it was announced that the deal was off; there were problems with the real estate transaction. But now, an effort to move the same program to Paine Street (off Lincoln Street) is being met with protests. One state representative says the conflict offers a lesson in how the siting of social service programs needs to be discussed on a wider, regional level, rather than being fought on a street-by-street basis every time a program tries to move. (6/04)

November 7, 2006 – Former Worcester Mayor Tim Murray (pictured here with Govenor Deval Patrick) wins election as Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor, reminding Boston that the land beyond Route 128 does indeed belong to the state.

2005

The alchemy of glass. Alex Bernstein and the New Street Glass Studio You could say glass-making is in Alex Bernstein’s blood. The new head of the New Street Glass Studio, part of the Worcester Center for Crafts, grew up in a household where both parents have had a lifelong interest in exploring the artistic possibilities of glass. Alex’s father, William Bernstein, founded the Glass Arts Society in the early 1970s — America’s first organization devoted to glass as an artist’s medium. Alex Bernstein, a glass artist with an impressive resume, now directs a phenomenal studio facility located off Harlow Street that is among the top 10 such facilities in the nation. What made Worcester Center for Crafts take the leap and invest in a facility with such outstanding resources and personnel? “They figured if they were going to do it, they might as well do it right,” says Bernstein. (1/05)

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The city and the cable company. For the ﬁrst time in 10 years, Worcester renegotiates its deal with Charter Communications

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When Worcester originally got cable television service, about 35 years ago, it was one of the first communities in the country to offer a then-mind-boggling 24 channels to subscribers. A new color TV cost more than a good, used Buick in those days, and most families watched fuzzy pictures from a handful of stations in distant cities. As Worcester ramps up its negotiations to renew its 1997 10-year agreement with cable television and Internet provider Charter Communications, it can be very useful to see how far we’ve come. (9/06)

It’s 5:37 p.m. on a Wednesday at Union Station. The after-work train back to Boston is leaving in one minute, and would-be riders are scrambling to make it. If the train runs as scheduled, it’s really the last opportunity for so-called “reverse commuters” to get back to their bedroom communities or Boston at a decent hour: It’s scheduled to arrive at South Station at 6:59 by way of a dozen stops, if there aren’t delays. It’s convenient, as long as convenient means leaving work exactly at 5 p.m. and getting to the station within 37 minutes. And if you miss the train back home? Tell the family not to hold dinner. The next ride out doesn’t leave until 7:40 p.m., doesn’t make any stops between Framingham and Boston, and doesn’t get into South Station until 8:53 p.m. This is how we attract people to make the reverse commute to Worcester? (9/07)

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and judicial processing with a system of civil penalties. That baggie of grass, so long as its weight stays beneath the magic number, would net the holder a $100 fine, and no permanent criminal record. (6/08)

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Recession, bailouts, hidden fees, no fees, low fees, guaranteed loan approval; these are words that have filled the banking world for the last three years. Worcester has by no means been immune to the effects of a troubled economy. As a city with nearly one hundred different financial institutions and brimming with locally owned businesses— some in place for more than a century, plus numerous fledgling establishments— the decision of where to bank speaks to many different levels of financial security and prosperity. For residents who are watching every dime, fees and rates can be the determining factor between banking with a local bank or a larger bank. But the question begs to be asked: Does it really matter? (3/11)

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“The Liberty Tree is an iconic piece of New England history, and what better symbol for roots music than something that signifies not only our own heritage, but is also a symbol of defiance and rebellion,” says Keyes, in defense of the name choice for his new festival, an all-day-and-night (1 p.m. to 2 a.m.) celebration of roots music, with artists and vendors, at Ralph’s, on Saturday, October 22, 2011. Even Keyes, though, draws distinctions about the meaning of “roots” that might incite debate on the town common: “Your parents’ roots bands tend to be more traditional folk, more laid back,” he says, pointing out that the current crop of bands, on the other hand, have been influenced by rock and punk. “It’s not uncommon nowadays to see banjo and mandolin players sporting tattoos and piercings, but playing totally traditional styles of music.” Technicalities aside, though, Keyes confesses, “Rock ‘n’ roll was built on a foundation of blues and country, and I love it all! To me, it’s just music. “There’s a growing national underground movement of roots bands, deep blues, [and] real country music that’s really gaining momentum and there are a bunch of great bands from around here that are doing it really well,” he adds. Area hill-country blues guitarist, Jon Short, one prominent local act on the bill, agrees. “There are a lot of people [in Worcester] who are interested in live music, and there are a lot of [local] musicians who are interested in roots music.” “I thought putting all of these bands together would

really showcase the amount of talent we’ve got right here in New England,” says Keyes. “People can expect a day of really great roots music,” he says. According to Keyes, the musicians and bands are all top-notch performers and writers — each “a headliner in their own right.” Most of them tour regularly, have multiple records under their belts and together will cover a huge swath of American music, traditional and modern. “Anyone who’s a fan of country, blues, rock ‘n’ roll, and folk will love these acts,” he promises. Keyes says that he has been putting on shows and hosting events for a while, but wanted to do something more adventurous. The New England Bloody Roots Festival is the result. He says he’d like to make it an annual event, perhaps with spin-off versions throughout the year. How did the bill come about? “I picked all my favorite bands that do this kind of music and asked them to play,” Keyes says. Those favorites include Worcester bands like The Ten Foot Polecats (which he compares to a blues/punk combo like Howlin’ Wolf come back from the grave), Jon Short (who plays a pre-war style of Delta Blues), The Farmers’ Union Players (old country music and gospel), Scott Ricciutti and Pistol Whipped (a very melodic Americana

style, he says, what modern country should sound like), and Geo Poor and Amy Levine of Great Whiskey Rebellion (Middle Eastern/ Celtic gypsy funk). In addition, several regional and national bands will appear, including South Carolina’s Jeff Norwood (a bluesman who plays Worcester whenever he’s on tour), Rhode Island’s Sharks Come Cruisin’ (big rock versions of traditional sea shanties), Northampton’s Angry Johnny and the Killbillies (a murder ballad in human form), and Boston’s Erin Harpe and the Delta Swingers and the Sarah Levecque Band (an old-time blues, juke joint, honky tonk, swingin’ style). As for the venue, Keyes says, “Ralph’s is a great place to see bands at any time. They’re part of the music community in Worcester. We’ll have the solo performers downstairs and the full bands upstairs, so there’s no down time between set changes. Ralph’s has tons of parking, room for everyone to get around, a patio to hang out in, and three bars. Perfect.” The New England Bloody Roots Festival. Saturday, October 22, 2011 1p.m. to 2 a.m. Ralph’s Rock Diner, 95 Prescott St., Worcester. Find out more when you search for the event on Facebook.

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It’s been over 25 years since GWAR was thawed from its icy Antarctic slumber by global warming. During that time, GWAR beheaded and disemboweled hundreds of world leaders and celebrities (in effigy), eaten and flayed thousands of innocent ticket holders at its live spectacles (hopefully all of those were theatrical slayings), and recorded 12 albums full of filthy anthems sure to offend everyone equally throughout the galaxy. But GWAR is a band that must be experienced live. Fans have seen everything from nuclearwaste accidents to fullon slave revolts on stage while the band rips through songs like “World O’ Filth” and “Nitro-Burning Funnybong.” Lead vocalist Oderus Urungus answers some of our questions:

WM: Earlier this year GWAR was criticized for disemboweling a replica of Sarah Palin on stage. You were also banned from Fox News for doing so. Do you think that was censorship by Fox News? Has anyone ever complained about their replica being disemboweled or decapitated before? Did you have sex with the Palin replica (on or off stage)? OU: Of course it was censorship, but it was also stupidity and penis envy. Every second that I was appearing on FOX News, I was certain it was going to be my last. They actually had an earphone on me (or in me) where a hidden producer whispered unseen commands to me, about what jokes not to tell usually. For all their

tomfoolery, I have to say what we did together was awesome. Greg risked his job to have me on their show, and I appreciate it, even if I send him mean tweets.

WM: Who or what does GWAR endorse for the upcoming presidential election? OU: We don’t! Those people are shit and must be killed! Glenn Beck was right! We are coming for you, to drag you into the street and kill you (them). They sure deserve it. They’ve had thousands of years to figure out how to run things and all they have managed to do is line their own pockets. In outer space, politicians (and lawyers) exist for the express and sole purpose of being crucified. We would like to bring this policy to Earth. WM: GWAR has been marauding the Earth for over 25 years now. What have you learned about humanity in that time? Well, seeing as we created you... well, let’s just say that creates problems. If we are perfect, how could we create something so fucked up as the human race? Well I will tell you how, because we decided to fuck up, that’s why! It gets boring being perfect all the time. But seeing as we created you, we are not likely to learn anything from you, you got everything from us!

the next album? 16-string guitars? US: No, this is getting ridiculous, I can’t stand it anymore. They look like they are playing fucking beaver tails or something. I admit it does sound fucking sick. The first time I heard it, I puked on the guitar. That’s how much I loved it. I like music that makes me puke. What can I say, I’m built that way. I think Jason Strahan sucks.

WM: The audience at a GWAR show is usually splattered with some kind of fluid or chunks of debris. How many gallons do you estimate the band spews per show? OU: What are you talking about? When I piss on you? Or blow come? Do you measure how much you piss? Or come? I am sure you don’t. But you expect me to? You piece of shit, how dare you, blah, blah, blah. Now that we got that out of the way, of course it depends on how many people come to the show, and how fat they are. Oh, and also how many vampires show up and lick the blood off the floor. Eight gallons, right? So if 1,000 people show up...well that’s too complicated for me, you figure it out. Ass. WM: Have there been any reported after effects or mutations as a direct result of the fluid that spews from your...uh... “fish”? OU: Sure! Lesions, acne, buboes, cancer...the list goes on and includes Regis Philbin’s anal filth. WM: Does GWAR like to dress up for Halloween? OU: I enjoy appearing as famous TV Quizmaster Alex Trebek, with the mustache of course!

WM: You’ve recently done some acting for Fearnet’s “Holliston.” Any other movie or television projects lined up? OU: No! No other projects are needed, HOLLISTON is so fucking cool. Unless they fuck it up, which I can’t see happening, because I’m in it...and Dee Snider too! And TWO totally hot chicks and also a couple a schmucks who I guess were responsible for the whole thing. But I have no doubt there will be other roles in my future. Personally, I’d like to do Hamlet!

WM: GWAR used eight-string guitars to create a heavier sound on your last two albums, “Bloody Pit of Horror” and “Lust in Space.” How can you up the heaviness for

WM: What makes Oderus Urungus cry? The temptation to say “stupid interviews like this submitted by lazy writers who don’t feel like transcribing my babble” is simply TOO GREAT! Stupid interviews like this! Catch Oderus Urungus and the rest of the Gwar gang (if you dare) on their Return of the World Maggot Tour along with Every Time I Die and Ghoul at the Palladium on October 21. For more info visit thepalladium.net. Mike Hsu is the midday host on 97.7/107.3 WAAF and loves bacon dearly.

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You’ve seen it countless times: the broken down college/high school/ delinquent kids desperately in need of a guiding a light. There’s always a tough basketball, football, swimming, debating, whatever coach who shows up and challenges this unruly rabble to have pride in themselves and to think as a team, and voila! That’s all it takes to turn them all into champions. You know it will end with them winning the big game, tournament, whatever. “The Mighty Macs” is based on a true story, so there’s zero doubt. If the team in question didn’t win the big one you would not be watching a movie made about them. If you see this as a spoiler then you probably still believe in the tooth fairy, or that Michelle Bachmann isn’t made from robot parts. And so a film like this becomes an exercise in button pushing. First time Director/writer Tim Chambers is more cult leader than artist as he attempts to circle around your tear ducts for ninety minutes, bombarding you with feelgood platitudes and a constant mind-numbingly cloying “inspirational” soundtrack, with lots of old time religion thrown in to boot. By the end the audience is caught in a kind of Stockholm Syndrome daze, routing for a girl’s basketball team their brain knows is going to win, while their hijacked emotions nevertheless rise and fall on every slow-motion shot towards the net. Okay, fine you say, so it’s manipulative and predictable, but is “The Mighty Macs” any good? Well, Carla Gugino, who plays Cathy Rush, the highly motivated coach in question, seems to think this is her Oscar bid. If it is, then I’ll swallow my laptop whole (and I can guarantee that will be more entertaining to watch than sitting through this film). You might vaguely remember Carla from “Watchmen”, “American Gangster”, “Snake Eyes” and “Sin City.” She is a perennial B lister, and here she seems to

think that the more terse intensity she gives to lines like: “Have the courage to follow your dreams”, or “You need to break up with your ego” the more likely her Sandra Bullock “The Blind Side” moment will be. In a sense the film becomes both a metaphor and vehicle for her acting ambitions: everybody may think you are a nobody, but if you believe in yourself with all the intensity you can muster, you will prove them wrong. Or, as in the case of “The Mighty Macs,” you will come off as a nobody who is trying way too hard. Her assistant coach Sister Sunday is played by Marley Shelton, another B-lister, but unlike Gugino she seems okay with that. By far the most beautiful face on the screen, she dutifully recites lines like “Jesus likes to dance” with gentle wideeyed wonder, and manages to emerge from this swirling vortex of Saccharine cliché’s relatively unscathed. Ellen Burstyn plays the quintessential crusty Reverend Mother, who will inevitably have her heart softened by insistent, self-confident coach Rush. She wisely underplays her role – as a veteran she knows a paycheck part when she sees it – and comes off without embarrassing herself. Chambers is a former college football star and seems to be a true believer in all this, which is to say as director he’s roped his actors into giving attentive performances, although tone-wise he has little use or understanding of nuance. As a writer he manages to interject some humor into subjects like faith and women’s lib (this all takes place in the early 1970’s) while navigating an utterly predictable plot, although his dialog is too flimsy for any hope of elevating any of these characters beyond stereotype status. Still, like I said, the film works as far as holding your interest on a basic emotional level. But then again, so does joining the Moonies.

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The dining area and bar were nearly full when my husband and I strolled into Zorba’s Taverna on Stafford Street. Fortunately, we still got a cozy booth to share right away. The seating area is comfortable with enough space between tables where you don’t feel crowded, even on a full night. Our server quickly took our drink order and proceeded to be one of the best waiters we’ve had. Drinks were never empty, he knew about all of the menu choices, and he easily worked with food sensitivities — all with a smile and a great attitude. The majority of the menu items are Greek or Middle Eastern Mediterranean, which works well for parties including

vegetarians. However, there are also familiar Italian and American dishes to please picky eaters. We started with the horiatiki pikilia, which is a platter that serves two of hummus, tzatziki, feta cheese, stuffed grape leaves, olives, tomatoes and pickled hot peppers. The feta was in thick cubes and marinated in olive oil and spices. The olives were pitted, and the tomatoes fresh and juicy. The stuffed grape leaves were served warm, which really brought out the flavor of the mint and parsley seasonings, and had a great texture. Standing out on the platter as favorites for both of us were the pita triangles and the dips. The pita was warm, moist and just a little fluffy and chewy. It paired perfectly with both the hummus and the tzatziki. The tzatziki is thickened yogurt with dill, garlic and cucumbers; all parts of this were nicely balanced. Zorba’s hummus was a chunky version, different than what most people know, but the chunkiness made it clear it had been made freshly on premise that day. While the specials for the day looked good, Scott and I both decided to go for items on the regular menu. He ordered the lamb shank—his favorite wherever it’s

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>Thursday 20 The College of the Holy Cross will host a medieval/renaissance colloquium titled Of Love and War, which will include a live sword demonstration, a sword-handling workshop from representatives of the Higgins Armory Museum and a concert by the award-winning duo, Asteria. The pair will present songs from medieval Burgundy. All events are free and open to the public; 4 p.m., Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College Street, holycross.edu. Don’t miss the seasonal Haunted Hayride and Spook-Walk every Friday and Saturday evening throughout October. Hayrides begin at sunset and continue till all paid riders have ridden. Come bring the whole family for a night of Halloween related fun—food, drinks, games and a full bar for adult beverages. $15; 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Century Sportsman’s Club, 531 Rochdale St., Auburn. 508832-2211, centuryhayride.com. Original singer/songwriter Kathy Phipps brings her folk sounds to Jak’s tonight; 9-11 p.m. 536 Main St. 508-757-5257.

>Friday 21 Salisbury Singers will host a What’s It Worth? Gala Beneﬁt including a wine tasting and silent auction, which starts at 6 p.m., followed by a “What’s It Worth” appraisal from 7 to 9 p.m. The event features Stuart Whitehurst, renowned generalist appraiser and senior auctioneer from Skinner’s Auction House. Attendees are invited to bring an item to be appraised. $25 with one item for appraisal and $20 for general admission without an appraisal item; 6-9 p.m. Trinity Lutheran Church (Jepson Hall), 73 Lancaster St., salisburysingers.org. The Stratton Players will present A.A. Milne’s “Mr. Pim Passes By.” The show, written in 1919 and the ﬁrst production ever performed by the Stratton Players in 1925, will offer an amusing contemplation of love, marriage, and the rules we (are supposed to) live by. Performances: Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. on October 21, 22, 28, 29 and November 4 and 5; Sunday performances are at 2 p.m. on October 23, 30 and November 6; $12. First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 923 Main St., Fitchburg. strattonplayers.com, 978-345-6066. Acoustic singer/songwriter Bob Moon brings his original sounds to Jak’s Pub tonight. 8-10 p.m. Jak’s Pub, 536 Main St. 508757-5257. After Work Social to Support the South High School Food Pantry. With a 12 percent and growing student homeless

population, South High School has been supporting students and their families by establishing a food pantry in the school. In an effort to raise much needed funds and to bring awareness to this very worthy cause, The Friends of South High School are holding an after-work social gathering at The Press Box, where you can take part in 50/50-cash and meat rafﬂes, and drop off a donation for the South High Food Pantry. All funds raised at this event will be sent to the Worcester Educational Development Foundation, Inc. to establish a fund to support the food pantry. For a list of needed donation items, contact Maureen Binienda at BiniendaM@worc.k12.ma.us or Michael Lyons LyonsM@worc.k12.ma.us. Free; 4-7 p.m. Press Box, 536 Lincoln St. 508-856-9255.

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Festive Opening for “Fire and Ice 2011,” ARTSWorcester’s Annual Members Exhibition and Sale, a silent and live auction beneﬁt with admission set at $35 for ARTSWorcester members, $40 for non-members, tickets available at the door. 6-9 p.m. ARTSWorcester, Aurora Gallery, 660 Main St. 508-755-5142. Heavy Stoner Fest at Ralph’s features Maar, Sonic Titan, Villainer and Woozy!; 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. The Sahara Cafe & Restaurant welcomes George E Dee Three, featuring George Dellomo, Bob Simonelli and Joe D’Angelo. This is an original music program based largely on compositions by D’Angelo; 10 p.m.-2 a.m. 143 Highland St. 508-798-2181. Do the sounds of P-Funk, Parliament and The Meters get your booty shaking? Then you’ll love the sounds of White Chocolate as they get funky down at Beatnik’s tonight; 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877.

>Saturday 22 The Annual Great Pumpkin Fest at the EcoTarium is back! The biggest Halloween celebration for families in Central Mass. returns for the eighth consecutive year, featuring a creative display of carved pumpkins and Halloween family fun. From noon to 9 p.m., the museum’s 40-acre grounds will feature a host of Halloween fun as well as a display of more than 1,500 carved and lit pumpkins after dark. Explore exhibits, visit animals, catch a free digital planetarium show, and enjoy hayrides, train rides, magic,

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face painting, fortune-telling, pumpkin-carving demonstrations, crafts, animal encounters and much, much more. Family-friendly costumes are encouraged. $15, $10 for EcoTarium members, children younger than 2 years old are free. EcoTarium, 222 Harrington Way. 508-929-2700, ecotarium.org. The ground shakes as two warhorses charge. Each knight lowers his lance, a crash of spear on armor, a knight is thrown to the ground, the other rides around the ﬁeld to the cheering crowd. Skilled jousters were the star athletes of their day, and their fans included men and women alike, from across all walks of life, all of them drawn to the intense action, colorful personalities, and everpresent danger of this ultimate sport. During Extreme Sport: The Joust, see a rare “rental armor” worn by socially ambitious townsmen in 1400s Nuremberg that still bears deep gouges in the steel from the impact of opposing lances, weapons and armor from the free-for-all “Bridge Game” played in the Italian city of Pisa, a war saddle from the 1500s, and more, as you explore the pageantry of the medieval tournament. Be sure to heft a full-size lance and imagine how you might fare at this challenging sport as you take part in a Virtual Joust. Higgins Armory Museum, 100 Barber Ave. 508-853-6015, higgins.org.

Worcester-based community organizations unite the weekend of October 22-24 to celebrate a food movement dedicated to promoting sustainability and a hunger-free and healthy community during the Sodexo at Clark University: Supports Worcester Food Day 2011. Sodexo at Clark University joins Hunger Free Worcester at the YMCA REC Farmer’s Market in Main South Worcester. The event will feature local farmers, international cuisine, music and dance performances, healthy recipes and children’s activities. Enjoy local food samples, a local and sustainable meal in Higgins Café, and meet local food suppliers. Local vendors will provide samples and information on their sustainability practices as well. Clark University, 950 Main St. 508-793-7158 or ﬁnd them on Facebook.

Access Hanover - Theatre Ghost Stories. Get into the Halloween spirit with spellbinding stories and lantern lit tours that are sure to put you in an eerie frame of mind. Learn about Mike, The Hanover Theatre’s very own ghost, who on occasion makes his presence known. Bring the whole family for a spooky fun-filled morning at the theater. Conducted by The Hanover Theatre’s operations manager and education director Meghan Patrick. $10, free for members; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. 877-571-7469, thehanovertheatre.org. The Bewitching High Silver Tea features Katherine Glass, Psychic and Medium, who will enhance your experience of High Tea. Wear your most bewitching attire. Contact Irene Stevens at 978-355-2227 for reservations. Proceeds to scare away domestic violence; $23 per person; 2-4 p.m. Barre Congregational Church, Good Witches Tea Room, 30 Park St., Barre. 978-355-3093. Treat yourself to an elegant evening of dancing, lavish hors d’oeuvers, a professional show & a fabulous silent auction for a great cause when you bring your dancing shoes to Ballroom Blast! Dance For Hope. All proceeds will be donated to the Hope Lodge of Worcester a facility of The American Cancer Society. $65 per person; 7-11 p.m. College of the Holy Cross: Hogan Campus Center, 1 College St. 508-798-0392., dancetonight.com. Tableau vivant n. [ta-bloh vee-vahn]. French: tableau (picture) + vivant (living.) Traditional definition: a representation of a scene, painting, sculpture or artwork by a person or group posed silent and motionless. Worcester Art Museum definition:

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>Sunday 23 Institute Park: Flying South. Look for ducks and waterfowl stopping off on their long migration south. Learn about the history of the park, the role of Stephen Salisbury III in creating Worcester’s parks system, and the importance of protected city land in larger natural migration; 10 a.m.-noon. Institute Park, corner of Salisbury St. and Humboldt Ave. 508-754-8760. Worcester CROP Hunger Walk, held annually in October and sponsored by Church World Service (CWS), donates 25 percent of the funds raised to local food banks, and the rest goes to disaster relief and combating poverty throughout the world. The CROP (Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty) Walk is the oldest continuing walkathon in the United States. In cities and towns throughout the United States, concerned citizens gather in an effort to eradicate poverty and hunger. 12:30-3 p.m. Wesley United Methodist Church, 114 Main St. 774-364-0862, cropwalkonline.org.

Pilgrim Soul Productions presents “The Cripple of Inishmaan.” Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1934, “The Cripple of Inishmaan” is a strange comic tale in the great tradition of Irish storytelling. As word arrives on Inishmaan that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island of Inishmore to ﬁlm Man of Aran, the one person who wants to be in the ﬁlm more than anybody is young Cripple Billy, if only to break away from the bitter tedium of his daily life. Tickets available at the door for $15, $12 per person for groups of 10 or more; 2-4:30 p.m. Worcester Hibernian Cultural Centre, 19 Temple St. 508-752-0224. Nick’s Bar will host Bobcat and Burlesque tonight at 9 p.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. Halloween Party and Haunted House will feature games, costume parade, refreshments and lots of laughs. The party is free. Admission to the Haunted House is only $3, and lauded as the best Haunted House in all of Worcester County; 4-6 p.m., 7 p.m.-9 p.m., 8 p.m.-10 p.m. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Saint Ann Parish, 24 Mulberry St. 508-752-2964.

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>Tuesday 25 Latino Voices In The Media: An Afternoon Conversation with Patricia Alvarado Núñez, senior producer of WGBH (Broadcast Media-Great Boston Area). Patricia Alvarado Núñez is a WGBH Senior Producer; Previous Senior Producer for Oxfam America, climate change awareness; Previous Producer for La Plaza (documentary series). Free; 2:303:30 p.m. Worcester State University: Student Center, Fallon Room, 486 Chandler St. 508-929-8552, worcester.edu. Fork It Over. Bring your friends and sample savory appetizers and the sweetest desserts made by chefs from the Worcester area and inspired by Girl Scout Cookies! A dozen chefs will be serving-up Tropical Pulled-Pork Sliders, Thin Mint Cheesecake and everything in between. Come for the food, stay for the live music (provided by Two-Timers) and leave with a recipe book highlighting all the evening’s creations. $30; 5-7:30 p.m. Coral Seafood, 225 Shrewsbury St. 508-749-3623, gscwm.org. Julio’s Liquors is planning an Insania Event with Geoff Tate of Queensryche in association with Ernie Boch, Jr.’s charity Music Drives Us. Tate will again be featuring his wines Insania Red and Insania White. A short acoustic set by

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night day >Thursday 27 Flock Of A-Holes, the ultimate ’80s tribute band headlines The Halloween Show with incredible special guests Triple Cobra and acoustic duo Joe Carcia & Sarah G. Some spooky “Goth” ’80s surprises will be thrown into the set (new songs for the Flock). Come on down for this once-a-year experience. $5; 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or ﬁnd them on Facebook. Rob Adams makes an appearance at Cigar Masters tonight at 9 p.m. 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035.

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DJ Brian Spinnin’ The Hottest Dance Music. No Cover Charge. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Days End Tavern, 287 Main St., Oxford. 508-987-1006. Jim Devlin. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Cigar Masters, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035. Kathy Phipps. Pass the hat. 9-11 p.m. Jak’s Pub, 536 Main St. 508-757-5257. Lisa Marie & All Shook Up.. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. Metal Thursday CXLIII. Lineup TBA. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. WCUW Live Concert Series. No charge. 9-10 p.m. WCUW 91.3 FM - Worcester’s Community Radio Station, WCUW Front Room, 910 Main St. 508-792-5417. Jay Graham Live. 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Funky Murphy’s Bar & Grill, 305 Shrewsbury St. 508-753-2995. Andy Cummings Live. $3. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Hooligan’s, 29 Blossom St., Fitchburg. 508-272-5092. Retro with DJ Tony T. 10 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Mixers Cocktail Lounge, 105 Water St. 508-762-9499.

>Friday 21 Danny Pease and The Regulators, The Rising Tribe, Electric Barrelhouse, Wild Mountain Strategy. The Raven, 258 Pleasant St. 508-304-8133. Top 40 Dance Night w/ DJ Fast Track. Club Gallery, 150 Point St., Providence. 401-751-7166. Vinyl-ly Friday Party. No charge. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or luckydogmusic.com. What’s It Worth? Gala Beneﬁt. 6-9 p.m. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jepson Hall, 73 Lancaster St. 508-799-3949 or salisburysingers.org. Return Of The World Maggot Tour Gwar. Tickets $19.50 adv., $22 door. 6:30-11 p.m. Palladium, The, 261 Main St. 508797-9696. After Hours. No charge. 7-10 p.m. Rabbit Hole, 805 Main St., Fitchburg. 978-345-0040 or therabbitholeusa.com. BBQ & Blues Fridays with Big Jon Short. No cover charge. 7-10 p.m. Smokestack Urban Barbecue, 90 Harding St. BYO Blues. 7-11 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. Dan Kirouac with Dorette Weld. No charge. 7-11 p.m. Twohey’s Tavern at King Phillip Restaurant, 35 State Road, Athol.

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978-249-6300 or find them on Facebook. Patty Biernacki. No charge. 7-10 p.m. Mill Church Cafe, 45 River St., Millbury. 508-864-5658 or millchurch.org. Arizona Doug and Scott Marshall. No charge. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Verona Grille, 81 Clinton St., Shrewsbury. 508-853-9091. Bob Moon. Pass the hat. 8-10 p.m. Jak’s Pub, 536 Main St. 508-757-5257. Friday Night DJ’s. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Overtime Tap, 50 Front St. 508-757-0600. Jesse Garcia Live. No charge. 8-9 p.m. Mahoney’s Pub, 413 Park Ave. 508-277-1073. Linda Dagnello Trio. 8 p.m.-midnight Luciano’s Cotton Club, 2 Washington Square. 508-755-6408. Sean Ryan. 8-11 p.m. Barbers Crossing (North), 175 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8438. Schism with Gunther’s God. $10. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or find them on Facebook. Auntie Trainwreck. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Squire Whites Pub & Restaurant, 347 Greenwood St. 508-752-7544 or find them on Facebook. Bêlit. No charge. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Mahoney’s Pub, 413 Park Ave. 508-277-1073. Brett Brumby. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Cigar Masters, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035. Carol O’Shaughnessy and Pianist Tom Lamark.. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-7534030. DJ Pete the Polock. No charge. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 3-G’s Sports Bar, The Music Room, 152 Millbury St. 508-754-3516. DJ Susan Esthera. $5. 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Mixers Cocktail Lounge, 105 Water St. 508-762-9499. Drama. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Celtic Tavern, 45 Belmont St., Northborough. 508-366-6277. Heavy Stoner Fest. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. Jon Lacouture. No charge. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Art’s Diner, West Boylston st. 352-895-8355. Karaoke with Making Memories. No charge. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Days End Tavern, 287 Main St., Oxford. 508-987-1006. Shawna Shenette. No charge. 9-10 p.m. Mahoney’s Pub, 413 Park Ave. 508-277-1073. Valvatross. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420. Zane Couch Explosion. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. The Pumphouse, 340 Main St., Southbridge. 508-765-5473. Mumble Fish. $5. 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Firefly’s Marlborough, 350 East Main St., Marlborough. 508-357-8883 or fireflysbbq.com. George E Dee Three. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Sahara Cafe & Restaurant, 143 Highland St. 508-798-2181. White Chocolate. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877. Live Music in the Pub: Boys of the Town. No cover.

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>Saturday 22 Live Music Saturday Night. Black Lab Lounge, 36 Main St., Douglas. 508-476-7220. New England Bloody Roots Festival. 148 Grove St. 508753-9543 or ﬁnd them on Facebook. The Pied Piper. $5. 2-3 p.m. Mount Wachusett Community College: Theatre, 444 Green St., Gardner. 978-632-2403 or theatre. mwcc.edu. Dale LePage and The Bobby Gadourty Trio. 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. An Evening with Lori Diamond and Fred Abatelli. $18 in advance, $20 day of show. 7:30-10 p.m. First Church of Christ Unitarian, 725 Main St., Lancaster. 978-365-2043 or wachusettmusic.com. Henri Smith with the Workingman’s Jazz Band. 8-11 p.m. Concord’s Colonial Inn, 48 Monument Square, Concord. 978-369-2373. Kitchen Musicians. Pass the hat. 8-10 p.m. Jak’s Pub, 536 Main St. 508-757-5257. American Hellbilly. $8. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or ﬁnd them on Facebook. Live Music. 8 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Black Sheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8484. Chris Reddy Acoustic Loops from Hell. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Cigar Masters, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035. Industrial Sonic Echo. No charge. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Hotel Vernon - The Ship Room/Kelley Square Yacht Club, 1 Millbury St. Find them on Facebook. Live Bands. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Partner’s Pub, 970 South St., Fitchburg. 978-345-5051. Never in Vegas. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508-842-8420. Phoenix. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Beemer’s Pub, 114 River St., Fitchburg. 978-343-3148. The Great Escape. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Days End Tavern, 287 Main St., Oxford. 508-987-1006. The Silverbacks. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. Alive n Kickin. 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Jillian’s - Worcester, 315 Grove St. 508-793-0900. Kung Fu Grip. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Celtic Tavern, 45 Belmont St., Northborough. 508-366-6277. Little Big Wheel Rock n’ Soul. No cover charge. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Sahara Cafe & Restaurant, 143 Highland St. 508798-2181. Sugar & The Cane Breakers. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877.

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Ton of Blues. 2-8 p.m. Black Sheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8484. Hymn Festival. No charge. 4-5:30 p.m. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster St. 508-753-2989, ext. 14. Traditional Irish Seisiun. No charge. 4-8 p.m. Worcester Hibernian Cultural Centre, 19 Temple St. 508-792-3700. Big Jon Short. 5-8 p.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-7529439. The Blues Audience 20th Anniversary AllStar Review. $20 advance. $25 day of show. 6-11 p.m. Bull Run Restaurant, Sawtelle Room, 215 Great Road, Shirley. 978-425-4311 or tickets. bullrunrestaurant.com. 8-Band Punk bill. $8. 6:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888. The Toni Lynn Washington Band. $12.. 6:30-11 p.m. Leominster Elks Lodge 1237, 134 N. Main St., Leominster. 978263-7220 or dance2swing.com. Wortown Bombshells Burlesque with The Bobcat Orchestra. $15 Cover ($12 with Halloween Costume). 7 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030. Stephen Stills. $45. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St., Boston. 800-745-3000 Piano Night. No cover charge. 8-11:30 p.m. Mixers Cocktail Lounge, 105 Water St. 508-762-9499. DJ White Boi. 10 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Mixers Cocktail Lounge, 105 Water St. 508-762-9499. Reggae Fusion Sundays with DJ Nick. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Fusion, 109 Water St. 508-756-2100.

>Monday 24 Driftin’ Sam Politz. 7 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

>Tuesday 25 Ken Lelen. No charge. 2-3 p.m. Briarwood Continuing Care Retirement Community: Birches Auditorium, 65 Briarwood Circle. 508-852-9007 or briarwoodretirement.com. Pop Team Trivia. 7:30-11 p.m. Black Sheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8484. Totally Tuesdazed. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543. T.J. Peavey. Pass the hat. 8-10 p.m. Jak’s Pub, 536 Main St. 508-757-5257. Terry Brennan. 8 p.m.- 12 a.m. Banner Pub, The, 112 Green St. 508-755-0879 or terrybmusic.com. American Songbook Singalong with Bobby Gadoury.. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508753-4030.

>Wednesday 26 Patty Keough. Pass the hat. 8-10 p.m. Jak’s Pub, 536 Main St. 508-757-5257.

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from her book, “The Linen Man & Other Poems”. No charge. 3-4 a.m. Express Yourself Gifts & Baskets, 245 Main St., Oxford. 508-987-9875. Barnes & Noble Poetry Reading. No charge and open to the public. 7-9 p.m. Barnes & Noble Booksellers - MA/Worcester, In the stacks, 541 D Lincoln St. 508-479-7574 or wcpa. homestead.com.

>Sunday 23 The Poets’ Asylum. 7-10 p.m. WCUW 91.3 FM - Worcester’s Community Radio Station, 910 Main St. 508-753-1012.

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7:30-10 p.m. Worcester Hibernian Cultural Centre, 19 Temple St. 508-523-3773. The Nightmare Before Halloween. - Sundays, Fridays, Saturdays, Friday, October 21 - Sunday, October 30. Oct 21, 22, 28, & 29 at 7p.m. and Oct 23 & 30 at 3p.m. $5. 3-5 p.m., 7 p.m.-9 p.m. Milford Performing Arts Center, 150 Main St., Milford. 508473-1684 or visit milfordpac.org.

dance >Thursday 20 Ballroom Dance Int/Adv Bolero. No partner required. $10.00 drop in. $50 monthly membership includes all classes. 7-8 p.m. Poise Style & Motion Ballroom Studio, 97 Webster St. 508752-4910 or psmdance.com.

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Open Mike Comedy - Saturdays, Saturday, July 24 - Sunday, November 11. 7-9 p.m. 3-G’s Sports Bar, The Music Room, 152 Millbury St. Call 508-754-3516. Wisecracks Comedy Club @ Jose Murphy’s Saturdays, Saturday, October 8 - Saturday, December 17. $12. 8-10 p.m. Jose’ Murphy’s, 2nd Floor, 97-103 Water St. Call 508792-0900 or visit wisecrackscomedyclub.com. “My Strange Addiction” Casting - Thursday, October 13 Friday, December 16. 312-467-8660. The Curious Savage - Fridays, Saturdays, Friday, October 14 - Saturday, October 22. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Southgate Retirement Community, 30 Julio Drive, Shrewsbury. 508-842-0867. A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill Fridays, Saturdays, Friday, October 14 - Saturday, October 22. $15. 8-10 p.m. Alternatives Unlimited, Inc. & Whitin Mill Complex, Singh Performance Center, 50 Douglas Road, Whitinsville. 774-262-5675 or visit alternativesnet.org. On Golden Pond - Sundays, Sunday, October 16 - Sunday, October 23. $15 per person, $12 for Students/Seniors. 2-4:30 p.m. Calliope Productions Inc, 150 Main St., Boylston. 508-8696887 or visit calliopeproductions.org/ongoldenpond.php. Dom Irrera - Friday, October 21. $32. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St., Boston. 800-745-3000. Pilgrim Soul Productions Presents “The Cripple of Inishmaan” - Fridays, Saturdays, Friday, October 21 - Saturday, October 22. Individual tickets are $15. Groups of 10+ $12..

Costumed Dance Lounge Halloween Party. American Ballroom & Latin Dance Studio, Maironis Park , 52 South Quinsigamond Ave., Shrewsbury. 508-925-4537 or americanballroomlatin.com. Ballroom Dance All Levels Cha Cha. $10.00pp. $50 monthly membership includes all classes. 7:15-8 p.m. Poise Style & Motion Ballroom Studio, 97 Webster St. 508-752-4910 or psmdance.com.

>Saturday 22 Ballroom Dance Beginner Waltz. $10.00 drop in. $50 monthly membership includes all classes. 11 a.m.-noon. Poise Style & Motion Ballroom Studio, 97 Webster St. 508-752-4910 or psmdance.com.

>Monday 24 Ballroom Dance Beginner Tango/Cha Cha. $10.00 drop in. $50 monthly membership includes all classes. 7-8 p.m. Poise Style & Motion Ballroom Studio, 97 Webster St. 508-752-4910 or psmdance.com. Ballroom Dance advanced Viennese Waltz. No partner required. $10.00 drop in. $50 monthly membership includes all classes. 8-9 p.m. Poise Style & Motion Ballroom Studio, 97 Webster St. 508-752-4910 or psmdance.com.

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>Wednesday 26 Aqua Zumba. 10/26/11 5:30 to 6:30 PM. Swim Cap & Bathing Suit Required. 5:30-6:30 p.m. YWCA of Central Massachusetts, Pool, 1 Salem Square. 508-767-2505, ext. 3017 or ywcacentralmass.org..

class/ workshop >Thursday 20 Healthy Cooking: Heart-Healthy Desserts. $45. 10:30

a.m.-noon Culinary Underground School for Home Cooks, 21 Turnpike Road, Southborough. 508-904-6589. Fall Soups with Clarke Corporate Chef Regina Dvorak. Registration required by phone or online. $70 per person. 5:30-8:30 p.m. The Clarke Culinary Center, 393 Fortune Blvd., Milford. 800-842-5275, ext. 206 or clarkeculinarycenter.com. American Retro: Desserts. $75. 6:30-9 p.m. Culinary Underground School for Home Cooks, 21 Turnpike Road, Southborough. 508-904-6589. Adult Enrichment Series on Eastern Catholic Tradition - Presentation 1 of 3. 7-8:15 p.m. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 256 Hamilton St. 508-752-4174 or melkite. org/p-worce.html. Zumba with Sculpting with Nina Cerviatti. $70/ 8 week session. 6-7 p.m. Mountview Middle School, United States, 270 Shrewsbury St., Holden. 508-829-0263. Business Planning. $550. Partial scholarships and payment plans are available for those who qualify. 6-9 p.m. Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) Central Massachusetts, 2nd Floor, 50 Elm St. 508-363-2300 or cweonline.org.

>Friday 21 Frame Drum Workshop. 6-9 p.m. Generations Healing Center, 250 Main St., Oxford. 508-987-3310. The Red Maple Inn Cooking School with Chef Shari Alexander. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Red Maple Inn, 217 Main St., Spencer. 508-885-9205.

>Saturday 22 Beadmaking Tune-Up. $80. New Street Glass Studio, 35B New St. 508-753-8183. Angel Readings. $35. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Generations Healing Center, 250 Main St., Oxford. 508-987-3310. Paranormal 101. 1-3 p.m. Worcester Historical Museum, 30 Elm St. 508-753-8278 or worcesterhistory.org. Simple Molds for Simple Forms. Student Fee: $45 Materials Fee: $15. 1-4 p.m. Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183 or worcestercraftcenter.org. A Mediumship Experience with Diane Lewis. $50. 1-3 p.m. Groundings, 7 Main St., Florence. 617-645-6415 or dianelewis.us.com/mediumevents.html. Sculptural Lampworking with Wes Fleming. $425. The Sprinkler Factory, Something Phishy Studio, 2nd ﬂoor, 38 Harlow St.

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>Sunday 23 Flextime - Independent Study. $199. Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183.

>Monday 24 J. Fitzgerald “Movement Makes Sense” Workshop. No charge. 6-7:30 p.m. Worcester Family Partnership at Mill Swan School, 337 Mill St. 508-799-3136. Independent Study in Glassblowing. Student Fee: $450. New Street Glass Studio, 35B New St. 508-753-8183. Belly Dance Class for Beginners. $100. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Salsa Storm Dance Studio, small studio at the back, 9 Harrison St. 508-579-7776. Independent Explorations in Jewelry. Student Fee: $199 Studio Fee: $15 (Required). 6:30-9:30 p.m. Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183. Belly Dance Class for Beginners – Level II. $100. 8-9 p.m. Salsa Storm Dance Studio, small studio at back, 9 Harrison St. 508-579-7776.

>Tuesday 25 Suzanne’s Autumn Soup Workshop. $75. 6:30-9 p.m. Culinary Underground School for Home Cooks, 21 Turnpike Road, Southborough. 508-904-6589. Making Better Pictures. Student Fee: $199 Studio Fee: $15 (Required). 3-6 p.m. Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183 Cutting and Setting Stones. Student Fee: $199. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road. 508-7538183. Introduction to Handbuilding. Student Fee: $199. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183. Introduction to Woodturning - Part II. Student Fee: $199 Materials Fee: $70 (Required). 6:30-9:30 p.m. Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183. Progression: Disk beads to Hollow Beads to Vessels. $240. 6:30-9:30 p.m. New Street Glass Studio, 35B New St. 508-753-8183. Wheel I - Introduction To Wheelthrowing. $199. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183.

>Wednesday 26 Lunch and Learn: Funding Your Business. $15 per session. noon-1:30 p.m. Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) Central Massachusetts, 2nd Floor, 50 Elm St. 508-363-2300 or cweonline.org/content/view/693. Energy Balance and Weight Control. $12. 6-7 p.m. Generations Healing Center, 250 Main St., Oxford. 508-987-3310. Yoga by Nature - Fall Session 1, Class 5. 6-7:15 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-8696111, ext. 124. Enameling. Studio Fee: $199 Firing Fee: $15. 1-4 p.m. Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183 Glassblowing I. $450. 6:30-9:30 p.m. New Street Glass Studio, 35B New St. 508-753-8183. Jewelry I - Introduction to Metals. Student Fee: $199 Studio Fee: $15 (Required). 6:30-9:30 p.m. Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183. Wheel II - How to Make Better Pots. $199. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road. 508-7538183.

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Fall Worcester Home Show. Hundreds of companies presenting all kinds of product’s, services and ideas for inside

and outside your home. Exhibit Hall Hours: Friday: 5PM-9PM Saturday: 10AM-6PM Sunday: 11AM-5PM For more information visit worcestershows.com All information subject to change. All tickets subject to applicable handling, convenience and facility fees. Adults: $6; Children & Seniors: 1/2 Price. DCU Center- Arena and Convention Center, Exhibit Hall, 50 Foster St. 508-755-6800 or worcestershows.com.

>Saturday 22 Annual Church Mouse Fair. Crafts, Attic Treasures, Jewelry, Books, Toys, Baked Goods. Proceeds provide monthly dinners at “Mustard Seed” and “Dismas Farm”. 9 a.m.-noon St. Francis Episcopal Church, 70 Highland St., Holden. 508-829-3344. Craft Fair. Free. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Immaculate Conception Parish, 353 Grove St., Worcester. Upton Woman’s Club Fall Fair. Free. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School, Cafeteria, 65 Pleasant St., Upton. 508-529-7758. Zion Annual Fall Fair. $20-$50 per space; plus $15 table rental Crafts, baked goods, used clothing, toys, holiday gifts, 2nd time-around items, cafe with breakfast and lunch/dinner items 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Zion Lutheran Church-Worcester, 41 Whitmarsh Ave. 508-854-1438.

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fundraisers >Thursday 20 Metro West Humane Society Wine Tasting. MetroWest Humane Society Wine Tasting Event to beneﬁt animals $20. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Julio’s Liquors, 140 Turnpike Road, Westborough. 508-366-1942.

>Saturday 22 Halloween Relay to benefit American Cancer Society. Come enjoy the Halloween Relay to benefit the Fitchburg State University Relay for Life Team, with proceeds supporting the American Cancer Society. There will be contests, games, and fun for all ages, including face-painting, fortune-telling, games and raffles, a bake sale, rummage sale and more. Walkers may register for $5, or may walk for free to show their support. Costumes are encouraged. $5. noon-8 p.m. Coolidge Park, John Fitch Highway and Pearl St., Fitchburg. 978-665-3312.

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>Monday 24 Itsy Bitsy Yoga® for tots and moms. Itsy Bitsy Yoga® Open to the public (6 week session) at the YWCA 1 Salem Square (Across from the Worcester Library’s parking lot). $90 for nonmembers $63 for YWCA member (with annual $40 membership) $54 for Fitness members Pre-register 508-767-25-05 ext 3017. Itsy Bitsy Yoga for Tots is a supportive, fun-loving, and active yoga class for children 9-24 months. As tot’s mobility increases, classes offer tot-centric poses that encourage and support their physical explorations. Tots become more conﬁdent in their moving bodies as they practice yoga both in and out of class. Parents also get to do a little yoga, but no yoga experience is required. 9:30-10:30 a.m. YWCA of Central Massachusetts, 1 Salem Square. ywcacentralmass.org.

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2008 Suzuki GSX 650/K8. All black with silver and red trim. Less than 850 miles. Cover, new battery, and lock. $5500.00 508-7926080

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1999 Jaguar Vanden Plas Mint cond. Garaged. 120k mi. One owner. Tan w/ivory int. $6000.00 firm. Call for appt. 508-829-9701

1999 Wilderness 28’ Single slide 5th wheel travel trailer. Rear kitchen. Queen bed. Sleeps 6. Awning. 1 owner. Exc. cond. Asking $6695.00 508-886-8820 Patriots Tailgate RV 1989 Coachman 57k orig. miles. Good tires, runs well. Painted logos. Perfect for season ticket holders. $3500.00. 508-723-6258

Auto/Motorcycle 2008 Honda Metropolitan Scooter Black and gray. Mint cond. 469 miles. Asking $1650.00. Includes helmet. 207-289-9362 OR 207-4501492.

Autos 1975 Mercedes-Benz 450SL Maroon with black interior, hard & soft tops. Excellent condition. $9,995 508-7690619

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2006 Chevrolet Aveo LT 5sp. trans. 4 dr hatchback. Fully loaded. Cruise, sunroof, pwr windows, pwr locks, cd player, rare spoiler, alloy wheels. Low miles, 35k. $7,500.00 978-5346727 2006 Nissan Altima Sedan, special edition, low mileage. Silver ext/Black int $14,000 or BO. 508-826-0197

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2011 Chevrolet Malibu Low mileage. Never seen winter. Many options. Factory coverage. Must sell. $17,900.00 OR B/O 508-769-4546 Mercury Grand Marquis LS 2003 Silver, leather, 77k miles. Exc. cond. In/Out. Nonsmoking, well maintained. Recent tires/ brakes. $6800.00 508-7574753

2008 Fleetwood Niagara Pop-up camp, exc cond, 2 kings, flush toilet, shower, 3way fridge, stove, micro. Pop out din area to bed. 508 -395-1558 $12,500. Motor Home. 1997 Fourwinds 5000 Good cond, low miles, kept inside winters. Sleeps 6, AC, awning, recent brakes. Asking $13,500.00. 508-989-4558

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LEGALS/PUBLIC NOTICES Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Worcester Probate and Family Court 225 Main St. Worcester, MA 01608 Docket No. WO11P3056PM CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF CONSERVATOR OR OTHER PROTECTIVE ORDER PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 190B §5-304 & §5-405 In the matter of: Charles Hazelwood RESPONDENT (Person to be Protected/Minor) Of: Worcester, MA To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Patricia Creen of Worcester, MA, in the above captioned matter alleging that Charles Hazelwood is in need of a Conservator or other protective order and requesting that David Milewski of North Adams, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Conservator to serve Without Personal Surety on the bond. The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is disabled, that a protective order or appointment of a Conservator is necessary, and that the proposed conservator is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court. You have the right to object to this proceeding If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 11/01/2011. This day in NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the abovenamed person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, Hon. Denise L. Meagher, First Justice of this Court. Date: October 04, 2011 Stephen G. Abraham Register of Probate 10/21/2011

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Worcester Probate and Family Court 225 Main St. Worcester, MA 01608 Docket No. WO11P1579GD CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN FOR INCAPACITATED PERSON PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 190B §5-304 In the matter of: Ashley Robinson RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person Of: Worcester, MA To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Dept. of Developmental Services of Shrewsbury, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Ashley Robinson is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Victor Sloan Esquire of UXBRIDGE, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve Without Surety on the bond. The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, and that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority. You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 11/15/2011. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or ﬁnancial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, Hon. Denise L. Meagher, First Justice of this Court. Date: May 12, 2011 Stephen G. Abraham Register of Probate 10/20/2011

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTATOR Docket No. WO11P3175EA Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Worcester Probate and Family Court 225 Main Street Worcester, MA 01608 (508)831-2200 In the Estate of: Devon B Jarvis Late of: Uxbridge, MA 01569 Date of Death: 10/24/2010 to all persons interested in the above captioned estate, a petition has been presented requesting that Michelle Jarvis of Auburn, MA or some other suitable person be appointed administrator of said estate to serve Without Personal Surety IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT: Worcester ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 11/08/2011. WITNESS, Hon. Denise L Meagher, First Justice of this Court. Date: October 14, 2011 Stephen G Abraham Register of Probate 10/20/2011

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Notice is hereby given that the Sutton Board of Selectmen will hold a Public Hearing to discuss the Towns options under MGL Chapter 61A § 14, Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 at 7:00p.m. The meeting will be held in the Sutton Town Hall regarding Chapter 61A property located at 169 Eightlots Road, Assessors Map 28, Parcel 3, This meeting will be held on the 3rd ﬂoor of the Sutton Municipal Center, 4 Uxbridge Road, Sutton MA 01590 Any citizen interested is invited to attend this public hearing. 10/20/2011

TOWN OF SUTTON ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS TO ALL INTERESTED INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF SUTTON In accordance with the provisions of M.G.L. Ch. 40A, §11, the Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at the Sutton Town Hall, on November 3, 2011 at 7:30pm on the petition of Glen Engstrand for a Finding from MGL ch.40A §6. The property that is the subject of this petition is located at 4 Cole Avenue, Sutton MA on Assessors Map #16, Parcel #’s 123. The property is located in the R-1 Zoning District. A copy of the petition may be inspected during normal ofﬁce hours in the Town Clerk’s Ofﬁce located in the Town Hall. Any person interested or wishing to be heard on this variance petition should appear at the time and place designated. Richard Deschenes Board of Appeals Clerk 10/20 & 10/27/2011

TOWN OF MILLBURY PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Millbury Planning Board In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 16 of Millbury General Bylaws, the Millbury Planning Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, November 14, 2011 at 7:30 p.m., at the Municipal Office Building, 127 Elm Street, Millbury, MA, on the application of Treeline Construction, Inc., property located at 130 Westborough Street, Millbury, MA, for a PostConstruction Stormwater Management Permit under Section 16.3 of the Millbury General Bylaw. Plan is available for inspection in the Planning Department during normal business hours. Anyone wishing to be heard on this application should appear at the time and place designated above. Richard Gosselin Chairman 10/20 & 10/27/2011

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LEGALS/PUBLIC NOTICES Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Worcester Probate and Family Court 225 Main St. Worcester, MA 01608 Docket No. WO11P3068GD CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN FOR INCAPACITATED PERSON PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 190B §5-304 In the matter of: Ellen Kuniholm RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person Of: Worcester, MA To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Faith Bandama of Worcester, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Ellen Kuniholm is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Some Suitable Person be appointed as Guardian to serve Without Surety on the bond. The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, and that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority. You have the right to object to this proceeding If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 11/01/2011. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the abovenamed person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, Hon. Denise L. Meagher, First Justice of this Court. Date: October 04, 2011 Stephen G. Abraham Register of Probate 10/20/2011

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Worcester Probate and Family Court 225 Main St. Worcester, MA 01608 Docket No. WO11P3069PM CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF CONSERVATOR OR OTHER PROTECTIVE ORDER PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 190B §5-304 & §5-405 In the matter of: Ellen Kuniholm RESPONDENT (Person to be Protected/Minor) Of: Worcester, MA To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Faith Bandama of Worcester, MA, in the above captioned matter alleging that Ellen Kuniholm is in need of a Conservator or other protective order and requesting that Some Suitable Person be appointed as Conservator to serve Without Surety on the bond. The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is disabled, that a protective order or appointment of a Conservator is necessary, and that the proposed conservator is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court. You have the right to object to this proceeding If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 11/01/2011. This day in NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the abovenamed person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, Hon. Denise L. Meagher, First Justice of this Court. Date: October 04, 2011 Stephen G. Abraham Register of Probate 10/21/2011

MILLBURY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INVITATION FOR BIDS HEATING, VENTILATION, AIR CONDITIONING (HVAC) SERVICES The Millbury Public Schools is accepting bids for Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning (HVAC) Services at Millbury Jr./Sr. High School (12 Martin Street), Elmwood Street School (40 Elmwood Street) and Shaw Elementary School (58 Elmwood Street), Millbury, MA for a period starting January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012. Copies of the bid documents may be obtained from the Superintendent’s Office, c/o Business Manager, 12 Martin Street, Millbury, MA 01527 during regular business hours of Monday through Friday 8:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Telephone number 508-865-9501. Work under this contract requires a contractor to furnish all labor, materials, tools, equipment and supervision necessary to accomplish the work described herein, accordance with all specifications and requirements. All bids are subject to the provisions of M.G.L. Chapter 149. Wages are subject to minimum wage rates determined by the Massachusetts Dept. of Labor and Industries pursuant to M.G.L. Chapter 149, Section 26 and 27. All bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked Bid No. 0186-1206 and “Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning (HVAC) Services” and delivered to the Superintendent’s Office. Bids shall be accepted until 2:00 P.M. on Monday, November 14, 2011 at which time they will be publicly opened and read. No bid shall be accepted or allowed to be altered after the time and date specified. Bids received after the deadline will be returned unopened. The Superintendent reserves the right to reject any and all bids, wholly or in part, and to accept bids deemed to be in the best interest of the Millbury Public Schools. 10/20 & 10/27/2011

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Worcester Probate and Family Court 225 Main St. Worcester, MA 01608 Docket No. WO11P2640GD CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN FOR INCAPACITATED PERSON PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 190B §5-304 In the matter of: Ella Nicholson RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person Of: Worcester, MA To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Saint Francis Home of Worcester, MA in the above captioned matter alleging the Ella Nicholson is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Anita Palmaccio Esq. of Lancaster, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve Without Surety on the bond. The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, and that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority. You have the right to object to this proceeding If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. On the return date of 11/01/2011. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, Hon. Denise L. Meagher, First Justice of this Court. Date: October 06, 2011 Stephen G. Abraham Register of Probate 10/20/2011

THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS LAND COURT DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT (SEAL) 2011 MISC. 452950 ORDER OF NOTICE To:Daniel M. Deyoung Jr.;Jennifer P. Deyoung and to all persons entitled to the benefit of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, 50 U.S.C. App.§ 501 et seq.: Bank of America, N.A.claiming to have an interest in a Mortgage covering real property in 33 Pleasant Street, Sutton given by Daniel M. Deyoung Jr. and Jennifer P. Deyoung to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., dated April 5, 2006, and recorded with the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds at Book 38736, Page 109 and now held by the plaintiff by assignment has/have filed with this court a complaint for determination of Defendant’s/Defendants’ Servicemembers status. If you now are, or recently have been, in the active military service of the UnitedStates of America, then you may be entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil ReliefAct. If you object to a foreclosure of the abovementioned property on that basis, then you or your attorney must file a written appearance and answer in this court at Three Pemberton Square, Boston, MA 02108 on or before NOV 21 2011 or you will be forever barred from claiming that you are entitled to the benefits of said Act. Witness, KARYN F. SCHEIER Chief Justice of this Court on OCT 06 2011 Attest: Deborah J. Patterson Recorder 200807-0808-BLU 10-20-2011

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Between attending medical school at Cornell and circumnavigating Ireland in a sailboat, Doctor Robert Quinlan, 67 years young, has certainly been to many parts of the world. But Worcester may be most dear for the local resident, who currently serves as director of the Comprehensive Breast Center at UMass Memorial. Quinlan’s contributions to the center have been instrumental in cancer research and treating patients. This week – smack in the middle of Breast Cancer Awareness month – the seasoned surgeon took a breather from his busy schedule to share his experience with us. to care for these families. Health care has grown to be big business, yet hopefully there are enough caregivers involved at the UMass Memorial Medical Center to keep our hearts and minds aligned.

What is a ‘normal’ day at the center like? I am usually somewhere at the med center 12 hours a day either in the office seeing breast-cancer patients, patients with breast complaints, and some thyroid patients three days per week. Two other days and a part of one of the office days are spent in the operating rooms at either the memorial campus or the university campus.

Do you think being a male medical professional within a female-focused disease affects the relationship you have with your patients? I hope not. I believe most people and all women are not that superficial. I believe they want the best qualified person regardless of gender.

How did you come to specialize in breast-cancer surgery? Mentorship played a large role. My hero during residency was perhaps the busiest cancer surgeon at the Brigham, Dr. Richard Wilson. Despite how busy he was, he could always squeeze someone in. He took care of “one patient at a time.” Breast cancer was a challenge for him. He had to use a multimodality approach dealing with medical and radiation oncologists in a field previously controlled by the cancer surgeon. Dr. Wilson’s success at bringing that together despite big Harvard egos in all participants including him was something I wanted to be involved in. Medicine wasn’t a business then and it has never become one for me. I still hear Dr. Wilson

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speaking of the importance of caring for one patient at a time.

How long have you worked at UMass Memorial Medical Center? What draws you to the facility? I started at Memorial Hospital as their first full-time chief of surgery (necessary because of joint surgical residency with the University) in 1980, at age 36! I have enjoyed the people of central Massachusetts. They were very much like those I met in Watertown where I was raised. My father had a small printing business and my mother was a stay-at-home mom. I realize that can’t be done in this day for reasons both economic and social, yet the ethic of working hard moms and dads is very much alive in central Mass. It is extremely rewarding

Of course, medicine is an ever-changing ﬁeld. How has breast-cancer research changed during your profession? We have become focused now at the molecular level looking at the processes of breast cancer rather than just peering through a microscope at the cells of breast cancer.

In the last decade, how has breast cancer evolved? Because of this molecular research we have refined drug treatment in breast cancer to a more targeted approach. Even surgery and radiation is joining in by making their interventions more targeted and less radical.

What goals do you have for breast cancer research? At the Comprehensive Breast Cancer Center of UMass, our scientists are looking for molecular targets in one of the more aggressive breast cancers, the so called “triple negative” breast cancer that lacks three of the commonly treated molecular targets and at the same time studying why some of the targetable tumors become resistant. As surgeons, we are interested in finding better ways to tell whether there are any cancer cells left behind in the breast which leads to a second operation to get a better margin around the tumor. A new effort using reflected light being developed in our labs and in those of UMass–Lowell might hold promise in that area. It is currently being used in brain cancer and certain skin cancer surgery at the MGH. Finally, UMass Memorial Medical Center received one of five $500,000 grants to study the use of CT scanning in breast cancer. If successful, this technology will be truly be 3D and far less uncomfortable at the same radiation dosage as the closest technology, tomosynthesis, which is really like two-and-one-half D and not 3D. We have raised more than $500,000 to build a prototype machine to be used in patient centered trials beginning in 2012.

Which aspect of your profession do you ﬁnd most fulﬁlling? My life is blessed by my patients, made exciting by the minds of our researchers, and given hope by the work, minds and hearts of our young residents and students.

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