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hen I first pitched writing a cover story on unresolved murders to my editor, part of an ongoing series we will continue online, I was excited to learn about intriguing murder stories and hear of fascinating detective work done to try and catch the perpetrators. What I didn’t think of was the heartbreak and sorrow I would hear from family members. The slow, grinding, often dull and monotonous work the detectives do, the reality that not every case can be solved, and the pain some family members will experience reconciling that.

Often times as a reporter, you are forced to cover and do things you don’t want to.

You’ll write a story and think, “Nobody cares about this.” This story is unlike those.

The family members who lost loved ones appreciate any help they can get in getting their story out to the public, in hopes of maybe one person coming forward with new information. I was surprised to learn, as the Worcester Police detectives I spoke with told me, that every time a story like this runs, they get new information.

I wrote this story to shed light on what it is exactly a detective does when working on an unresolved homicide, and to share some cases currently being worked on. It is my hopes that with this story, new information may come forth.

- Tom Matthews, reporter

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In Worcester, paid parking can be for suckers

TOM QUINN

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s anyone who spends time driving to downtown Worcester can attest, we are living in a golden age of cheesing the system by finding a broken meter and parking for free. That anecdotal evidence is borne out by a city strategy of investing only lightly in newer meters, with the intention of saving money when the next generation of parking technology inevitably reaches Central Mass.

“Right now, we average a fairly high number of broken meters,” Department of Public Works Commissioner Paul Moosey said. “... There could easily be 100 meters broken right now.”

Moosey’s estimate seems to be in line with anecdotal evidence. In a reporter’s recent walk around Main Street, in an area of side streets stretching from the Hanover Theatre to the Palladium, 34 of 89 non-electronic parking meters were broken, or 38 percent. Electronic meters, defined here as those that accept credit cards and were generally installed fairly recently, were doing much better, with none observed to be broken.

The problem, at its core, is Worcester’s parking meter crop is so old it can’t easily be repaired, even if the city did want invest more money in fixing meters.

“A lot of our old meters from 30, 40 years ago are not serviceable anymore,” Moosey said. “You can’t find the parts.”

That’s not to say the city is doing nothing to fix broken meters. Worcester recently

invested in 250 new meters, visible in some spots downtown and in the Canal District.

Those are working fine, and as a bonus, Moosey said his staff can “cannibalize” the replaced meters for parts to fix some of the older stock.

But that investment is the exception to the rule. While newer parking meters have a digital interface and can accept plastic payment, even now they are being eclipsed by newer parking technology. Moosey said parking experts are looking toward transponder-based parking systems, which would use the same technology seen on the Mass Pike to track cars at parking meters and in lots. The technology is already in use in other cities across the country, and Moosey said as soon as the price drops to a Worcester-reasonable rate he wants to upgrade the older meters straight to that system, rather than investing too much money in an intermediate step.

“The technology is changing very fast,” Moosey said. “I’m hoping that five years from now, the whole system, we can start investing in the next generation … I don’t want to make a big investment in technology today when I

Above, the stump of a parking meter on Pearl Street. Left, broken parking meters on Chatham Street, where seven of the eight meters are out of service. see the next generation coming in five years.”

Not all technology is good technology, though. Moosey said he doesn’t see the cost-benefit trade-off of “smart meters” like the ones on Front Street – which use touchscreens, sensors and cameras – working out for Worcester.

“Frankly, those are a free trial from the manufacturer,” Moosey said. “But I don’t see

Total for this week:

A weekly quality of life check-in of Worcester

Many gather for 32nd annual community breakfast honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at Quinsigamond Community College. +2

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Animal cruelty cannot be tolerated, but the demise of the Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Circus is sad, nonetheless. -3

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute among the Bay State schools to anchor the nation’s first manufacturing innovation institute in manufacturing robotics in the northeast. +1

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WOO-TOWN INDE X “Monster Trucks” the movie opens, while monster trucks rip and roar through the DCU Center for Monster Jam. Heard the movie was lame, but the show was cool. +1

how the economics of those would work.”

That’s the key part of any parking equation – cost. It would be great to fix every broken meter in the city and to upgrade the grid to use transponder technology now, but everything costs money, and Worcester’s “quite low” parking charges, according to Moosey, can’t cover the bill yet.

The New England Patriots fight their way into the AFC Championship, which no doubt will glue Worcester fans to their TVs Sunday night as they take on the Pittsburgh Steelers. +3

Tet in Worcester celebrates the Vietnamese Lunar New Year at the DCU in grand style. +2

A meat cleaver attack injures two in Worcester.

Yes, a meat cleaver.

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There’s something about seeing people skate on frozen ponds that is so New England.

Elm Park and other spots offer up chilly fun. +1

City officials: No red flags with tourism bureau Tom Quinn

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iscover Central Massachusetts, a tourism agency run out of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, will not be the subject of a proposed audit that was termed a “witch hunt” by City Council members who praised the job the organization has done in bringing visitors to the city.

Discover Central Massachusetts, which was alternately referred to by councilors as the Worcester Regional Tourism and Visitors Corporation (its official name) and Destination Worcester (a Chamber forerunner), is a nonprofit organization that aims to increase tourism revenue in Worcester and the surrounding region. The agency was formed in 2015, replacing the Central Massachusetts Convention and Visitors Bureau as the official regional tourism office for the Worcester area.

It receives funding from the state of Massachusetts and the city of Worcester in addition to private funding from area businesses.

At-Large Councilor Mike Gaffney said his goal in originally requesting an audit of the Chamber of Commerce, and this week in shifting his focus to two requests amounting to greater separation between the Chamber and DCM, was not to prove the tourism agency was unsuccessful. Rather, he said he was concerned at the financial arrangement of routing city grant money through the Chamber, which is active in lobbying efforts and politics.

“No problem with giving the money, just give it [directly] to the organization,” Gaffney said. “Why are we doing this passthrough?”

Currently, the city grants the Chamber $500,000 annually, and the Chamber “sub-grants” the money to DCM. The tourism agency is housed in the Chamber offices on Main Street, payment for which is spelled out in the grant agreement with the city. The president of DCM, Christina Andreoli, is also the executive vice president of the Chamber. All of those things were red flags for Gaffney, who read the definition of “kickback” on the Council floor and alleged poor past judgment on behalf of Chamber President and CEO Tim Murray and General Counsel Stu Loosemore.

“It seems inappropriate that an organization we’re sending

money to has, for a subset, has to pay that money back,” Gaffney said.

The city’s grant agreement allows DCM to pay the Chamber $40,000 for overhead costs, although City Manager Ed Augustus Jr., who started the city’s relationship with DCM, said the Chamber was only collecting $5,000 of that amount. And the reaction from most of Gaffney’s colleagues was that the financial setup – and the half-million grant in general – was inconsequential next to the good DCM was doing for the region.

“When you look at all that’s done from Discover Central Mass, I don’t really care where they put their head down.

I don’t really care where they have their office,” District 1 Councilor Tony Economou said, citing a formula developed by a Holy Cross professor that estimated $10 million in financial gain from DCM’s efforts. “It makes sense to me that it be at the Chamber, because that’s where a lot of companies, when they’re coming to the city, that’s one of their first points of contact, and it makes sense. They’re right down the hall.”

At-Large Councilor Moe Bergman was even more direct with his opposition to the order, saying the city was getting “bogged down” with issues of personality more than substance. When asked for their expert opinion, City Auditor Robert Stearns said “nothing stood out” in terms of red flags that would warrant an audit, and City Solicitor David Moore said nothing caused him “legal concerns” when he reviewed the paperwork, even though Gaffney had mentioned concerns over losing state funding for the agency over what he said were expenditures forbidden by the state, paid for using city money.

A handful of business owners and DCM board members spoke at the meeting about the value of the program. Andreoli had also spoken with Gaffney on the phone – where the councilor “determined” she was also a Chamber employee, he said – and one week prior, when the item was first scheduled to be on the agenda before being postponed, she had sent a letter to the Council containing an explanation of DCM’s financial setup and a copy of an independent auditor’s report for the organization.

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Although colleagues were generally dismissive of most of Gaffney’s complaints, one in particular was received somewhat favorably. DCM markets and promotes 35 cities and towns in the region, and District 3 Councilor George Russell said he agreed the city should look into how much financial support other municipalities were giving to the agency. But he was also clear that, despite being the subject of a “hit piece” from the Chamber a few weeks ago – a political statement derided by most of the Council at the time and brought up again this week, he did not think Worcester residents were as concerned with accounting minutiae as they were with results.

“The folks in my district didn’t send me here to pick fights with organizations on the floor of this Council,” Russell said. “They sent me here to make sure the money was being wisely spent, to make sure their tax money is being spent as frugally as possible, they sent me here to create jobs … this organization, from what I can see from a distance, is doing all of that.”

There was no vote on the item following a series of parliamentary motions followed by Moore telling the Council they did not have the authority to edit the contract, as the city’s charter gives the city manager sole authority over binding contracts. Gaffney did mention he talked to state Rep. Kate Campanale about the Legislature’s Ways and Means committee becoming involved.

Reporter Tom Quinn can be reached at 508-749-3166 x324 or tquinn@worcestermagazine.com with story ideas, feedback, or questions. Follow him on Twitter @bytomquinn.

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every parking meter sports a yellow sticker declaring a 30-minute maximum stay, Moosey “On-street parking is relied upon by said his department’s parking enforcement is commercial businesses, by three-decker neighborhoods. So it’s important we maintain usually more generous than that.

“What we would do is wait until – if it was on-street parking. But it has to be a happy medium,” Moosey said, also citing factors such as snow plowing and pedestrian concerns. “... We have to maintain our buildings and our meters and keep up with technology, but we also have to keep it affordable.”

The declining investment in the city’s parking meters is also evident in the yearly budget appropriations.

In fiscal 2015, Worcester spent $128,000 on parking meters, in line with prior years. Fiscal 2016 was a different story, thought, with just over $60,000 spent.

The estimate for Above, a map showing where broken meters are located fiscal 2017 is just above $50,000. Since downtown. the city funds the a two hour [maximum] meter, two hours – program – and all of its off-street parking – the meter would have expired and we would with that revenue, declining income means ticket,” Moosey said. “So they would have declining funds for maintenance.

And every broken meter, of course, reduces gotten a ticket anyway.” the amount of revenue the city brings in from the meter program while increasing the Reporter Tom Quinn can be reached theoretical maintenance cost. at 508-749-3166 x324 or tquinn@ But for a city populace still ensconced in worcestermagazine.com with story ideas, the Spag’s mentality, the only thing most people will care about is if they can get away feedback, or questions. Follow him on Twitter @bytomquinn. with making use of the free parking. While

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WORCESTER BUILDING SPOTLIGHTED: The federal

Departments of Energy and Housing and Urban Development were in Worcester last week to laud Canterbury Towers, an affordable apartment building off North Main Street. The government has been running something called the Better Buildings Challenge, which aims to increase energy efficiency and cut waste in buildings across the country. Worcester is home to the first “showcase project” visited in Massachusetts, as Corcoran Management Company managed to cut energy use by 30 percent – and is saving $50,000 annually on energy costs, a fact that will not go unnoticed by other businesses who may not care at all about the environment, but are very much into saving green. Some of Canterbury’s success was in training residents in common sense energy-saving tips, while another part came from upgraded windows and other amenities – things the Better Building Challenge helps with by pooling knowledge from other showcase projects and providing expert consultation. And the government is hoping word of the program spreads beyond Worcester. “Our partners really value, as human beings, being able to showcase their good work … so they can solidify the commitment within their organization,” HUD spokesperson Julia Hustwit said. “It’s amazing what a little attention will do for keeping this work a priority.” Well, apologies for the short space, but any energy efficiency changes can only be a good thing. Higher energy costs get passed on to reenters, and higher energy use gets passed on to our grandchildren.

STILL A DEAD END: It won’t escape the notice of longtime Worcesterites that our article in this week’s issue about how broken Worcester’s parking meter system is does not even begin to cover how to park for free in the city. There are a ton of un-metered

spots and well-hidden roads people can use to park for free without taking advantage of a broken meter. So yes, if you’re used to parking downtown, you probably already knew where to park for free. But maybe someone else didn’t, because unless you work there, who is visiting Main Street Worcester?

Hopefully, the city’s plan to revitalize the area succeeds – and hopefully we can all find a way to enjoy it without being literally nickel and dimed.

WORCESTER INAUGURATION:

Donald Trump will take the oath of office for President of the United States on Jan. 20. But TMZ, of all the fake news outlets, reported this week that Trump actually already signed the oath – right here in Worcester. Back in primary season, when Trump visited the DCU Center, a supporter apparently printed out the full text of the presidential oath of office and had Trump sign, long before he was the Republican nominee, let alone the national winner. The fake document was put up for sale via an auction house, although it didn’t appear to be visible as of press time. Already sold or withdrawn by the seller? Either way, sad!

WORCPRAVDA: COW – that’s the City of Worcester, for the un-hip – has launched a newsletter of sorts. “Inside City Hall: Your News from the Heart of the Commonwealth” sent out its first issue last week. As to be expected, it’s just another day in paradise. “Worcester Gets to Work,” “Open for Business!” and “Main Street Project: The Grand Daddy of them all!” are a few of the headlines. Be careful reading, it’s so sweet I think I got a cavity.

RINGLING NOS: Worcester will play host to one of the last shows for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus, after owners of the self-proclaimed “Greatest Show on Earth” announced the closure of the touring event effective May 2017. The circus, which had been popular in America since the 19th century, had been criticized and protested by animal rights groups for its use of trained animals, especially elephants. Worcester debated a ban on exotic animals for entertainment purposes in 2014, and while it ultimately failed, the circus stopped using elephants in their shows last year. Worcester was the penultimate stop for the animals – fitting, since the combined efforts of the Heart of the Commonwealth and other cities were a contributing factor to the decision to send the elephants off to a preserve. “Part of the 8

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{ worcesteria } decision to transition the elephants off the circus to the [preservation] center was because of some of the legislation that was debated in Worcester,” a circus spokesperson told Worcester Magazine last year. But, as the Associated Press noted, it turns out people aren’t as interested in the circus without the elephants, and shifting public interest led to the cancellation of the whole kit and caboodle. The circus will begin its stay at the DCU Center on April 14, and the circus will cease to exist one month later.

ENFORCEMENT, NEAT: Heads up to local bars and liquor stores – the Worcester Police Department will be “enhancing its efforts” to stop the sale of alcohol to minors by establishing “a number of programs” over the next year. So now we know what the WPD’s New Year’s Resolution is. In Worcester, a city with nine colleges, and therefore, a large population of underage people trying to tie one on, alcohol enforcement is always going to be a problem, both for businesses and law enforcement. Some of the programs include compliance stings and surveillance, according to a WPD press release. But that leads to the main question – why is the WPD warning these people ahead of time that they should be on their best behavior? Shouldn’t alcohol establishments just not serve underage patrons year-round?

BRAIN ON HOLIDAY: I’m not a marketing expert, but I did feel sorry for a Holiday Inn Express

last night. The commercials are pretty famous – an ordinary citizen displays skill in some complicated or revered field, at which point they say that they’re not a surgeon or a carpenter or a tambourine player or whatever, “but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.” Well, the general manager of the aforementioned hotel on Summer Street very nearly worked a great marketing ploy into a short speech in front of the City Council this week. “I’m not a resident of Worcester, but I do manage the Holiday Inn Express in Worcester,” Peter D’Angelo said. C’mon, Peter, you couldn’t have tweaked the four words that would have brought down the house (and would have still been accurate)? D’Angelo went on to talk how great Worcester and Discover Central Massachusetts are, and something about synergy.

BETTER THINGS TO DO: Last week, we mentioned City Auditor Robert Stearns seems to spend a lot of time waiting for the City Council, and that “nobody has it worse” in terms of departments sitting through Council meetings for no reason. “Hold my beer,” said the Division of Public Health this week, as they sent what looked like their entire top echelon of leadership minus a designated survivor to a Council meeting that featured about an hour of tourism talk, half an hour of the usual fluff and precisely zero questions for anyone from DPH. There were two health-related grant items postponed last week, both by At-Large Councilor Mike Gaffney – one related to accepting a grant for homeless outreach and one accepting a grant for substance abuse. Apparently, a report from the city settled any questions about the programs.

I’m not exactly sure from whom, but it seems like there could have been a phone call involved somewhere in this process to keep the taxpayer-funded employees’ trips to meaningless City Hall meetings at a minimum.

OR BING IT: Just to clarify, as this might not have been clear in our news section article about Discover Central Massachusetts – At-Large Councilor Mike Gaffney at one point said he “determined” that Discover Central Massachusetts president Christina Andreoli – although he never referred to her by name – was also an employee of the Chamber of Commerce.

He determined this, by his telling, while questioning her over the phone about her voicemail message. Never mind that Andreoli’s is the second head shot listed on the Chamber of Commerce website, or that her role as a dual Chamber-DCM employee was heavily covered by local press around the time it started. I know, fake news, sad, whatever. But it doesn’t change the fact that I’ve called truckers knowing more about their background than a Worcester city councilor knows about the architect of a program he spent quite a bit of time lecturing the rest of the Council about. Last week I plugged the virtues of Wikipedia – this week it’s Google (google.com) that I highly recommend to everyone. By the way, Andreoli was none too happy with Gaffney’s speech, which you can read about in our news section. I determined that by looking at her expression while she sat in the gallery.

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GOOD FOOD NEWS: Looking for another sign that Worcester is becoming a foodie mecca (besides all the restaurants, I mean)? Reserve, a “hospitality technology” company that makes an app and table management software, is moving into Worcester. The reservation app is currently live in eight cities, according to a spokesperson, including New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Hey, it’s better company than Worcester usually gets when we get put on lists. You can use that Google thing everyone loves so much to look up what restaurants have signed on when it goes live, and this isn’t an advertisement for any particular service over another, but suffice it to say that if you’ve reached the critical mass of restaurants to get on a list with some of the most well-known restaurant destinations in the world, your business community is doing something right.

Reporter Tom Quinn can be reached at 508-749-3166 x324 or tquinn@worcestermagazine.com with story ideas, feedback, or questions. Follow him on Twitter @bytomquinn.

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Editorial A bittersweet end to circus dreams

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young boy or girl, still free of the invasive nature of reality, clings to fantastical notions. They believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.

They see magic where adults see corporate greed. They “ooh” and “ahh” to the majestic allure of elephants as they parade around the circus arena, tail to trunk. The lions and tigers elicit excited shouts.

Young kids don’t see the other side. They don’t know that some of those animals are mistreated. They don’t know that groups like PETA have made it their life’s work to shut down any practice it deems unsafe for animals.

They don’t think of the cages in which the circus animals are transported.

Even when they are taken behind the scenes, as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has taken to in recent years during its stops in cities and towns across the country, they don’t necessarily think of whether the animals are miserable in their trappings. Seeing an elephant up close and personal, or a tiger, or a lion is enough to capture their young minds.

For years, the circus has served as a vessel to tap into the imagination of all, but particularly children. Here in Worcester, where inner-city kids likely wouldn’t set eyes on a live elephant otherwise, it has proven a special draw.

But modern times have given way to different thinking, as well as more attention to the less glamorous side of the circus. And as more and more public attention has been trained on the ethical treatment of animals – and as children find other ways to engage their fantasies – the circus has become increasingly less relevant.

So it is that Feld Entertainment, the owner of Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey, has announced it is closing the curtain for good after 146 years.

Worcester will be among its last stops in April. It will, of course, be a trimmed down affair, because the entertainment group had already eliminated elephants from its shows as so many complaints piled up about how the animals were being treated. That move did not help attendance.

It would seem selfish and shortsighted to suggest all that matters is keeping families entertained. The wellbeing of the animals at the center of that entertainment must matter, too.

Maybe PETA is right. Maybe the animals have been whipped, beaten, shocked and caged into submission. Certainly, that isn’t the image the circus puts on display when it welcomes families backstage to watch the animals as they are fed. Nothing appears inherently nefarious when trainers place dozens of heads of lettuce at the feet of giant elephants and step away as the leafy greens disappear in mere minutes.

It bears noting that PETA may not be all that it professes to be. There are reports of thousands of cats and dogs killed at its Norfolk, Virginia shelter, with PETA claiming those pets are the sickest of the lot. Maybe, maybe not. Just as the circus is not going to show any public mistreatment of its animals, neither is PETA going to reveal anything that might reveal any hypocrisy in its mission.

One point often made by circus backers is the animals are well-cared for and tended to, where they might fall prey to predators in the wild. Promoters have insisted the animals are fed well, cared for and treated as part of the family. They would not, of course, say otherwise.

A change in the entertainment consumption of families has led to declining attendance at the circus, which meant it was living on borrowed time as the years rolled on and revenue continued to dip. The outcry over the treatment of its animals only hastened its demise.

The DCU Center probably will not be packed to the brim when the circus returns one last time in April. If, however, you want to relive the magic of youth with your kids, it is the last chance you will have. The elephants won’t be there, but the big top will be up for a final trip back to a time when innocence – or ignorance, depending on your point of view – framed the circus as a spectacle to be taken in with wide-eyed amazement.

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Send in the clowns

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adies and Gentlemen! Step right up to the greatest show on earth! Well, maybe not the greatest. Maybe, just the weirdest. Or scariest. Definitely not the greatest. Whatever. But you’re gonna love it! You’ll see.

Or not.

It seems only fitting that the week of the presidential inauguration, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus announced that, after 146 years of terrifying kids with clowns and beating elephants into submission, the show must not go on. Kenneth Feld, chief cook and bottle washer for Feld Entertainment, owners of the circus since 1967, has pulled up the stakes on the traveling creep show, making millions of animal lovers very happy.

Declining sales made the move inevitable, especially since Feld and family were forced to retire the elephant acts. Public outcry put a stop to the cruel business of forcing animals to perform. Imagine that. People saw an outrage and fought it until the outrage was vanquished.

Go figure.

Lest the Feld family lose their shirts in the closing, a tent sale would help them pay off debts. I’m pretty sure Donald Trump’s cabinet picks can all fit in the clown car.

They arrived in one, I believe; seems only fitting that they should leave in one. The gallons of makeup used by the clowns won’t go to waste, providing they have something in an apricot glaze. Kellyanne Conway can probably find some use for the fright wigs.

It was P.T. Barnum who said that there’s a sucker born every minute, and truer words were never spoken. How ironic that the week when Barnum’s baby blows town, America will watch a ringmaster take the oath of the presidency of the United States. I’d like to say that I’m going to tune in, but I think I have a toilet to scrub.

I’m not alone in finding something else to do besides witnessing what will be the most baffling moment in U.S. history since Dan Quayle added an “e” to “p-o-t-a-t-o,” and lost the spelling bee. It helps that there’s no cable access where I work, so at home I’ll simply avoid the umpteen repeats by watching “The Andy Griffith Show”

reruns until the impeachment proceedings begin.

Facebook posters have a few ideas regarding the swearing-in. I polled FB earlier this week with this question: “Will you watch the inauguration? Will you protest it in some way, big or small?”

“I will not be watching. I will be joining the women’s march in Boston,” says Jim Voyiatzis.

Ditto for one of the coordinators of Worcester’s wildly successful stART festival, Christina Roberts.

Voyiatzis added that Trump might be content with the title of “President of TV Land,” and that we should consider “throwing him a bone.” This echoes the opinion of many who believe poor ratings will bother the insecure, thin-skinned Trump more than protesters.

I’m hoping it’s a windy, rain-soaked day in D.C.; that hair of his will cause Trump unending worry. The unfortunate make-up artist responsible for that orange glow will have to use shellac to keep it from running in a downpour.

Mark Hebert suggested leaving the TV on, but not tuned into a news channel.

“Not sure it’s true, but if you want to keep ratings down, leave it on a cooking channel. Nothing hits home more than low ratings.”

Linda Orcutt posted: “We know what his priorities are.

I am saving my black pants and top for Friday; I hope many others will dress alike.”

I’m liking this suggestion. And black is slimming, so it’s a win-win.

Ed Cogan was honest about the lure: “I think many more will be watching than we care to admit. Who doesn’t like a **it show? I will resist it, but I can’t make any guarantees.”

Sorta like the train wreck you can’t turn away from, right, Ed? Ringling Bros. may be a thing of the past, but the political circus will go on, despite our dismay. The ringmaster will stand with his little hand on a bible and swear to uphold a Constitution he’s wholly unfamiliar with. For myriad citizens horrified by the reality of a Trump presidency, this is the elephant act that should fold its tent.

Good things happen amid the bad To the Editor: With many of the things that are going on in the world, it can be difficult to read or watch the news. Here’s a story I’m hoping will brighten your readers’ day.

I work at Behavioral Concepts Inc. in Worcester. We’re a company of behavioral clinicians, and we specialize in the treatment of children with autism. Two of my clients (ages 4 and 5) and their family recently found themselves in desperate circumstances, losing their entire home and all their possessions. When the mother called to let me know the girls would not be coming to BCI that day, I

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broke down in tears.

My office mate heard and asked what was wrong.

After I explained, she wanted to know if there was anything she could do. She suggested putting out a

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BirchTree Bread signals Worcester’s move to future Paul Cooney

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wo years ago today I stepped foot into the Crompton Loomworks building for the first time as a resident of Worcester. I was going to check out this new bread company I had heard so much about.

My wife and I had just arrived home not even one month earlier from Chicago, where hip, neighborhood and coffee were woven into our DNA. Coming home we knew this could be a change we weren’t sure how we could cope with.

Still, I had heard about Worcester’s growing food scene and even experienced it a bit myself, having hosted an earlier birthday at Armsby Abbey shortly after it opened.

I drove to the Canal District an, area I had become increasingly familiar with through my interactions with then-president John Giangregorio. I was excited for the neighborhood’s success in no small part because they had built on the history embedded in the bricks and blocks.

This neighborhood was where Worcester and the Industrial Revolution would turn

company-wide e-mail to see if anybody else wanted to help. I went to BCI’s owner, Dr. Jeffrey Robinson, to ask if I could send out an e-mail. After writing a check to help the family out with groceries and other essentials, he said it would be fine to send out an e-mail.

So I did, and the response was overwhelming.

Within hours of sending out the e-mail, my co-workers stepped forward with clothes for the girls, gift cards, cash, Christmas presents, food, you name it. After a few days, I had to send out a second e-mail thanking my co-workers for their generosity and requesting they hold off on further gifts; the hotel room the family was staying in didn’t have the space for all the food, clothes, gifts, etc. It was just like the last scene in “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

As a result of the family’s situation, the girls are receiving all their ABA sessions at BCI until they are situated in a new home.

For me, seeing them is a daily reminder of the incredible generosity of Dr. Robinson and my co-workers.

Yes, there are some bad things going on in the world. But acts of kindness and generosity, like those shown by my coworkers, happen much more than you think.

In 2017, let’s share the good stories. They really aren’t that hard to find.

Happy New Year!

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America from fledgling experiment in democracy to sure fire stable, distinct entity.

I parked my car and walked in. It was big. The exposed wooden beams caught my attention immediately. I walked down a tight corridor lined with neat pictures – of the past and the Canal District’s renderings for the future. I breathed in the history. I walked past a hip, urban barber shop. I saw a number of young Hispanic males playing music and cutting hair. Their store was bright, fun and inviting.

I eventually reached the door to BirchTree Bread, my senses excited from what I had just experienced, primed with excitement and anticipation for what I had heard so much about.

I opened the door. What awaited me was something I wasn’t prepared for. This. This was what I had been looking for.

A large, inviting, wooden, well-lit, highceiling, coffee/sandwich lounge.

It was as if Chicago had sent my wife and me a warm gift to wish us well on our new adventure.

I went to the counter excited and blurry

with emotional and sensory overload and set out to find something to order. I eventually settled on the grilled cheese. I paid and took my seat right near the window, directly across from Table Talk Pies and the very present experience of the Canal District of my youth.

That blended together with what I was now experiencing.

When the food came out, what greeted my daughter and me was a soup that added color to the cold winter day and a grilled cheese the

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Wants to see world-class music festival in Worcester To the Editor: Enjoyed your article on 17 things you’d like to see in Worcester in 2017 (Worcester Magazine, Jan. 12). What I would like to see would be the first annual Worcester World Music Festival.

I read somewhere that Worcester enjoys the largest and most diverse immigrant population in New England. Let’s celebrate diversity by hosting a world-class World Music Festival. I’ve enjoyed the multiple venues such as the Latin fest and the more recent Caribbean fest. Sorry that the New Orleans fest didn’t happen last year. Really sorry the really great local African orchestra, Crocodile River Music, didn’t perform at First night.

I’m also aware that there have been many performances around town that would qualify.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have multiple cultural influences mixing it up? Anybody else interested? If we build it they will come.

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likes of which I hadn’t seen before. The tastes.

Wow. That was what I wrote and shared on Facebook.

As I looked around I saw this squared-off area with a warm inviting rug. Moms and dads played with their kids there.

Still not having squared away employment myself, in the dead of winter with a little one I was now responsible for (full time), I

breathed a sigh of relief. While I would search for employment and plan my hopeful City Council run, I very much needed a place that would allow me to work, eat and entertain my daughter. I had just found it.

I also symbolically needed (and found) some proof of the “new” Worcester I hoped to usher in. It was truly a magical experience.

BirchTree Bread continues to wow and amaze. The Crompton Loomworks building continues to be a regional destination, drawing in visitors from all over New England. Seed to Stem, recently added, gives them yet another arrow in their quiver. We need to continue to support and protect this sort of organic growth.

One customer at a time, BirchTree Bread and its neighboring businesses change people’s minds and perceptions about Worcester, while bringing revenue and good vibes to our city.

Long live BirchTree Bread.

Paul Cooney is a Worcester native with a passion for business and urban development.

He spent five years in Chicago, and has traveled extensively through the Rust Belt over the past decade.

That’s What They Said “... There could easily be 100 meters broken right now.”

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“It cracks me up that the generation who raised millennials are typically the ones to complain about them the loudest. One of y’all came up with the idea for “participation trophies,” in between screwing over the economy and environment.”

- Erica Furse, commenting on a post on the Worcester Magazine Facebook page about a “brave space” being offered to students on the eve of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

“We know who’s responsible.”

- Andrew Wailgum, brother-in-law to Candace Scola, whose 2002 murder remains unsolved.

“They don’t recognize me until I smile.”

- Worcester Department of Public Works Commissioner Paul Moosey, on parking meters in the city.

- Entertainer John Davidson, who will perform at the Bull Run in Shirley Saturday, Jan. 21, on meeting fans.

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Tom Matthews (Editor’s Note: Worcester Magazine this week launches a new Unresolved Murders series in which reporter Tom Matthews delves into unresolved murders in the city and Worcester County. This story is an introduction to that series, which will continue online. In this initial installment, we cover how the police detectives and the district attorney go about working on unresolved cases. We also take a look at some of the cases investigators are currently working on.)

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{ coverstory } There are currently 67 unresolved murder cases and seven endangered or missing cases in Worcester right now. Some are highprofile, like the murder of Candace Scola. Others less so, like 82-year-old Guy Barnes, who died alone at his kitchen table, the victim of an apparent stabbing.

These and other cases have gone unsolved for years, frustrating friends and family members and challenging investigators to turn up new leads. It all happens through a combination of resources from different agencies. They are referred to as “unresolved homicides,” according to Worcester County District Attorney Joe Early, after the father of Molly Bish, a 16-year-old lifeguard from Warren who was kidnapped and later found dead, requested they not refer to his daughter’s and similar cases as “cold cases” because that terminology denotes the case is shoved away on a shelf somewhere collecting dust, not actively being pursued.

The WPD’s Unresolved Homicide Unit, consisting of detectives William Donovan and Dan Sullivan, is dedicated specifically to working on unresolved murder cases and endangered/missing people cases. Unlike their depiction on popular shows like “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “NCIS,” their jobs are a bit different than one might think.

Perhaps the biggest distinction between the TV world and reality is the time it takes to solve a case. Television shows make it appear a detective can solve a case within just a few days, but the reality is it can take up to 20 years or more before a case is solved - if it is solved at all.

“Well, the reality is it really takes a long time,” Sullivan said. “And a lot of resources have to be marshaled together. It’s pretty impressive when we ask for all the different agencies to cooperate, how much cooperation we get. We’ve had countless guys who’ve been retired for 25 plus years come back here and haven’t been in the building since the day

they left.”

In fact, said Early, when it comes to solving a murder, time is not always on the side of investigators, particularly at the outset. At the same time, as more time passes, it can help.

“Time at the beginning of those cases really is your enemy,” he said. “You want to get it done. You want to get where you want to get in the first 24 or 48 hours. But then, after a while, time can also become your friend because as more time goes on people who might have been protecting people, they’re no longer protecting people because someone died, a boyfriend or girlfriend relationship is no longer there, people want to get things off their chest and actually come in and talk to you about these cases.

“Or when you go out and talk to the witnesses, you realize that some evidence was overlooked or part of a conversation was not followed up on. Basically, it’s a lot of shoe leather and hard work, looking back into the file, and trying to resolve it.”

And while shows like “CSI” and “NCIS” show detectives working with extraordinarily impressive technology and scientific data, what real detectives are working with can be much less sumptuous.

“In a nutshell,” said Sullivan, “I would say that it’s a lot of old fashioned police work when it comes to these cases. We do a lot of interviews person to person, although we do use the internet to find you initially. It’s not all computer-generated animation and DNA and blood spats and that kind of stuff, although it’s good policing for now and stuff that happens in the office. These older cases are handled a little bit differently because not

every case has forensic evidence that you can these things.” use and apply new technologies.”

So, how do Sullivan and Donovan go about What detectives like Sullivan and Donovan doing their jobs when a case comes across have that their predecessors didn’t is DNA. their desk?

The hereditary material found in humans “We work the case like it just happened,” and almost all other organisms became part said Sullivan. of crime solving in 1985. The first person to The following are some of the unresolved be convicted as a result of DNA testing in cases being worked in Worcester and the U.S. was Tommie Lee Andrews, a Florida Worcester County. man convicted of rape. Since then, forensic evidence has helped solve countless cases, and will continue to do so.

Said Sullivan: “We were very fortunate that the guys that came before us, Lt. John McKiernan and his crew of guys back in the ’80s and ’90s, they had the forethought to at least think that technology was going to On the night of July 3, 2002 catch up, so they preserved a lot of stuff that Candace Scola was murdered if it wasn’t for their forward thinking, even in her kitchen at 3 Knox before the technology was really state of the art, that we have stuff that we never would St. in Worcester. She was have had it just been used in the regular found dead two days later, course of an investigation.”

July 5. The case is currently Another tool detectives before Sullivan and Donovan did not have is the internet. unresolved and there “We have a lot of police resources that are haven’t been any leads for available now in 2017 that didn’t exist to the quite some time. original investigators. It’s the internet,” said There has only been one suspect in the Sullivan. “Billy [Donovan] can find anybody, case, her estranged husband, Anthony J. anywhere. He puts a pretty comprehensive Scola, but a lack of evidence failed to link packet together of where you’ve been since PHOTO SUBMITTED the murder happened, and so when we go to meet these people, we have a good idea what they’ve been up to as well, both good and bad … The biggest technology we use is finding you.”

And with the modern world of technology today, perps can’t hide like they could in the years before computers and the internet.

“Everybody does leave a footprint somewhere or another within the computer system,” said Donovan. “There is a way to find them one way or another, even with the very littlest of information. There may be a guy trying to be off the grid. At some point or another, you get some sort of connection to him that’s there.”

While the detectives might use the internet and some technology to get their man, at the end of the day, the most helpful tool is talking to people.

“When it comes down to it, it’s all about speaking to people that were around at the time and getting information,” Donovan said. “And that’s one of the reasons we like him to the crime. Candace Scola and Anthony to do these interviews. We like to get some Scola had a shaky relationship leading up of these cases out there, and we’re looking until her death. Just five months before she for that person who has just that little bit of information that me way need to get over the was killed, she filed for divorce from her hump, and maybe they’ll come forward now.” husband. The two had restraining orders filed against one another.

In that regard, the media can play a Since Candace Scola worked for the positive role. Interviews with the press about unresolved homicides have yielded results for Worcester Juvenile Court and Anthony Scola was a former assistant district attorney, the the police before.

“We’ve been very fortunate that every time case was assigned to a special prosecutor who, unfortunately, died of cancer in 2008. there’s been light shined on an old case we The case was then assigned to Plymouth get phone calls and tips,” Sullivan said. “We have a text-a-tip phone line. We’ve been very County Assistant District Attorney Frank J. continued on page 15 fortunate that people have reached out after J A N U A R Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 7 • W O R C E S T E R M A G A Z I N E . C O M 13

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Middleton, but now rests under Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz.

“It’s not what you expect it to be,” said Catherine Wailgum, Candace Scola’s sister, of the investigation process. “It’s slow with the labs and the reports.”

“In terms of hearing from District Attorney Cruz’s office, we haven’t heard from them in we don’t know how long,” added Candace Scola’s brother-in-law, Andrew Wailgum.

According to the Plymouth District Attorney’s office, however, the case is still actively being pursued.

“The investigation into the 2002 homicide of Candace Scola remains very active and ongoing by this office and the Worcester police,” said Beth Stone of the Plymouth County District Attorney’s office.

“I think that they feel like they know who it is, but they can’t prove it, so there’s really nothing else to look at, unless somebody were to come forward,” said Catherine Wailgum.

DNA tests have been executed, but the results are complicated.

“He [Mr. Scola] admitted being there,” said Catherine Wailgum. “So, his DNA might have been up there, but I don’t know exactly what DNA they did or didn’t find.”

Andrew Wailgum said Anthony Scola had been living at the house on Knox Street at the

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“My understanding is that they were trying to find DNA mixed with her blood, because that couldn’t be explained away,” Andrew Wailgum said. “Whether it was his [Anthony Scola] or anyone else’s.”

Early reports referenced cuts on Mr. Scola’s hands; however, he insisted they were received by installing an air conditioner.

“We aren’t hanging our hopes on somebody being brought to justice,” said Andrew Wailgum. “It would be very nice and gratifying to see justice served, but it’s not going to give [Catherine Wailgum] any closure. She’s kind of made her peace already.

A trial would obviously focus on Candy.

“That’s the way the justice system is, unfortunately set up. It gives a lot of rights to the defendant, and not so much to the victim.

They had a tumultuous relationship. There were several interactions with the police for domestic violence, both having accusations against the other. So, only the stuff against Candy will come up because she’s dead and they’ll claim it’s prejudicial against [Anthony Scola] assuming he’s the one on trial. So, there’s a lot of stuff like that that you’ll have to suffer through, and then what if you went through a whole trial and all and that pain continued on page 17

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and angst and then there’s no conviction?”

“We know who’s responsible,” Andrew Wailgum said.

TRAVIS MONROE

On Oct. 1, 2006 17-yearold Travis Monroe was found dead in the road near PHOTO SUBMITTED

Christi Berry and Curtis Monroe hold Travis’ middle school diploma. At left, Berry holds a young Travis Monroe.

Gunnarson Road and Fales Street. How he died remains a mystery.

“Upon listening to the police reports there were two young men that claimed to have killed Travis,” his mother, Christi Berry, said.

Travis Monroe had an altercation with one of those men earlier in the evening he was killed, after one of them called him a racial slur, Berry said, adding there was no charge after the police determined the men were just bragging.

“We know when they knocked on the door they [the police] thought Travis was thrown out of a moving vehicle,” Berry said. “Now I couldn’t wrap my head around how a child would just let somebody open a door and throw them out. So, of course my thinking is you would have to be impaired, hurt, and injured.”

Monroe’s autopsy revealed no drugs or alcohol in his system. The medical examiner, Dr. Elizabeth Bundock, said in the police report he had marks on his back that were “consistent with that of a motor vehicle

strike.” She said Monroe’s injuries were the result of one impact, not multiple like an assault would sustain.

Berry, however, contends “the amount of trauma to his head is not consistent with just one hit.”

She won’t accept this was just a hit and run.

“There’s still rumors that he was assaulted,” she said, “that he was running to get away.”

A few days after Monroe was found dead, classmates and friends started leaving pictures and candles by the corner where Travis was found dead. One of the items left by the scene was a poem written by a classmate.

The poem, “That Fateful Night (in loving memory of Travis Monroe we miss you),” which Berry provided to Worcester Magazine, reads: “Laying on the ground, staring at the moon, Saying to himsef ‘god im coming to you soon” Help my parents get over this I know for a fact that guy didn’t miss I’m cold, sick, and in pain Because the guy who did this is insane

Forgive him, he doesn’t understand Because it was after a party for his band To tell the truth I was there too But I didn’t drink, I wouldn’t lie to you I was a good kid but I can’t be saved Never got into trouble, I was well behaved Don’t cry over me, I’m not worth it When you see the man in court don’t through a fit I try to move but can’t feel my arm What happened to my face filled with innocence and charm My life has just begun but it’s all gone now I wanna come back to life but I don’t kno how Over and over I replay my life But I can’t get older, have kids or a wife It was the end, hit by a drunk Driver No one can fix me not even Magiver

According to Berry, the boy who wrote the poem was brought into the police station and questioned, but insisted he wrote the poem two weeks prior to Travis’ death.

“What are you clairvoyant? Are you psychic?” Berry asked rhetorically.

“Me looking at him, he seems like a very wholesome kid,” she continued. “I think that he either heard something, saw something … I’ve begged that if he knows something, he needs to not live in fear and take his life back, because he’s the only one that can step forward and say exactly what happened because, again, this would be a fluke for him to be able to write something this specific to every one of my son’s injuries.”

Berry said she would be meeting with the DA soon to discuss the status of her son’s case.

“If they feel like it’s just a motor vehicle, statute of limitations is up,” she said. “It’s going to be completed and closed. I’m not happy with that. I still want to know what got him on that ground to begin with. What got all those other injuries to him? I’m not buying it was he just got hit by a car and that’s it.”

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information gathered in 2010 has caused the case to PHOTO COURTESY OF WPD

Barnes was stabbed in his chest and found dead at his kitchen table at 118 Norfolk St. Dec. 4, 1987.

Donovan referred to Barnes as a “true innocent. An 82-year-old guy just sitting at his kitchen table and he’s murdered.”

Sullivan and Donovan contend there is nothing in his past that could have invoked his murder.

“We’ve talked to a lot of the family, they live all over the state,” Sullivan said. “They’re older, obviously, but he had nothing in his background that would make it look like someone came to get him, specifically. He’d go for a walk everyday, and that was about it.

He just hung around the house.”

The detectives said forensic testing will start soon.

HELEN CHEVALIER

The 27-year-old was reported missing in late February 1994. One month later, on March 12, her body was discovered by a neighborhood youth at the rear of 34 Beacon St., after rain had melted away snow. The initial cause of death was classified as undetermined, but new

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He was found in the early morning hours outside of his apartment at 578 Millbury St., in between two threedeckers that no longer exist.

He was last seen leaving Madigan’s Again on Millbury Street the night before he was found dead.

“One of the things we found with this case,” Donovan said, “was that Martin had won some money the night before playing darts. It definitely appears that this was a robbery, as well as a murder. And some of the information that we’ve got throughout the last, say, six or seven years on this particular case, we definitely think that there were multiple assailants. It wasn’t just one person.

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be reclassified as a homicide.

Detective Sullivan described her as a 27-year-old mother of a couple young kids.

“She was discovered over on 34 Beacon St. by a young boy who was waiting to go to school,” Sullivan said. “Based on what we read weather report wise, that was a pretty rough winter, and there was a pretty substantial amount of snow on the ground.

So, it was almost like when the weather started to turn good, that the snow revealed her body.”

“She was a young woman that had everything in the world to live for, some young daughters, and she was taken away too young,” the detective added.

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Martin was 44 at the time of his death Dec. 28, 1995.

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now, but back in those days there were a lot of traveling dart leagues. So, one local tavern would play another one, and there would be five or six teams.

“So, this is the perfect example where potentially we might have persons of interest, and if we were able show people who have never seen any of those photographs, who might have been in that league, when they read the article, would be like, ‘Hey, I’ll look at the pictures, it may be someone I saw.’

That would be important to us because this dart league that we’re aware of had a lot of players. So, there were a lot of potential witnesses who might have just saw something that night and it just didn’t sit right with them, and if they see something they’ll be like, ‘Wow, I remember that.’”

If you have any information about any of these cases or any incident you can send an anonymous text to 274637 TIPWPD. Calls can be made to the Worcester Police Detective Bureau at 508-799-8651. You can find a list of those cases, short of five cases that still need to be uploaded to the page, according to Worcester Police Detective Dan Sullivan, on the city’s website under the Investigative Division within the police’s page.

Be sure to look for more from Worcester Magazine on unresolved murders online at worcestermagazine.com. If you are a friend or family member who wants to talk about a loved one whose murder case remains unsolved, you may talk with Tom Matthews at 508-749-3166, ext. 326.

It was multiple people out there at the time.”

“Madigan’s Again was the bar in which he was at and where he won the money, and we believe that the people came out of that bar,” he continued. “This is one of those historical things, obviously, it’s not as big as

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Joshua Lyford

Following the success of Old Sturbridge Village’s “Sleepy Hollow Experience” back in October and November last year, the living history museum in Sturbridge is continuing to roll out new interactive, immersive, theatrical programs.

This time around OSV is debuting “Midwinter Mischief,” an all-new storytelling experience that starts Saturday, Feb. 4 and Sunday, Feb. 5, and runs Fridays and Saturdays for the next two weekends after that.

“Coming off the heels of ‘Sleepy Hollow’ and doing work over the past year where we’ve been talking PHOTOS SUBMITT ED with our visitors and focus groups of people who have never been here before, there is piqued interest in taking our immersive experience to the next level,” said Darin Johnson, OSV’s senior strategist. “One of the things people are really interested in today is storytelling. Knowing information we got in a survey from our members and donors and visitors, and sitting down and doing focus groups last spring, we kept The Bar Patron PHOTO SUBMITTED hearing people wanted something more immersive. Adventure was another word that came out in those groups” That term, “adventure,” is a crucial piece of the “Midwinter Mischief” experience. It was conceived and directed by P.J. Griffith, who “Sleepy Hollow” attendees may remember as villain Brom Bones. Griffith grew up in South Windsor, Connecticut, just outside of Hartford.

“I’ve been going to Sturbridge forever,” said Griffith. “It’s a little strange, I was up doing “Sleepy Hollow” playing the bad guy. I was The Schoolmistress spending the days in the village. We’d have lunch and walk around a The Tinner few days a week. It hit me like lighting, imagining a curated experience in the village. I have a lot of immersive theatre in my background. How would it be to get a best of reel in Sturbridge? I curated an adventure through the village. Instead of wandering around, how do you distill a week’s worth of stories into one experience?”

P.J. Griffith While those in attendance during “Sleepy Hollow” will remember Griffith as Bones, Griffith’s theatrical roles include the Broadway production “American Idiot” as well as the groundbreaking off-Broadway “Sleep No More.”

“I love the idea of adventure theatre,” he said. “It’s somewhere between a theme park and a theater.

All the details are controlled, but it’s volatile and it changes. If you went a million times, it would be a million different experiences. It forces the performers to connect to the audience and the audience to do the same. It’s a whole different ritual.”

The experience takes place throughout the village, and has guests enjoying food at the Bullard Tavern, where they will meet a 19th-century Yankee peddler. The peddler spends all his money on ale and rum and is confronted on his debt. The peddler fills his cup with ashes from the tavern hearth, and assures the The Potter tavern owner that when he returns, it will be overflowing with gold. Guests will follow the mischievous The Printer’s Daughter peddler throughout the village as he works to keep his promise.

“You’ll meet the tavern keeper and his wife. There will be live music and historic demonstrations,” explained Johnson. “It’s going to become this lively tavern experience. The fires will be going, and then you get called when it’s time to go on your adventure, and your group will go out on this self guided experience that takes you through a series of scenarios that combines storytelling and our historic interpretation. It’s part storytelling, there’s a huge script, but there are also moments the script fades out and it becomes interpretation.”

Audience members will be expected to participate in the experience, which is part of the fun of immersive, adventure theatre.

The Blacksmith “It’s going to be a wild experience,” said Griffith. “It’s a lot different than ‘Sleepy Hollow,’ as far as what the audience does. The fourth wall is really shattered. People are really a part of the story, The Farmer’s Wife it should be exciting. [The audience] should be prepared to walk and possibly get their hands dirty.

It’s more adventure theatre than going to the movies. The audience members are given an identity.

They’re all characters that could exist in 1830 and be in this tavern.”

Griffith isn’t exaggerating when he says audience members may get their hands dirty - at least not by much.

“We’re putting a lot of faith in the audience,” he said. “There are moments when the audience is asked to get behind the potter’s wheel and throw clay. We’re pushing the audience outside of what most people are doing in theatre or at Old Sturbridge Village. They’re characters in the show. The audience is The Teamster a big player in it. Shattering that fourth wall and seeing how the audience reacts and how we keep that going.”

Tickets are available online at Osv.org, or can be purchased at the Old Sturbridge Village Visitor Center.

“Midwinter Mischief” will run Feb. 4-5, 11-12, 18-19. Adventures depart every 15 minutes, starting at 9:30 The Journeyman a.m., and the journey includes lunch at Bullard Tavern. The experience is an hour and 45 minutes long.

Reporter Joshua Lyford can be reached at 508-749-3166, ext. 325, or by email at Jlyford@worcestermagazine.com. Follow Josh on Twitter @Joshachusetts and on Instagram @Joshualyford.

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Joshua Lyford

The vibrant and complex culture of Northeast Brazil comes to life with “Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints at the Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road, exploring the African, European and Portuguese traditions in the area.

The exhibit, highlighting popular art in the Northeast of Brazil in the Krikorian Gallery, Jan. 28 through March 11. An opening day festival will be held Saturday, Jan. 28, 1-5 p.m.

“The exhibition is about popular art from the Northeast of Brazil. Brazil is a huge country, so this is focused on a specific part of it,” said Honee Hess, executive director of the Worcester Center for Crafts, holding a beautiful hand-crafted doll in her hands. “This is the art that ordinary people make. Someone would have just made this doll at home.”

Popular art is made by regular folks working within their communities. In the case of this exhibition, as the title may suggest, that includes poetry, religious objects, toys, paintings and more.

“This is much more regular folks who create in whatever time they have,” said Hess.

“There are prints, paintings, one of the pieces is a slave ship and it is the ship and all of these people on it. It’s part of telling the story, commemorating the past, looking toward the future. This isn’t somebody who went to art school or set out to be a crafts person. It was someone who felt that impulse in every day to express.”

From the early 1500s to the late 1800s, just under five million Africans were enslaved and brought to the region.

“What’s interesting is that this exhibition is in three parts,” said Hess. “The land and its people, which gives the context that this is an area that from the 15th to the 19th century, there was a huge number of Africans who were brought into the land as slaves. The culture they brought has really blended with the indigenous culture and the European/Portuguese culture. It now encompasses a lot of what many people see as the spirit of Brazil.”

The second part of the exhibition is expressions of faith and touches on how popular artists responded to the blending of Catholicism, indigenous religions and the religions that came with the African slaves.

“Religious expression lives within individual people,” said Hess. “I think each individual person in this area who might be Catholic, or a follower of Candomble, which is one of the blended religions, I don’t know what they believe or what they don’t believe.

But on the surface, when you visit Brazil, you

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J. Borges, O Monstro do Sertão (Monster of the Backlands), N.D., woodcut print, 27 x 19 inches, courtesy Con/Vida – Popular Arts of the Americas. © J. Borges. Image: Paul Primeau. see evidences of a little bit of everything. It’s interesting that carvings that relate to certain traditions, some of which are Roman Catholic, some are African-influenced, and some are part of that blended culture will be in that show.”

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poetry, celebration and song and “literatura de cordel,” or “literature on a string,” small chapbooks of poems crafted by hand and sold in area markets.

“This is the one I think probably expresses the largest theme of the exhibition,” explained Hess. “How ordinary people look to create

things to express, to commemorate, to express happiness or celebration, to be poetic, to talk about the good things or bad things in life. It’s an interesting mix of things from childhood toys made out of recycled metal to literature on a string.”

The topics touched on in the exhibition are vast, but Hess hopes Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints will inspire conversation around our own culture.

“One of the reasons I’m excited to do this show is that there are so many parallels to our own culture and to a lot of the questions that will be raised over the next several years over what is American culture,” she said. “If we look at this exhibit and see how dynamically different cultures blended together to create this exuberant self-expression, that really motivates me that we can have that conversation.”

In addition to the Festival Opening Day on Jan. 28 which will include Capoeira (Brazilian martial art that includes dance acrobatics and music) demonstrations, Brazilian and African music, food as well as tours of the exhibition, there will be four speakers throughout February. On Feb. 11, Holy Cross historian Thomas Doughton and Jean Borgatti, professor at the University of Benin in Nigeria, will discuss slavery in the Americas and Brazil’s artists of African descent. On Feb. 25, Worcester State professor Timothy Murphy will discuss the relationship between gender/sexuality and belonging among a Bohemian community in Brazil’s Northeast and Robert Green, a religious studies professor at Holy Cross, will discuss religious and cultural traditions creating Candomble in Brazil.

“What’s so interesting about these talks is using Brazil as a focus, reflecting on our own culture and where we are today with everything from race, to gender equality, to religious thought in our own country,” said Hess. “I think this will create a discussion, I think, about all of these things.”

Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints will be viewable in the Krikorian Gallery of the Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road, from Jan. 28 through March 11. The Festival Opening Day will take place Saturday, Jan. 28, 1-5 p.m. The program was funded in part by Mass Humanities and by the Olive I. and Anthony A. Borgatti Jr. Fund of the Greater Worcester Community Foundation.

You can find more information on Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints as well as all other Craft Center events online at Worcestercraftcenter.org.

Reporter Joshua Lyford can be reached at 508-749-3166, ext. 325, or by email at Jlyford@worcestermagazine.com. Follow Josh on Twitter @Joshachusetts and on Instagram @Joshualyford.

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The smile remains for entertainer John Davidson

John Davidson was at the Bull Run in Shirley, a little more than a week out from his first appearance there. A woman stopped him and asked, “Are you John Davidson?” “Yes, I am,” he replied. The once-dark shock of hair is now gray, but there is something still quite recognizable about the now-75-year-old entertainer.

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“They don’t recognize me until I smile,” a genial and conversational Davidson cracked during a phone interview with Worcester Magazine recently. “And then they usually say, ‘My mother used to love you.’ I say, ‘At least it’s not your grandmother.’”

The blue-eyed Davidson came off during a roughly 20-minute interview as unexpectedly funny, easygoing, self-deprecating and far removed from the Hollywood smugness that can grip so many other celebrities. The Massachusetts native lives far away from it, too, having moved back into New England, where he now resides in the Berkshires.

The father of three and grandfather of six will work the room at the Bull Run in Shirley Saturday, Jan. 21. He will interact with the crowd, joke, sing and, despite caring deeply about the political direction of the country, probably won’t venture too much into the election.

The longtime singer, actor and game show host is perhaps most widely known as host of “That’s Incredible!”, but he has also starred on TV (among other stints, he was a longtime guest host on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson”), in movies and has recorded 12 albums. A smile that revealed almost impossibly perfect white teeth, along with a disarming sense of humor, endeared Davidson to contestants and fans of the many game shows on which he appeared, including “Hollywood Squares” and “The $100,000 Pyramid.”

“Maybe I based a career on a smile,” Davidson joked. “Maybe it’s as stupid as that.”

The crowd at Bull Run can expect heavy doses of humor, a whole lot of positivity and songs from the ‘50s and ‘60s. There are a lot of covers, but Davidson has written his own songs as well. They reflect the songwriter himself, largely light and humorous in nature.

“I wrote this song, ‘I Still Want to be Your Superman,’” he said.

“I wrote about trying to get lucky with my wife. It was my second marriage. I had a training marriage. It’s all about keeping the magic alive, year after year.”

Davidson must be doing something right – he has been married 34 years.

Another song he wrote, “Fun to be a Liberal,” reflects Davidson’s politics, which veer well into progressive liberalism.

Don’t expect him to go heavy on the politics during his show, however.

“I used to do a lot of Trump jokes,” he said. “I think the joke is over. We’re getting serious here.”

Not that Davidson, self-described as “openly secular,” isn’t paying close attention.

“We have to all try to be positive and see where it’s going to go,” he said of a Trump presidency that, coincidentally, kicks off with an inauguration one day before Davidson plays at the Bull Run. “We have to make sure we don’t try to make America white again. I think the diversity is what makes the country great.”

His shows, however, are not about pushing a political agenda, even though he is passionate about it.

“Oh, I care a lot,”Davidson said. “You have to reign yourself in.

I’m an entertainer.”

His shows, he said, are not a place to preach. Instead, he aims to make people feel good.

“I guess my shows are about inspiring people to be open and love each other,” Davidson said. “My job is not to change people’s minds about politics.”

Ever the entertainer, he has been doing it much of his professional life, after being discovered by Bob Banner, the same man who discovered Carol Burnett. He became a fixture on the variety show circuit, where, he said, he took on the role of himself.

“A lot of actors would play different roles, but I thought about the role of John Davidson,” he said. “It helped me a lot.”

Perceived as a happy-golucky kind of guy, Davidson said he has played on that.

“People perceive me as being positive, funny and all that,” he said. “... I think it just works better. That’s the grease that makes everything work.

I studied a lot of performers, like Liberace. He was all about spreading love. Harry Belafonte was about being positive, inspiring. I think that’s what works.

“I’m a troubadour who wants to make people feel good, and make people discover something about themselves they didn’t know.”

You can feel the good vibes with Davidson Saturday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m., at the Bull Run, 215 Great Road Shirley. For more information and tickets, visit tickets. bullrunrestaurant.com.

Walter Bird Jr. is editor of Worcester Magazine.

He can be reached at 508-749-3166, ext. 322, or by email at wbird@ worcestermag.com.

You can follow him on Facebook at facebook. com/walterbirdjr and Twitter @walterbirdjr.

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Jackie’s dark days Jim Keogh

A few days after the assassination of her husband, Jacqueline Kennedy sits down for a magazine interview.

The purpose is unclear. Does she want to convince the world of his greatness? Most of the world already is aware. Does she want to bare her soul? Not publicly, as evidenced by her vigorous editing of the reporter’s notes while they’re still in his notebook.

No, it becomes apparent this extended conversation is simply a framing device leading us first into flashbacks of the fateful ride through Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963, and then into the grief and trauma that engulfed the First Lady, leaving her questioning her faith, her safety, the president’s legacy, and her own standing as a woman suddenly without power or influence.

It’s an intriguing approach that never quite pays off. “Jackie” is a stylized, yet tedious attempt to paint a psychological portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman) as she roams like a living ghost throughout the White House in the days after JFK’s murder.

Written by Noah Oppenheim and directed

by Pablo Larrain, the film weaves together recreations — most notably, and gruesomely, of the assassination — with dramatizations meant to capture the depth of Jackie’s shock and despair.

The first takeaway: The experience, as expected, staggered her. We see her peel off the famous pink outfit smeared with JFK’s blood and brain matter; struggle to be conversant with Lyndon and Ladybird Johnson as LBJ is about to be sworn in as president; spar with staffers over how her husband will be memorialized, and even find herself at odds with Robert Kennedy (Peter Sarsgaard), who swoops onto the scene in bristling alpha male mode, barking orders even at Johnson. (Sarsgaard looks nothing like RFK, but he has my enduring gratitude for not attempting, and hence mangling,

the Kennedy accent.) Several of these scenes are played like a modern-day horror story, complete with Mica Levi’s ponderous violin score, the kind that signals not only a mournful state of mind, but impending doom.

The second takeaway: Jackie is so concerned with mythmaking, that she summons the reporter (Billy Crudup, playing a facsimile of famed journalist Teddy White) to Hyannisport for a calculated exercise in myth-making.

Jackie — perhaps presaging her future career as a book editor — controls the messaging like a pro (“I don’t smoke,” she says, while puffing on a cigarette) and introduces the Camelot metaphor that would come to crystallize the president’s brief administration. These conversations veer from moving, to cynical, to aggravating — the reporter and First Lady share such a weak connection, even as human beings, they scarcely seem to occupy the same space.

Portman never meets the essential challenge of portraying Jackie Onassis, which is to put flesh on the bones of her breathy, mannered ethereality. The film periodically cuts to Jackie’s televised 1961 “tour” of the White House (recreated by Portman), which is meant to contrast her public placidness with the private torment we’ll later observe.

But as she drones on about the history of the Lincoln bedroom, the scenes simply confirm that Jackie’s privileged airs could border on the insufferable.

This is a strange little movie that’s not without its charms. I love when a wizened John Hurt shows up as Jackie’s priest and confidante to parry her questions about whether there is a God, and if there is one, how come he allowed a sniper’s bullet to find the president’s brain? Hurt should have been the one conducting that interview in Hyannisport.

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Unwind and wing it at Park Grill & Spirits Sandra Rain (Editor’s Note: This review was completed before new ownership took over Park Grill & Spirits. A new menu was set to be unveiled this week. Worcester Magazine plans to return soon to review the new offerings.)

I met two friends for dinner at Park Grill & Spirits on a recent Friday night. We entered the packed bar area in the midst of an impassioned folk performance, and found three seats in the corner.

“Nothing makes me hungrier than the Indigo Girls,” one of my companions said, a bit too loudly. The bartender paused from making a round of Grateful Deads to crack a smile; she promptly delivered three Be Hoppys

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($4.95 apiece) to our end of the bar and handed us a stack of menus.

We eyed the offerings for an appetizer to share, bypassing the aptly named “Burger Wedge,” a highly unoriginal dish in which Park Grill’s classic burger is cut into four pieces. We settled on “Worcester’s Best Chicken Wings” ($9.49) with the sort of obstinate tone in which one says, “We’ll just have to see about that.” Our bartender recommended Honey Sriracha sauce with sides of Ranch and Bleu Cheese. The wings arrived alongside a handful of Wet Naps and a pile of soggy celery, and they were Worcester’s best chicken wings. Meaty, flavorful, crispy outside, tender inside. I can’t say I’ve had better wings within city limits.

Shock and awe ensued.

When asked for three entrée recommendations, the bartender pointed us to the Jack Daniels Steak Tips ($17.99), the Pollo Inverno ($16.00), and the Scallops Fortunato ($18.00) without blinking an eye. We played Keno while we waited, debating the merits of making three versus four picks with such keen discussion that we missed our first game. The bartender scanned our cards and delivered $5 in winnings just as a runner dropped off our enormous plates of food. We quickly forgot

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the net loss and dug in.

The steak tips had been marinated with rosemary and garlic in a bourbon glaze, then char-grilled and tossed with sauteed onions and peppers, and served over rice pilaf.

Typically, I find that steak tips are at optimum tenderness when cooked to medium, but our request for medium rendered the meat welldone, dry and tough. The marinade, however, was exceptional.

The Pollo Inverno included two flattened chicken breasts resembling a Chicken Piccata.

The chicken had been pounded, breaded and tossed with pecans, then served over a squash

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risotto. The Scallops Fortunato had been browned with garlic and butter and drizzled with a balsamic reduction. The scallops tasted fresh, and I picked them out one by one from the immense pool of risotto that threatened to gobble them up. I would trade smaller portions and a better protein to starch ratio for slightly lower prices.

I peeked into the empty dining room, where a much more formal setup provided stark contrast to the standing-room only bar area and the booming comedy venue upstairs. I wondered if the tranquil space ever got much use. I returned to my spot at the bar, where an infomercial for Neti Pots had begun to play on the TV monitor. We asked for the check.

Park Grill & Spirits does chick rock and chicken wings better than anywhere else in Worcester. Service is both efficient and welcoming, a difficult balance that only the best bartenders get right. I would venture to visit again on a summer evening when the outdoor patio is open for business.

Our total came to $97.56.

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five courses paired with regional Spanish wines. Tickets are $75 each, and may be purchased at nichehospitality.com. The dinner starts at 7 p.m. And mark your calendars now for February’s Signature Wine Dinner, a Faustino vertical tasting. Tickets for that event are $95 each.

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KrafTea Kombucha, the result of a collaboration between Worcester-based brewer Matt Glidden and 3cross Brewing Company founder Dave Howland, has been accepted into Kombucha Brewers International.

Founded in 2015 and flavored with juices and other natural ingredients, KrafTea Kombucha is the only commercial kombucha brewer in Central Mass, and one of only two in the state. “I’m pleased and excited to join the international association and look forward to sharing knowledge, insights and experiences with the world community,” said Glidden. You can buy KrafTea Kombucha at 3cross Brewing Company, 26 Cambridge St.; Ed Hyder’s Mediterranean Marketplace, 408 Pleasant St., Worcester; The Living Earth, 232 Chandler St., Worcester; BirchTree Bread Company, 138 Green St., Worcester; and Mass Liquors, 392 Chandler St.,

Figs and Pigs owner Candace Murphy.

so happens to be the day after Tax Day, so FIGS, PIGS & MORE treat yourself). Also being offered are Old Figs & Pigs Kitchen + Pantry, 50 Foster St., at the Bay Housemade Chips and Stubborn Soda DCU Center, has a few cool things on the horizon. On Saturday, Jan. 21, the eatery hosts Classic Root Bear or Black Cherry. “The Philly Cheesesteak is an American favorite, just like a local artist who will talk about a Monet our much-loved offering of burgers, fries and exhibit at the Worcester Art Museum. That same shakes,” said John Eucalitto, day also marks the return of the Small Business president of Wayback Saturday Retail Pop-Up, featuring local vendors, artists and more. Figs & Pigs will serve brunch Burgers. “We are excited and Bloody Marys. On Sunday, Jan. 29, Giselle to bring this piece of Americana to Wayback Flores runs a Capturing with the Insiders Workshop.

Burgers restaurants Have fun and learn as photographers share their craft. You’ll register and network, before nationwide, along with our Old Bay House-Made Chips discussing four different topics. Participants Matt Glidden of will have the opportunity to snap professional and Stubborn Soda. We food photographs, use professional equipment think guests are going to KrafTea Kombucha love it.” and lighting and take a city tour for the city scape segment of the workshop. Bring your SIGNATURE cameras and Smartphones.

Wayback Burgers, with a restaurant in Worcester off Tobias Boland Way, is serving up a new Philly Cheesesteak through April 16 (which just

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The Test Kitchen, 30 Major Taylor Boulevard, Worcester, celebrates our friends to the north with some cold-weather pick-me-ups and chef-inspired dishes. The cocktail-style dinner starts at 7 p.m., and includes beer, wine and cocktails. Tickets are $110 each. Buy tickets at nichehospitality.com.

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Johnny Dollar Jazz Quartet. Free! 6:30-9:30 p.m. Basil n’ Spice, Thai Cuisine, 299 Shrewsbury S. 774-317-9986 or basilnspice.com Mauro DePasquale vocalist/pianist and guest. Worcester’s own pianist/vocalist Mauro DePasquale and guest offer a delicious blend of American song book favorites to relax with in fine style No Cover.

6:30-8:30 p.m. GAR Hall, Bull Mansion, 55 Pearl St. Open Mic Most Thursdays @ Barbers North. To check the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s “subject box”). To check the schedules and open slots visit Facebook.

Any slot marked as “open” usually is! Free! 6:30-9:30 p.m. Barbers Crossing (North), 175 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8438.

Josh Briggs. 7 p.m.-1 a.m. The Mill 185, 185 West Boylston St., West Boylston. 774-261-8585.

Open Mic. Attention Performers- Amateurs and Experts! Do you sing or play an instrument? Are you looking for a crowd that will appreciate your incredible sense of humor? Maybe you have some secret talent that you’re ready to share with the world (or at least your local coffee house).

Drop in for Open Mic! Full Sandwich Menu Desserts Coffee & Espresso BYOB beer & wine only $0. 7-10 p.m. Cake Shop Cafe, 22A West St., Millbury. 508-865-9866 or cakeshopcafe.com Open Mic @ The Blue Plate. Show off your musical talents, collaborate, or just listen to some cool tunes in a laid back atmosphere.

Most Thursday’s. PA provided. Free. 7-10 p.m. Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden. 508-829-4566.

Dan Cormier. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The GazBar Sports Grill, 1045 Central St., Leominster.

Jay Graham. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Square, Leominster. 978-534-5900.

John Brazile. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Quinn’s Irish Pub, 715 West Boylston St. 508-459-2025.

Open Mic hosted by Michael Rivelis. 8-11 p.m. Mr. Dooley’s Olde Irish Country Pub, 303 Shears St., Wrentham.

Peter HIFI Ward & electric blues. George Dellomo and Bob Berry join Peter Ward playing the blues and some country too. No cover.

8-10 p.m. Dunny’s Tavern, 291 East Main St., East Brookfield.

Sam James Performs at Loft, Thurs at 8. 8-11:59 p.m. Loft 266 Bar & Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 508-796-5177.

Audio Wasabi. 8:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122.

Chris Reddy. Acoustic Solo Set and more! $5. 9 p.m.-midnight Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or chrisreddy.com DJ/Karaoke. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. 774-823-3022.

Grade “A” Fancy. No Cover. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Karaoke. DJ Nancy, of Star Sound Entertainment. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club KasBar, 234 Southwest Cutoff. 508-798-8385.

Karaoke. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., Leominster.

978-537-7750.

Niki’s Fix. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508459-9035.

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Tony Soul Project at Coppertop Lounge at Wachusett Mtn. Come in and have some food, drink and the music of Tony Soul Project after a day of skiing Coppertop Lounge/Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, 499 Mountain Road, Princeton. 978-464-2300 or tsp2017.sambito.org Thank Friday it’s Nat 5:30, then Brooks Milgate 9pm.

No Cover. 5:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

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Hip Swayers Trio. Saturday brunch! 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Birchtree Bakery, 138 Green St. 774-243-6944.

Martin Gohary Ensemble. Martin Gohary Ensemble lays down the groove at Homefield Brewing for you on a Saturday night. Get your delicious beers and tunes with us. Expect to hear music from Al Green to Herbie Hancock. 6-9 p.m. Homefield Brewing, 3 Arnold Road, Fiskdale.

774-242-6365 or martingohary.com Open Mic. Open to musicians, poets, comedians or anyone with a talent! Hosted by Stephen Wright. 6-9 p.m. Nu Cafe, 335 Chandler St. 508-926-8800 or nucafe.com Bill McGoldrick Duo. Free! 6:30-9:30 p.m. Basil n’ Spice, Thai Cuisine, 299 Shrewsbury S. 774-317-9986 or basilnspice.com Jazzed Up Trio featuring Mauro DePasquale. Jazzed Up Trio featuring Mauro DePasquale playing “The Sweetest Music This Side Of Heaven”, a romantic blend of jazz classics and American Songbook Favorites. If you like Sinatra, Bennett, Connick Jr, Buble, you will love Jazzed Up! No Cover. 7-10 p.m. Fish, 29 South Bolton St., Marlborough.

508-460-3474.

Moondance - Van Morrison Tribute. Rock and roll doesn’t get any better than Van Morrison. Van the Man has done it all - from classic rockers like Brown Eyed Girl and Domino to legendary tunes like Tupelo Honey and Into The Mystic, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has never failed to impress music lovers around the globe. Moondance is the ultimate Van Morrison Tribute Concert. Before the concert The Barn will provide an optional buffet for $19.95. Doors open at 6:30pm. Tickets for this special Van Morrison tribute concert are only $25 (show only) and can be purchased through Eventbrite. Please call Danielle Green at 774-241-8450 for questions or dinner reservations. 7-10 p.m. The Barn at Wight Farm, 420 Main St., Sturbridge. musictributeproductions.com Outrageous Greg’s Crazy Karaoke. 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Martys pub, 225 Canterbury Street, . 508-373-2503.

Rob Adams of New England Weather. Come down and check out Rob Adams of New England Weather, he’ll be cookin’ up a wintery mix of great music... and, we’ll be cooking up some delicious food and drink special to top off your night! Relax and Enjoy! N/A. 7-10 p.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, Bar / Lounge, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

The Rich O’Reilly Band. Excellent Blues Rock! $5 Donation. 7:30-10 p.m. !Cafe con Dios!, Main Room, 22 Faith Ave., Auburn. 508-579-6722.

Carl Ayotte. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Happy Jack’s, 785 North Main St., Leominster. 978-466-3433.

Dan Kirouac - solo/acoustic. Dan has been part of the regional music scene for thirty years. When not busy with the tribute band Beatles For Sale, his solo performances showcase vocals accompanied by a six-string acoustic guitar. From the one-hit wonders to the lost classics, from the 1960s to today, every show is a different experience, drawing from almost 500 contemporary and oldie songs. More information at dankirouac.com. Free. 8-10:30 p.m. Tavern on the Common, 249 Main St., Rutland. 508-886-4600.

James Keyes. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Mill 185, 185 West Boylston St., West Boylston. 774-261-8585.

Ken Macy Band. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Square, Leominster. 978-534-5900.

Live Bands. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Blacksheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-0255.

Mike Melendez. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Quinn’s Irish Pub, 715 West Boylston St. 508-459-2025.

Our Buddy Karl. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. South Side Grille & Margarita Factory, 242 West Broadway, Gardner. 978-632-1057.

Petty Larceny. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Frank’s Pub, 291 East Main St., East Brookfield. 508-867-0055.

Phil Pacino. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 Water St. We and the DAWG. We & the DAWG returns to the Blue Plate! Don’t miss the show, great place for dancing & having a roadhouse-goodtime !

Bruce Reed (formerly of Big Dawg and Tornado Alley) comes back to the >Saturday 21 stage with a rockin’ band with Jim Heffernan on keys, Dan Hunt on guitar, David Bazin & Blues Junction. Blues & Classic Rock & Jam Band Bill MacGillivray on drums, Gail Hunt on bass, Ririka Masuda on sax, Covers & Originals. Covers from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, SRV, Clapton, The Roger Grover on trumpet....will be a great night of fun! 8-11:30 p.m. Blue Grateful Dead, The Who, The Stones, Lynayrd Skynard and much more!

Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden. 508-829-4566.

Come down for some dancing or to have a couple of drinks and listen in!

Live Music. 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., No cover. 9-1 a.m. 3-G’s Sports Bar, 152 Millbury St. 508-754-3516.

Gardner. 978-669-0122.

Carlos Odria Trio. Solo guitar - instrumental music. Original compositions and jazz standards arranged by Peruvian-born guitarist Carlos Odria (Ph.D. Musicology). Odria has done extensive research on different world music traditions and developed a unique blend of styles including flamenco, jazz, samba, Cuban, and Afro-Peruvian genres. He has been a featured artist at national music festivals and has performed at concert halls and universities across the east coast. For more information, visit: carlosodria.com Free. 6-9 p.m. Homefield Brewing, 3 Arnold Road, Fiskdale. 774-242-6365.

Bill McCarthy Every Friday at Barbers Crossing North.

Now catch Bill McCarthy playing his heart out every Friday at Barbers North (Sterling, MA) @6:30pm Visit: BillMcCarthyMusic.com for info.

Free! 6:30-9:30 p.m. Barbers Crossing (North), 175 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8438.

Bob Moon From the Comoncheros. Bob Moon will be playing some of our favorite classic rock hits! Come down for some good food, music, and drinks. All together, makes for a damn good night N/A. 7-10 p.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, Bar / Lounge, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

Chris Reddy Acoustic Loops from Hell. 7-10 p.m. Compass Tavern, 90 Harding St. 508-304-6044.

Tim Loftus and the Doolin lads. Tim says Whether I am playing the flute, tenor banjo, guitar, whistle or bodhrán, I play for the love of music. It doesn’t get much simpler than that. Along with the Doolin Lads Tim will play some Celtic tunes. $0. 7:30-11:30 p.m. Fiddlers’ Green Pub & Restaurant, 19 Temple St. 508-792-3700.

Windfall classic rock. Windfall is a high energy classic rock band that has performed throughout New England. Check us out at windfallrock.com free admission. 7:30-11:30 p.m. Olde Post Office Pub, 1 Ray St., North Grafton. 508-839-6106.

Amanda Cote. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. South Side Grille & Margarita Factory, 242 West Broadway, Gardner. 978-632-1057.

City Boys. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Square, Leominster. 978-534-5900.

Live Bands. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Blacksheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-0255.

Opiate - A Tribute to TOOL w/ NIN tribute Mr Self Destruct. Opiate- A tribute to the music of TOOL. $10 at the door 21+ Doors at 8pm $10 at the door. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Cove Music Hall, 89 Green St. 508-363-1888 or find them on Facebook.

Scott Babineau. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Mill 185, 185 West Boylston St., West Boylston. 774-261-8585.

Sean Ryan. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Frank’s Pub, 291 East Main St., East Brookfield. 508-867-0055.

Stereo Love Duo. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 Water St. Zack Slik. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Happy Jack’s, 785 North Main St., Leominster.

978-466-3433.

Gladstone. Welcome! We are Gladstone, a cover band for the decades.

Hailing from Worcester, MA we bring the party to your party $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or gladstoneband.com Teeter Todders. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350.

A Ton of Blues - Bues Band. 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. 774-823-3022.

Lavender Restaurant Karaoke. Join Magic Mike Entertainment DJ’s for Karaoke Night every Friday & Saturday Night! Free. 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Lavender Restaurant, 519 Boston Post Road, Sudbury. magicmikeentertainment.com DJs. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Banner Pub, The, 112 Green St. 508-755-0879.

DJs. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Compass Tavern, 90 Harding St. 508-304-6044.

Navy Train. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place.

508-459-9035.

DJ 21+Canal. 10:30 p.m.-1:40 a.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

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9Teen. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508853-1350.

Fellowship of the King. Fellowship of The King is a tribute band based out of Massachusetts formed in 2014. We cover music from Elvis Presley’s entire career between 1954-1977. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or find them on Facebook.

Go Gadget Go. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., Leominster. 978-537-7750.

JCDC. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Partner’s Pub, 970 South St., Fitchburg. 978345-5051.

Kind of Blue. $5 Cover . 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Right Angle Woman - Playing all your classic rock favorites. 9 p.m.-midnight U.S Marine Club- Marine Corps League Worcester Detachment, 181 Lake Ave. 508-612-5639.

Auntie Trainwreck - Classic Rock, Blues, Country. 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. 774-823-3022.

Lavender Restaurant Karaoke. Join Magic Mike Entertainment DJ’s for Karaoke Night every Friday & Saturday Night! Free. 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Lavender Restaurant, 519 Boston Post Road, Sudbury. magicmikeentertainment.com Petty Larceny Band (Tom Petty tribute). 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m.

Frank’s, 274 Shrewsbury St. petty-larceny-band.com Abraxas. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508459-9035.

DJs. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Banner Pub, The, 112 Green St. 508-755-0879.

DJs. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Compass Tavern, 90 Harding St. 508-304-6044.

DJ 21+Canal. Live Dj pushing out all the latest hits for you’re listening and dancing pleasure! N/A. 10:30 p.m.-1:40 a.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

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Brunch with Jon Short. 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Square, Leominster. 978-534-5900.

Blue Plate Sunday Jam featuring Trigger. Come on down, bring your guitar, bass, sticks, harp, sax, voice, or whatever instrument you’d like and join in on the jam. Each week a local band from the area will host the event, providing a full band set-up (PA, Drums, amps, microphones). All types of music are welcome. This week’s feature band is Trigger. 3-7 p.m.

Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden. 508-829-4566.

Dunny’s Open Mic Jam. 4-8 p.m. Dunnys Tavern, 291 East Main St., East Brookfield, MA, East Brookfield.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Vadim Gluzman, Violin.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra returns to the Music Worcester stage at Mechanics Hall to deliver their first-ever rendition of Tchaikovsky’s sweeping Violin Concerto. When the Ukrainian-born Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman appeared with Orpheus in 2011, The New York Times praised a performance that “balanced thoughtfulness and visceral power.”

Gluzman will be performing on the very same 1690 “ex-Leopold Auer” Stradivarius for which the Tchaikovsky concerto was composed. Scenes from Chabrier’s “picturesque pieces” and Mendelssohn’s symphonic recollections of Scotland fill the concert hall with splashes of local color and long lost folk melodies. 4-6:30 p.m. Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St. 508-754-3231, ext. 205 or musicworcester.org Hangover Hour at 5pm, then Andy Cummings 8:30pm. 5 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Open Mic Sundays @ Plaza Azteca! To check the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@ verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s “subject box”).

To check the schedules and open slots visit Facebook. Any slot marked as “open” usually is! Free! 6-9 p.m. Plaza Azteca, 539 Lincoln St. Mikey Lynch hosts the Sunday Jam with feature artist Shakey Jake! Mikey Lynch hosts the jam with a great feature artist each week and open jam session. All are welcome. No cover. 7-11 p.m.

Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350.

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Music Together at Pakachoag in Sterling - winter

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session, week 1. Music Together at Pakachoag Music School Open registration begins December 1st. Winter session classes in Sterling begin January 9th. Classes also available in Auburn, Sturbridge, West Boylston, and Worcester. Ages birth-5, and big kids 5-7. For complete information visit us at pakmusic.org, email info@pakmusic.org, or call 508-791-8159. $175. 10-10:45 a.m. 1835 Old Town Hall, 31 Main St., Sterling. pakmusic.org Blue Mondays - Live Blues. 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122.

Delicato Duo. No Cover. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Karaoke. DJ Nancy, of Star Sound Entertainment. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club KasBar, 234 Southwest Cutoff. 508-798-8385.

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Music Together at Pakachoag in W Boylston - winter session, week 1. Music Together at Pakachoag Music School Open registration begins December 1st. Winter session classes in West Boylston begin January 10th. Classes also available in Auburn, Sterling, Sturbridge, and Worcester. Ages birth-5, and big kids 5-7. For complete information visit us at pakmusic.org, email info@pakmusic. org, or call 508-791-8159. 175. 9:30-10:15 a.m. First Congregational Church of West Boylston, 26 Central St., West Boylston. 508-835-4462 or pakmusic.org Tuesday Open Mic Night @ Greendale’s Pub with Bill McCarthy Local Musicians Showcase! To check the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@ verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s “subject box”) Network * Collaborate * Learn. Over sixty different musicians regularly support my open mic nights all are friendly and supportive -- and many are: * Former or currently signed recording artists * Award-winning pro’s or semi-pro’s * Regularly gigging paid-performers * Published songwriters * Recording studio owner/operators * Combinations of any and/or all of the above. To check the schedules and open slots visit Facebook. Any slot marked as “open” usually is! Free. 7:30-11:30 p.m.

Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350 or find them on Facebook.

Dam Chick Singer. No Cover. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Boogie Chillin’. Bluesy, bluegrassy, acoustic band with a twist. Jon Bonner - Guitar & Vocals Fernando Perez - Percussion Zack Slik Mandolin & Vocals Dan Villani - Violin/fiddle Rose Villani - Bass Free! 9 p.m.-midnight Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439 or find them on Facebook.

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Music Together at Pakachoag - winter session, week 1.

Music Together at Pakachoag Music School Open registration begins December 1st. Winter session classes in Auburn on Wednesdays begin January 11th. Classes also available in Sterling, Sturbridge, West Boylston, and Worcester. Ages birth-5, and big kids 5-7. For complete information visit us at pakmusic.org, email info@pakmusic.org, or call 508-791-8159. 175. 9:30-10:15 a.m., 10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

Pakachoag Music School of Greater Worcester, 203 Pakachoag St., Auburn. 508-791-8159 or pakmusic.org Music Together at Pakachoag in Sturbridge - winter session, week 1. Music Together at Pakachoag Music School Open registration begins December 1st. Winter session classes in Sturbridge begin January 11th. Classes also available in Auburn, Sterling, West Boylston, and Worcester. Ages birth-5, and big kids 5-7. For complete information visit us at pakmusic.org, email info@pakmusic.org, or call 508-791-8159. 175. 9:30-10:15 a.m., 10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m. Federated Church of Sturbridge & Fiskdale, 8 Maple St., Sturbridge. pakmusic.org Open Mic Wednesdays at CJ’s Steak Loft in Northborough. To check the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another great Open Mic Night! Email

Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s “subject box”). To check the schedules and open slots visit Facebook. Any slot marked as “open” usually is! Free! 6-9 p.m. CJs Steakloft, 369 W. Main St. (route 20), Northborough. 508-3938134 or find them on Facebook.

Mauro DePasquale vocalist/pianist and guest. Worcester’s own pianist/vocalist Mauro DePasquale and guest offer a delicious blend of American song book favorites to relax with in fine style. No Cover.

6:30-8:30 p.m. GAR Hall, Bull Mansion, 55 Pearl St. Duotone Instrumental Guitar Duo! Free. 7-9:30 p.m. Sahara Cafe & Restaurant, 143 Highland St. 508-798-2181.

Worcester Jazz Collective. No Cover. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Karaoke. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Partner’s Pub, 970 South St., Fitchburg. 978-

345-5051.

Karaoke. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., Leominster.

978-537-7750.

Wednesday “What’s that tune” Trivia. 9 p.m.-noon The Pint, 58 Shrewsbury St. Wednesday Night Mayhem. Mayhem Entertainment, The Twisted Minds Behind the FBW present a completely ridiculous writing tournament with lots of audience participation. Learn more at thefbw.com Doors open at 5pm, show starts at 9 pm. A bracketed style tournament designed to push burgeoning writers to their limits. The wrestling-themed, dance party-infused, bracketed improv writing competition you know and love is back! And now you can be the star! $5. 9 p.m.-midnight Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or find them on Facebook.

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ArtsWorcester, “The Pace of Nature” by Allison Coelho Picone, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Aug. 5 - Jan. 25. Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 1-4 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday - Friday, 1-4 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Free. 660 Main St. 508-755-5142 or artsworcester.org Asa Waters Mansion, Admission: $3 for guided tour $7-10 for tea.

123 Elm St., Millbury. 508-865-0855 or asawaters.org Booklovers’ Gourmet, Paintings, Prints, Sculpture and more from the collection of J. Richard Whittaker, Through Jan. 31. Hours:

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closed Sunday - Monday, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 55 East Main St., Webster. 508-949-6232 or bookloversgourmet.com Clark University: Schiltkamp Gallery, Home: Self, Spirit, Space, Group Show; Gallery Opening, Wednesday. 92 Downing St. 508-793-7349.

Clark University: University Gallery, Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, noon-8 p.m. Wednesday, noon-5 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. 950 Main St. 508-793-7349 or 508-793-7113 or clarku.edu Clark’s Cafe and Art On Rotation Gallery, Hours: 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday - Saturday. Admission: Free for gallery. 310 High St., Clinton.

978-549-5822 or 978-365-7772 or aorgallery.com College of the Holy Cross: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, Last Frontier / Última Frontera: La Subjetividad del Territorio, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Jan. 25 - April 13; Opening Reception for Last Frontier / Última Frontera: La Subjetividad del Territorio, Wednesday. Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday, 2-5 p.m. Saturday. 1 College St. 508-793-3356 or holycross.edu Danforth Museum of Art, Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, noon-5 p.m. Wednesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday - Saturday. 123 Union Ave., Framingham. 508-620-0050 or danforthmuseum.org EcoTarium, Turtle Travels, Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sept. 17 - May 7. Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $15.00 adults; $10 for children ages 2-18, college students with ID & senior citizens.

Children under 2 & EcoTarium members free. Additional charges apply for Tree Canopy Walkway, Explorer Express Train, planetarium programs & other special event. 222 Harrington Way. 508-929-2700 or ecotarium.org Fisher Museum Harvard Forest, 324 N. Main St., Petersham.

978-724-3302 or harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu Fitchburg Art Museum, Hours: noon-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, noon-4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 25 Merriam Parkway, Fitchburg. 978-345-4207 or fitchburgartmuseum.org Fitchburg Historical Society, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday - Tuesday, 10 a.m.-midnight Wednesday, closed Thursday - Saturday. 50 Grove St., Fitchburg. 978-345-1157 or fitchburghistory. fsc.edu Framed in Tatnuck, Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. 1099 Pleasant St. 508-770-1270 or framedintatnuck.com Gallery of African Art, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday - Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Donations accepted. 62 High St., Clinton. 978-265-4345 or 978-598-5000x12 or galleryofafricanart.org Highland Artist Group, 113 Highland St. highlandartistgroup.com Mass Audubon: Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, Hours: 12:30-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 414 Massasoit Road. 508-753-6087 or massaudubon.org Museum of Russian Icons, Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday - Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday. Admission: Adults $10; Seniors (59 +), $7; Students, $5; Children 3-17, $5; Children <3, free. 203 Union St., Clinton. 978-5985000 or 978-598-5000 or museumofrussianicons.org Old Sturbridge Village, Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday - Saturday.

Admission: $14 - $28 charged by age. Children under 3 free. 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge. 800-733-1830 or 508-347-3362 or osv.org Park Hill Gallery, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday Friday, closed Saturday. 387 Park Ave. 774-696-0909.

Post Road Art Center, Hours: closed Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday - Saturday. 1 Boston Post Road, Marlborough. 508-4852580 or postroadartcenter.com

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Monday - Friday, closed Saturday. 10 Cedar St. 508-754-8760 or preservationworcester.org Prints and Potter Gallery: American Arts and Crafts Gallery, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday - Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 142 Highland St. 508-752-2170 or printsandpotter.com Rollstone Studios, Hours: 11-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. Admission: free. 633 Main St., Fitchburg. 978-348-2781 or rollstoneartists.com Salisbury Mansion, Hours: closed Sunday - Wednesday, 1-8:30 p.m. Thursday, 1-4 p.m. Friday - Saturday. 40 Highland St. 508-7538278 or worcesterhistory.org SAORI Worcester Freestyle Weaving Studio, 18 Winslow St. 508-757-4646 or 508-757-0116 or saoriworcester.com Sprinkler Factory, Admission: free. 38 Harlow St. sprinklerfactory.com Taproot Bookstore, Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday - Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 1200 West Boylston St. 508853-5083 or TaprootBookstore.com Tatnuck Bookseller & Cafe, Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday - Thursday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday - Saturday. 18 Lyman St., Westborough. 508-366-4959 or tatnuck.com Top Fun Aviation Toy Museum, Hours: 1:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday. 21 Prichard St., Fitchburg. 978-342-2809 or 978-297-4337 or topfunaviation.com Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $12 Adults, $9 Seniors & $7 Youth, free to Members & Children under. 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111 or towerhillbg.org Worcester Art Museum, Facing the World: Modernization and Splendor in Meiji Japan, Through April 16; Helmutt on the Move, Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sept. 1 - Aug. 31; Jeppson Idea Lab: Renoir’s The Jewish Wedding, Through March 26; KAHBAHBLOOOM: The Art and Storytelling of Ed Emberley, Through Sept.

9; Picket Fence to Picket Line: Visions of American Citizenship, Through Feb. 5. Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Free for members, $14 adults, $12 seniors, free for youth 17 and under. Free for all first Saturdays of each month, 10am-noon. 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406 or worcesterart.org Worcester Center for Crafts, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Saturday. 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183 or worcestercraftcenter.org Worcester Historical Museum, Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 30 Elm St. 508-753-8278 or worcesterhistory.org Worcester Public Library, Hours: 1:30-5:30 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday - Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. 3 Salem Square. 508-799-1655 or worcpublib.org

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Dick’s Beantown Comedy Escape at Park Grill & Spirits Friday 9pm-Saturdays 8pm -$20pp Reservations Recommended at 800-401-2221 Prices: $20 Fri/Sat pp except Special Events Drinks and Appetizers available in the show room Full Dinner Available before Show in Restaurant $5off with College ID and Reservations 2 for 1 Active Military or Veterans and Reservations $4 off with Dinner Receipt and Reservations. Fri & Sat Jan 20th & 21st Mark Scalia Steve Halligan and Friends Fri & Sat Jan 27th & 28th Dick Doherty Vincent Mcelhone and Friends Dick’s Beantown Comedy Escape at Park Grill & Spirits Great Food and Fun Make Reservations Early at 800-401-2221 or online at dickdoherty.com John Cleese and the Holy Grail - Friday, January 20. Living comedy legend John Cleese is heading in your general direction for a

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live and truly unforgettable evening of conversation and audience Q&A. Absurd and/or ridiculous questions only are requested, please. John will tell stories of his life and career, and you just may finally find out the air-speed of an unladen swallow. Before John silly walks his way on to the stage, the excitement will build as the audience will get to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail in its entirety on the big screen. Don’t miss your chance to see the man who has achieved nothing short of comedy royalty in this thrill-of-a lifetime evening. Tickets are $79, $89 and a limited number of $250 VIP tickets are available. 7:30-10:30 p.m.

Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. Call 877-5717469 or visit thehanovertheatre.org

college sports Men’s Basketball

Holy Cross Jan. 23 vs. American, 7:05 p.m.

Jan. 25 @ Loyola (Maryland), 7:30 p.m.

Assumption Jan. 21 @ Pace, 1:30 p.m.

Jan. 24 vs. Southern Connecticut State, Blue Out, 7:30 p.m.

Nichols Jan. 21 @ Wentworth, 3 p.m.

Jan. 25 @ Roger Williams, 7:30 p.m.

WPI Jan. 21 vs. Wheaton (Mass), 2 p.m.

Becker Jan. 19 vs. Daniel Webster, 7 p.m.

Jan. 21 @ Mitchell, 3 p.m.

Jan. 24 vs. Wheelock, 5:30 p.m.

Worcester State Jan. 21 vs. Framingham State, 1 p.m.

Jan. 25 vs. Westfield State, 5:30 p.m.

Clark University Jan. 21 vs. Springfield College, 3 p.m.

Jan. 25 @ Babson College, 5:30 p.m.

Anna Maria Jan. 21 vs. Albertus Magnus, 1 p.m.

Jan. 25 vs. Emmanuel(Mass), 6 p.m.

Women’s Basketball

Holy Cross Jan. 22 @ American, 1 p.m.

Assumption Jan. 21 @ Pace, 3:30 p.m. vs. Southern Connecticut State, 5:30 p.m.

Nichols Jan. 21 @ Wentworth, 1 p.m.

Jan. 25 @ Roger Williams, 5:30 p.m.

WPI Jan. 21 @ Emerson, 3 p.m.

Becker Jan. 21 @ Mitchell, 1 p.m.

Jan. 25 vs. Daniel Webster, 7:30 p.m.

Worcester State Jan. 21 vs. Framingham State, 3 p.m.

Jan. 25 vs. Westfield State, 7:30 p.m.

Clark University Jan. 21 @ Smith College, 1 p.m.

Jan. 25 vs. Wellesley College, 7 p.m.

Anna Maria Jan. 19 @ Norwich, 7 p.m.

Jan. 21 vs. Albertus Magnus, 3 p.m.

Men’s Ice Hockey

Holy Cross Jan. 20 vs. Mercyhurst College, 7:05 p.m.

Jan. 21 vs. Mercyhurst College, 7:05 p.m.

Assumption Jan. 21 vs. Amherst, 6:35 p.m.

Jan. 24 @ Wesleyan (Connecticut), 7 p.m.

Nichols Jan. 19 @ Curry, 6:45 p.m.

Jan. 21 @ Wentworth, 3 p.m.

Becker Jan. 19 vs. Endicott, 7:4 p.m.

Jan. 21 vs. Suffolk, 8:30 p.m.

Worcester State Jan. 19 vs. Westfield State, 7:35 p.m.

Women’s Ice Hockey

Holy Cross Jan. 20 vs. University of New England, 2:05 p.m.

Jan. 21 @ Franklin Pierce, 12:30 p.m.

Nichols Jan. 20 @ UMass-Boston, 5 p.m.

Jan. 21 vs. Southern Maine, 3:40 p.m.

Becker Jan. 21 vs. Lebanon Valley, 5:30 p.m.

Jan. 22 vs. Lebanon Valley, at St. Mark’s School, Southborough, 12:40 p.m.

Wrestling

WPI Jan. 22 @ NEWA Duals, Johnson & Wales, 10 a.m.

Men’s Indoor Track & Field Holy Cross Jan. 21 @ New Hampshire, 12 p.m.

Assumption Jan. 21 @ Beynon Invitational, Smith College, Northampton WPI Jan. 20 @ Wheaton Invitational, Day 1, TBA Jan. 21 @ Wheaton Invitational, Day 2, 2 p.m.

Worcester State Jan. 21 @ Springfield Invitational 2 Jan. 22 vs. GBTC Invitational at Harvard

Women’s Indoor Track & Field Holy Cross Jan. 21 @ New Hampshire, 12 p.m.

Assumption Jan. 21 @ Beynon Invitational, Smith College, Northampton WPI Jan. 20 @ Wheaton Invitational Day 1, TBA Jan. 21 @ Wheaton Invatational Day 2, 2 p.m.

Worcester State Jan. 21 @ Springfield Invitational 2 Mens Swimming & Diving Holy Cross Jan. 21 @ Providence, 1 p.m.

WPI Jan. 21 @ Hartwick, 1 p.m.

Jan. 25 vs. Coast Guard, 7 p.m.

Clark Jan. 21 vs. Coast Guard Academy, 12 p.m.

Jan. 25 @ WPI, 6:30 p.m.

Women’s Swimming & Diving Holy Cross Jan. 21 @ Providence, 1 p.m.

Assumption Jan. 21 vs. Long Island University, 1 p.m.

WPI Jan. 21 @ Hartwick, 1 p.m.

Jan. 25 vs. Clark, 6:30 p.m.

Clark Jan. 21 vs. Coast Guard Academy, 12 p.m.

Jan. 25 @ WPI, 6:30 p.m.

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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 February 2, 2017 at 7:30pm on the petition of Anthony Rainka. The petitioner is requesting a Special Permit as it pertains to III.A.4.Table 1, E.10 of the Town’s Zoning Bylaws to operate a medical office.

The property that is the subject of this petition is located at 214 Worcester Providence Turnpike as shown on Assessors Map #18, Parcel #75. The property is located in the B2 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.

Brittanie Reinold Board of Appeals Clerk

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 February 2, 2017 at 7:35pm on the petition of Patrick Perkins, J.E.P. Contracting, Inc.. The petitioner is requesting Variances from III.B.3.Tables II and III of the Town’s Zoning Bylaws for setback and lot coverage relief as well as a finding from MGL.ch40A Section 6 for the tear down and rebuild of a single family home. The property that is the subject of this petition is located at 17 Ramshorn Road as shown on Assessors Map #14, Parcel #59. 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.

Brittanie Reinold Board of Appeals Clerk

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THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS TOWN OF SUTTON OFFICE OF THE COLLECTOR OF TAXES NOTICE OF TAX TAKING TO THE OWNER OF THE HEARINAFTER DESCRIBED LAND AND ALL OTHERS CONCERNED YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ON THURSDAY, the 9th day of February at 12:00 OíCLOCK P.M. at the SUTTON TOWN HALL, pursuant to the provisions of General Law Chapter 60, Section 53, and by the virtue vested in me as Collector of Taxes. IT IS MY INTENTION TO TAKE FOR THE TOWN OF SUTTON the following parcels of land for nonpayment of the taxes due thereon, with interest and all incidental expenses and costs to the date of taking, unless the same shall have been paid before that date.

AJR REALTY TRUST, LAND located at 25 OAKHURST RD in SUTTON, containing 13.000 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 005100069, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 06640/304. Tax for FY-2016 $8,425.75.

DODGE KENT L, LAND & BUILDING located at 11 BOND HOLLOW RD in SUTTON, containing 2.360 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 002300030, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 21820/393. Tax for FY-2016 $2,481.98.

AJR REALTY TRUST, LAND & BUILDING located at 32 OAKHURST RD in SUTTON, containing 4.020 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 005100096, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 6640/304.

Tax for FY-2016 $3,415.70.

DONOVAN, KEVIN M DONOVAN, MICHELLE LAND & BUILDING located at 22 TRILLIAM RUN in SUTTON, containing 24,300.000 SQ FEET shown on Assessor’s Map 001200219, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 19965/276. Tax for FY-2016 $65.33.

BEAUPRE ROBERT, LAND & BUILDING located at 44 WUNSCHEL DR in SUTTON, containing 12.010 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 002600018, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 40577/203.

Tax for FY-2016 $994.56.

BOULAY ROGER R, BOULAY SUSAN L, LAND & BUILDING located at 104 STONE SCHOOL RD in SUTTON, containing 2.690 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 001800088, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 16017/0931. Tax for FY-2016 $913.30.

FELTERS MILLS LLC, LAND located at 444 R CENTRAL TPKE in SUTTON, containing 5.270 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 003000065, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 52516/240.

Tax for FY-2016 $31.27.

FELTERS MILLS LLC, LAND located at 444 CENTRAL TPKE in SUTTON, containing 7.750 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 003000066, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 52516/240. Tax for FY-2016 $611.74.

BRIGGS EDWARD R, BRIGGS CLOTILDE, LAND & BUILDING located at 1 W THIRD ST in SUTTON, containing 6,375.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 004900018, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS Book/Page 40464/325. Tax for FY-2016 $1,329.74.

FELTERS MILLS LLC, Subsequent Owners: RITACCO, STEFANO and COTE ALESSIA R LAND & BUILDING located at 460 CENTRAL TPKE in SUTTON, containing 1.840 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 003000067, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 52516/240. Tax for FY-2016 $2,189.25.

BUTKIEWICUS, THERESA M LAND & BUILDING located at 594 CENTRAL TPKE in SUTTON, containing 14.000 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 003500043, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 31918/221.

Tax for FY-2016 $102.09.

GADOURY NORMAN, GADOURY JACQUELYN M, LAND & BUILDING located at 8 SECOND ST in SUTTON, containing 13,200.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 004900040, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 33745/117.

Tax for FY-2016 $745.11.

BUTLER WAYNE II, Subsequent Owner: LEWANDOWSKI, PAUL LAND located at 428 R PUTNAM HILL RD in SUTTON, containing 1.640 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 004900135, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 21296/167. Tax for FY-2016 $20.58.

BUTLER WAYNE II, Subsequent Owner: LEWANDOWSKI, PAUL LAND & BUILDING located at 428 PUTNAM HILL RD in SUTTON, containing 32,670.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 004900136, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 21296/167. Tax for FY-2016 $2,841.71.

BUTLER WAYNE II, Subsequent Owner: LEWANDOWSKI, PAUL LAND located at 414 PUTNAM HILL RD in SUTTON, containing 10.070 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 004900150, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 21296/167. Tax for FY-2016 $178.75.

CERASOLI DAVID P, CERASOLI SUSAN E, LAND & BUILDING located at 99 HIGHLAND VIEW DR in SUTTON, containing 21,008.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 001100262, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 12351/0073. Tax for FY-2016 $426.78.

COULTER RICHARD A, LAND & BUILDING located at 6 BULLARD LN in SUTTON, containing 29,839.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 001000063, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS Book/Page 44338/55. Tax for FY-2016 $3,440.29.

DAUTRICH, CHARLES E and DAUTRICH, ROSEMARIE LAND & BUILDING located at 13 MUMFORD RD in SUTTON, containing 10,890.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 005400036, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 53465/335. Tax for FY-2016 $784.27.

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HARRIS KRISTEN I & BRYANT, ERIC W. Subsequent Owners: MILLER, CARL and MILLER, GALVAN SONYA LAND located at 191 IVY LN in SUTTON, containing 1,925.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 004600025, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 40915/179.

Tax for FY-2016 $41.28.

HARTFORD DAVID W, LAND & BUILDING located at 13 DARLING LN in SUTTON, containing 21,780.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 005400126, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS Book/Page 32087/116. Tax for FY-2016 $964.01.

HASTINGS COREY M, LAND & BUILDING located at 26 HOUGH RD in SUTTON, containing 28,680.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 005100010, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 52427/350.

Tax for FY-2016 $21.25.

HOLMES BRUCE, HOLMES MARGARET, LAND located at 348 MANCHAUG RD in SUTTON, containing 9,170.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 004900038, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 24234/97.

Tax for FY-2016 $118.34.

HOLMES BRUCE, HOLMES MARGARET, LAND & BUILDING located at 8 FIRST ST in SUTTON, containing 1.340 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 004900039, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 24234/97. Tax for FY-2016 $2,242.66.

JOSEPH A CENCAK REVOKABLE TRUST, CENCAK-MALLEY K & BELLOFATTO J TRS, LAND located at 131 WHITINS RD in SUTTON, containing 22.000 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 005000044, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 22124/144. Tax for FY-2016 $1,305.50.

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JOSEPH A CENCAK REVOKABLE TRUST, CENCAK-MALLEY K & BELLOFATTO J TRS, LAND located at 99 R WHITINS RD in SUTTON, containing 19.970 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 005000056, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 22124/144. Tax for FY-2016 $212.67.

KEENAN, KEVIN J KEENAN, NANCY L LAND & BUILDING located at 5 WACHUSETT DR in SUTTON, containing 20,680.000 SQ FEET shown on Assessor’s Map 001100239, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS Book/Page 14181/362. Tax for FY-2016 $310.09.

KING ERIC, KING MARLENE A, LAND located at 10 .5 PRESCOTT RD in SUTTON, containing 4,356.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 004600004, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 24545/002.

Tax for FY-2016 $86.74.

KING, GLEN B, LAND & BUILDING located at 7 KING RD in SUTTON, containing 10.000 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 002400057, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 18627/1411. Tax for FY-2016 $2,148.41.

LACASSE DAVID F, LACASSE LEANNE M, LAND & BUILDING located at 28 TRILLIAM RUN in SUTTON, containing 28,225.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 001200217, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 18767/3311.

Tax for FY-2016 $1,536.09.

LAFRENIERE LEO L, LAFRENIERE FRANCES M, LAND & BUILDING located at 97 WHITINS RD in SUTTON, containing 1.060 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 005000049, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 08178/0146. Tax for FY-2016 $2,641.88.

DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 37760/239. Tax for FY-2016 $46.70.

MOORE DAVID W, LAND & BUILDING located at 5 MAPLE ST in SUTTON, containing 10,890.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 004900004, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 05405/0421.

Tax for FY-2016 $1,695.39.

MORTON MARIE C, LAND & BUILDING located at 60 TOWN FARM RD in SUTTON, containing 2.520 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 002900037, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 38278/299. Tax for FY-2016 $1,349.84.

NOEL LISA ANN, LAND & BUILDING located at 24 WACHUSETT DR in SUTTON, containing 24,691.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 001100248, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 27982/327.

Tax for FY-2016 $1,389.08.

PETERSON RONALD A, PETERSON PATRICIA, LAND & BUILDING located at 41 MANCHAUG RD in SUTTON, containing 34,412.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 003500022, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 13941/126.

Tax for FY-2016 $829.82.

PETRIE, GERRARD G STILLA, PETRIE STEPHANIE LAND & BUILDING located at 21 SKYE LINE DR in SUTTON, containing 30,982.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 000500039, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 12166/0114.

Tax for FY-2016 $6,067.02.

39 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD LLC LAND & BUILDING located at 39 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD in SUTTON, containing 2.440 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 001700013, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 41814/213.

Tax for FY-2016 $101.38.

LANGEVIN CHRISTOPHER LAVGEVIN DEVON, DUNBAR CLAIRE, LAND & BUILDING located at 41 HOUGH RD in SUTTON, containing 8,712.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 005100054, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 36295/220.

Tax for FY-2016 $630.65.

PRISTAWA ALEXANDER, PRYHARSKI MICHAEL J, LAND & BUILDING located at 35 WHITINS RD in SUTTON, containing 14,375.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 004900086, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 20878/179.

Tax for FY-2016 $365.77.

LEARY, DANIEL K LEARY, CHRISTINE LAND & BUILDING located at 560 CENTRAL TPKE in SUTTON, containing 1.160 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 0035000038, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 52181/172.

Tax for FY-2016 $4,006.54.

RCC FAMILY TRUST, CHASE RONALD C TRUSTEE, Subsequent Owners: RUCCI, ROBERT and RUCCI, LINDA LAND & BUILDING located at 33 BOSTON RD in SUTTON, containing 1.170 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 000600182, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 30537/136. Tax for FY-2016 $128.38.

LELAND HILL REALTY TRUST, SPANNER SHARON E TRUSTEE, LAND located at 10 R BOUNDARY STONE RD in SUTTON, containing 35.000 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 000700025, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 27174/021.

Tax for FY-2016 $1,761.41.

ROBERTS DANIEL, LAND & BUILDING located at 21 .5 W SUTTON RD in SUTTON, containing 5,663.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 000800035, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 35387/229.

Tax for FY-2016 $2,807.24.

LEWIS NICHOLAS J, LAND & BUILDING located at 11 MUMFORD RD in SUTTON, containing 13,068.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 005400035, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 52877/159.

Tax for FY-2016 $2,172.02.

LOUW JACOBUS A, LAND & BUILDING located at 44 BURBANK RD in SUTTON, containing 2.210 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 001000048, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page D/5008. Tax for FY-2016 $982.86.

MASTERSON, JOHN P JR MASTERSON, LISA M LAND located at 70 MANCHAUG RD in SUTTON, containing 5,200.000 SQ FEET shown on Assessor’s Map 004100026, recorded at WORCESTER

ROBINSON PASTURE REALTY TRUST, EDWARD K RENAUD JR TRUSTEE, LAND located at 21 COLONIAL RD in SUTTON, containing 38.070 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 000500039, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 20578/35. Tax for FY-2016 $4,698.76.

ROY RICHARD A, ROY DORIS I, LAND & BUILDING located at 6 W THIRD ST in SUTTON, containing 41,382.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 004900020, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 06220/0107.

Tax for FY-2016 $4,710.02.

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RUTH JEFFREY A SR, RUTH PAULETTE B, LAND & BUILDING located at 191 HARTNESS RD in SUTTON, containing 13.400 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 001200098, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 45429/219.

Tax for FY-2016 $4,330.13.

SKOWRONSKI CHESTER R, SKOWRONSKI CAROLE, LAND located at 168 BURBANK RD in SUTTON, containing 20.800 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 000400028, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 24105/52. Tax for FY-2016 $803.56.

SUTTON OUTLOOK VENTURES LLC, KARL NORWOOD, LAND located at 53 GILMORE DR in SUTTON, containing 4.470 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 004500064, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 47909/41. Tax for FY-2016 $301.91.

SAUCIER LEO R, SAUCIER MICHELLE D, LAND & BUILDING located at 15 HOUGH RD in SUTTON, containing 35,719.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 005100047, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 18956/356.

Tax for FY-2016 $3,235.60.

SMERLAS FRANK C SR, SMERLAS FRANK C JR, BUILDING located at 41 D BOSTON RD in SUTTON, shown on Assessor’s Map 0006002440000D, recorded at WORCESTE DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 37370/345. Tax for FY-2016 $109.31.

SUTTON OUTLOOK VENTURES LLC, KARL NORWOOD, LAND located at 85 GILMORE DR in SUTTON, containing 37.960 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 004500068, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 47909/41. Tax for FY-2016 $24,951.61.

SCHOENFELDT DAVID, LAND & BUILDING located at 468 CENTRAL TPKE in SUTTON, containing 41,382.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 003000069, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 15093/0171.

Tax for FY-2016 $2,725.99.

SEAVER JOHN A, LAND located at 41 R HARTNESS RD in SUTTON, containing 12.660 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 000600092, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 36848/246. Tax for FY-2016 $1,240.99.

SJOGREN RONALD LEE, LAND & BUILDING located at 12 RAY LN in SUTTON, containing 40,075.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 003000068, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 20492/2881.

Tax for FY-2016 $929.95.

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SUTTON COLONIAL ACRES, BLACKSTONE ASSOCIATES, LAND & BUILDING located at 83 WHITINS RD in SUTTON, containing 3,920.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 005000051, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 22009/302.

Tax for FY-2016 $88.40.

SUTTON OUTLOOK VENTURES LLC, KARL NORWOOD, LAND located at 48 GILMORE DR in SUTTON, containing 9.160 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 004500060, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 47909/41. Tax for FY-2016 $743.93.

SUTTON OUTLOOK VENTURES LLC, KARL NORWOOD, LAND located at 7 GILMORE DR in SUTTON, containing 9.700 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 005100092, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 47909/41. Tax for FY-2016 $573.79.

TAYLOR BRUCE A, TAYLOR-EIDINGER CHERYL A W, LAND & BUILDING located at 11 PRESCOTT RD in SUTTON, containing 5.230 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 004600012, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 42944/352.

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WELLS HENRY WELLS IRENE, C/O KEVIN WELLS, LAND located at 28 COTE LN in SUTTON, containing 5,663.000 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 004900174, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 06872/0295. Tax for FY-2016 $478.72.

WELSH WILLIAM S, C/O JOHN CRONIN, LAND located at 270 R EIGHT LOTS RD in SUTTON, containing 6.000 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 002000002, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 3357/107. Tax for FY-2016 $141.78.

ZENARO, MICHAEL & DROBOT, KRISTINE LAND & BUILDING located at 133 BURBANK RD in SUTTON, containing 5.000 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 001000008, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 35368/86.

Tax for FY-2016 $9,240.72.

LEMIRE, KAREN, BUILDING located at 11 C MILLERS WAY in SUTTON, containing 0 SQ FT shown on Assessor’s Map 0011000200008C, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 46005/387. Tax for FY-2016 $4,031.66.

TEDFORD RAYMOND, TEDFORD HELEN, LAND & BUILDING located at 53 STONE SCHOOL RD in SUTTON, containing 1.150 ACRES shown on Assessor’s Map 001100074, recorded at WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY OF DEEDS - Book/Page 38817/184.

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Worcester County Memorial Park Paxton, MA Garden of the Cross Premier Location, Must sell Value $5250 Asking $4000 OBO 508-799-5678 Worc. County Memorial Park Paxton. Garden of Faith, 2 plots, Section #347-A 1&2. Today’s cost is $3,900.00 for both. Asking $1,500.00 total for both. Call 508-882-3421 or 909-714-0064 Worcester Memorial Park Paxton Garden of Honor, 2 plots, unit B, graves 3 & 4. Today’s cost $8500 for both, asking $4000. Call 910-477-9081 Worcester County Memorial Park - Paxton Two lots, section 511, Garden of Valor. Asking $3500 OBO. 508-754-1188

New Coach black leather large handbag Beautiful! Asking $25.00 cash. 774 345-0405 Loft Bed (Low Profile) w/4 underbed drawers, matching bookcase, 2 bedside tables.

Solid oak. $500. 508-859-8170 Vintage wood rocking chair w/upholstered seat & pillow. $85. Antique wood chair w/upholstered seat & pillow. $85 508-859-8170 4 Goodyear 225/50 R 16" Assurance All Season Tires Ex cond. Mntd on G.M.5 hole alloy rims. $380. 978-422-8084 Amana ART104TFDW 14.3 cubic foot refrigerator/freezer, bought new, excellent condition, $375. 508-640-5888 Brother HL-2170W Wireless Laser Printer, bought new, very good condition, $50 508640-5888

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Golf clubs, bag, cart (used) Asking $250. 508-865-5726* C-13 Zeppelin Stamp Flag Cancelled $200. Got Stamp Questions? Call Ron at 413896-3324 Radiators Cast iron - 8"x 20 x 36 (H); 5" x 10 x 24 (H); 5" x 10 x 36 (H) all 3 for $100. Baseboard Weil Mclain radiators - 2" x 9" x 24" - 2 pcs - $50. 508-847-4531

CEMETERY PLOTS Worcester County Memorial Park Paxton, Ma. Lot Number 297-B Space 1 and 2, Garden Of Valor Section. Current value is over $10,000 including 2 concrete burial vaults. $3,000.00 or B/O 508-3750080

Vocal, Instrumental & Jazz Improv Lessons Available on most instruments.

Lou Borelli 508-752-6213

Corn Hole Game College size, 4 bags. $65. 978-798-1475 U.S. C14 Zeppelin Stamp (U) Flag cncl. $175. Stamp questions? Ron 413-896-3324

Puppy,1F&1M 7weeks old,shots current,good family pet for adoption 700 for pics email 508-418-8253

OTHER COMMUNITY FLYING FIELD WANTED Local RC club is looking for a field to fly quiet, electric-only model planes. Land owners who are willing to share their space with hobbyists should contact 508-641-3787.

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Corner Hutch Solid pine - 4 doors - 48" x 76". Accommodates 42" television. $250.

Photo available. 508-829-6792

Apt. For Rent - N. Grafton 6 rms., 2nd floor, owner occupied. $1200/mo plus utilities.

W/D hookup, no pets/smoking.

508-839-5131

WANTED TO BUY Veteran Will Buy Military Items American, German, Japanese, Italian etc. From Vietnam, Korea, WW2, WW1 and earlier.

Please call 978-928-1238.

MOBILE HOMES Mobile Homes For Sale in Bigelow Village. Rutland MA

55+ Community. Please call us today to schedule a meeting with the developer. 888-7337089. aprilianhomes.com. info@aprilianhomes.com

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2008 Honda Metropolitan Scooter Black and gray. Mint cond.

469 miles. Asking $1650.00.

Includes helmet. 207-289-9362 OR 207-450-1492.

1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Original low mileage beauty.

Recent 350/325 hp engine.

Must see! Trophy winner.

774-437-8717 $6,500

3 Horse Trailer 2002 Exiss XT/ 300 Gooseneck. Great condition. All alum. S.S. nose. On craigslist pics. $7,995. Paxton.

Call Robert at 508-757-0887*

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2003 Chevy Corvette Convertable 50th Anniversary Edition 26,000 miles. Automatic, original owner, always garaged, mint cond. $25,000 firm.

774-696-4187

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2008 Ford E250 Extended Van 3dr, A-T/AC, Power package. Roof racks. Int. shelving, tow package, 6 rims, 8 tires in good cond. Exc. overall cond.

57K miles. $9,999. 508-8292907 AUTOS 2005 Chrysler Pacifica 6 Cyl., AWD, Good Tires, New Sticker, New Brakes. Very clean. $2300 OBO. 508-736-7385. Ask for Michael.

2013 BMW 128i 7K Orig Miles, Grey, 3.0, Automatic, Fully Loaded, Serviced. $16,900. 774-239-0800

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2001 Ford Focus MECHANICS SPECIAL NEEDS ENGINE SOHC, Automatic, 4 cyl, 4 door, clean interior, straight body, new front brakes/rotors, clean title. First $300 takes it.

508-869-6841

2001 Suzuki Intruder 1500cc, showroom condition, lots of chrome, Vehix pipes. $4000.

Call John at 978-466-6043.

1930 Ford Model A Sport Coupe, Grey and Black.

50,000 miles. Holden area. $16,000. 407-375-3917

1999 Road King Under 8,000 miles. Too many extras to list.

Always stored in room temperature. $10,000 obo 978-4645525 or 978-549-3670 cell

1997 Mercedes-Benz E-420 Sedan, 4 dr., 8 cyl., 214,000 miles. Silver. $2,995 obo. New tires, brakes & more. Good, quiet engine. Purrs like a kitten. 508-865-5372

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2007 Suzuki Boulevard Cruising Motorcycle C90T; 1474cc; 6300 miles, 1 owner, perfect cond. accessories and new battery. Garaged, covered & serviced. $6,000 508-8498635

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1932 Ford Coupe Little deuce Coupe, with a Corvette mill and four on the floor. 6,000 aprox. mi. Original hot rod, all steel, show car, looks and sounds great. Holden area. $42,000. 407-375-3917

1999 Pontiac Grand Am 6 Cylinder, automatic, needs work or use for parts. 159,903 miles. $675. 978-422-8084

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2012 Cadillac CTS AWD, 21,800 miles. Crystal red.

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Panoramic roof. Dealer maintained. Under warranty. $24,500.00 978-534-8860 1988 Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL 6 cylinder gas. Very good cond. Runs exc. $3200.00 195k miles. Located in Sutton, MA 774-287-0777

Food Service Equipment … TOOLS, TOO!

2014 Chevrolet Spark LT2 20K Mi. Silver 1.2 Auto Remote Start 37 Highway Mpg 32 City A/C C-D Heated Leather Cruise Fully Serviced, Fully Loaded 7,950 774-239-0800

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1978 MG MGB 47,000 mi.

Green ext. Very solid car from GA. Good overall condition. $7500. Please call 508-7351845.

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BOATS 18 Ft. Fiberglass Fishing Boat Galvanized roller trailer, 90HP mariner, outboard motor. $1250. Also 14 ft. boat & trailer. $500 508-853-5789. Ask for Stan.

25 HP Suzuki (Like New) with Boat & Trailer Holden area.

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Concrete Coating Phase III MA 12-01 Great Brook Valley Gardens Invitation For Bids The Worcester Housing Authority invites sealed bids for Concrete Coating Phase III at MA 12-01 Great Brook Valley Gardens in accordance with the documents prepared by Worcester Housing Authority. The work is estimated to cost $375,000. Project consists of but is not limited to: applying mineral silicate paint to concrete banding on up to 40 buildings with preparatory concrete repair and painted building signage. General Bids will be received until 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 16, 2017 at the Worcester Housing Authority, Department of Modernization, 81 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA 01605 at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. A pre-bid conference will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 81 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA 01605 at which time bidders will be invited to visit the project site(s) with the a Worcester Housing Authority representative. Failure to attend or visit the premises shall be no defense in failure to perform contract terms. Bids are subject to M.G.L c149 §44A-J and Davis Bacon wage rates as well as other applicable laws. General Bidders must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) in the following categories of work: Painting or Waterproofing, Damproofing and Caulking. Each bid shall be accompanied by a bid deposit in the amount of 5% of the bid price in the form of a Bid Bond, issued by a responsible surety company licensed to do business in Massachusetts, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, made payable to the Worcester Housing Authority by bidders for the greatest possible bid amount (considering all alternates). Bid forms and Contract Documents will be made available on the Worcester Housing Authority website (http://worcester-housing.com/purchasing.html) at no cost. Hard copies will be made available on January 18, 2017 at the Worcester Housing Authority, Department of Modernization, 81 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA 01605 and thereafter, Monday thru Friday 8:00 A.M. through 4:30 P. M. Copies of the contract documents may be obtained by depositing $50.00 in the form of a company check, made payable to the Worcester Housing Authority, for each set of documents so obtained. The amount of the deposit will be refunded to each person who returns the plans, specifications and other documents in good condition within ten (10) days after bid opening. Bidders requesting contract documents to be mailed to them should include a separate check in the amount of $40.00 for each set payable to the Worcester Housing Authority to cover mailing and handling costs.

The contract documents may be seen, but not removed at: 1. Worcester Housing Authority, Department of Modernization, 81 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA 01605 2. F.W. Dodge, 24 Hartwell Ave., Lexington, MA 02173 3. Reed Construction Data, 30 Technology Parkway South, Norcross, GA 30092 4. Project Dog, 18 Graf Road Unit #8 Plan Room, Newburyport, MA 01950 Attention is called to the following: 1. Provisions of Equal Employment Opportunity; 2. Provisions for payment of not less than the minimum wages as set forth in the Specifications; 3. Provisions of Chapter 14, Acts of 1966, Imposing a Temporary Sales Tax, Section 1, Subsection 6 (d) and (k) exempting the Authority from the operation of such a chapter; 4. Requirement to furnish and pay for a Performance Bond and a Labor and Materials Bond as set forth in the specifications, 5. Insurance certificate indicating coverage for public liability, property damage and workers compensation, in accordance with the contract requirements, must be filed by the successful bidder upon signing of the contract.

The contract will be awarded to the responsible and eligible bidder with the lowest proposed contract price including the dollar amount of all accepted alternates. Questions regarding this project shall be submitted in writing 72 hours prior to opening and emailed to Mod-Bids@worcester-housing.com.

Reference the WHA Job Number only in the subject line.

Worcester Housing Authority Dennis L. Irish, Chairperson DATE: January 2017 Sutton Planning Board Public Hearing Notice In accordance with the provisions of Section VI.H of the Sutton Zoning Bylaw, the Planning Board will hold a public hearing on the application of Silent Retreat, LLC of Boston, MA. The applicant seeks a special permit for a retreat lot with 22 +/acres and 52.67 +/- of road frontage at 82 Eight Lots Road. The hearing on this application will be held in the third floor meeting room at the Town Hall on Monday, February 6, 2017 at 7:05 P.M. A copy of the plan and application can be inspected in the office of the Town Clerk during normal office hours.

Scott Paul, Chairman

Sutton Planning Board Public Hearing Notice In accordance with the provisions of the Sutton Zoning Bylaw, Sections III.A. Use Regulations, IV.C. Site Plan Review, and V.D. Route 146 Overlay District, the Planning Board will hold a hearing on the applications of Anthony Rainka, Sutton, MA. The applications are to renovate the existing residential structure located at 214 Worcester/ Providence Turnpike into medical office space for his existing chiropractic practice. The hearing will be held at the Sutton Town Hall, third floor, on Monday, February 6, 2017 at 7:30 P.M. A copy of the application can be inspected in the office of the Town Clerk during normal office hours.

Scott Paul, Chairman

Sutton Planning Board Public Hearing Notice In accordance with the provisions of the Sutton Zoning Bylaw Section III.A. Use Regulations, Section IV.C. Site Plan Review, and Section VII. A. Special Permits, the Planning Board will hold a hearing on the application of Rock & Recycling, LLC of Devens, MA for use of the existing structure and property located at 79 Worcester/ Providence Turnpike for a retail sale of parts and construction equipment and service (screening & crushing/non-registered). The hearing will be held at the Sutton Town Hall, third floor, on Monday, February 6, 2017 at 7:15 P.M. A copy of the application can be inspected in the office of the Town Clerk during normal office hours.

Scott Paul, Chairman

Sutton Planning Board Public Hearing Notice In accordance with the provisions of Section VI.L of the Sutton Zoning Bylaw – Accessory Apartment Bylaw, the Planning Board will hold a public hearing on the application of Kristen Richards of 27 Lincoln Road to construct an attached 956 s.f. +/accessory apartment at this location.

The hearing will be held in the third floor meeting room at the Town Hall on Monday, February 6, 2017 at 7:45 P.M. A copy of the plans and application can be inspected in the office of the Town Clerk during normal office hours.

Scott Paul, Chairman

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester, ss. SUPERIOR COURT DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT CIVIL ACTION No.: 16-1561B JEFFREY KOSTRZEBA, Plaintiff VS MICHAEL DUVAL, Defendant ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION Upon Motion of Plaintiff for an order directing Michael Duval the defendant herein, to appear, plead or answer, in accordance with Mass. R. Civ. P. 4, it appearing to the Court that this is an action for personal injury complaint.

That the said Defendant cannot be found and that is present whereabouts are unknown; that personal service on said Defendant is therefore not practicable; and that said Defendant has not voluntarily appeared in this action. It is Ordered that said Defendant is directed to appear, plead, answer or otherwise move with respect to the complaint herein on or before February 1, 2017. If you fail to do so this court will proceed to a hearing and adjudication of this matter. It is further Ordered that the accompanying summons be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in the Worcester Magazine, a newspaper published in Worcester. By the court (Ricciardone, J.) Attest: Corinne L. Gorman, First Assistant Clerk 01/19/2017 WM

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester, ss. SUPERIOR COURT DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT CIVIL ACTION No. 17cv0034A To Edgar S. Stem III a/k/a Edgar S. Stem, of Nairobi, Country of Kenya; AND TO ALL PERSONS ENTITLED TO THE BENEFIT OF THE SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ CIVIL RELIEF ACT OF 1940 AS AMENDED: UniBank For Savings, a banking institution with a usual place of business in Whitinsville, County of Worcester, Massachusetts; claiming to be the holder of a mortgage covering property situated on Putnam Hill Road, being numbered 392 on said street, in Sutton, Massachusetts; given by Edgar S. Stem III to UniBank For Savings, dated August 8, 2006 and recorded in the Worcester District Registry of Deeds, Book 39561, Page 210, has filed with said court a Complaint for authority to foreclose said mortgage in the manner following: by entry on and possession of the premises therein described and by exercise of the power of sale contained in said mortgage. If you are entitled to the benefits of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940 as amended, and you object to such foreclosure you or your attorney should file a written appearance and answer in said court at Worcester in said County on or before the twentieth day of February, next or you may be forever barred from claiming that such foreclosure is invalid under said Act. Witness, Judith Fabricant, Esquire, Administrative Justice of said Court, this ninth day of January 2017 Dennis P. McManus Clerk 01/19/2017 MS

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Invitation For Bids The Worcester Housing Authority invites sealed bids for Phase III at MA12-01 Great Brook Valley Gardens in accordance with the documents prepared by Worcester Housing Authority. The work is estimated to cost $536,000, including Alternates. Project consists of but is not limited to: re-facing gable ends, replacing existing exterior lights and storm doors, and repointing masonry. General Bids will be received until 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, February 23, 2017 at the Worcester Housing Authority, Department of Modernization, 81 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA 01605 at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Filed Sub-Bids will be received until 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 7, 2017, and publicly opened and read aloud at the same address. Filed sub-bids will be taken for the following portions of work: Section 042110 –Brick Masonry Section 260000 – Electrical A pre-bid conference will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 81 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA 01605 at which time bidders will be invited to visit the project site(s) with the a Worcester Housing Authority representative. Failure to attend or visit the premises shall be no defense in failure to perform contract terms. Bids are subject to M.G.L c149 §44A-J and Davis Bacon wage rates as well as other applicable laws. General Bidders must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) in the following category of work: General Building Construction.

Each bid shall be accompanied by a bid deposit in the amount of 5% of the bid price in the form of a Bid Bond, issued by a responsible surety company licensed to do business in Massachusetts, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, made payable to the Worcester Housing Authority by bidders for the greatest possible bid amount (considering all alternates). Bid forms and Contract Documents will be made available on the Worcester Housing Authority website (http://worcester-housing.com/purchasing.html) at no cost. Hard copies will be made available on January 18, 2017 at the Worcester Housing Authority, Department of Modernization, 81 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA 01605 and thereafter, Monday thru Friday 8:00 A.M. through 4:30 P. M. Copies of the contract documents may be obtained by depositing $50.00 in the form of a company check, made payable to the Worcester Housing Authority, for each set of documents so obtained. The amount of the deposit will be refunded to each person who returns the plans, specifications and other documents in good condition within ten (10) days after bid opening. Bidders requesting contract documents to be mailed to them should include a separate check in the amount of $40.00 for each set payable to the Worcester Housing Authority to cover mailing and handling costs.The contract documents may be seen, but not removed at: 1. Worcester Housing Authority, Department of Modernization, 81 Tacoma Street, Worcester, MA 01605 2. F.W. Dodge, 24 Hartwell Ave., Lexington, MA 02173 3. Reed Construction Data, 30 Technology Parkway South, Norcross, GA 30092 4. Project Dog, 18 Graf Road Unit #8 Plan Room, Newburyport, MA 01950 Attention is called to the following: 1. Provisions of Equal Employment Opportunity; 2. Provisions for payment of not less than the minimum wages as set forth in the Specifications; 3. Provisions of Chapter 14, Acts of 1966, Imposing a Temporary Sales Tax, Section 1, Subsection 6 (d) and (k) exempting the Authority from the operation of such a chapter; 4. Requirement to furnish and pay for a Performance Bond and a Labor and Materials Bond as set forth in the specifications, 5. Insurance certificate indicating coverage for public liability, property damage and workers compensation, in accordance with the contract requirements, must be filed by the successful bidder upon signing of the contract.

The contract will be awarded to the responsible and eligible bidder with the lowest proposed contract price including the dollar amount of all accepted alternates. Questions regarding this project shall be submitted in writing 72 hours prior to opening and emailed to Mod-Bids@worcester-housing.com.

Reference the WHA Job Number 2016-03 only in the subject line.

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Sutton Planning Board Public Hearing Notice In accordance with the provisions of the Sutton Zoning Bylaw Section III.A.- Table of Use Regulations, IV.C. Site Plan Review, and VII.A.2.

Special Permits, the Planning Board will hold a hearing on the application of Tommy-John Fox, Johnston, RI for use of the existing structure and property located at 140 Worcester/Providence Tpk for sales of hydroponic, aeorponic and organic gardening supplies. The hearing will be held at the Sutton Town Hall, third floor, on Monday, February 6, 2017 at 8:00 P.M. A copy of the application can be inspected in the office of the Town Clerk during normal office hours.

Scott Paul, Chairman

WORCESTER HOUSING AUTHORITY ADVERTISEMENT FOR PROPOSALS JANUARY 19, 2017 SEALED PROPOSALS shall be received at the Purchasing Office, 69 Tacoma Street., Worcester, MA 01605 RFPs may be picked up at the location above or may be downloaded from our website: www.worcester-housing.com/purchasing, or call (508) 635-3203, TDD (508) 798-4530. Proposers are responsible for ensuring they have received any/all addenda prior to submitting a proposal.

Separate awards will be made for each RFP. WHA reserves the right to reject any or all responses, in whole or in part, deemed to be in their best interest. Award of all contracts is subject to the approval of the WHA Executive Director or Board of Commissioners. The Operating Agency shall indemnify and hold harmless the WHA and its officers or agents from any and all third party claims arising from activities under these Agreements as set forth in MGL c.258, section 2 as amended.

Bid No. Release Date 16-39 January 19, 2017

Project Title Summer 2017 Educational & Recreational Programming Pre-Proposal Conference at WHA - 40 Belmont St, Worcester MA 01605

Jackson Restrepo Chief Procurement Officer Visit our website at: www.worcester-housing.com/purchasing

Bid Opening 10:00 A.M. February 22, 2017 1:30 P.M. February 3, 2017

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3 Piece Meal 3 Piece Meal hails from Worcester, but its members - Akiba Davis, Asir Arif and Diego Baraona - are from Maine, Bangladesh and El Salvador. Diego and Asif met in 2014 at a Jazz Workshop rehearsal at Clark University. They jammed afterward and realized their musical styles blended well together. Baraona and Davis knew each other from soccer practice, and Arif met Davis later at a Jazz Theory class they took last year at Clark. Baraona and Davis formed a jazz combo, and asked Arif to play bass with them. The first time they all played together was a random jam at a food fair. Fast-forward to now, and the trio has recorded their debut album, entitled “Tomorrow’s Forecast.” The band hopes to have the album out by the end of January.

What kind of style would you say your music is? Our music continues to evolve as we

mature as musicians and individuals.

What started off as more of a funk rock project became more of an experimental thing, where we started describing most of our music as progressive indie rock.

We fuse a lot of blues, rock, grunge and R&B elements into our music, and we experiment with different time signatures, different line-ups and different song structures. We all come from different musical backgrounds, so all of our different interests and experiences enable us to create a sound that’s rather unique.

What are your individual backgrounds in music?

We all come from very different musical backgrounds. Akiba has been making electronic and hip hop beats under the alias ‘Kiba Sound’ for four years now, and he grew up playing a lot of reggae and jazz with his parents and other local musicians in Portland, Maine. He’s also been playing piano for 14 years and drums for eight years. He’s collaborated with many local musicians from Portland, Worcester and New York since then. Diego comes from a strong blues background, but he has some of the largest collection of indie music we’ve ever seen. He’s been playing guitar for about 10 years. He’s played in a couple bands back in San Salvador, and he’s played with the jazz band and combo at Clark. [I have] played in blues bands, rock bands and jazz bands in the past, and [have] spent a lot of [my] time practicing jazz-fusion guitar, and writing lyrics. [I] was very involved in the music scene in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where [I] played guitar and bass for a couple different bands for

out quite well in the end. We recorded most of the vocals and some final takes at [my] home studio, which was a little four years. [I] also taught music at a high more chilled out since we could access it school for almost a year. [I am] also heavily in our own time, but it was still quite a inspired by hip-hop and [have] been grind since we basically did nothing but collaborating with different artists and focus on recording, editing and producing producers for his solo stuff. this album for six months straight until the end of last summer. Now we’ve sent it Talk to me a bit about your new album. Our over to a producer from Bangladesh, Rakat debut album is a concept album about Zami, to do the final mix and masters, and contemplating revolution and addressing he’s really bringing the entire thing to life. different social issues. It will be called ‘Tomorrow’s Forecast,’ and it basically Is the final product what you envisioned when starts off with songs that talk about issues you went into the studio? Not exactly. When with corporate capitalism, war for profit, we first went into the studio, we thought sexism, climate change and other pressing we were going to come out with something matters. What we tried to do with the that sounds very Garage Rock, with very album is not so much really tell people little production. However, as we kept what needs to be done, rather just get the on recording, we also simultaneously message out there to raise awareness, and kept on developing our sound and all build a sense of community – how things our tracks. Interestingly, we actually might be bad, but we’re all in it together, improvised some parts of our songs in and change is possible. This is where the studio and added some parts just before second part of the album comes in, where recording, so we continuously molded we still continue to discuss some issues, the tracks. When we realized we were but focus more on how we can sustain coming up with more of a versatile album both a professional life, and still continue than we had initially planned, we decided to give back to the world and inspire that we wanted to make it sound more others to do the same ... We aim to release professional. Now, listening to all the it by the end of January. final mixes, we’re actually much more satisfied with how it all came together How was the recording process? We than we ever thought we’d be. However, recorded a significant portion of the album there’s always room for improvement, and in the University studio, which we got our biggest flaw, perhaps, is the fact that access to thanks to Akiba, who majored in we’re perfectionists, and we shouldn’t music at Clark. We didn’t work with any be because this is art. That’s one of the other producers or engineers during the reasons the recording process took longer recording process, so it was just the three than we expected it to, because we kept of us, sometimes two of us, depending on coming back to the tracks to make them the schedule, just sort of doing everything sound better. We’re stoked to see what at once, and getting things done as fast as people think of it. we could. It was definitely a little hectic Your lyrics are political. What is the message and sometimes stressful, but it worked

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or messages you are trying to get across to the listener? Basically, we’re not

really trying to tell people what they should think or how they should live their lives at all. What we’re discussing about is something that affects almost everyone, not just in America, but all around the world. We’re not saying anything that’s never been said before either, we’re just using our platforms to emphasize it, to emphasize the fact that corporate capitalism isn’t working, and hasn’t worked for the masses, that it’s only worked for the rich, and created a divide among people that led to upholding new and old class struggles.

We’re emphasizing the fact that climate change is very real, and there’s no point in discussing who’s going to come up on top if the top is under the ocean in a couple of decades. We’re emphasizing the fact that spending billions of dollars on military equipment and war, rather than funding the education and health systems, and continuing to ruin people’s lives and enabling the spread of racism, Islamophobia, poverty and political instability doesn’t help anyone.

Do you have any shows coming up? We’ve

been so focused on getting the album done that we haven’t had a chance to really play or organize many shows. We’re always down to play shows though, and now that the album’s almost out, we’re looking to play more shows. We’re going to plan to play at festivals and venues throughout the Worcester, Boston and New York areas soon. We have this performance coming up on the 20th at Clark University for the Martin Luther King Jr. Racial Justice Teach-In Day. – Tom Matthews

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