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ass incarceration is one of the gravest problems facing our time. The U.S. leads the world in imprisoned citizens. And, if Massachusetts were its own country, its incarceration rate would be 10th in the world. While our rate is lower than that of other states (we’re second lowest in the country), it’s still high. And the rate of ex-prisoners who end up back in prison is even higher, at 44 percent. Think about that. Almost half of the prisoners released in this state are expected to return there. So what can be done? On the local level, there are good folks trying. Part of the problem is returning citizens are not set up to succeed when they’re released. It takes months to get a state ID, many end up homeless and others fall right back in with the same people that got them in trouble. This week, we look at what folks are doing in Worcester to get returning citizens back on their feet as the government takes a serious look at criminal justice reform for the first time in years.

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City councilors look at how tax deals can help small biz

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icro-TIFs for small businesses: a buzzy term for sure, but it’s something that may be in the works at City Hall.

After reviewing a report on TIF, on tax increment financing agreements the city has with businesses, the Economic Development Subcommittee this week pushed the Economic Development Office for more programs that help small businesses.

TIFs, many agree, aren’t perfect, but they’re a useful tool for attracting corporate wealth and building projects to the city. And while the focus on corporate interest is necessary, each of the three subcommittee members agreed the city could do more for its small businesses.

What that could look like, however, is up for debate. District 3 Councilor George Russell pressed for micro-TIFs that could help smaller or mid-sized businesses expand operations. Chairman and District 1 Councilor Tony Economou asked for a small business liaison team to help first time or struggling owners navigate city and state resources. District

4 Councilor Sarai Rivera, meanwhile, called for the Economic Development Office to foster targeted investments on economically depressed streets like Pleasant and Chandler.

The essential question at the meeting this week was how the city could take the basic premise of a TIF – that is, exchange tax relief for business activity that wouldn’t otherwise happen – and apply it on a smaller scale.

“I’d like to see with the TIF policy going forward more availability for smaller businesses,” said Russell.

“You wonder when you look around the districts, and even right out here on Main Street, you see many of the storefronts are unoccupied or sometimes businesses don’t make it too long. You wonder if things couldn’t be done on a smaller level.”

The TIF program has demonstrated success.

From 2012-17, there were 24 active TIF plans in Worcester. Combined, they proved to be a significant driver of economic activity. Businesses with TIFs created 1,679 full-time, permanent jobs and retained another 4,682. Of

Shuttered storefronts on Pleasant Street were highlighted as a concern at the Economic Development subcommittee meeting Tuesday, June 20.

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A weekly quality of life check-in of Worcester

Boo to Mother Nature for raining out the outdoors display of the Patriots’ Super Bowl LI trophy. Still, even indoors it looked pretty cool. +1

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Journey back in Worcester?

Even without Steve Perry, that’s wicked awesome. +2

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Why didn’t the city open up its spray parks on really hot days?

Because school wasn’t out, yet? Let’s work on that next year. -2

T&G’s Dianne Williamson posts butt crack photo on FB. Is quickly taken to task for fat shaming by blog that makes living on shaming on others. Negative on both. -2

City View Elementary School kids meet horse they helped name for Worcester PD’s Mounted Patrol Unit.

Giddy up! +1

City announces unveiling of new pilot website.

No link to Worcester Magazine, apparently, but still an upgrade over the old one. +2

Worcester Public Schools strategic plan announced. No details other than it’s to make our schools really, really good. +1/ -1

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Water main breaks in Worcester continue to remind us of aging water/ sewer infrastructure.

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Energy plan yields SmartGrid queries Bill Shaner

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orcester residents enrolled in the Smart Grid program could soon see savings on their electric bill, or at least more stable bills month-to-month.

The City Council this week unanimously approved an energy aggregate plan that could lower bills and keep price hikes to a minimum.

The Municipal Electric Aggregation essentially pools all of Worcester’s National Grid ratepayers, except for the ones who specify where they would like their energy to come from, into one negotiating block. The aggregation allows the city to negotiate with National Grid for a cheaper rate, but only for customers enrolled in the Smart Grid program, of which there are about 15,000.

“By us kind of combining, or bulk purchasing, if you will, the supply of this electricity, we’re going to negotiate a cheaper price than you would as an individual consumer trying to navigate the dozens of choices you might have for energy supplies,” said City Manager Ed Augustus Jr. “It’s going to be a good thing and a competitive advantage for our community.”

According to an estimate provided but the city’s Energy and Assets Department, the average residential customer could see a savings of $30 a year, or 3 percent of an overall bill. Across all participating households, the savings could be $2.48

National Grid “smart city” rendering.

million over the year period. Officials estimate the program could launch by June 2018.

“It’s a win win for everyone,” said District 1 Councilor Tony Economou.

Most of the Council was receptive to the idea, while any criticism was aimed largely at the tangentially-related SmartMeter program.

District 3 Councilor George Russell did probe John Odell, director of Energy and

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Assets, on whether the $30 a year was worth the hassle and administrative cost of getting the city on the program.

Cost savings are just one benefit, said Odell, acknowledging the savings are modest. Where the program would really help is in dramatic spikes in energy cost from month to month.

For two years in a row, he said, National Grid customers across Massachusetts saw dramatic

spikes in per-kilowatt hour cost in the fall.

“While it won’t completely absolve that, it will significantly moderate that increase,” said Odell.

Along with cost savings and stability, the program could lead to greater reliance on green energy sources and would provide the city government with some funding for continued on page 7

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{ citydesk } struggling neighborhoods.

Russell said a micro-TIF program would those, 1,500 went to Worcester residents. help small businesses take the next step TIFs kept 14 businesses in the city, attracted to building or expanding in the city, and three and helped spur nine development could incentivize businesses running on a projects. Seven of those projects were in the shoestring budget to fully realize a vision. downtown area. Though the essential point Rivera turned the Economic Development of a TIF is to offer tax breaks to businesses, they added $202 million to the real estate tax Office’s attention toward Pleasant Street, which has the bones of a healthy, highbase and generated $35 million in property density and highly-walkable retail corridor, tax revenue, according to a memo from the especially closer to Main Street.

Economic Development Office.

“It’s just been a struggle,” she said.

But, of the 24 businesses with TIFS, six had Some successes, like Cool Licks, an ice fallen out of compliance with the terms of the agreement. This was the reason the Economic cream shop that recently opened on Pleasant Development Office wrote the report. At-Large Street, have “changed the whole dynamic,” SMALL BUSINESS continued from page 4

“You look around the city, you can feel the energy. You can feel it happening.”

- District 1 City Councilor Tony Eonomou, on the momentum of business development in Worcester

Councilor Konnie Lukes had called for it over concerns the businesses were not holding up certain ends of the bargain.

The six companies were Harr Toyota, Hanover Insurance, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, Unum Group, Sedler Corporation and Beechwood Inc, and Universal Metal Business Trust. Most fell against hard times, and had to back off one or two aspects of the agreement, according to the Economic Development memo. They all had state tax credits revoked for failure to achieve job creation goals.

Chief Development Officer Michael Traynor stressed in the memo that, though they didn’t meet employment goals, the companies helped to clean blighted properties and expand the tax base.

But the intent of the order went largely without discussion by the Economic Development subcommittee. The three members were more interested in how the city could apply the principal of TIFs to certain

Rivera said. She wants to see more of it.

Economou pushed the idea of a small business review team at City Hall to help owners navigate the system. While it wouldn’t create any tax deals for them, it could help keep doors open or get doors open sooner. He asked the Economic Development Office to look at both that and a micro-TIF. But he also said the general economic upswing of the city may do more than anything to improve the small business culture.

“You look around the city, you can feel the energy,” Economou said. “You can feel it happening.”

It’s the same energy, he said, that could, and maybe should, make TIF plans for corporate partners a thing of the past.

Bill Shaner can be reached at 508-7493166 or at wshaner@worcestermag.com.

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municipal sustainability staffing and programs, according to the Energy and Assets Department memo.

The agreement does not further involve the city in individual electric bills.

Russell asked whether the city could have shopped around for a better energy rate from another provider, but Odell called National Grid “the only game in town.”

While the program is only tangentially connected to the so-called smart electric meters that proved a significant controversy several years ago, the issue still made its way into the discussion Tuesday. As they did with the smart grid meters, residents have the option of opting out of the aggregate plan.

But At-Large Councilor Konnie Lukes pushed on the SmartMeter issue Tuesday.

“There was a concern that, in fact, there were some potential hazards to those folks who had to buy into the concept of SmartMeters,” she said.

Some people were averse to SmartMeters, she said, and worked hard to opt out of them.

The issue was complicated and, at times, overwhelming. There have also been several health concerns raised about the SmartMeters.

“When I saw this come before us and the Smart Grid program, those past memories flashed before my eyes,” she said.

She asked if the city could prevent the SmartMeter program from progressing. Odell said it was a state issue and the city has little control.

Lukes said the aggregate program should go to the public service subcommittee for more discussion.

District 5 Councilor Gary Rosen shared Lukes concern. He asked the city manager for more information on the SmartMeter program, which is still a pilot program.

“It seems like this has been the longest pilot program known to man,” he said.

He said he wants a report for the fall.

“I really want to know, are we going to reach the point in Worcester where every one of us has a smart meter?” Rosen asked.

What he worries about, he said, is retaining the choice to either opt in or out of the smart

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“It seems like this has been the longest pilot program known to man.”

- District 5 Councilor Gary Rosen, on National Grid’s Smart Grid pilot program in Worcester.

meter program Others pointed out the two issues are largely separate.

“This report is not about the SmartMeter,” said Mayor Joe Petty. “Let’s be very clear about that.”

Bill Shaner can be reached at 508-7493166 or at wshaner@worcestermag.com.

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THIRD DOG PARK:

As the City Council was working its way through a proposed $1.5 million capital expense line item, District 3 Councilor George Russell pointed out there was $250,000 in there for a dog park, but didn’t the Council already approve funding for two dog parks? Turns out, there’s a third in the works, somewhere in the downtown area. Though officials didn’t say where, it will likely take the city from zero dog parks to three in just as many years, if not fewer. Dogs and dog owners, rejoice. Though there was some mild scrutiny of how much certain items cost – $3,000 for two laptops was one – the Council approved the capital spending after only a short discussion.

NEW WEBSITE: City officials will show off

the new and improved Worcester city website at a ceremony today for the soft launch. The full website is expected to come online in July. So head to your computer Thursday afternoon to see if your least favorite feature of the current site got fixed. Myself, I’m hoping it takes less than five clicks to get to a meeting agenda, that meeting videos are easier to find, that the calendar links to more information about individual calendar items, that databases of city information aren’t so buried, that there are more databases, that– I could basically go on forever. In the Worcester Magazine newsroom, this is among the most anticipated developments of the summer.

LUKES V THE CAC: Councilor-at-large Konnie Lukes didn’t get the chance she was hoping for last week to blast the Citizens Advisory Council for its handling of an interview the week prior, as Mayor Joe Petty shut the conversation down before it began, citing legal restrictions. But she snuck in a few jabs Tuesday night. When CAC member Etel Haxhiaj asked local attorney Margaret Melican about her involvement with local anonymous blog Turtleboy Sports, she showed “blatant insubordination, disregard for the manager’s rules on interviewing,” Lukes said. Haxhiaj had asked Melican a question not asked of other candidates, pertaining to her world view and involvement with what she called a “hate blog” (I believe a more appropriate term is “dumb as hell blog”). Lukes said the question showed disparate treatment of the kind that disqualifies the process. If that’s the way the CAC is going to operate, the City Council should just assume the role, she said. I’m including this next quote in full because it is especially rich. “We had people in here being punished because of their political activities. Well, City Council can do that better than anybody. Why do we need a CAC to do that? We don’t. We can do that and be held accountable for conducting ourselves in what is an inappropriate manner.” Full disclosure, Worcester Magazine editor Walter Bird serves on the CAC. He voted for Melican, and said he felt uncomfortable with Haxhiaj’s line of questioning.

TEACHER CONTRACT: The School Committee approved the school budget by a 5-2 vote last week, including a roughly $152-million line for teacher contracts. While the budget is now set, the contract dispute is far from over. Mayor Joe Petty , who also serves on the School Committee, said this week the School Committee is willing to sit down with the Education Association of Worcester, the teachers union. Roger Nugent , president of the union, didn’t respond to a call made earlier in the day, but he is having teachers mail postcards to Superintendent Maureen Binienda , so it appears the political theater of the dispute is far from over.

STRATEGIC PLAN: Meanwhile, the school district has launched a strategic planning process, its first since 1992. At a presser on Friday, school officials released some scant details on the start of the process, but promised the goal is to make Worcester Public Schools the best school system in the state. While Worcester Public Schools have been steadily improving, and aren’t nearly as bad as some would paint them to be, there’s a few other “W” districts Worcester would have to knock out before reaching number 1, especially Weston. That waspy MetroWest district would be the final boss battle for Worcester, and I’m not sure the district could ever have what it takes to match those numbers. District officials said they’d start the strategic plan by gathering data and internal reports, and gathering comparative data of other districts. Also, the planning will be funded by private donors, so that’s good. See, Weston? Private donors. We’re coming for you.

MORE WASHERS IN SCHOOLS? While at the strategic plan press conference, our ambitious intern Emma Monahan unearthed a little news. Apparently, the district is looking to expand the laundry program sooner rather than later. The trial run at Sullivan Middle School was launched a few weeks ago, but Superintendent Maureen Binienda told our intern she’s looking at four other schools, and is meeting with UMass next week to discuss more funding.

The laundry program, which is really just a few washers and dryers made available to the

{ worcesteria } students, has proved a real talk of the town, and Monahan’s story was well-read online. Some feel the program will help poor students maintain a higher quality of life, while others see it as an indictment of modern society. Myself? I come from a background privileged enough that my mom or grandmother did my laundry until I was a teen, so it’s really not my place to weigh in on this. I simply don’t have the necessary perspective. It would be productive if some of you followed my lead.

MOLLY BISH BREAKTHROUGH? Last Thursday, a forensic investigator brought some ground penetrating radar equipment to an abandoned campground in West Brookfield. His hope: finding an old sedan possibly buried in connection with the 2000 murder of Molly Bish. He and other investigators were out there the whole day, but said it’s unlikely they’d have anything to report without first taking the radar results back to the lab. We haven’t heard anything yet, but after 17 years, it’s the best recent lead on a decades-long cold case that devastated much of central Mass. Here’s hoping the radar helps break the case.

COLLEGE COST: Higher education costs are out of control across the country, and Central Mass. is no exception. According to a report in the Telegram Wednesday, campuses across the area are increasing tuition and fees for next year. But some public college students will see a little break. Some money allocated in the state Senate budget will help students with certain mandatory fees. Worcester State will lower fees from $420 to a range of $230 to $330, as the university is slated to receive about $1 million more from the state. As far as tuition goes, those attending local private colleges are out of luck.Holy Cross is hiking tuition from $48,200 to $50,000. Clark’s will go from $42,800 to $44,050. WPI will see a similar increase, from $46,995 to $48,628.

LAKE AVE BABY: While we’re on the subject of horrific crimes committed against area youth, there’s little I can say and even less I can say in print, about the people who killed or otherwise disposed of a baby in a trash bag found Monday off Lake Ave. It’s the kind of soul-sucking situation that leaves this reporter feeling exhausted and spiteful.

PHOTO SUBMITTED POOP PATROL: OK, before I spiral further into the kind of funk provoked by thinking of a baby dying in a trash bag, I bring you some Real News. Finally, we have concrete answers. The new mounted patrol program launched by the Worcester Police Department has reminded us all of the age-old parable: Horses poop, even cop horses.

But who cleans up that poop? The cops will, that’s who. The horses will be outfitted with shovels and brooms. Cops will clean up the poop and bring it to local farms, according to the Telegram and Gazette. Apparently, horses poop Worcester police mounted patrol. a lot – nine times a day for a total of roughly 50 pounds. Almost makes you feel bad for the cops. Around City Common, at least according to what a couple mounted cops told WM a few weeks back, City Hall’s “Shorty” will scoop things up. During training, the cops said they looped back to scoop the poop.

WAR CHEST WATCH: Don’t forget, it’s election season in Worcester, even if it’s a relatively tame one. Right about now, City Council candidates are just getting out into the community, holding signs, going door to door. But they’re also starting to court serious fundraising dollars.

Here’s a look at the most recently-reported campaign account balances in the at-large race.

Mayor Joe Petty leads the pack, with a balance $14,683; incumbent Mo Bergman is in second, with $11,688; After Bergman is incumbent Mike Gaffney, with $8,245, then incumbent Khrystian King, with $6,984; incumbent Kate Toomey has $6,636; incumbent Konnie Lukes has $2,221. And then, the challengers. District 5 Councilor Gary Rosen has a balance of $251 and challenger Ben Straight has a balance of $100. So far, only Petty has signaled his intention to run for mayor, and it seems he has the financial backing to prove it.

In the likely-to-be-heated District 4 race, incumbent Sarai Rivera is far ahead of challenger Coreen Gaffney, wife of Mike Gaffney. Rivera has a balance of $23,924 to Gaffney’s has $4,562.

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slants/rants Editorial Ignore spin on washers/dryers in schools

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dmittedly, this editor raised an eyebrow when it was first revealed that Sullivan Middle School in Worcester was affording students the opportunity to bring their dirty clothes to school to be cleaned. Not unlike many skeptics and critics, the first reaction was: really? Now we have to wash their clothes? What next? Tuck them into bed?

But that is the reaction of a cynic. Worse, it is the response of the ignorant.

It is easy to say, “In my day …,” but the fact is, this isn’t my day. Or your day, if you came of age a decade or more ago. We live in times many of us could not envision 10, 20, 30 years ago. But then, our parents could have said — and probably did say — the same thing about us. Ditto, their parents.

The idea that a child might be so unclean, so dirty, that he or she would choose to stay at home and not go to school may strike some of us as hard to believe. But if you never had to worry about clean clothes, a bar of soap and a toothbrush, why would — and how could — you relate?

While Worcester Public Schools have not released hard data to back up their assertion that some kids are skipping schools because of dirty clothes, it would take the most obtuse of us to deny there are students for whom a washer and dryer at home would prove a mighty luxury. Think back to when you were in school. We all had that classmate who smelled awful; whose teeth were rotting even at 12, 13, 14 years old; whose clothes hadn’t been washed in days, weeks or more. Back then, those kids got teased, sometimes a little worse.

Today, they probably get the same treatment, but the methods are much more insidious since the advent of social media. Whereas someone in school 30 years ago may have been laughed at, maybe tossed into the gym showers, today that same student might be photographed on a cell phone, their image shared with hundreds and thousands. And you’ve seen how vile and disgusting people can be when anonymity is afforded.

Most of us take for granted the sorts of amenities many children lack. And we’re not just talking parents who spend all their money on lottery tickets. Some parents simply don’t know any better. Some parents are so poorly-educated themselves, they simply lack the wherewithal to take proper care of their children. Some cultures don’t have the same ideals as we do when it comes to hygiene.

Other battle addiction to the point of neglecting their own kids.

It is unreasonable to expect that the child of a family living in filth and squalor in one area of the city enjoys the same basic necessities as a child living in luxury somewhere else.

What about laundromats, you ask? That takes money. And if a child’s parents are devoting every loose coin to other pursuits, say goodbye to that.

We have gotten to a point in society beyond just saying, “In my day ...” Instead, we ridicule. We punish. We troll on Facebook. We hide behind emojis and anonymous social media names and pretend to hold the moral majority.

What we have forgotten, what we seem to have discarded somewhere along the way, is basic human decency. Shame on us.

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Remembering Watergate Janice Harvey

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he comparisons were inescapable and inevitable between Donald Trump’s messy presidency and the “simple burglary” that led to Richard Nixon’s resignation and disgrace. Since Watergate, all scandals carry the “gate” label and “Trumpgate” just might stick.

Every pundit has unearthed Nixon’s bones in recent days; how could they not, given Trump’s Nixonian paranoia and obsession with obstruction?

“What did he know and when did he know it?” has resurfaced as the question of the day for Trump and his boot-licking inner circle. Hourly, the words “BREAKING NEWS” flash across the TV screen as developments occur faster than viewers can catch up with the details. Frankly, I’m hooked - just as I was in 1974.

MSNBC recently aired the documentary “All the President’s Men Revisited,” a mix of Watergate footage and interviews with actors Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, who portrayed Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the film, along with the trailblazing Washington Post reporters themselves. Once I got past the terrible hair dye Redford still sports (come on, Bob! What’s the point? Nobody has copper-tinted hair at 80!) it was one helluva trip down memory lane and into that dimly-lit parking garage with Deep Throat.

I was a senior in high school when Watergate dominated the news, only months before Richard Nixon told America he’d “never been a quitter,” and quit. I hunched over copies of the New York Times and the Washington Post in South High’s homeroom No. 5 each day, with a cup of coffee in my inkwell.

If that sounds improbable, you would have to know that my homeroom and Social Studies teacher was Clifford Hulbert, one of the most inspiring educators to ever cross my path. I sat in front of Hulbert’s desk for Current Affairs and Irish History (Before the likes of MCAS, such fascinating courses were offered to students. Go figure.).

Hulbert was a conservative protestant of Scandanavian descent — facts that he marveled at, teaching the history of Ireland — and he recognized in me both a budding love of politics and my liberal argumentative side. Regularly, he would stand on his chair and kiss the American flag that

hung over his desk, determined to get a rise out of me. My denim jacket sported peace signs and a cherished “Bobby Kennedy for President” button. I despised Nixon from the get-go, and Watergate had me energized. Each day, on my long hike to school from Columbus Park to Richard Street, I formulated my arguments. He’d often poke holes in them, but he never made me feel naive or dumb, though naivete was in abundance. Who could believe that a president could be involved in such a ridiculous scheme? Who could believe he’d tape himself admitting his involvement?

Go figure.

The newspapers I read were provided by another member of the Social Studies department named Graenem Yoffe. The bespectacled Yoffe was never actually my teacher, but he heard through Hulbert that I was enthralled by the scandal, and he brought the papers in for me to read. I realize now, after teaching for many years, what it’s like to have a kid show interest in a subject. It rekindles in educators the desire to teach that first led to that career choice. I was a lucky child to have two dedicated gentlemen take the time to nurture in me the need to know.

I wanted to be Carl Bernstein.

Woodward seemed too waspy and Bernstein had great hair, which he still has (Note to Redford: It’s white.

Take the hint.).

Before Woodward and Bernstein, I wanted to be Rosalind Russell’s reporter in “His Girl Friday” - all rapid-fire tough talk, yet glamorous and alluring. I’ve only managed the first half of that wish.

Woodward and Bernstein were more my style, and their photos soon joined those of Jimmy Stewart, Paul Newman and a sun-kissed Redford, scotch-taped to my bedroom wall.

Woodward, Bernstein, Hulbert and Yoffe: four men who made me want to write about the world around me.

As schools close for the summer, I thank my teachers posthumously for lighting that fire, fanning it into a blazing need to know. I am forever curious and grateful, and I will follow this unfolding scandal with at least two angels on my shoulder.

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nce in a while, a high-profile case based out of Massachusetts comes to light. The media cover every angle, social media users put in their two sense, and you yourself can’t help but be hooked on the outcome. Two years ago, it was Baby Doe. Lately, Molly Bish’s 2000 disappearance has been coming back to the eyes of the media, and more recently, Michelle Carter’s name has been making waves.

We’re all familiar with the case. On Friday, June 16, Carter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, ruled by Mass. Judge Lawrence ELIZABETH BROOKS Moniz.

The question remains as to why Carter did what she did. Personally, I wasn’t surprised by the verdict, relieved even, for the sake of Roy’s family. Obviously, Carter didn’t commit murder with her own two hands, but the judge clearly states why she’s charged.

“She admits in … texts that she did nothing.

She did not call the police or Mr. Roy’s family.

And, finally, she did not issue a simple additional instruction: Get out of the truck,” the judge said.

The defense tried to argue Carter was taking medication for her own depression, blocking her empathy, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who 100 percent agrees with that. Don’t get me wrong, I know depression is a serious thing and that medication can ultimately help someone, but during this case, I felt as though it was only a ploy, something to show the judge she’s not guilty.

Roy’s mother, Lynn, spoke with the Boston Herald after Carter’s conviction, saying, “I think she needs to be held responsible for her actions ‘cause she knew exactly what she was doing.”

Carter had no sympathy for the fact that her boyfriend, someone she loved, was going to kill himself. When he reached out for help, she ignored it, pushing him to continue on. Maybe, in the back of her mind, she thought he actually wasn’t doing it, but we don’t know.

It also begs the question: What if it were you? From the parents’ point of view, that is. I fully believe Carter deserved some kind of punishment. But what if you were the parents of the victim? You’d obviously want justice for your child. Roy’s father had said the family was happy with the outcome, according to the New York Times.

I’m not a parent, but even if that had happened to someone I love, whether a friend or family member, I’d be mad, so mad I would probably scream in the court room.

Roy’s mother said it perfectly: “I don’t believe she has a conscience. The fact that she would say to him, ‘Your family will get over you.’ How is that even – I will never get over him.”

It’s murder, but then again, it’s not. Carter didn’t kill Roy physically, but mentally, with her words, she did.

As I stated before, Carter deserved some kind of punishment for her actions. If she ends up in jail, it won’t be for long, and if she doesn’t, she’ll get some kind of long-term probation.

It’s frustrating to think about this, because all I can imagine is what the Roy family is going through, and if this girl isn’t put behind bars, what will she do?

The problem is, we don’t know the answer to that question, or many others, and we hope and pray something like this will never happen again, and that hopefully not only the state, but the country, will be able to figure out how to handle another case like this.

Emma Monahan is an intern with Worcester Magazine. She attends Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams.

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ichelle Carter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for her involvement in the 2014 suicide of Conrad Roy III, a decision that not only violates free-speech protections of the constitution while pushing the limits of Massachusetts criminal law, but also reinforces problematic attitudes towards end-of-life concerns. The verdict carries potential repercussions that will reverberate well beyond the bounds of this case.

In a statement issued immediately following the verdict, the ACLU of Massachusetts calls the decision “a drastic expansion of criminal law in Massachusetts.” The ACLU goes on to state the conviction, “exceeds the limits of our criminal laws and violates free speech protections guaranteed by the Massachusetts and U.S. Constitutions.”

While Carter, who had no physical role in Roy’s death, was ruled “virtually present” in 2015 — an idea which, while questionable, is a valid consideration given the everincreasing import of technology in society — this presence was limited to a phone call in which she allegedly told Roy to renter the fume-filled truck. In her “virtual presence,” Carter had no way of forcing Roy back into the vehicle. She was not there to hold the door shut or force him into the toxic environment. His decision to return was ultimately his own.

Moreover, according to the New York Times, no recording of this phone conversation, the very heart of the prosecution’s case, exists. It is impossible to know what was actually said in this conversation and to what extent it may have contributed to Roy’s actions.

Carter’s only action in Roy’s suicide was no action at all, but a failure to act. “She called no one, and finally, she did not issue a simple additional instruction: ‘Get out of the truck,’” Judge Lawrence Moniz pronounced before issuing his verdict.

The very idea that Carter had a responsibility to act, however, speaks to a much larger societal concern that extends well beyond the case at hand.

The constant impetus to criminalize suicide is reflective of disturbingly puritanical notions still prominent in modern society that demand individuals endure suffering as some kind of cosmic penance.

Any individual has a right to end their life. While tragic that a person should find themselves in such extreme suffering that they choose death over life, it is a decision that deserves respect.

While laws against suicide have dissolved across the U.S. over the past century, the surrounding stigma has not, and there remains a constant urge, as in the Carter case, to criminalize willful death by identifying a perpetrator.

This stigma is nothing new, and the Carter verdict will only take it to more dangerous heights.

In the same statement, the ACLU expresses concern that the conviction “could chill important end-of-life discussions between loved ones.” Individuals will be less likely to reach out to a friend in need if potential legal repercussions lurk behind every mention of suicide, leaving sufferers increasingly isolated and thus increasingly likely to end their lives.

A text message in which Carter admits to having told Roy to return to the vehicle has been called the most damning piece of evidence against her, but it may actually be her saving grace.

“I f------ told him to get back in because I knew he would do it all over again the next day and I couldn’t have him live the way he was living anymore. I couldn’t do it I wouldn’t let him,” Carter wrote.

Carter is not a sociopath. She is not without remorse. But she respected Roy’s suffering, as well as his right to end it – an honor the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has failed to extend to his memory.

Kayla Kibbe is an intern with Worcester Magazine. She attends Connecticut College.

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“So yeah, I’m sorry. And that’s the last crack you’ll hear from me.”

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“We know what we know, and we don’t know what we don’t know, but we want to know.”

- Jennifer Davis Carey, of the Family and Community Academy, on the announcement of a new strategic plan for Worcester Public Schools.

“I’ve had positive comments.”

- Telegram & Gazette columnist Dianne Williamson, in a column apologizing – sort of – for posting a photo of the rather ample and visible backside of the tow truck driver who fixed her flat tire.

“My boss knows I’m here. He fully supports my half day.”

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- Kimberly Dupuis, Southbridge, who was first in line to view the Pats’ Super Bowl trophy at City Hall recently.

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‘Lean’ approach at hospital only to ‘save a buck’ To the Editor:

I write this as a public service announcement to my fellow consumers of healthcare in central Massachusetts.

I work at Saint Vincent hospital as a registered nurse. We are owned by Tenet Healthcare Corporation, home-based in Dallas, Texas. It is one of the largest forprofits in the U.S. It should also be said that, in the past 17 years, it has been fined approximately $2 billion for defrauding the federal government (medicare/medicaid).

With such a penalty they have had to watch their expenditures.

They, the corporate office, have determined that we practice a more “lean” approach to serving our consumers. It was determined last month that we no longer would keep an in-house call team for the OR. That is made up of one RN and one scrub technician. It should be noted that they are on call from their homes, but time is of the essence when emergencies arise. As of June 1, we would also cut in-house coverage of anesthesia overnight to one anesthesiologist and one certified registered nurse anesthetist, CRNA. That means one covers labor and delivery, and one covers the rest of the hospital.

This, to me, is putting patients at high risk. This all done to save a buck. Both the nurses union and scrub technicians union have sat down with the local management of the hospital. We still await a response weeks later. So if your insurance carrier insists you come to Saint Vincent’s for your care, you might want to give a call to our administration or to Tenet corporate offices in Dallas: Mr. Trevor Fetter, CEO, 469-8932000, or our local office, 508-363-5000. Ask for the CEO’s office. It should be noted that a petition to protest these cuts was sent to our management team with many signatures by physicians and staff at St. Vincent’s.

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Adjusting to life without bars Bill Shaner Jay McCune, the eldest member of E.P.O.C.A., presses “Jobs not Jails” T-shirt to the window of the bus that would take members and supporters to the State House rally. The rally calls for an end to mandatory minimum sentences.

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took 36-year-old Tim Peak of Worcester two months to get a state I.D. He said he couldn’t even get a library card, his only access at the time to a computer.

A week and a half after Mariousz Bezak, 39,

of Webster, was released from the Worcester County House of Corrections, he found out his license was revoked for life, and had no opportunity to develop an alternate plan for transportation before learning that.

Christopher Williams of Lawrence was recently released from the Worcester County House of Corrections, and applied for emergency assistance through the state welfare program, but was told he needs to first see a doctor. The waiting list for his doctor is 90 days.

Thirty-nine-year-old Jason Ludwig of Lynn,

When Wahya Wolfpaw, 51, a Cherokee Native American in Worcester, was released from prison two years ago, she spent the first few months homeless, unable to find a place to stay aside from stints in homeless shelters.

who now works for the Worcester-based Straight Ahead Ministries, spent nine and a half years in and out of prison. When he was released, he would skip a court date, get drunk and into trouble, revert back to stealing for money, and wind up right back where he started. It took a religious experience and a found family to pull him out of the cycle.

When Richard Albert III was arrested for violating probation, he lost his job at a temp agency and has struggled to find a new one.

He has a home, but he is not on the lease. He has previously struggled with drugs and said he is trying hard not to fall back in.

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Jessica Morales, 25, of Worcester, got in a

fight several years ago. Because of it, she lost her job and her kids, spent 10 months behind bars and, just recently, escaped a probation period without falling back into it.

Mariousz Bezak sits in the EPOCA office on King Street.

Their stories are all too common among returning citizens (a preferred term for men and women who have previously served prison

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improve re-entry one returning citizen at a time. And a new re-entry program, the Worcester Initiative for Supported Reentry, is showing major improvements in recidivism rates, though it’s working with a relatively small amount of inmates.

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Two EPOCA members, LJ Casagranda (left) and Shannon Demello, spoke at a rally outside the hearing.

terms), who struggle to find work, to find housing, to find a place in society that won’t drag them back into old habits, and to navigate a justice system eager to suck ex-convicts back in with default warrants, probation violations, random drug tests and endless fees.

The individual stories above are among thousands that contribute to a roughly 44-percent recidivism rate among Massachusetts inmates, a rate estimated to cost the state $450 million a year.

The days, weeks and months following release from prison are fraught with pitfalls, both bureaucratic and of the returning citizen’s own making. Many local advocates and returning citizens feel state institutions provide woefully inadequate re-entry service, leaving vulnerable people in near-impossible situations.

Two thirds of those sentenced to state and county prison had been incarcerated before, according to a 2016 policy brief on recidivism rates by the public policy research group MassINC. When prisoners are released, they are often still battling addiction, dealing with mental health issues and have a weak support system.

At the point of re-entry, the statewide issues of recidivism, drug addiction and homelessness are one. When the former inmate hits the street, data shows they have just under a 50-percent chance of going back within three years.

In January, at the start of the current two-year legislative session, state lawmakers highlighted criminal justice reform as a key goal with an omnibus package of reforms with near unanimous backing and a myriad of other bills aimed at specific issues.

But local advocates, who have been

picking up where they feel the state has failed, feel the Legislature is not moving fast enough. Two Worcester-based organizations, Ex-Prisoners And Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement and Straight Ahead Ministries, both based in Worcester’s Main South neighborhood, are working to

Parked in front of City Hall Monday was a beatup, old yellow school bus.

People wearing shirts with “E.P.O.C.A.” emblazoned on the front and “Jobs Not Jails” on the back milled around it, waiting for more to come. Each person was handed a tee-shirt as the group filed on the bus, headed for the statehouse

Tomiko Walker, Steve Denson and Kevin Lynch, three leaders of EPOCA, ushered folks on the bus. In all, there were about 25, many of whom had previously served time. They were heading to Boston to let members of the Joint Committee on the Judiciary know Worcester wants criminal justice reform.

“All right people, we’re talking on mandatory minimum for drug offenses today,” said Walker, sitting on his leg in a seat halfway down the bus. He also gave a quick primer on the Justice Reinvestment Act, an omnibus bill backed by many legislators and Gov. Charlie Baker.

The bill, he said, “ain’t got any teeth in it.”

From the front of the bus, Denson began passing out $3 Subway half-sandwiches: turkey, Italian or veggie. Sandwich orders were shouted in every direction as the sandwiches, chips and water made way down the rows of seats.

Many of the people on the bus had previously served criminal sentences, were on parole or had just recently been release.

Almost all of them knew someone in jail.

Some were among the roughly 150 that signed up to speak at a Statehouse hearing on the various criminal justice bills introduced this legislative session.

Since it started 11 years ago, EPOCA has burgeoned, gaining hundreds of members and satellite operations in other cities.

The organization is based out of a small, two-room office in a large green house on King Street that also houses Stone Soup Kitchen. Founders Walker, Denson and Lynch sat around a conference room with a single sheet of paper it: the form to seal a criminal

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record. The walls of the office were covered in graphs, charts, fact boxes and campaign literature.

At its onset, the group worked to help people navigate the barriers returning citizens saw in trying to get jobs, like employers that ran background checks. They also joined the many groups around the state petitioning the state Legislature for CORI reform. CORI, which stands for Criminal Offender Record Information, is the state’s background check system, revealing misdemeanor and felony charges on a person’s record.

In 2012, the group scored a major legislative win with the Ban the Box Act, which prevented certain employers from including a section for prior criminal history on applications.

Now, EPOCA is expanding its scope. The group is forging partnerships with local businesses and the city’s unemployment office, Workforce Central, to help local returning citizens find work. They help people seal their criminal record, find places to stay and navigate options for state and private assistance.

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The organization is still a regular fixture at the Statehouse, petitioning the Legislature to do more.

They support several pieces of legislation, including the Justice Reinvestment Act, the Act to Stop The Criminalization of Poverty and a bill that would make it easier to expunge juvenile criminal records.

Though the state has signaled its intention to make criminal justice reform a priority in this two-year legislative session, EPOCA leadership believe the state isn’t doing all they could.

“They’re not moving fast enough,” said Walker, who serves as EPOCA president.

“They’re shuffling feet, knowing that elections are coming up next year, so they trying to prolong the process.”

Decades of tough-on-crime policy, he said, have left county and state prisons overstuffed with low-level offenders, at an exorbitant cost to taxpayers.

“They could be doing a lot more than what they’re doing,” Walker said. “It’s so obvious, knowing these jails are filled up.”

After years of relatively little focus on the issue, the Legislature has appeared to signal the time is now to make changes to

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Above, Wahya Wolfpaw, member of EPOCA, rides the bus to the Statehouse with other EPOCA members.

Left, Scott Larson, president and CEO of Straight Ahead Ministries the criminal justice system, amid a widening discussion on mass incarceration, the war on drugs and the state’s relatively high level of recidivism. As of 2011, the statewide recidivism rate was 44 percent.

EPOCA, a small but growing group of advocates, have found themselves in the middle of that conversation, pushing the state and the city for more while helping local returning citizens to get a home, get a job and stay away from the kind of activity that landed them in prison to begin with.

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At Monday’s meeting at the Statehouse, it was standing room only as advocacy groups such as EPOCA, politicians, analysts, journalists and attorneys filled the hearing to discuss the many bills on file in this two year session, which started in January.

The debate around mandatory minimum sentences for drug trafficking proved a focal point in the criminal justice reform debate, as advocates, scholars, defense attorneys and lawmakers squared off against the district

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attorneys, who were reticent to relinquish a powerful tool for law enforcement.

A group of five – Worcester District Attorney Joe Early was not in attendance – were represented by Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley. He argued at length that minimum mandatory sentences are important for negotiating plea bargains and for targeting the drug traffickers that bring violence to communities.

The sentencing guidelines, he said, are “used as a scalpel, not a sledgehammer.”

But others rejected the argument entirely.

“You cannot use a one-size-fits-all approach to address this health crisis,” said Rasshan Hall, director of the American Civil Liberties Union Racial Justice Program.

The line between drug user and drug dealer is often a blurry one, he said, and the sentencing guidelines cast people away for years that may be better treated with substance abuse programming.

Many believe mandatory minimum sentences have a detrimental effect on both those who serve them and the community once they’re released. Those serving a set amount of time are less likely to correct behavior, as they cannot earn good time or early release in prison. Mandatory minimum sentences, critics maintain, also preclude certain people from signing up for programs within prison that help prisoners land on

the outside more smoothly.

EPOCA is firmly on that side of the fence.

The organization largely wants to see change made to the state’s mandatory minimum sentences laws, which they see as draconian holdovers of the war on drugs, and further, as a modern holdover of slavery – one of the more brutal aspects of a system that turned slaves to criminals.

According to the ACLU, 75 percent of Massachusetts inmates serving mandatory minimums, which Steven Denson is an organizer with EPOCA, helping often stretch at least several years, are Africanpeople seal their CORI records.

Americans.

The mandatory opportunity not extended to those serving sentences mean drug offenders often serve mandatory minimums. longer sentences than those who commit From EPOCA’s perspective, mandatory violent crimes. For an armed robbery or minimums keep people in prison for too long, kidnapping charge, prisoners have the and also pose significant challenges once its option of early release or work release, an time for that prisoner to return to society.

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“Most people on minimum mandatory, they’re not going to do any programming because there’s no incentive for them to get out early,” said Walker. “Therefore, they stay stuck still in that same mindset that they was before entering the jail. You’re putting that same mindset back into the communities.”

Mandatory minimums, he continued, do not make the community safer. Instead, Walker argued, they hinder entry — sometimes banning it outright — into programs that help inmates rehabilitate themselves and prepare for success. Statistically, and perhaps by design, mandatory minimum policy has overwhelmingly affected black, Latino and poor white people.

“It’s the underlying racism,” said Walker.

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per 100,000 adults), the high rate of recidivism is an undeniable problem. According to a 2016 MassINC report, approximately two thirds of people sent to state and county prisons had been previously incarcerated.

About 67 percent of all state Department of Corrections inmates and county House of Corrections inmates had previously been inmates. In fiscal 2013, a third of repeat offenders committed violent crimes and another third committed property offenses, according to the report.

Those returning to society have been found to be concentrated in a small number of poor and urban communities, like the Main South neighborhood.

“The large number of ex-offenders in these areas has a criminogenic effect, increasing the likelihood among residents of both firsttime offending and re-offending,” the report’s authors write.

Another report on re-integrating ex offenders, published in January by the New England Public Policy Center, shows

recidivism rates are higher among younger inmates, at 42 percent throughout New England. Black men, according to the NEPPC, have the highest recidivism rate of any gender and race combination, at 40 percent.

At the Worcester House of Corrections, there are about 1,100 inmates. Of them, 50 percent had been inside before, and nearly 90 percent struggle with some sort of substance abuse problem, according to Sheriff Lew Evangelidis.

But WISR, a Worcester-county based program launched several years ago, is showing some results.

An evaluation of the first three years of the program shows dynamic decreases in recidivism among the roughly 150 inmates that went through the program. Within a year, rates dropped from 19.8 to 9.2 percent re-incarceration, a 53-percent change.

Within three years, rates dropped from 39.5 to 20.8 percent, a 47-percent change. Of the participants in need, 97 successfully enrolled in MassHealth, 75 percent of participants got the mental health services they were referred for, and 62 percent became employed. Of those, 71 percent were employed for a year or longer.

The WISR approach is a relatively simple one, involving more intensive case management both before and after release than the inmates would have gotten otherwise. Inter-agency teams of social service

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Tomiko Walker, president of EPOCA. and health care professionals worked to refer the returning citizens and help navigate an often confusing bureaucratic web. The inmates had individual case management and incentives to participate by way of decreased

participation time.

The new program has excited the reentry team at the Worcester County Sheriff’s Department, which provides a less intensive version of the service on a shoestring budget.

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{ coverstory } “There is no magic bullet on this, but we know the more that we can do regarding this continuum of care, the better,” said Don Siergie, director of inmate services. “It’s the right thing to do and it makes sense for public safety.”

Many of the returning citizens interviewed for this story listed a lack of guidance after release as one of the biggest challenges.

“Resource, more options, a better way to get an I.D.,” said Tim Peak. “You come out of prison with nothing.”

In many ways, the intensive case work of WISR is an institutionalized version of the work that EPOCA and Straight Ahead Ministries do to help returning citizens find work, stay on the right path and navigate the system.

to his old life. After a bad fight with his hours near impossible. They’re homeless a girlfriend, he bought a 30 pack of beer and good part of the year, and often times are an eighth ounce of cocaine. He stayed up all dealing with the pressures of gangs, rival night drinking and doing drugs, falling back gang, and police. into it.

It takes some kind of experience, Larson In the morning, he was wracked with guilt. said, some kind of spiritual moment, for many to make the commitment to a better life But a few friends from his church came over and showed support, despite the slip-up. against difficult odds.

Jason Ludwig, a former inmate and youth “He said, ‘Jason, you’re probably going outreach coordinator for Straight Ahead to do it again,’” Ludwig recalled. “But what I Ministries working in Lynn, said his own life heard in that was like, ‘No matter what you Invest Worcester womag - full.qxp_Layout 1 11/23/16 11:47 AM do, Pageeven 1 changed in aadpeculiar way. He was involved if you mess up again, we’re still with a church, he said, but still holding on going to be here for you. We love you. It

doesn’t matter.’”

He started crying, he said, and they hugged him. He felt loved, like he had a place to fall back to, a found family that would be there for him.

“That’s it,” Ludwig said. “I never went back again.”

Bill Shaner can be reached at 508-7493166 x324 or at wshaner@worcestermag. com. Follow him on Twitter @Bill_Shaner.

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Just down the street from EPOCA, Straight Ahead Ministries is headquartered in a second-floor office on Main Street. The organization has been around for about 30 years, and focuses on atrisk youth, from young teens to 24 year olds. The organization has satellite locations around Worcester, so as to not force kids into enemy gang turf, and has other offices in Lynn, Lawrence and the New Bedford area. Much of their work focuses on young returning citizens.

For Straight Ahead, it is the days following release that prove the most vital.

“They’re thinking, their head is clear, they’re not high. They’re thinking, ‘Where am I going?’” Straight Ahead president Scott Larson said. “But when they hit the street, everything else is the same. Every system kind of works to get back to an equilibrium, whether it’s a family or a community. They know what to do with this guy or girl as a drug dealer or criminal or whatever their thing is. If they make that change, it sort of upsets the whole system.”

A young returning citizen may find a job, but they have to go from making several thousand dollars a night selling drugs to earning minimum wage. And they often have random drug screenings, probation appointments and other commitments with the justice system that make keeping steady

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Summer Solstice may have passed us by earlier in the week, but the longest days of summer and the subsequent slow burn back into darkness will be celebrated in style at the Sprinkler Factory, 38 Harlow St., Saturday, June 24 at their “Midsummer ArtRaiser,” a summer- and pagan-themed get-together designed to raise money for the space and bring enjoyment to those who appreciate it.

push people away with their eyes,” laughed Fraire.

The models’ costumes will be designed by Faith Garland, a Boston-based fashion designer, in addition to a collaboration with Art Reach, who is bringing on designers ages 7-15, who have sketched, designed and built four pieces. As part of the program, students researched Shakespeare, pagan fairy and woodland fairy designs. Those attending the ArtRaiser are encouraged to join the fun with costumes of their own.

“We like to have a theme,” said Birgit Straehle, Fraire’s wife and a volunteer at the Sprinkler Factory. “It’s [the summer] a good party time and so many cultures celebrate that. People usually see it as a celebration. We thought, we should do something different with the theme. Midsummer, you think of

silent auction, the art for which was donated by artists in support of the gallery space.

“A lot of this is people who have exhibited here,” said Fraire, looking out past the works that have already been hung. There are still dozens of pieces waiting their turn, leaning against the crisp white walls of the West Gallery. “But, once we put out the call, there were some people who I don’t think have exhibited. There is a real sense of ownership when people participate year after year in this gallery. They feel connected to it.”

Money raised from the door donations as well as the funds raised in the silent auction will go right back into the Sprinkler Factory, whether that be operating expenses like

As part of the celebration, the Sprinkler Factory will host a pagan-themed fashion show.

“They walk out here past the shrine and out to to the disco ball,” said Luis Fraire, gallery manager of the Sprinkler Factory.

Fraire was recently exiting a meeting room that will serve as a dressing room for the models. To his right was a towering red shrine he created for the occasion. The pagan theme is felt here, too, and Fraire gestured to the opposite end of the Sprinkler Factory’s West Gallery.

“They’ll be surrounded in blue on the other side,” he said.

Just behind a DJ booth at the back of the room was a counterpoint to the red creature; a deep blue monster stared at his opposite. Fraire said the lighting will accompany each shrine, creating a red and blue half of the room, with a glistening disco ball separating the two. There is no stage for the models, who will be walking the Sprinkler Factory floor.

“It’s got that pagan thing going, so they can just kind of

bonfires and celebrations and not a real dress code, but earthy, natural. The models will certainly jump on that idea, but I feel like everyone is a little bit excited. Maybe people will come as a Shakespeare figure, or a Greek god. The opportunities are endless in a way. Everyone has a little thing they can dress up as.”

The midsummer, pagan-theme permeates throughout the event and includes what has become a featured part of the Sprinkler Factor’s fundraising events: the pinata. This goround, the pinata itself fits the theme.

“The pinata is going to be the sun,” explained Fraire. “At midsummer, the sun is at its longest length, and from that point on the nights get longer. So, darkness will be defeating the sun at midsummer and we’ll be destroying the sun in a ritualistic fashion.” “... but, we’ll be rewarded with the little treats in it,” added a smiling Straehle.

Of course, the ArtRaiser wouldn’t be complete without a

light bulbs, paint and upkeep. The culmination of last year’s fundraising efforts via the space’s first two fundraisers, Cirque Du Noir and the donation bowl at the front of The Sprinkler Factory, resulted in the newly-renovated West Gallery space.

“We want to get bigger, better, more functional and offer better artwork,” said Straehle.

“A Midsummer ArtRaiser” is headed to the Sprinkler Factory, 38 Harlow St., Saturday, June 24, 6-10 p.m. There will be a silent auction of donated art from over 100 artists, hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar, music by future Tropicale Sound System, a pagan fashion show and a pinata ritual. Suggested donations at the door are $30 for guests, $20 for students. You can discover more online at Sprinklerfactory.com.

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Reporter Joshua Lyford can be reached at 508-749-3166, ext. 325, or by email at Jlyford@worcestermagazine.com.

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Diamond Dallas Page was 35 when he first started training to be a professional wrestler.

His career in the WCW skyrocketed when he was in his early 40s. After signing a multi-million dollar deal, the wrestler known as DDP experienced a game-changing and potentially life-altering injury that would take the man on a journey from being a guy that “wouldn’t be caught dead doing yoga,” to the man behind the popular DDP Yoga program.

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Page, whose signature wrestling move was known as the “Diamond Cutter,” will bring the program to MASSive Comic-Con at the DCU Center Saturday, June 23.

“That was a far stretch from me,” Page said over the phone. His trademark gravelly voice booming through the speaker. “I was the guy who wouldn’t be caught dead doing yoga. When you start wrestling at 35 and take off at 40 ...I ruptured my L4 and L5. If you were to take a jelly donut and step on it, that’s what my discs had. It was bone on bone. I had top spine specialists tell me, ‘Your career is over.’”

“At that point, I’d do whatever it takes,” he continued. “In the first three weeks of yoga, I started to feel a difference, but it wasn’t exactly what I needed. I started doing the rehab and started mixing that in together. I mixed in some calisthenics.”

At this point in the interview, Page

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mentioned a video featuring Gulf War veteran, Arthur Boorman. He told the reporter to watch the video and call him back.

The video, uploaded to Youtube.com by Page himself has upwards of 13 million views. It is called “Never, Ever Give Up. Arthur’s Inspirational Transformation!” and shows then-47 year old Boorman, disabled from paratroop related injuries, overweight and with difficulty moving with walking aids “transform” into a healthy, happy and head-standing new man.

“You’re not just reaching your arms out so the heavens smile back at you,” said Page during the call back. “It’s yoga positions, but also rehab techniques, oldschool calisthenics and dynamic resistance.

I could make this the hardest workout you’ve ever done in your life, or it can be the easiest. It’s about owning it, getting your life back on track. It’s about hope.”

Jake “The Snake” Roberts is a legendary figure in the WWE universe (then known as the World Wrestling Federation), being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2014. Roberts became addicted to drugs and alcohol, and became obese before Page took him in and not only put him through his DDP Yoga, but showed him how to live more positively and eat better.

“Real food can heal your body, fake food will fuck you up,” said Page. “You can get a new car, you can’t get a new body. You’ve got one body. One. If Dale Earnhardt was filling his car with ethanol, would he have won those Indy 500s?”

Page is direct in that his program is not yoga.

“The problem with DDP Yoga is that people want to call it yoga and yes, but also, no,” he said. “I never developed this for yogis. I felt yogis had hundreds

of different types of yoga. They’ve got thousands of different types. There’s only one DDP yoga. It’s on the other side of the planet. We do punching, we’ll be counting.

It will be intense. You’ll be stretching and counting it back. I thought about going into the yoga community, ending with namaste. I could have done that. That could have been easy. They’re not the people who need it.”

So what does Diamond Dallas Page get out of DDP Yoga and his interactions with the folks he sees and speaks with?

Well, first of all, after 12 years of shopping it, he makes a healthy living from it.

“I make a good living off of people coming in,” he said. “It took me 12 years to be an overnight success. Einstein once said, ‘I’m not that much smarter, I just stuck with the problem longer.’ I believe in the American dream. Find out what you love to do and figure out how to make a living on it. You won’t believe how much better you will feel by helping someone else. That’s what I do for a living. For 12 years I did that exact same thing, but didn’t make a dime from it.”

Diamond Dallas Page will host his “Inspiration meets perspiration” workshop at MASSive Comic Con at the DCU Center, 50 Foster St., Friday, June 23, 6-9 p.m. For more information on DDP Yoga, head to ddpyoga.com and for more information on MASSive, head to Massivecomiccon. com. Pre-registration is require for the workshop.

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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I can’t pretend I was surprised when the customer next to me said outright, “The Copper Stallion is our Cheers,” referencing the 1980s sitcom in which a collection of characters sit at the bar and actually engage in conversation with one another.

Perhaps it was because we had stumbled upon trivia night that no one in the entire establishment seemed to pay any mind to his or her cell phone. In addition, I had watched the British pub owner warmly welcome nearly 20 customers by name as they walked through the door. And you’d better believe this same gentlemanly person wanted to know who on earth we were. He conveyed his dedication to The Copper Stallion’s trivia program,

explaining he had spent all week developing the questions himself. Then, he pulled out a small golden trophy and set it down in front of us. Our neighbor leaned over again to say, “If you win 10 of those trophies, you get a free meal for two here at The Copper Stallion!” Our British host pushed a scorecard toward us over the bar and our fate had been sealed. He told us our team name had better not be vulgar. If life had been treating us “like we ran over its dog,” we knew channeling our inner Norm was the only option and promptly agreed to stay.

Let me be clear: our meal wasn’t exceptionally memorable and our beers weren’t particularly fresh, but I would go back in a heartbeat for the mere cordiality.

We weren’t easy customers, either. From the moment we walked in, beers started to kick.

Three went down before the bartender even had a chance to ask for our drink order. We both settled on Wormtown Be Hoppy ($6.95 each), which arrived in mile-high glasses. The beers were a tad warmer than I would expect and the hop flavors felt muted. My tall glass emitted a papery aroma from a very small head, but I’ll be honest: I was too distracted by the decor to pay that any mind.

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A bartender explained the owner had been collecting currency from customers for years, often veterans who had traveled extensively overseas. The Copper Stallion sat lofted above an antique shop, so I didn’t mind all of the dust.

We ordered the “Taste of Asia” Crab Cakes ($17.95) as an appetizer, even though they were listed under entrees. With two of us and two patties on the plate, we made out just fine. I will say that, despite a good pan frying, the crunchy crust wasn’t enough to distract us from the fact that the cakes were still chilled on the inside. The lemon aioli was a solid touch, complementing some sinfully excellent housemade onion rings. I could do without the seaweed salad and fried tortilla shards that rounded out the plate colorfully, but detracted from the dish in their lackluster execution.

My “As You Like I” Pulled Pork ($16.95) was aptly named, both tropical and tender.

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My companion’s OpenFaced Grilled Delmonico ($15.95) was less awe inspiring. The 7-ounce rib steak sarnie was cooked too rare even for a forgiving customer, and he asked politely for a refire. The staff was very accommodating and quickly remedied the dish. The sandwich was served with smoky onions on a Kaiser roll.

The menu also indicated a topping of balsamic apples, though we couldn’t locate them on the plate. With that, the side of hand-cut fries proved just as delicious as our onion rings.

We ordered a new round of drinks, a pour of Basil Haydens ($11) and an Amstel Light ($4), and settled into trivia. The game was lively and good-natured. Old rivalries revealed themselves. We graded one another’s papers like a high school pop quiz. The British have never been known for their cuisine; it’s their charm that keeps us on the hook, and The Copper Stallion reeled me right in.

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Here’s a tip: If you’re going to dive in shark-infested waters, watch out for rust. As in, make sure the trawler taking you out isn’t rusty … and the shark cage surrounding you isn’t rusty … and the winch lowering you into the depths isn’t rusty. Bad stuff happens in the presence of rust.

Unfortunately, the Rust Alarm is not clanging for sisters Lisa (Mandy Moore) and Kate (Claire Holt) when they decide to spice up their Mexico vacation by swimming off the coast with the Great Whites.

They hitch a ride on a sketchylooking boat captained by a crusty guy named Taylor (played

by Matthew Modine — when did he turn crusty?), climb into the cage and are submerged.

As they marvel at the wonders beneath the sea, the (rusty) crane snaps, sending the apparatus plummeting to the ocean floor.

The panicked sisters face three challenges: their air is running out, the sharks want to eat them, and if they try to ascend they’ll get the bends and probably die.

And there you have all you really need to know about “47 Meters Down,” an un-fussy little thriller that proves a worthy mid-level addition to the shark-movie canon, whose quality ranges from “Jaws” to “Sharknado.”

As a connoisseur of the genre, I’d rank it in the territory of last year’s “The Shallows,” another Mexico-based adventure in which surfer Blake Lively was terrorized by a Great White.

“47 Meters Down” telegraphs its purpose the moment uptight Lisa is convinced by the more impulsive Kate to take the plunge despite having no diving experience (the

captain allowing her to dive even when she can’t answer the most basic equipment questions is a borderline criminal action).

Nothing good ever follows when a wisely cautious character is cajoled into acting against her best instincts. We know this because we have seen movies.

In truth, the main enemy is the fathoms, not the fish. For most of the film’s 89-minute running time, Lisa and Kate are trapped inside the cage, but they are protected. The real danger is drowning, as their air gauges count down the minutes — in helpful, easyto-read graphics — before their tanks are empty. Intermittent radio contact with Captain Taylor offers little solace. In one breath he assures the women his crew is working feverishly on a rescue strategy, and in the next he’s shouting, “If you get nitrogen bubbles in your brain you are dead!”

Your enjoyment of “47 Meters Down” will hinge on your tolerance for watching people struggle to breathe. In 30 years of reviewing I have seen characters die in the most gruesome fashion, indeed, in ways that made me question the screenwriter’s mental health.

For me, nothing is grimmer in a movie than water closing in on someone who is barely able to keep his head above the surface (looking at you, “The Perfect Storm”). During these scenes, it’s all I can do not to retreat to the lobby.

The chance for a positive outcome in The Ballad of Lisa and Kate is so remote we’ll accept even the most egregious implausibilities to see it happen. Certainly, the movie gets too cute with some “Gravity”like funny business toward the end that has you believing nitrogen bubbles may have overtaken your brain. But I give the filmmakers credit for trying to scrape the rust off a familiar story line.

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

Peter HIFI Ward & electric blues. Peter Ward, Bob Berry, and George Dellomo play the blues with a dollop of classic country music.

No cover. 8:30-10:30 p.m. Dunny’s Tavern, 291 East Main St., East Brookfield.

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

Karaoke Party with Matty J! 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. 774-823-3022.

DJ Cuzn Kev. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 Water St. DJ XKALIBER Performs at Loft, Thurs at 11. 11-11:59 p.m.

Loft 266 Bar & Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 508-796-5177.

$10:00 students. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Briarwood Continuing Care Retirement Community: Birches Auditorium, 65 Briarwood Circle. 508-852-9007.

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

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

Chris Reddy Acoustic Loops from Hell. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The >Thursday 22 GazBar Sports Grill, 1045 Central St., Leominster.

Live Music. 5 p.m.-1 a.m. Sunset Tiki Bar, 79 Powers Road, Westford.

Jay Graham Performs at Loft, Friday at 8. 8-11 p.m. Loft 266 978-692-5700.

Bar & Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 508-796-5177.

FBM3 Flashback Band Marlboro Trio. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Williker’s Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Flip Flops, 680 Main St., Holden.

Tex Mex and BBQ, 896 Hartford Turnpike, Shrewsbury. 508-842-3030.

Neon Alley. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Square, Dana Lewis Live! Dana Lewis Live! Playing the Greatest Hits of the Leominster. 978-534-5900.

50’s to the 80’s in the lounge “The sound track of your Youth” Best Wood Roadhouse Strangers CD Release Show. The Roadhouse fired Pizza’s, Italian Food, Full Bar, Lottery & Me! No Cover. Come on out!

Strangers, a MetroWest-based rock band will take the stage at The Free! 6-9 p.m. Cafe’ Sorrento, 143 Central St., Milford. 508-478-7818 or It’s the Roosevelt Summer Reading Kickoff Party!

Cannery Music Hall to perform singles from their self titled, debut album. find them on Facebook.

Enjoy food, fund and games Friday, June 23, 4-6 p.m., at Roosevelt In addition to their originals, Roadhouse Strangers will perform a slew of Open Mic Night/Local Musicians Showcase at KBC Elementary School, 1006 Grafton St., Worcester. There is no cost. unique covers ranging from the Foo Fighters and Kings of Leon to Marvin Brewery Every 3rd Thursday! Open mic every third Thursday!

For more information, email events@worcpublib.org.

Gaye and the Allman Brothers; all with their unique, fun-loving twist that To check the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic is sure to get the crowd dancing. CDs will be available for sale at the World on Facebook Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) show for $10. The show will feature, opening act, Shedding Zen. $10, first is your host at another great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to >Friday 23 30 guests will receive a free Roadhouse Strangers CD with admission. reserve it at: openmcc@verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” Live Music. 5 p.m.-1 a.m. Sunset Tiki Bar, 79 Powers Road, Westford. 8 p.m.-midnight Cannery Music Hall, 12 Crane St, Southbridge. in the email’s “subject box”) Network * Collaborate * Learn. Over sixty roadhousestrangers.com different musicians regularly support my open mic nights all are friendly 978-692-5700.

Dana Lewis Live and Well! Enjoy a cool beverage on a warm The Flock Of A#$%Holes are back at Chopsticks, and supportive -- and many are: * Former or currently signed recording summers evening out on the deck at “Worcester’s Best Kept Secret” Leominster! So many great memories with the Flock at Chopsticks. artists * Award-winning pro’s or semi-pro’s * Regularly gigging paidperformers * Published songwriters * Recording studio owner/operators Great New Menu, Full Bar, Gorgeous vistas, Spectacular Sunsets and ME We love playing here and can’t wait to see you Friday and Saturday playing Live, acoustic Music from the 50’s to the 80’s. “The Sound Track for 2 completely different and unique sets of 80’s party tunes. See ya * Combinations of any and/or all of the above. To check the schedules in Leominster! Free. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Chopstick’s Restaurant & Lounge, and open slots visit Facebook. Any slot marked as “open” usually is! Free. of your Youth” Grill on the Hill, 1929 Skyline Drive, off Belmont Street at Green Hill Park. No Cover, Be There! Free! 5:30-7:30 p.m. Grill on the Hill, Commercial Road, Leominster. Find them on Facebook.

6-9 p.m. Kretschmann Brewing Co (KBC Brewing) - Brewery and Beer 1929 Skyline Drive. 508-854-1704 or find them on Facebook.

Topher Brew. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. South Side Grille & Margarita Factory, Garden, 9 Frederick St., Webster.

Dan Kirouac. Dan has been part of the regional music scene for thirty 242 West Broadway, Gardner. 978-632-1057.

Mauro DePasquale’s Jazzed Up Duo. Mauro DePasquale’s years. When not busy with the tribute band Beatles For Sale, his solo Dana Lewis Live! Rock with me Friday Night! Great Food, Full Bar, Jazzed Up the best in jazz. A romantic blend of jazz classics and performances showcase vocals accompanied by a six-string acoustic Lottery, Flat Screens and Me! Playing your favorite hits from the 50’s to American Songbook favorites. If you like Sinatra, Buble’, Connick Jr, the 80’s. “The Sound track to your Youth” Free! 8:30-11:30 p.m. Barber’s Bennett, you will love Jazzed Up. jazzedup.net No Cover. 6:30-8:30 p.m. 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 Crossing Road House, 861 Main St., Leicester. 508-892-7575.

GAR Hall, Bull Mansion, 55 Pearl St. contemporary and oldie songs. More information at dankirouac.com. Free. Karaoke. 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Foodworks, Route 20. 508-752-0938.

Open Mic Most Thursdays @ Barbers North. To check 6-9 p.m. Highfields Golf & Country Club, 42 Magill Drive, Grafton.

Live Music. 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Gardner. 978-669-0122.

Facebook Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host Ernest Benoit at Rapscallion Brewery and Tap Room.

Ernest Benoit at Rapscallion Brewery Tap Room 6-9PM No cover.

Scott Babineau. 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Happy Jack’s, 785 North Main St., at another great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: Authentic Originals and Quality Covers + Craft Beers! 6-9 p.m.

Leominster. 978-466-3433. 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 Rapscallion Brewery & Tap Room, 195 Arnold Road, Fiskdale. 617-869slot marked as “open” usually is! Free! 6:30-9:30 p.m. Barbers Crossing 5702 or songkick.com The Worcester Police Athletic League and the Boys The Drunken Uncles. 6-9 p.m. Park Grill and Spirits, 257 Park Ave. (North), 175 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8438. & Girls Club present City Hall Brawl: Amateur Boxing Friday, Bill McCarthy Every Friday at Barbers Crossing North.

Bar Side or Patio, early show live music. Join us Thursdays June 23, 6-8 p.m., at City Hall Common. Admission is free. For more in June for great acts in a more intimate setting. Bar side or on the Patio. Now catch Bill McCarthy playing his heart out every Friday at Barbers information, email culture@worcestermass.org.

No cover...7 PM show times. Food Specials No Cover. 7-11 p.m. Beatnik’s, North (Sterling, MA) @6:30pm Visit: BillMcCarthyMusic.com for info.

Free! 6:30-9:30 p.m. Barbers Crossing (North), 175 Leominster Road, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877.

Sterling. 978-422-8438.

“Jazzy Side of the Moon” Niki Luparelli Pink Floyd Show!

Chris Vee, a one man Classic Rock Jam. Chris Vee, live, Bar side or Patio. No cover, Early Show 7pm - 11pm 7-11 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Brian Richard. 7-10 p.m. Compass Tavern, 90 Harding St. 508-304- $10 Cover. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 6044.

508-753-4030.

Park Ave. 508-926-8877.

Clam Digger. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. Ed Melikian Duo. 7-10 p.m. Homefield Brewing, 3 Arnold Road, Open Mic @ The Blue Plate. Show off your musical talents, 508-853-1350.

Fiskdale. 774-242-6365. collaborate, or just listen to some cool tunes in a laid back atmosphere.

Jim Perry. We have the one and only Jim Perry playing for us. He’s an Every Friday - Original Rock Bands. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Speakers Most Thursdays. PA provided. Free. 7-10 p.m. Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Night Club, 19 Weed St., Marlborough. 508-439-9314. amazing guitar and piano player. If you want to rock and roll, he’ll keep Main St., Holden. 508-829-4566.

Karaoke. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Partner’s Pub, 970 South St., Fitchburg. 978Ethan Caouette. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Square, you moving in your seat throughout the night! N/A. 7-10 p.m. Canal 345-5051.

Restaurant & Bar, Bar / Lounge, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

Leominster. 978-534-5900.

Karaoke with DJ Bruce. Free. 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Meiji Asian Sean Fullerton and his Mad Loops Laboratory. Sean Karaoke with PJ. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., Cuisine, 24 Leicester St., North Oxford. 508-731-0120.

Fullerton specializes in Acoustic Blues, Rock, Folk, Memphis Soul and Leominster. 978-537-7750.

Settledown Easy. Formally Northbound Train. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Fingerstyle Guitar using a wide variety of guitars, harmonicas, guitar Open Mic Night With David Bazin. Acoustic Style, bring your looping, vocal harmony technology, Bose and UltraSound sound systems. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877. acoustic instrument down and or sing and share your talent! No Cover.

Sean performs solo for many venues and events throughout New England The Blue Light Bandits. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 8-11 p.m. Belfont Hotel, 11 South Main St., Millbury. 508-917-8128.

Water St. year-round. Dinner, Drinks, Music and Fun. 7:30-10:30 p.m. William’s Sam James Performs at Loft, Thurs at 8. 8-11 p.m. Loft 266 Lavender Restaurant Karaoke. Join Magic Mike Entertainment Restaurant & Tavern, 184 Pearson Blvd, Gardner. 978-632-7794 or Bar & Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 508-796-5177.

DJ’s for Karaoke Night every Friday & Saturday Night! Free. 9:30 seanfullertonmusic.net The Flock Of A#$%Holes are back at Chopsticks, p.m.-1 a.m. Lavender Restaurant, 519 Boston Post Road, Sudbury.

The Pirates of Penzance with the Greater Worcester Leominster! So many great memories with the Flock at Chopsticks.

Opera. The Pirates of Penzance Join Greater Worcester Opera for a fully magicmikeentertainment.com We love playing here and can’t wait to see you Friday and Saturday Take Two. 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. staged concert version of Gilbert & Sullivan’s rollicking tale of pirates, for 2 completely different and unique sets of 80’s party tunes. See ya constables, wards and generals... costumed and dramatically performed, 774-823-3022. in Leominster! Free. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Chopstick’s Restaurant & Lounge, sung by GWO’s fabulous artists! Cost: $15 $10 students $15 per person; DJ TecThreat. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 Water St. Commercial Road, Leominster. Find them on Facebook.

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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.

Safe House Radio Show. This is a live radio broadcast with 2 living DJs hoping to drag you out of your lonely IPods and phone apps to hear the local & national metal, thrash, screamo, punk and alternative you wont hear on mainstream radio.Tune into WCUW 91.3FM in the Worcester and surrounding areas. Or stream live on wcuw.org (hit the listen live button in the upper left corner of screen) Join your DJs Summi and Momma Bear for an hour of metal, thrash, screamo, punk & alternative. You’re not alone in your digital world. Were out here live! Call in to let us know your listening @ (508)753-2284 after 11pm. Hope you tune in to hear local and national metal and more! 91.3fm or wcuw.org It’s your community radio! So enjoy it already! Sheesh! 11 p.m.-midnight WCUW Studios, 910 Main St. 508-753-2284 or find them on Facebook.

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Ashley and Ethan Perform at Loft, Saturday at 8. Loft 266 Bar & Lounge, 266 Park Ave. 508-796-5177.

Art + Market with Dick’s Market Garden. Your produce needs are covered this summer with our perennial favorite, Dick’s Market Garden. Starting this year in early June with strawberries, peas, greens, and early vegetables, the Market Garden then transitions to the cool weather flowers, apples, and gourds towards the fall. All of the items sold are locally grown (Lunenburg, MA). Enjoy the museum galleries before or after your market visit! Market runs Saturdays, June 17, 2017 - October 21, 2017, and does not operate during anticipated lightning. Visiting market is free! 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Worcester Art Museum, Salisbury Parking Lot, 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406.

Huey Lewis and The News. Indian Ranch announced that Huey Lewis and The News will be performing on Saturday, June 24, 2017.

Tickets are on-sale at www.indianranch.com. Huey Lewis and The News are truly one of America’s great rock & roll bands. As they enter their 38th year together, their contagious brand of music has outlasted countless trends, and is as fresh today as ever. Formed from two rival Bay Area bands in 1979, they continue to thrill audiences worldwide, selling over 20 million albums in the process, earning them the right to mark their place on the pop history map. These Grammy Award winners have written and performed such classic Top Ten Hits as “Heart of Rock & Roll,” “Stuck With You,” “I Want A New Drug,” “If This Is It,” “Hip To Be Square,” “Do You Believe in Love,” and “Workin’ For A Livin.” The group also wrote and performed “The Power of Love” and “Back in Time” for the hit film Back To The Future. Huey Lewis and The News have a love of music that comes through in everything they do. Be it their albums, their live performances, or the way they interact with their fans, they are a band with “Heart and Soul.” Indian Ranch offers music lovers a chance to see some of the greatest country, classic rock and pop bands steps from Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. Nestled between pine trees, the amphitheater offers the ability to see the stage from anywhere in the audience. $27.25 - $74.50. 2-5 p.m. Indian Ranch, 200 Gore Road, Webster. 508-943-3871 or indianranch.com Live Music. 5 p.m.-1 a.m. Sunset Tiki Bar, 79 Powers Road, Westford.

978-692-5700.

Stan Matthews. Solo acoustic act. Classic Country, covers and originals. Free Entry. 6-8 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877.

Dana Lewis Live! Every Saturday night. Live, acoustic music, Family food, Full Bar, Lottery and me! Playing the Hits of the 50’s to the 80’s.

“The Sound Track of your Youth” No Cover. Be There! Free! 7-10 p.m.

Nancy’s Quaker Tavern, 466 Quaker Hgwy (Route146a), Uxbridge. 508779-0901 or find them on Facebook.

Mauro DePasquale’s Jazzed Up Trio. Mauro DePasquale’s Jazzed Up the best in jazz. A romantic blend of jazz classics and American Songbook favorites. If you like Sinatra, Buble’, Connick Jr, Bennett, you will love Jazzed Up. jazzedup.net No Cover. 7-10 p.m. Fish, 29 South Bolton St., Marlborough. 508-460-3474.

Pamela Means. 7-10 p.m. Homefield Brewing, 3 Arnold Road, Fiskdale. 774-242-6365.

DRM Band. $5. 7:30-10 p.m. !Cafe con Dios!, Main Room, 22 Faith Ave., Auburn. 508-579-6722.

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Angels of Avalon - A Tribute to Led Zeppelin. Angels of Avalon brings a modern edge to the music of Led Zeppelin. We are all skilled musicians and performers who share a love for the music that Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham made together throughout the band’s career. It is our honor to rock their timeless songs with our own imprint and personality. With Guests Dodeca. $10 at the Door 21+ to Enter 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.

Dan Kirouac & Steve Kirouac. 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.

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

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

Live Music. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Flip Flops, 680 Main St., Holden.

Right Angle Woman - Playing all your classic rock favorites. 8-11 p.m. U.S Marine Club- Marine Corps League Worcester Detachment, 181 Lake Ave. 508-612-5639 or find them on Facebook.

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

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

The Derelicts Mid-Life Crisis Band. Come dance the night away to Worcester County’s oldest Oldies Band. Hits of the 50’s 60’s and 70’s!

Arrive early and enjoy the Big Screen TV, Snack Machines and Pitchers of Beer. $5. 8 p.m.-midnight Blue Plate Lounge, 661 Main St., Holden.

508-829-4566.

It’s a Worcester Comedy Blowout Friday, June 23, 8-10 p.m., Hanover Theatre, 2 Southbridge St., Worcester. Don’t

miss Lenny Clarke, Steve Sweeney, Worcester’s Orlando Baxter and more. Tickets are $25 and $35. For more information, visit thehanovertheatre.org or email marketing@thehanovertheatre.org.

The Flock Of A#$%Holes are back at Chopsticks, Leominster! So many great memories with the Flock at Chopsticks.

We love playing here and can’t wait to see you Friday and Saturday for 2 completely different and unique sets of 80’s party tunes. See ya in Leominster! Free. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Chopstick’s Restaurant & Lounge, Commercial Road, Leominster. Find them on Facebook.

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

Lizzy Marquis. 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Happy Jack’s, 785 North Main St., Leominster. 978-466-3433.

Sean Fullerton and his Mad Loops Laboratory. Sean Fullerton specializes in Acoustic Blues, Rock, Folk, Memphis Soul and Fingerstyle

Guitar using a wide variety of guitars, harmonicas, guitar looping, vocal harmony technology, Bose and UltraSound sound systems. Sean performs solo for many venues and events throughout New England year-round.

Dinner, Drinks, Music and Fun. 8:30-11:30 p.m. Tavern on Central, 3 Central St., Ashburnham. 978-827-1272 or seanfullertonmusic.net Fiona Corinne. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 Water St. Infinite Groove. The Infinite Groove is a powerful trio from the Rhode Island/ Massachusetts region. IG provides an energetic, soulful fusion of Rock, Funk, Blues & Jazz $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or find them on Facebook.

Jubilee Gardens unplugged at Sahara. Our violinist Rainer Reichel is back for a visit, and will join Jubilee Gardens for a ‘strings only’ show including oud player Ed Melikian, Dan Hunt on guitar, Gail Hunt on bass and Jubilee Connolly, singer & songwriter. A special evening for sure. 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Sahara Cafe & Restaurant, 143 Highland St. 508-798-2181.

Karaoke-DJ Fenton with Music and Dancing. A jewel in the fashionable Canal District sandwiched between Harding and Water St @ Kelly Square in Worcester, MA...A great fun, and exciting social gathering that allows you to be relaxed, sing your heart out or just sing along with those who love to take the mic and belt one out. Also, enjoy warm, efficient servers who will get to know your name and have your drink request before you ask for it. Take a tour of political memory lane of photos, bumper stickers and artifacts that line the wall...if walls could speak! But proprietor Guy Glodis states...leave the politics at the door and come in enjoy an evening of friends, music and cocktails or beer. Drinks are also very reasonable...a top shelf straight up martini is priced way under $10...other places have them over $10..Shaken not Stirred! Free. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. The Ballot Box, 11-17 Kelly Square. 774-243-1606 or find them on Facebook.

Nat’s Cats. No Cover. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Sean Daley and The Hooligans. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Partner’s Pub, 970

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Silverbacks. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350.

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 Sara Leketa & Lisa Addario from Aerochix. 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m.

Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. 774-823-3022.

DJ TecThreat. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 Water St. DJs. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Compass Tavern, 90 Harding St. 508-304-6044.

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

508-459-9035.

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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Carlos Odria. 2-5 p.m. Homefield Brewing, 3 Arnold Road, Fiskdale.

774-242-6365.

Marshall Tucker Band. Indian Ranch in Webster, MA announced that The Marshall Tucker Band, will be performing live in concert on Sunday, June 25, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. Tickets are now on-sale at www. indianranch.com. In the early fall of 1973, The Marshall Tucker Band was still a young and hungry group out to prove themselves every time they hit the stage. “We were a bunch of young guys who didn’t know any boundaries,” says founding member and longtime lead singer Doug Gray. As it turned out, the collective talents of The Marshall Tucker Band took them very far indeed. Today, the band records on its own Ramblin’Records Label (distributed by Sony/RED) and continues

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Indian Ranch, 200 Gore Road, Webster. 508-943-3871.

The Pirates of Penzance with the Greater Worcester Opera. The Pirates of Penzance Join Greater Worcester Opera for a fully staged concert version of Gilbert & Sullivan’s rollicking tale of pirates, constables, wards and generals... costumed and dramatically performed, sung by GWO’s fabulous artists! Cost: $15 $10 students $15 per person; $10:00 students. 2-4 p.m. Briarwood Continuing Care Retirement Community: Birches Auditorium, 65 Briarwood Circle. 508-852-9007.

Affairs of the Heart & Honor: A Musical Duel of Tenors & Baritones. Tenors: Adam Klein, USA (Metropolitan Opera) Alejandro Olmedo, Mexico (Winner of Placido Domingo’s International Competition) Juan del Bosca, Mexico (Palacio de Bellas Artes) Baritones: David Gvinianidze, Georgia (Batumi Opera) Vago Ohanyan, Armenia (New York City Opera) Petr Sokolov, Russia (Moscow Stanislavsky Musical Theater) $80 - VIP (limited number!), $60, $50, $40, $20 - students. 5-7 p.m.

Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St. 508-752-0888 or mechanicshall.org Andy Cummings 8:30pm. No Cover. 5 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Joe Cariglia singing Ratpack Favorites. 5-8 p.m. Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. 774-823-3022.

Dana Lewis Live! Dana Lewis Live! Playing the Greatest Hits of the 50’s to the 80’s in the lounge “The sound track of your Youth” Best Wood fired Pizza’s, Italian Food, Full Bar, Lottery & Me! No Cover. Come on out!

Free! 6-9 p.m. Cafe’ Sorrento, 143 Central St., Milford. 508-478-7818 or find them on Facebook.

Open Mic Sundays @ Park Grill & Spirits. 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. Park Grill and Spirits, 257 Park Ave. Karaoke with PJ. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Central St., Leominster. 978-537-7750.

The Flock Of A#$%Holes are back at Chopsticks, Leominster! So many great memories with the Flock at Chopsticks.

We love playing here and can’t wait to see you Friday and Saturday for 2 completely different and unique sets of 80’s party tunes. See ya in Leominster! Free. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Chopstick’s Restaurant & Lounge, Commercial Road, Leominster. Find them on Facebook.

The Sunday Jam hosted by Mikey Lynch with feature artist Russell Watts! Great feature artists and guest hosts followed by an open jam session. All are welcome. Never a cover charge. 8-11:30 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350.

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Blue Light Bandits. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035.

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. Partner’s Pub, 970 South St., Fitchburg. 978345-5051.

Karaoke with DJ Soup. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 Water St. Joe Cariglia. 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Padavano’s Place, 358 Shrewsbury St. 774-823-3022.

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.

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

Karaoke with DJ Bruce. Free. 9 p.m.-midnight Antonio’s Pizza by the Slice, 268 Chandler St., Worcester, MA.

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The Motown Jukebox. Join “Motown Tom” Ingrassia--Worcester’s very own Agent Double-O Soul--every Wednesday morning from 9 am to Beautiful Art. Learn how one community transformed their noon for The Motown Jukebox on WCUW 91.3FM for 3 hours of Motown neighborhood into a beautiful place through art, view local murals, and music and the stories behind the hits. “Motown Tom” is a Motown paint your own canvas to brighten up your space! For ages 7 - 12. Please historian and author. His current book--Reflections Of A Love Supreme: sign-up at the Children’s Desk. Free. 2-3 p.m. Worcester Public Library, 3 Motown Through The Eyes Of Fans was named the Best Music Book of Salem Square. 508-799-1655.

2016 by the National Indie Excellence Awards. “Motown Tom” has twice Blue Mondays - Live Blues. 7-11 p.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 been named Best Radio Personality in local media polls. WCUW streams Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122. live online at wcuw.org. 9 a.m.-noon WCUW 91.3 FM - Worcester’s Movie Night. No Cover. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Community Radio Station, 910 Main St. 508-753-1012 or wcuw.org Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Chris Reddy Acoustic Loops from Hell. 5-7:30 p.m. Sunset Tiki The Flock Of A#$%Holes are back at Chopsticks, Bar, 79 Powers Road, Westford. 978-692-5700.

Leominster! So many great memories with the Flock at Chopsticks.

Open Mic Wednesdays at CJ’s Steak Loft in We love playing here and can’t wait to see you Friday and Saturday Northborough. To check the schedules and open slots visit: for 2 completely different and unique sets of 80’s party tunes. See ya Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook. Bill McCarthy in Leominster! Free. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Chopstick’s Restaurant & Lounge, (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another great Commercial Road, Leominster. Find them on Facebook.

Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@ Karaoke. DJ Nancy, of Star Sound Entertainment. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s “subject KasBar, 234 Southwest Cutoff. 508-798-8385. 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 >Tuesday 27 W. Main St. (route 20), Northborough. 508-393-8134 or find them Tuesday Open Mic Night @ Greendale’s Pub with Bill on Facebook.

McCarthy Local Musicians Showcase! To check the schedules We & The Dawg at East Park. Join We & The Dawg for a cool and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook Bill bunch of tunes on a summer night at beautiful East Park ! 6-8 p.m. East McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another Park, 180 Shrewsbury St. great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@ Mauro DePasquale’s Jazzed Up Duo. Mauro DePasquale’s verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s “subject box”) Jazzed Up the best in jazz. A romantic blend of jazz classics and To check the schedules and open slots visit Facebook. Any slot marked American Songbook favorites. If you like Sinatra, Buble’, Connick Jr, as “open” usually is! Free. 7:30-11:30 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Bennett, you will love Jazzed Up. jazzedup.net No Cover . 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Boylston St. 508-853-1350 or find them on Facebook.

GAR Hall, Bull Mansion, 55 Pearl St. Karaoke with Key Performance. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, 285 Music Inspired by Thoreau -Pianist Andrew Celentano.

Central St., Leominster. 978-537-7750.

Andrew Celentano, who plays regularly at the BSO Café at Symphony The Flock Of A#$%Holes are back at Chopsticks, Hall will be here playing compositions inspired by Thoreau, along with Leominster! So many great memories with the Flock at Chopsticks. some pieces by Debussy and Ravel. No registration required. Just drop We love playing here and can’t wait to see you Friday and Saturday in. 6:30-8 p.m. Shrewsbury Public Library, 609 Main St., Shrewsbury. for 2 completely different and unique sets of 80’s party tunes. See ya 508-842-0081. in Leominster! Free. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Chopstick’s Restaurant & Lounge, Live Music in the Winter Garden. Listen to live music in the Commercial Road, Leominster. Find them on Facebook.

Winter Garden. Free with Admission. 7-8 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Dam Chick Singer. No Cover. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111, ext. 124.

Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Karaoke with Key Performance. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Classic’s Pub, Boogie Chillin’. Bluesy, bluegrassy, acoustic band with a twist. Jon 285 Central St., Leominster. 978-537-7750.

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Name: Billy DeVito Hometown: Stamford, Connecticut School: University of Hartford Year: Junior Position: Pitcher Does the grind of playing baseball basically all year wear you down? Not entirely, because it gets you really ready for the season (first season with Worcester Bravehearts) Where is your favorite place to eat in Worcester?

George’s Pizza Do you eat sunflower seeds? Yes What is the best thing about being on the Worcester Bravehearts? Fans and kids How does this league differ from playing in college?

Not as serious. You use it as a time to get better.

Jumbo Creedon hot dog or sausage grinder? Sausage grinder

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The Flock Of A#$%Holes are back at Chopsticks, Leominster! So many great memories with the Flock at Chopsticks.

We love playing here and can’t wait to see you Friday and Saturday for 2 completely different and unique sets of 80’s party tunes. See ya in Leominster! Free. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Chopstick’s Restaurant & Lounge, Commercial Road, Leominster. Find them on Facebook.

Wednesday Night Mayhem. Mayhem Entertainment, The Twisted Minds Behind the FBW present a completely ridiculous writing tournament with lots of audience participation. 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 partyinfused, bracketed improv writing competition you know and love is back! And now you can be the star! $5. 8-11 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or find them on Facebook.

“Faculty Lounge” Open mic featuring Worcester Academy and Dan Burke. No Cover. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

Dave Brunyak. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place.

508-459-9035.

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

Karaoke with DJ Soup. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Whiskey on Water, 97 Water St.

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ADC Performance Center (@ The Artist Development Complex), 18 Mill St., Southbridge. 508-764-6900 or adcmusic.com Anna Maria College, 50 Sunset Lane, Paxton. 508-849-3300 or annamaria.edu ArtsWorcester, “Dresses: Fight or Flight” by Alicia Dwyer, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through July 15. 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 Assumption College: Emmanuel d’Alzon Library, 500 Salisbury St. 508-767-7272 or assumption.edu Booklovers’ Gourmet, Hours: 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: 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 508-7937113 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, 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, 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. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, closed Thursday - Saturday. Admission: Free. 781 Main St., Fitchburg. 978-345-1157 or

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fitchburghistoricalsociety.org Fitchburg State University: Hammond Hall, 160 Pearl St., Fitchburg. fitchburgstate.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 Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard. 978-4563924 or fruitlands.org 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, Cabinet Making in Early 19th Century New England, Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Oct. 29. Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday - Saturday. Admission: $28 Adults, $26 Seniors (55+), $14 Youths (4-17), Free for Children 3 & Under, $14 College Students with valid college ID. 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 Preservation Worcester, Hours: closed Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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 Quinebaug Valley Council for the Arts & Humanities, the Arts Center, Hours: 2-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Friday, 2-4 p.m. Saturday. 111 Main St., Southbridge. 508-346-3341 or qvcah.org Quinsigamond Community College: Administration Building, 670 West Boylston St. qcc.edu 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, A Midsummer ArtRaiser 2017, Saturday.

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 The Foster Gallery, 51 Union St. 508-397-7139 or thefostergallery. 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 JUNE 22, 2017 • WORCESTERMAGAZINE.COM

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Willmann Josh Day 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 Comedy Open Mic in the Cabaret! - Mondays, Monday, May 15 St., Fitchburg. 978-342-2809 or 978-297-4337 or topfunaviation.com - Monday, December 18. The 1st and 3rd Monday of every month! Sign Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Rose Show, Sunday. Hours: 10 a.m. ups are at 7:30 and the show starts at 8:00! Free. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Nick’s to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday.

Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. Call 508-753-4030.

Admission: $12 Adults, $9 Seniors & $7 Youth, free to Members & Children Worcester Comedy Blowout - Friday, June 23. Laugh the night under. 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111 or towerhillbg.org away with Lenny Clarke, Steve Sweeney, Christine Hurley, Orlando Baxter Worcester Art Museum, Helmutt on the Move, Sundays, and Dan Smith. Tickets are $25 and $35 depending on seat location.

Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sept. 1 - Aug. 31; Highest 8-10 p.m. Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. Call Heaven: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the Roberta and 877-571-7469 or visit thehanovertheatre.org Richard Huber Collection, Through July 9; Jeppson Idea Lab: Master The Pirates of Penzance- presented by Greater Vases from Ancient Greece, Through Oct. 1; John O’Reilly: A Studio Worcester Opera - Friday, June 23 - Sunday, June 25. Join us for a Odyssey, Through Aug. 13; Arms and Armor: The Viking Age, Saturday; fully staged concert version of Gilbert & Sullivan’s rollicking tale of pirates, Art + Market with Dick’s Market Garden, Saturdays, through Oct. 21; constables, wards and generals... costumed and dramatically performed, Reusable Universes: Shih Chieh Huang, Saturday - Sunday; Zip Tour: The sung by GWO’s fabulous artists! 7 (seven) performance dates include: Worcester Hunt, Saturday; Sunday Public Tour, Sundays, through Dec. 17.

June 9 (7:30 PM) @ Eagle Hill Cultural Center, Hardwick June 10 (7:30 Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5 PM) & 11 (2:00 PM) @ New Players Theatre Guild, Fitchburg June 16 p.m. Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 10 (7:30 PM) @ Southgate in Shrewsbury June 23 (7:30 PM) and June a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Free for members, $14 adults, $12 25 (2:00 PM) @ Briarwood Community Center, Worcester June 24 seniors, free for youth 17 and under. Free for all first Saturdays of each (7:30 PM) at Melrose Highlands Congregational Church, Melrose Stage month, 10am-noon. 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406 or worcesterart.org director- Richard Monroe Music director- Aldo Fabrizi Our Cast: Pirate Worcester Center for Crafts, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m.

King-Kyle Carlson (cover Stuart Cabral) General Stanley-Ben Morse to 5 p.m. Monday - Saturday. 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183 or Frederic-Matthew Hennek Mabel-Lydian DeVere Yard (cover Lisa Tierney) worcestercraftcenter.org Ruth-Angela Jajko Sergeant of Police-Frank Walker Edith-Elaine Crane Worcester Historical Museum, Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, Kate-Carolyn Schwartz Isabel-Lisa Tierney Samuel-Brad Amidon $15 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 30 Elm St. 508-753-8278 or general admission ($10 students). 2-4 p.m., 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. worcesterhistory.org Briarwood Community Center, Birches Auditorium, Briarwood Circle. Call Worcester Public Library, Hours: 1:30-5:30 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m.

508-930-7062 or visit greaterworcesteropera.org to 5:30 p.m. Monday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday - Wednesday, 9 a.m.

Boeing, Boeing - Fasten your seatbelts as Theatre at the Mount to 5:30 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. 3 Salem Square. 508-799-1655 or brings you the Tony Award-winning comedy, Boeing, Boeing! Bernard, worcpublib.org living in Paris, is engaged to Gabriella, and to Gloria, and to Gretchen.

WPI: George C. Gordon Library, 100 Institute Road. wpi.edu With his housekeeper reluctantly playing romantic air-traffic controller, he successfully juggles three gorgeous flight attendant fiancées. But when a new double-speed Super Boeing arrives and changes flight schedules, we quickly learn that one woman is all Bernard can handle! Performance dates for Boeing, Boeing are June 16, 17, 23, 24, and 25, 2017, with Dick’s Beantown Comedy Escape at Park Grill & Spirits Friday and Saturday night performances at 8:00 pm, and Sunday - Fridays, Saturdays, Saturday, September 18 - Tuesday, December 31. afternoon performances at 2:00 pm. Tickets are available online at mwcc.

Dick Doherty’s Beantown Comedy Escape at Park Grill & Spirits 257 Park edu/tam or by calling 978-630-9388. $22. 8-10:30 p.m. Mount Ave Worcester MA 01609 Dick Doherty’s Beantown Comedy Wachusett Community College: Fine Arts Gallery, 444 Green St., Gardner.

Clubs Showtimes: Friday 9pm-Saturdays 8pm -$20ppReservations Call 978-630-9388 or visit mwcc.edu Recommended at 800-401-2221 Prices: $20 Fri/Sat pp except Special The Sort of Late Show with Shaun Connolly - Saturday, June Events Drinks and Appetizers available in the show room Full Dinner 24. Worcester’s only live talk show! With host Shaun Connolly, sidekick Available before Show in Restaurant $5off with College ID and Doug Guertin and one man backing band James Keyes! Featuring: Reservations 2 for 1 Active Military or Veterans and Reservations $4 off Comedian: Jordan Handren-Seavey Special Guests: John Repetto and with Dinner Receipt and Reservations. Fri & Sat June 23rd & 24th Mike Craig Kenyon of The Eazy Company and Sean Mahoney of The Worcester McDonald Drew Dunn and Friends Fri & Sat June 30th & July 1st Dick Hot Dog Safari Music from: RYDYN Dark Matter Sway Casey FreeVO $5.

Doherty Ben Quick and Friends Fri & Sat July 7th & 8th Mitch 8 p.m.-midnight Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. Call Stinson Steve Halligan and Friends Fri & Sat July 14th & 15th Emma 508-753-9543.

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Arms and Armor: Aethelflaed - Lady of the Mercians - Sunday, June 25. In the early 10th century, the Anglo-Saxons were fighting against the Vikings over control of Britain. Aethelflaed was the daughter of King Alfred the Great, the first King of the English. Like her father, Aethelflead was a warrior who fortified the Kingdom of Mercia and then led the fight against the Vikings in that land. Discover heroic Aethelflaed and explore the weapons and armor of her day! (programming subject to change) Free with Museum admission. 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Worcester Art Museum, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 55 Salisbury St. Call 508-799-4406.

Auditions for “Things My Mother Taught Me” - Tuesday, June 27. Auditions for “Things My Mother Taught Me”, written by Katherine DiSavino, will be held on Tuesday, June 27th, at 6:30pm, and on Thursday, June 29th at 6:30pm at Gateway Players Theatre. This romantic comedy will be directed by David Corkum and produced by Caitlyn Gaughan. The seven-member cast consists of a young couple age 25-30, two sets of parents ages 45-60, and a Polish landlord, either male or female, age 40 and above. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. For questions, please call Gateway at 508-764-4531 and the director will return the call. Rehearsals will begin in early August, and will be held on Sunday and Wednesday nights. Performance dates are October 13, 14, 20, 21 & 22. Presented by permission through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. For additional information about the production and the playwright, please visit the following links. samuelfrench.com/p/9771/things-my-mother-taught-me katherinedisavino.com/things-my-mother-taught-me/ The Story: Olivia and Gabe are moving into their first apartment together. They’ve just packed up all of their belongings and driven halfway across the country, to start a new life together in Chicago. Their moving day doesn’t go exactly as planned, though, and things become slightly more complicated when all of their parents show up to help! Can a two bedroom apartment contain all of the love, laughs, worry and wisdom that’s about to happen?

This brand new comedy from the author of Nana’s Naughty Knickers takes a generational look at relationships, and how sometimes parents are passing their best lessons on to their children without even meaning to. Funny and touching, this one will make you laugh out loud and fall in love all over again. 6:30-8 p.m. Gateway Players Theatre Arts Barn, 111 Main St., Southbridge. Call 508-764-4531 or visit gatewayplayers.org David Blaine Live - Wednesday, June 28. “[David Blaine has] taken a craft that’s been around for hundreds of years and done something unique and fresh with it.” -The New York Times “He saved magic.” -The New Yorker Described by Howard Stern as the greatest magician that ever lived, David Blaine single-handedly redefined magic after producing and directing his original television special Street Magic when he was just twenty-three, which Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller called “the best TV magic special ever done.” Over the last two decades, Blaine’s nine primetime specials have seen him being buried alive in New York City for a week, encased inside a six-ton block of ice for three days, survived standing atop a 100ft tall pillar in Bryant Park for 36 hours without a safety net, endured 44 days inside a transparent box in London on nothing but water, and had over one million volts discharged at him

continuously for 72 hours from seven Tesla coils. Blaine also spent one week submerged in a sphere-shaped aquarium at Lincoln Center, before breaking the world record for breath holding live on the Oprah Winfrey show where he held his breath for over 17 minutes. Tickets are $29.50, $59.50, $69.50 and $95 depending on seat location. Limited VIP packages available for $350 & $300. 7:30-10 p.m. Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. Call 877-571-7469 or visit thehanovertheatre.org Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This summer, Brian Clowdus, acclaimed director of the sold-out The Sleepy Hollow Experience, joins forces with Old Sturbridge Village to bring Mark Twain’s timeless tale of Huckleberry Finn to the shores of the Quinebaug River in this epic outdoor musical production. The Tony Award-winning musical Big River will sweep audiences down the mighty Mississippi as the irrepressible Huck Finn helps his friend Jim, a runaway slave, escape to freedom at the mouth of the Ohio River. Their adventures along the way are hilarious, suspenseful and heartwarming, bringing to life your favorite characters from the novel - the Widow Douglas and her stern sister, Miss Watson; the uproarious King and Duke, who may or may not be as harmless as they seem; Huck’s partner in crime, Tom Sawyer, and their rowdy gang of pals; Huck’s drunken father, the sinister Pap Finn; the lovely Mary Jane Wilkes and her trusting family. Propelled by an awardwinning score from Roger Miller, the king of country music, this jaunty journey provides a brilliantly theatrical celebration of pure Americana. Big River is presented through special arrangement with R & H Theatricals. $35 show only/general admission with optional add-ons of pre-show dinner and rain insurance. 7:30-10 p.m. Old Sturbridge Village, 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge. 508-347-0290 or bigriverosv.org

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Roosevelt Summer Reading Kickoff Party! Join us at our summer reading program kickoff events! Register to track your reading, participate in some fun activities, and find out all about our summer programs and special events for all ages. Food, fun, games, and reading!

Free. 4-6 p.m. Roosevelt Elementary School, 1006 Grafton St. Tatnuck Summer Reading Kickoff Party! Join us at our summer reading program kickoff events! Register to track your reading, participate in some fun activities, and find out all about our summer programs and special events for all ages. Food, fun, games, and reading!

Free. 4-6 p.m. Worcester Public Library Tatnuck Branch, 1083 Pleasant St. 508-799-8329.

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Tony Soul Project at the Bull Mansion Worcester. The Tony Soul Project will be rocking the Bull Mansion in Worcester MA on June 24 2017 The Tony Soul Project has taken many of the standards of the Delta and surrounding areas and their influence & put a monstrous bass line & back beat to make the likes of Elmore, Muddy, T-Model, RL, Wolf, Hooker come to life. We have added many Motown & Stax

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Record tunes to our list & we dance all night long. Whether a venue, party, wedding or house party, you will be delighted with the sound & personality of this band made up of the finest musicians assembled anywhere. The Tony Soul Project is a unique blend of stylistic musicians from diverse backgrounds, melded together to provide Soul Music, yes Soul Music. James Brown, Otis, Wilson Pickett, Al Green, Stax & Motown.

9 p.m.-midnight Bistro, Bull Mansion, 55 Pearl St. 508-755-6070 or tonysoulproject.com

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Tony Soul Project Blacksheep on the deck. 4-7 p.m. Black Sheep Tavern, 261 Leominster Road, Sterling. 978-422-8484 or tonysoulproject.com Little Red & The Riders at Dance2Swing. Little Red & The Riders jump & swing at Dance2Swing’s Sunday night dance! Come on up for a lovely night of lessons at 6:30pm, band 7:30pm, nice place, nice people, no partner or rhythm needed! 6:30-10 p.m. Leominster Elks Lodge 1237, 134 N. Main St., Leominster. 978-840-3375.

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Escape The Saloon. Escape Games Worcester & Wormtown Brewery present “Escape The Saloon” Two of the best & coolest businesses in Worcester are teaming up to bring you an amazing night!

Travel back to the 1800’s with a custom built saloon outside on the patio of Wormtown. This isn’t any ordinary saloon though, it’s built by Escape Games Worcester, so you know there will be some very cool surprises.

For this shortened escape room you’ll need to, find the clues, solve the puzzles & get the beer tokens! Free Admission. 6-9 p.m. Wormtown Brewery, Shrewsbury St. 774-239-1555 or find them on Facebook.

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PlantNite ~ Enjoy & Create! Come “Enjoy” an evening with your friends & “Create” a tabletop garden, and your night will bloom...

Come early and enjoy one of our dinner specials prior to the event. See Webpage Link Below. 7-9 p.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353 or plantnite.com

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WCHS Founders Walking Tour. Walk in the footsteps of our founders - see where they lived, what they grew, and learn about the early days of the Society. Meet at the Worcester Common for the approximately ¾-mile walk. Co-sponsored our with Preservation Worcester. Directions will be sent upon registration. Pre-registration required. Members of THBG & Preservation Worcester -Free, NonMembers $10. 2-3 p.m. Worcester Common. 508-869-6111, ext. 124 or towerhillbg.thankyou4caring.org Amanda Cote. Amanda Cote is very talented and plays a wide variety of songs that you’re sure to know and enjoy. N/A. 7-10 p.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, Bar / Lounge, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353.

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21st Annual City Spaces Country Places Garden Tour. Visit private gardens of distinction in Holden, Worcester, and other nearby towns on this exclusive self-guided tour. Advance Sales: Member $20, Non-Member $25; Day of Tour: Member $30, Non-Member $35. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-8696111 or towerhillbg.thankyou4caring.org

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MASSive Comic Con Returns to Worcester with Top Notch Guests, A-List Comic Creators, Kids Con and More!

MASSive Comic Con is bringing together celebrity guests, A-list comic creators, famous cosplayers and more to give comic fans, specifically families with kids, an affordable and unforgettable experience on June 24th and 25th at the DCU Center in Worcester. Celebrity guests include Diamond Dallas Page, recently inducted into the World Wrestling The Worcester Bravehearts take on the team that robbed them of a third straight Futures Collegiate Baseball League Championship last year, the Nashua Silver Knights, Friday, June 23, 7:05 p.m., at Hanover Insurance Park at Fitton Field, Worcester. Don’t miss the jersey auction and post-game fireworks show. Tickets are $6-$10. For more information, visit worcesterbravehearts.com, email info@worcesterbravehearts.com or call 508-438-3773.

Art Carts: Family Fun - The Archaeology of Pottery. Have you ever noticed the cracks in our Greek pottery? How were they put back together? Why do they have blank spaces? Learn all about how our Greek pots were made and restored. Then, try your hand at assembling a pot! (Programming subject to change) Free with Museum admission. 2-3 p.m. Worcester Art Museum, Outside Jeppson Idea Lab, 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406.

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Deadites Unite: A benefit for Mique “Dynamo” Marz.

Mique has been a staple in the Worcester music scene and he needs our help. Medical bills pile up quickly so let’s make this a rager and take care of one of our own! All proceeds from the door will go to Mique to help with his evergrowing medical expenses. More info to come $10 at the door-21+-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.

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Ham & Bean Supper to Benefit the Nathan’s Barn Raising Fund. All proceeds benefit the Nathan’s Barn Raising Fund at Waters Farm, a 501(c)3 all-volunteer nonprofit living history center. Waters Farm is the recipient of a circa 1860 New England style barn to replace the original barn built by Nathan Waters in 1840, which was lost 100 years later during the Hurricane of 1938. Your support allows us to move the Chrobak Barn to the original site of Nathan’s barn. Enjoy baked ham, homemade baked beans and brown bread, cole slaw, honey corn muffins, and Waters Farm’s famous hot apple crisp with ice cream. $10 in advance; $12 at the door. Children ages 6-12, $5 in advance; $7 at Entertainment (WWE) Hall of Fame and three-time world champion the door; 5 & under, free. Call Norma for reservations at (508)865-2082 professional wrestler; another WWE Hall of Famer Booker T. Huffman -- please leave a message -- or email watersfarm1757@gmail.com.

Jr., better known by his ring name Booker T; and actor and musician Upcoming suppers: Italian Dinner - 7/22/17; Chicken Dinner - 8/26/17.

Chester Rushing, best known for his role of Tommy H. on Netflix’s For more information on events: www.watersfarm.com Adults $10 in critically acclaimed series, “Stranger Things.” Families will be able to take advance; $12 at door. 5:30-7 p.m. Waters Farm, Darling Barn, Waters advantage of MASSive Comic Con’s policy of free admission for children Road, Sutton. 508-865-2082 or watersfarm.com 10 and under with a paid adult admission. Kids will have the opportunity A Midsummer ArtRaiser 2017. Saturday June 24th, 6-10pm to participate in their own Kids Con, with programming specifically geared A Midsummer ArtRaiser 2017 Celebrating the sun and all of its artful towards them. The Kids Con, operated by Aw Yeah Comics, will be a place creations... Saturday June 24th 6-10pm 2017 Attire: Pagan Chic - Silent where kids can experience the comic convention at their own level. On auction of donated original art - Hors d’oeuvres / cash bar - Music Sunday, June 25, there will be a Kids Costume Contest. MASSive Comic by Future Tropicale Sound System - Pagan Fashion Show + Piñata Con also features some of the worlds top comic creators including a Ritual All proceeds to benefit the Artists’ Group of the Sprinkler Factory team of creators who have helped build the Harley Quinn series for DC and to support our mission to provide a welcoming venue to nurture Comics: Husband and wife team Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner, and promote the visual and performing arts communities of Central Frank Tieri, Stephane Roux, Paul Mounts and John Timms. Adding to the Massachusetts. Tickets at door: $30 / $20 students (suggested fan experience are: movie car appearances by the Massachusetts Ghost donation) Tickets at door: $30 / $20 students (suggested donation).

Busters, Hero Army cosplayers and the 501st New England (Star Wars 6-10 p.m. Sprinkler Factory, 38 Harlow St. sprinklerfactory.com characters), exclusive panels, table top gaming, video game tournaments, >Sunday 25 light saber training classes and a Pirate Scavenger Hunt that enters Incredible Pairings. Canines for Disabled Kids will be teaming up participants into a raffle to win a treasure chest with great prizes. For attendees who want to continue socializing, there are several after-hours with Wormtown Brewery and Sweet Kitchen & Bar to create a beer and dessert fundraising event to benefit connecting children with disabilities events including an after-party at the DCU Center on Saturday evening to service dogs. Enjoy a tasty, fun filled evening with 3 flavorful craft from 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., hosted by the New England Brethren beers expertly paired with 3 decadent desserts and fantastic raffle prizes. of Pirates and “Drink and Draw” featuring many of the show’s comic creators. $45 for a 2-day pass, $30 for Saturday and $25 for Sunday. 10 Limited to 60 tickets - For tickets or more information, please call (978) 422 - 5299 or email info@caninesforkids.org $35 in advance, $40 at a.m. to 6 p.m. DCU Center- Arena and Convention Center, 50 Foster St. the door. 7:30-9 p.m. Wormtown Brewery, Shrewsbury St. 978-422508-755-6800 or massivecomiccon.com 5299 or caninesforkids.org

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Splash Bash at the JCC! Join the Worcester JCC for a Splash Bash! Free and open to the public, this event is open to members and non-members wishing to learn more about the Worcester JCC. New >Friday 23 members will save $100 on their enrollment fee! There will also be Luau Scavenger Hunt: Presummer Reading Kickoff. Search the games, contests, free snow cones and chair massages, and music from children’s room for clues about favorite books and summer activities!

DJ Arnie Hamm. Splash Bash will be held rain or shine at the Worcester Present your finished clue card and receive a small prize. Register for our JCC located at 633 Salisbury Street in Worcester. All guests over the age Summer Reading Program while you’re here! Ages 12 and under. Free. of 18 must provide a photo ID. For additional information and questions, 11 a.m.-noon Worcester Public Library, 3 Salem Square. 508-799-1655. please contact Monica Maher at mmaher@worcesterjcc.org or visit the JCC’s website at worcesterjcc.org Free. 12:30-4:30 p.m. Worcester JCC, >Saturday 24 – Sunday 25 633 Salisbury St. 508-756-7109 or worcesterjcc.org

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Out to Lunch-#MakeArtEverywhere. Returning for its 8th season, the Out to Lunch Concert Series and Farmers Market brings live bands, outdoor performers, artisans, nonprofits, food, farms, and fun!

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Free Fun Friday at Worcester Art Museum. Explore our exhibits & take part in hands-on art activities for free throughout the day!

The Worcester Art Museum is thrilled to participate in this program for another year! Admission to the museum is completely free today. Free admission all day. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406 or worcesterart.org

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Hearts for Hooves. Hearts for Hooves Sunday, June 24th from 9am3pm. An event for horse enthusiast! Pony Rides, Drill Team Presentations, Raffles, Food and Fun! A fundraising event to benefit Blessings Farm.

Blessings Farm has been established in order to contribute in a small way to the well-being of underprivileged children; building and developing this farm in the hope of influencing said children in a way that will spark their interest in horsemanship and making available to them the love of the horse and the blessings of our Lord. Event 10 am - 3 pm; Schedule: Horses arrive 9 am Drill Team 10 - 10:30 am Pony Rides 10:45 - Noon Break Noon - 1 pm Drill Team 1 - 1:30 pm Pony Rides 1:45 - 3 pm All times are approximate. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Klem’s, 117 W Main St., Spencer. 508-885-2709.

Big Dipper All You Can Eat Ice Cream Festival. The Big Dipper includes not only dozens of flavors of ice cream from eight or nine generous ice cream companies, but all-day entertainment, games for kids, a raffle, face painting, a grill, and displays by the public library, the Fire Department, and other civic organizations. $5 adults and children over 10 year, $2 ages 4-9, free for 3 and under. 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Elms Park, 284 Highland St., Worcester MA. 508-459-6447.

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Armenian-American High School Graduates Recognition Night. Armenian-American Students from high schools in the Central MA area are honored for their graduation achievement. The program features a City Proclamation from Mayor Joseph Petty and special Guest Speaker Adrienne Sharigian, A 2006 Doherty High School Graduate Honored at the 26th Annual Recognition Night. Each student in attendance will then be introduced and presented with several gifts in remembrance of the occasion followed by a reception with an Armenian buffet. Free. 7-9 p.m. Armenian Church of Our Saviour, Church Hall, 87 Salisbury St. 774-261-0108.

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The Language of Flowers Art Exhibit Opening Reception.

Join us for the opening reception for The Language of Flowers Art Exhibit.

Explore collage and mixed media art by artists from the United States and around the world. Free with Admission. 5-7 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111.

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World’s Largest Swimming Lesson! Join thousands of kids and families at aquatic facilities around the globe on June 22, 2017 for the World’s Largest Swimming Lesson! We’re making a huge splash to spread the word that Swimming Lessons Save Lives. Don’t miss your chance to participate in the 8th annual WLSL event to help prevent drowning, the second leading cause of injury-related death of children ages 1-14. Walk-ins welcome! Check below for the appropriate level and lesson time. All lessons take place on June 22. Parent and Child: 9:30-10:00 a.m. Preschool: 10:30-11:00 a.m. Youth Beginner: 3:003:30 p.m. Youth Beginner: 3:30-4:00 p.m. Youth Advanced Beginner: 4:00-4:30 p.m. Adult Learn-to-Swim: 7:30-8:00pm 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

YWCA of Central Massachusetts, 1 Salem Square. 508-767-2505 or WLSLworcester.eventbrite.com Children’s Gardening Hour. Fee supports Youth Garden educational programs. Instructor: Alice Puccio Enjoy time after school in the youth garden learning about plants and how to grow your own garden at home. Appropriate for children 6 +. Pre-registration required, max 12 people Member: $5 per child-adult pair, Nonmember: $8 per child-adult pair, plus cost of admission. 3:30-4:30 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111, ext. 124 or towerhillbg.thankyou4caring.org Intro to TIG Welding with Randal Gardner. TIG welding is a process that allows for welding of a large variety of metals. It requires more skill and practice than MIG welding but offers far more control and precision. In this class you will learn: Equipment setup and safety.

Basics of GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding) Use of personal protective equipment associated with welding. Part preparation. Puddle control.

Welding techniques for various positions (flat, vertical, horizontal, overhead). Welding techniques for various materials (steel, stainless steel, aluminum) Weld bead inspection and analysis. Limit 4 students Minimum enrollment 2 students. If your class does not reach minimum enrollment by 2p on the date it is set for, your class will be canceled.

Students will have the option of transferring their ticket to another class or receiving a refund. Please provide us with both a contact number & email to ensure you are properly notified of course changes. Class Requirements: Appropriate shop clothing: (natural fiber clothing, long sleeves/ jeans is the typical minimum recommended) closed toe shoes (leather steel toe boots recommended). No experience necessary. How to find us! Turn in at the Blue Hive parking lot (233 Stafford St.) drive to the back of the lot and turn right to go behind the building. There will be a large garage door. The entrance to the WorcShop is the door on the right with the blue awning. $60 WorcShop Members / $75 NonMembers. 6:30-9 p.m. The WorcShop, 243 Stafford St. 774-545-0720 or eventbrite.com

only CPR - Emergency preparedness - Rules of the road/road signs Participants will also get to decorate free bike helmets to take home, go swimming, play team-building games, participate in emergency scenarios, apply what they learn by traveling through our interactive road course, and meet some surprise guests! To register, stop by the YWCA Central Massachusetts or contact Sarah Daly at sdaly@ywcaworcester. org or 508-767-2505x3003. $10/$5 per additional sibling. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. YWCA of Central Massachusetts, 1 Salem Square. 508-767-2505.

City Hall Brawl: Amateur Boxing. Come out to join the Worcester Police Athletic League and the Boys & Girls Club of Worcester for an evening of boxing! Bring water, friends and your game face to the Worcester Common Oval to learn some moves from Worcester’s P.D. on Friday, June 23rd at 6:00 pm Free Admission. 6-8 p.m. Worcester Common Oval, 455 Main St. 508-929-0777.

Forming Copper Flowers with Justin Cameron. In this three-hour copper forming class, Justin will teach you to create beautiful metal flowers. You will be taught to lay out your flowers, to prep and cut all of your components, how to assemble the components of your flowers and the finishing techniques you will need to finish them. Make them for yourself as a keepsake, or gift them to someone you adore. Minimum of 3 students required to run the class & a maximum of 8. If the class does not reach minimum enrollment 3 days prior, it will be canceled.

Students will have the option of transferring their ticket to another class or receiving a refund. Please provide us with both a contact number & email to ensure you are properly notified of course changes. Class Requirements: Appropriate shop clothing: (natural fiber clothing, long sleeves/ jeans is the typical minimum recommended) closed toe shoes (leather steel toe boots recommended). No experience necessary. How to find us! Turn in at the Blue Hive parking lot (233 Stafford St.) drive to the back of the lot and turn right to go behind the building. There will be a large garage door. The entrance to the WorcShop is the door on the right with the blue awning. $50 WorcShop Members / $60 NonMembers. 6-9 p.m. The WorcShop, 243 Stafford St. 774-545-0720 or eventbrite.com Learn to shoot in Manual Mode with Jessica White. In this three-hour class, you will learn all about the exposure triangle, and how your ISO, shutter speed, and f-stop work together to create the images you want. There will be free time at the end of the class for questions and practice. You’ll also get a small booklet to take home with exercises and tips that will help you practice shooting in manual mode. Class Requirements, if any: You must know how to operate your camera, and it is recommended that you bring your manual. There is a minimum of 2 students to run this class and a maximum of 8. How to find us: Turn in at the Blue Hive parking lot (233 Stafford St.) drive to the back of the lot and turn right to go behind the building. There will be a large garage door. The entrance to the WorcShop is the door on the right with the blue awning. $100 WorcShop Members / $125 Non-Members. 6-9 p.m. The WorcShop, Studio 12, 243 Stafford St. 774-293-8165 or eventbrite.com Glassblowing Apothecary Jars. Get a taste of the ancient art of glassblowing in this fun one-night course. In one evening, you will learn about the history and process behind creating beautiful blown glass at the New Street Glass Studio. After learning the safety and studio etiquette rules, students will watch a brief demonstration of this 2000-year-old art before diving in and making their very own apothecary jar from glass gathered out of a 2100-degree furnace. Students will choose their own colors and instructors will guide the class through the steps from gathering to applying colors, from blowing a bubble to shaping their own apothecary jar. Educators will then demonstrate the process of making a matching glass lid. No experience is necessary and all materials are included. Fee Breakdown: Student Fee: $85 Materials Fee: $5 $90.

6:30-9:30 p.m. New Street Glass Studio, Hot Glass Studio, 35B New St. 508-757-1424 or register.worcestercraftcenter.org

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Shawn Ryan @ Barnes & Noble 4th Saturday Poetry Open Mic. This month the 4th Saturday Poetry Open Mic will host its regular open mic followed a reading by Shawn Ryan of Worcester.

Come out and read a poem or two in the open mic and stick around for the feature. The group usually enjoys coffee and snacks at the in store café after the reading. Free and open to the public. 7-9 p.m. Barnes & Noble Booksellers - MA/Worcester, 541 D Lincoln St. 508-797-4770 or worcestercountypoetry.org

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Youth Safety Day. Join us for a day of fun activities while learning to play safely this summer in your homes and out in the community.

Participants will spend the day learning valuable procedures to follow in the event of various emergency scenarios. Participants will learn about: Water safety - Bike safety - Summer safety - Stranger danger - Hands-

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Looking Closely: Nature Photography. Nature photographer Neil Tischler will reveal his techniques for capturing the often hidden details of the beautiful flora and fauna right outside your door. After an interactive presentation of many of his own images, Neil will review basic camera settings and then you’ll head outdoors for hands-on practice. The workshop will conclude with demonstrations of how to crop

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Students will have the option of transferring their ticket to another class or receiving a refund. Please provide us with both a contact number & email to ensure you are properly notified of course changes. Class Requirements: Appropriate shop clothing: (natural fiber clothing, long sleeves/ jeans is the typical minimum recommended) closed toe shoes (leather steel toe boots recommended). No experience necessary. How to find us! Turn in at the Blue Hive parking lot (233 Stafford St.) drive to the back of the lot and turn right to go behind the building. There will

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Rainbow Lunch Club. The Rainbow Lunch Club meets the 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of each month and offers LGBTIQA seniors age 60+ a nutritious meal and an opportunity to socialize with friends and enjoy various activities including programs, entertainment and educational series. Advance reservations are required. Please call or email by the previous Wednesday: (508)756-1545 ext.404 or wlen@eswa.org All are Welcome: LGBTIQA 60 years old and older; younger partners, friends, and allies! $2.50 suggested donation for those age 60+; the fee for younger individuals is $5.50. Noon-2 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church of Worcester, 90 Holden St. 508-756-1545 or meetup.com Cary Award Winner Tour. Join Joann Vieira for a spring tour of selected Cary Award-winning plants at Tower Hill. For 20 years the Worcester County Horticultural Society and Tower Hill Botanic Garden have been extolling the virtue of outstanding trees, shrubs, groundcovers and woody vines for cultivation in zone 5 gardens through the Cary Award program. Beginning in 1997, and with the aid of the northeast’s foremost plant experts, the Society has awarded over 57 plants its highest honor.

These plants are specifically chosen for their pest and disease resistance, are hardy to at least zone 5, are available in the nursery trade, and provide extended, or multiple seasons of interest. Free with Admission.

5-6 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 506-8696111, ext. 124 or towerhillbg.thankyou4caring.org Mindful Meditation. These guided meditations for relaxation and healing are intended to assist you in releasing your stress and anxiety.

By relaxing the body and the mind you can improve your overall sense of well-being. Free for Cancer Patients, survivors and their families. Open to all. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Generations Healing Center, 250 Main St., Oxford.

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Business and Personal Insurance: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You. Insurance is an important part of our daily lives. We drive cars, trucks, and motorcycles; own homes or rent space. And then there are our toys - boats, RVs, campers, jet-skis, and so on. Each and every one of these have inherent risk. Handling that risk properly is the difference between financial stability and bankruptcy. Points Dennis will cover include: What to insure and not to insure, Policy differences, Common myths, Huge gaps, and Dangerous assumptions. Presented by Dennis McCurdy, CIC, CFP®: Dennis has been providing insurance to small to mid-sized businesses, and families since 1975. In addition to his wealth of product knowledge, Dennis› vast experience as a business owner makes him a valuable resource for his clients. RSVP to save your spot. Free for CMS Chamber Members & Affiliates of Worcester Regional Chamber ($50 for non-members). noon-1 p.m. Chamber of Central Mass South, Conference Room, 46 Hall Road, Sturbridge. 508-347-2761 or cmschamber.ning.com Summer 2017 Poetry Workshop. Join Heather Macpherson for an interactive and engaging Summer poetry workshop. Particpants will learn some background of famous poets, read and discuss the work of those poets and have an opportunity to create poems using provided prompts. While the workshop is 6-weeks in length you can come to just one session or all of them. Created & developed by Heather J. Macpherson. Free and open to the public. 6-8 p.m. Southborough Public Library, 25 Main St., Southborough. 508-485-5031.

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In this two-day blacksmithing class, students will learn various types of decorative twists in steel bar. Including pineapple twists, Rubix twist, and braid twist. Second date: Saturday, July 1, 2017 10a-4p Cost: $130 WorcShop members / $145 non-members Limit 6 students. Minimum enrollment 3 students. If your class does not reach minimum enrollment 3 days prior, your class will be rescheduled. Students will have the option of transferring their ticket to another class or receiving a refund.

Please provide us with both a contact number & email to ensure you are properly notified of course changes. Class Requirements: Appropriate shop clothing: (natural fiber clothing, long sleeves/ jeans is the typical minimum recommended) closed toe shoes (leather steel toe boots recommended). No experience necessary. How to find us! Turn in at the Blue Hive parking lot (233 Stafford St.) drive to the back of the lot and turn right to go behind the building. There will be a large garage door. The entrance to the WorcShop is the door on the right with the blue awning. $130 WorcShop Members / $145 Non-Members. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The WorcShop, 243 Stafford St. 774-545-0720 or eventbrite.com

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Member $30, Non-member $45. 9 a.m.-noon Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111, ext. 124 or towerhillbg. thankyou4caring.org Science Sprouts for Kids. Fee includes all materials and is per one child and one adult. Instructor: Suzanne Hauerstein On the last Saturday of each month accompany your little one for a monthly program that incorporates science, math, nature and art exploration! These programs are designed for children ages PreK-6 accompanied by an adult. Preregistration required Member: $12 per session, Nonmember: $22 per session, includes cost of admission per child and adult. 10:30-11:30 a.m.

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124 or towerhillbg.thankyou4caring.org Art in the Yard, Oxford. Featuring the works of sculptors Susan Champeny, Joe Chirchirillo, Jim Henderson, James Kitchen and Philip Marshall the exhibit opens with music, children activities, and artists talks. Free. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oxford Free Public Library, 339 Main St., Oxford. 508-341-3838 or oxfordmapubliclibrary.org Make Your Own Beer Stein. Get a taste of the ancient art of glassblowing in this fun one-night course. In one evening, you will learn about the history and process behind creating beautiful blown glass at the New Street Glass Studio. After learning the safety and studio etiquette rules, students will watch a brief demonstration of this 2000-year-old art before diving in and making their very own beer stein from glass gathered out of a 2100-degree furnace. Instructors will guide students through the steps from gathering to blowing the bubble, from shaping a cylinder to adding a handle No experience is necessary and all materials are included. Fee Breakdown: Student Fee: $85 Materials Fee: $5 $90.

4:30-7:30 p.m. New Street Glass Studio, Hot Glass Studio, 35B New St. 508-753-8183, ext. 301 or register.worcestercraftcenter.org

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Worcester Magazine will be taking the week of July 4 off from print. But don’t worry. Worcester Magazine will still be online keeping you posted on all that you need to know, plus we’re giving you nine chances to win!

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(One winner each day) Make sure you pick up our Special Double Issue on June 29 - and follow us on Facebook and worcestermagazine.com

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EXCAVATION STARBARD CONSTRUCTION 508-886-2000 Evan E. Starbard Excavating of all Types Custom Screening - Dark, Rich Screened Loam - Wall Stone Since 1983 82 Barre Paxton Road Rutland A.C.G. EXCAVATION 508-829-0089 Will Beat Any Legitimate Written Quote by 10% Site Work - Drainage - Land Clearing - Additions & Cellar Holes - Landscape, New Lawns Septic Systems CELL: 508-450-0808 www.acgexcavation.com FLOORING/CARPETING C & S Carpet Mills Carpet & Linoleum 30 Sq. Yds. $589 Installed with Pad. Free Metal Incl’d.

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Rubber. *Best Prices* 28 Years experience. Licensed, Insured, References. Free estimates.

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Family Owned Over 50 Years.

127 Mechanic St. Leominster 978-537-3962 M-F 8-4

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Donald F. Mercurio BULKHEADS Repaired & Replaced Foundation Repairs Brick*Block*Stone Basement Waterproofing 508-835-4729/West Boylston Owner Operator Insured Cornerstone Masonry Master Stone Masons Brick & Block Stone Walls, Walkways, Patios, Fireplaces.

We do repairs.

978-580-4260 30 Years Experience PAINT/WALLPAPER Interior Painting Only $159 Average 12x16 room. Prompt service. Reliable. Refs. Dutch Touch Painting 508-867-2550

JOHN THE ROOFER CO. Quality Exteriors For Over 65 Years!

Master Installers of Roofing, Siding & Window Products FINANCING AVAILABLE Free Estimates Fully Insured www.johntheroofer.com Toll Free 866-906-ROOF MA CSL#97139 HIC#111318 ROOFING SPECIALIST John Hickey Const.

Free estimates, call for the best roof at the best price.

Fully insured. MA Reg#103286 Shingle or rubber, seamless gutters. 1-800-435-5129 or 978-537-1641 Commercial and Residential jhickey6019@yahoo.com

SEALCOATING B & F Sealcoating Hot Crack Sealing Free Residential Estimates 15 Years Exp. Fully Ins. Quality Work Reasonable Price Bob Fahlbeck 508-839-3942

MULCH & LOAM Sneade Brothers VINYL SIDING & REPLACEMENT WINDOWS Fully licensed & Insured Richard Sneade 508-839-1164 www.sneadebrotherswindow andsiding.com

Sterling Peat LLC Quality Screened Loam & Compost, Screened Loam/ Compost Mix, Mulches, Screened Gravel. Fill, Fieldstone. 978-422-8294

EMPLOYMENT TREE SERVICES Ross A. McGinnes Storm Damage, Tree Work Stump Removal.

Free Estimates. 508-365-9602

LAWN & GARDEN LANDSCAPING & LAWN MAINTENANCE Miller’s Landscaping Spring Cleanup, Lawn Mowing, Mulching & Edging, Shrub Installation, Shrub Trimming, Tree/Shrub Removal Fully Insured, Free Estimates www.millerslandscaping.com 774-230-0422.

Complete Spring, Summer & Fall Lawn Care Services Tailored to your needs. Mulch, loam, stone, etc. delivery.

Insured, experienced, with prompt call response. Ask for Rob: 978.833.3827. Coachlace Property Services.

LANDSCAPING & LAWN MAINTENANCE Burnham Maintenance Clean-ups.

Lawn Maintenance.

Shrub Pruning. Bark Mulch, Screened Loam & Compost.

Patios & Walkways.

Fertilization Programs.

Deliveries Available.

Please call 508-829-3809 or 508-400-4263 MULCH & LOAM *Composted Loam* 3/8 screened, $22/yd del’d, 10 yd min; 3/4 screened, $20/yd del’d 15 yd min.

No additives, fillers or byproducts.

Local delivery only.

Call Eliot Starbard 508-882-0140

HELP WANTED NOW HIRING Choice1Temps.com is Now HIRING. 8 and 12 hour shifts.

Local jobs. Must be responsible and willing to work lots of overtime. Apply at Choice1Temps.com 508-943-3867 HELP WANTED LOCAL

Route Accounting & Office Assistant Wanted

Pepsi-Cola in Holden is seeking a dependable, detail oriented data entry clerk with experience working with Excel.

The hours of this position are 9am-1pm, Monday-Friday.

Apply in-person at 90 Industrial Drive or online at jobs.pepsiworcester.com 508-829-6551

Hospitalist (Leominster, MA) sought by UMass Memorial Medical Group, Inc. to provide clinical care to patients admitted to Health Alliance Hospital. Admit and treat patients as an attending physician, conduct history and physical exams. Additional Worksites in Worcester & Clinton, MA. Must have MA Medical License. Apply to Leigh M. Corl, HR Operations Coordinator, UMass Memorial HR, HB-791, 55 Lake Ave. North, Worcester, MA 01655.

No phone calls.

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Cemetery Plots Two cemetery plots at Worcester County Memorial Park for sale. I am a 1968 Wachusett grad. Please call (713) 557-8659 and ask for Anne Heil.

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

2 Handmade Adirondack Chairs $50 each. Need power washing & polyurethane. Call 508-752-1646

Corn Hole Game College size, 4 bags. $65. 978-798-1475

Millbury Public Schools Assistant cook Manager 5.25 hrs per day, school year, kitchen experience preferred Contact Mary Leslie at mleslie@millburyschools.org

LAW SERVICES EMPLOYMENT LAW ATTORNEY Law Offices of

SCOTT A. LATHROP Townsend, MA • 978-597-9020 scott.lathrop@comcast.net

MERCHANDISE CEMETERY PLOTS Worcester County Memorial Park Paxton, MA. 2 Lots in the Garden of Faith. $1500.00 for both. Near the feature. Mary 508-886-4334.

Worcester County Memorial Park - Paxton Garden of Faith, 2 grave plot. Today’s cost $4600, asking $2000. 508 -278-7777

Worcester County Memorial Park - Paxton Unit C, section Heritage II, plots 1 and 2. Today’s price is $6500, asking $3500. 508-344-9626 Worc. County Memorial Park, Paxton Garden of Honor, 2 plots, Plot 17, Unit C, Graves 3 & 4. Today’s cost is $8,800 for both. Asking $2950 total for both. Call 978-582-9309 978582-9309 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 County Memorial Park, Paxton MA Garden of Heritage II. 2 Lots w/vaults.

Current value $8300.00 Asking $3950.00 for both or B/O. Call Jim 508-769-8107 Worcester County Memorial Park - Paxton Garden of Serenity Two lots for sale.

Present price $3495 for both, will sell for $900 each, totaling $1800. Call 801-294-7514

REAL ESTATE IDEAL CONDO ALTERNATIVE! 1763 MAIN STREET, HOLDEN

Worcester County Memorial Park - Paxton Two lots, section 511, Garden of Valor. Asking $3500 OBO. 508-754-1188 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 Worcester County Memorial Park Paxton, MA Garden of the Cross Premier Location, Must sell Value $5250 Asking $4000 OBO 508-799-5678 FOR SALE Vintage wood rocking chair w/upholstered seat & pillow. $85. Antique wood chair w/upholstered seat & pillow. $85 508-859-8170 Invacare Series 9XT Wheelchair Invacare 9XT High Strength Lightweight Manual Chair. 20" urethane tires, electric red, 18"x18" Jaycare back seating and back support, rear ant tippers, footrests, full length adjustable arm rests. Purchased brand new $2450, used 2 weeks. Asking $1500 OBO. All original paperwork and receipt.

978-314-3270 for more info/ viewing.

Lightweight Portable Wheelchair Nearly new, $40. Electric wheelchair, all parts nearly new w/leg extensions. $300.

508-829-0468

Easy-keeper and no condo fees. Meticulously maintained ranch with CENTRAL AIR, new windows and roof. Spacious rooms include master bedroom, eat-in kitchen and living room with fireplace, plus cozy bonus room for guests or office. Brick patio, 3-season screen porch with views of Stump Pond, and garage with extra storage. Holden Hills golf course right across the street! Offered at $224,000.

Lisa Hugo

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Electric Hoyer Lift Battery charger, extra battery and canvas carriers. $400. Call 508829-0468 Elegant Diamond Engagement Ring Approx. 2 carats set in white gold. Replacement cost $6585, asking $4495.

508-829-3363

Maytag Electric Range Super capacity asking $250.

978-305-4784 anytime.

4 Bridgestone Dueler Tires 275/55/20 Chevy 5 spoke alum. wheels with lug locks exc. condition $1250. Call 508-829-6009.

Samsonite Spinner Suitcases 20" and 24". New in boxes.

Black, hardcase. $325. Matthew 508-756-1315 Dog Crate and Bed Crate 20"x 21"x 28". $60. Bed is memory foam, 29" long by 25" wide. $20. 978-464-5953 Antique Copper Coffee Pot Hinged lid, wood handle. $25.

Saw on eBay for $100! 508-5794250 Sleigh Bed Queen size, solid cherry. A must see for $200 firm.

Call 508-425-9712 Attn: Preschools, Day Cares, Families of Young Children Thinking of starting your own child care business? Child care business of 25+ years is selling ALL. Educational, curriculum, manipulative, books, music, puzzles, fine and gross motor activities, art supplies and much more! Sunday, June 25th, 8-12. 152 Suomi St., Paxton. 508-757-5456 Yarn for Sale: Getting rid of my stash! Most colors, many weights. $2 per skein or three for $5. 508-752-5282 Couch. LS - light turquoise micro suede & 2 matching stripped chairs. Great cond. $500 for all. (508) 981-1941 Amana ART104TFDW 14.3 cubic foot refrigerator/freezer, bought new, excellent condition, $375. 978-400-3699

U.S. C14 Zeppelin Stamp (U) Flag cncl. $175. Stamp questions? Ron 413-896-3324 FREE Free Basketball Hoop/Net/ Pole Free standing, fully assembled. Need truck. Curbside pickup Millbury. 508-865-5436

EDUCATION MISCELLANEOUS New England School of Fine Art

DRAW - PAINT - SEE Classes and workshops in traditional art for adults and teens. Instruction in watercolor, oil, charcoal, photography and more. For more info, go to www.nesfa-worcester.com 508-963-7777 nesfa.worcester@gmail.com

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.

MISCELLANEOUS Teacher Available For child/elder care or tutoring.

Call Janet at 774-239-9147 or 508-754-5963

REAL ESTATE Brother HL-2170W Wireless Laser Printer, bought new, very good condition, $50 978400-3699 Heavy Duty Prototype PVC Pipes Hammock Frame w/1 cloth & 1 rope material, all accessories. $50 978-537-9925 Golf clubs, bag, cart (used) Asking $175. 508-865-5726*

REAL ESTATE

We Pay Top Cash For Houses and Land.

Any Condition.

No Hassle, Fast Closing.

978-423-6529

Publisher’s Notice All real estate advertised in this publication is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968, the Massachusetts Anti Discrimination Act and the Boston & Cambridge Fair Housing Ordinances which make it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, ancestry, age, children, marital status, sexual orientation, veterans status or source of income or any intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

To complain of discrimination call HUD toll free at 1-800-827-5005.

For the NE area call HUD at 617-994-8300. The toll free number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275 or 617-565-5453 CONDOMINIUM FOR RENT Daytona 500 5 Star Condo Starting 2/16. Sleeps 4, on the beach. $1500. Also 2/2 near Disney. $1000. 407-375-3917 TIMESHARES FOR SALE Timeshare in Orlando Area Even years. 2 br, lock off, sleeps 8. $5000 OBO. 774-345 -4113

AUTOMOTIVE AUTO/MOTORCYCLE 2012 Yamaha Zoomer 49cc scooter. Great condition, rode once. 4 miles. $2300 neg.

Must be seen, serious inquiries only. 508-770-1797

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

Call John at 978-466-6043.

2007 Suzuki Boulevard Cruising Motorcycle C90T; 1474cc; 6300 miles, 1 owner, perfect cond. accessories and new battery. Garaged, covered & serviced. $6,000 508-8498635 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 2008 Honda Metropolitan Scooter Black and gray. Mint cond.

469 miles. Asking $1650.00.

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

IMMEDIATE OPPORTUNITIES

PRODUCTION WORKERS Expert Staffing in Partnership with Interstate Container in Westminster, MA has several immediate openings for Production Workers. 1st Shift: 6:00am to 2:00pm and 2nd Shift 2:00pm to 10:00pm REQUIREMENTS: Ability to read and write English. • Ability to perform simple Math • Must be capable of lifting 35lbs JOB DUTIES: Fold boxes per work instructions • Operate strapping machine • Operate gluing machine Palletize finished products • Run corrugated through die cutter • Run corrugated through printer and/or stamper • Work in a safe, efficient manner • Maintain a clean work environment.

Recruiting On-Site at 100 Simplex Drive Unit 5, Westminster, MA MONDAY – FRIDAY FROM 9AM-4PM

Please send resumes to: robert.studivan@expert-staffing.com Phone: 774-303-9012 OR

40 Spruce St. Suite 206, Leominster, MA 01453 WALK-INS WELCOME AT BOTH LOCATIONS

Must be able to pass a pre-employment drug test and background check • EOE

AUTO/TRUCK 2006 GMC Sierra 1500 V8, Power everything, 1 owner.

Trailer pkg, track rack, 84K mi.

Chrome steps, Rhyno bed.

Mint. Remote start. 10,000 OBO 508-735-1218 2006 Honda Ridgeline 188K mi, runs like new, remote start, ice cold air, good tires, no leaks. $5600. 508-735-3012 2000 Ford F-150

Expert Staffing in partnership with Boutwell, Owens & Co., Inc. has several openings for 12 hour shifts-Days and Nights Packers, Air Hammer Operators, Material Handlers, Utility Persons, Conveyor Tenders, Sheeter Operators, Gluer Operators and Die Cut Operators.

Please apply at: Whitney Square, 40 Spruce Street, Suite 206, Leominster, MA 01453 barbara.sidilau@expert-staffing.com 978-798-1610

Walk-ins welcome!

Automatic. Shifts perfect. No leaks. Mileage 64,100, RWD, Extended Cab Pickup, 5.4l, Gasoline,260HP. $2670. Call:5082160451

AUTO/VAN 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

Expert Staffing in partnership with Phillips-Medisize (formerly Injectronics) is now hiring Plastics Operators for 8 hour Shifts - 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

APPLY AT: Whitney Square, 40 Spruce Street, Suite 206 Leominster, MA 01453 978-798-1610 barbara.sidilau@expert-staffing.com

Adams and Associates is a 100% employee owned organization that is singularly committed to the Job Corps program and the students we serve.

In partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor, Adams and Associates provides free education and training that helps young people earn their high school diploma or HISET, learn a career, and assistance in finding, and keeping, successful employment.

Adams & Associates is hiring for the following positions at Grafton Job Corps Center.

Our campus is located in North Grafton, MA about 45 miles west of Boston.

• LPN – full time, M-F, 7A-4P • LPN – part time, 10 hours/week • Driver/Maintenance – Su-Th, 2P-11P • Residential Advisors – 2nd shift, overnight shift, and split shift availability • Substance Abuse/Prevention Counselor – M-F, 8A-5P • Safety/Security Advisor – 2nd shift • Assistant Cook • Food Services Assistant – 1 full time and 1 temp to permanent position • New Student Orientation Coordinator • Substitute Academic and Vocational Trade Instructors We offer a competitive and lucrative benefits package which includes generous sick leave and paid time off, as well as 11 paid holidays! We offer Medical, Dental and Vision insurance with a 70% company contribution and Life/AD&D, STD, LTD at no cost to the employee.

To apply follow this link: http://recruiting.ultipro.com/ADA1000ADAMS Location: North Grafton

Walk-ins welcome!

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LEGALS/PUBLIC NOTICES MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain Mortgage given by W. Douglas Morton Jr. and Marie C. Morton to Champion Mortgage, a Division of Key Bank, USA, National Association, dated January 21, 2003 and recorded with the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds at Book 28942, Page 306 subsequently assigned to Household Finance Corp II by Champion Mortgage, a Division of Key Bank, USA, National Association by assignment recorded in said Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds at Book 40816, Page 68 and subsequently assigned to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, d/b/a Christiana Trust, not in its individual capacity, but solely as trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 2015-5T by Household Finance Corp II by assignment recorded in said Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds at Book 54799, Page 174; of which Mortgage the undersigned is the present holder for breach of the conditions of said Mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing same will be sold at Public Auction at 1:00 PM on July 13, 2017 at 60 Town Farm Road, Sutton, MA, all and singular the premises described in said Mortgage, to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND KNOWN AS 60 TOWN FARM ROAD, IN THE TOWN OF SUTTON, COUNTY OF WORCESTER, AND STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN A DEED RECORDED ON 11/4/99, IN BOOK\VOLUME 22022 AT PAGE 166 OF THE WORCESTER DISTRICT REGISRY OF DEEDS. TITLE HELD IN: MARIE C. MORTON and W. DOUGLAS MORTON JR. ILS FILE NO: D0075859 CUSTOMER NO: 1391754 ASSESSOR’S TAX ID NUMBER: MAP 29, PARCEL 37. The premises are to be sold subject to and with the benefit of all easements, restrictions, building and zoning laws, liens, attorney’s fees and costs pursuant to M.G.L.Ch.183A, unpaid taxes, tax titles, water bills, municipal liens and assessments, rights of tenants and parties in possession. TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS AND 00 CENTS ($5,000.00) in the form of a certified check, bank treasurer’s check or money order will be required to be delivered at or before the time the bid is offered. The successful bidder will be required to execute a Foreclosure Sale Agreement immediately after the close of the bidding. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid within thirty (30) days from the sale date in the form of a certified check, bank treasurer’s check or other check satisfactory to Mortgagee’s attorney. The Mortgagee reserves the right to bid at the sale, to reject any and all bids, to continue the sale and to amend the terms of the sale by written or oral announcement made before or during the foreclosure sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. The description of the premises contained in said mortgage shall control in the event of an error in this publication. TIME WILL BE OF THE ESSENCE. Other terms if any, to be announced at the sale. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, d/b/a Christiana Trust, not in its individual capacity, but solely as trustee for RMAC Trust, Series 2015-5T Present Holder of said Mortgage, By Its Attorneys, ORLANS PC, PO Box 540540, Waltham, MA 02454 Phone: (781) 790-7800 16-011536 6/22, 6/29, 7/6/17 NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Martha Hamman to First Massachusetts Bank (n/k/a TD Bank, N.A.), dated July 30, 2001 and recorded with the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 24525, Page 61, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 2:00 p.m.

(ET) on the 3rd day of August 2017, on the mortgaged premises located at 102 – 104 Main Street, Millbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, TO WIT: a certain tract of land with the buildings thereon situated in Millbury on the northerly side of Main Street being Lot #6 on a plan of lots recorded in the Worcester District Registry of Deeds in Book 928, Page 653, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at the northwesterly corner of the land on Main Street and at the land of Charles D. Morse; THENCE by land of said Morse, North 60°40’ East 170 ½ feet to a stone in the ground; THENCE by Lot #9 on said plan South 15°30’ East one hundred (100) feet; THENCE by Lot #7 on said plan South 67°15’ West one hundred fifty-nine (159) feet to said Main Street; THENCE northerly by said Main Street eighty (80) feet to the place of beginning. Containing fourteen thousand four hundred and twenty-five (14,425) square feet, more or less. Being the same premises as conveyed to Martha Hammann by deed from Peter M. Bagg and Patricia L. Bagg, dated July 27, 2001, recorded with the Worcester County (Worcester District) registry of deeds in Book 24525, Page 59. Premises to be sold and conveyed subject to and with the benefit of all rights, rights of way, restrictions, easements, covenants, liens or claims in the nature of liens, improvements, public assessments, any and all unpaid taxes, tax titles, tax liens, water and sewer liens and any other municipal assessments or liens or existing encumbrances of record which are in force and are applicable, having priority over said mortgage, whether or not reference to such restrictions, easements, improvements, liens or encumbrances is made in the deed. Terms of sale: A deposit of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) by certified or bank check will be required to be paid by the purchaser at the time and place of sale. The balance is to be paid by certified or bank check at the Law Offices of Duane Morris LLP, 30 S. 17th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103-4196, within thirty (30) days from the date of sale. Deed will be provided to purchaser for recording upon receipt in full of the purchase price. In the event of an error in this notice, the description of the premises contained in said mortgage shall control. Other terms, if any, to be announced at the sale. /s/ TD Bank, N.A. Present holder of said mortgage By its Attorneys, Duane Morris LLP, 30 S. 17th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103-4196 Attn: James C. Carignan, Esq. (215) 979-1557

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Worcester Division INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE Docket No. WO17P1703EA Estate of: Judith M. Nalewajk Date of Death: November 16, 2016 To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Lee Nalewajk of Dudley, MA. Lee Nalewajk of Dudley, MA has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond. The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner. 06/22/2017 WM Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Worcester Probate and Family Court 225 Main St. Worcester, MA 01608 508-831-2200 CITATION ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION Docket No. WO17P1489EA Estate of: Eleanor J. Valentino Date of Death: 04/13/2017 To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy and Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by: Scott P. Valentino of Oxford, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that: Scott P. Valentino of Oxford, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before: 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 07/11/2017. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an affidavit of objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you. UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. WITNESS, Hon. Leilah A Keamy, First Justice of this Court. Date: June 09, 2017 Stephanie K. Fattman, Register of Probate 06/22/2017 MSC

Town of Sutton Request for Proposals 17-01 Rehabilitation of Goddard Lodge at Marion’s Camp Project The Town of Sutton seeks proposals from qualified general contractors and filed subcontractor for the Rehabilitation of Goddard Lodge at Marion’s Camp. Goddard Lodge is a three season building located at Marion’s camp Tuttle Road. The filed sub- bids will be accepted from masonry, electrical, and painting. The filed sub- bids are due July 17 at 10 AM. The general construction bids are due July 26 at 10 AM. An addendum will go out after the filed sub- bids have been submitted listing all the filed sub- bids and the prices for their work. The request for proposals can be picked up at Sutton Town Hall 4 Uxbridge Rd., Sutton, MA 01590 Monday through Thursday 8 AM to 4 PM and Fridays 9 AM to 12 PM. Beginning June 28, 2017. You can also email j.smith@ town.sutton.ma.us for a copy of the request for proposal.

Proposals for the filed sub-bids must identify the filed sub-work to be completed and be submitted in a sealed envelope marked “Request for Proposals: Rehabilitation of Goddard Lodge at Marion’s Camp Project” returned no later than July 17 at 10:00 AM. Proposals for the general contractor work must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked “Request for Proposals: Rehabilitation of Goddard Lodge at Marion’s Camp Project” no later than July 26 at 10:00 AM James Smith Town Administrator

Public Notice Town of Millbury Please be advised that Maura Healey, State Attorney General, has returned with approval dated April 11, 2017 the amendments to the Town of Millbury’s zoning bylaws adopted under warrant article 3 accepted at the January 3, 2017 special town meeting.

Zoning bylaws article 4 was disapproved by the Attorney General dated June 12, 2017.

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Hanover Insurance Academy of the Arts at Burncoat Middle School is sure to turn out a new generation of accomplished performers on the shoulders of alumni from Burncoat Fine Arts Magnet Program. Here at Worcester Magazine, we are eagerly asking, “Where are they now?” Last week, we heard from performer Rachael Markarian, who has toured the world with artists such as Rihanna and Katy Perry. This week, we caught up with her classmate, Mark Harootian, who has dedicated his life to ballet. Both of these Worcester natives trained under Joan Sheary during their formative years and have gone on to professional dance careers.

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What is your history with the city of Worcester? I grew up on the west side,

come until I turned 31, and then it would be time to retire anyway. I became the director of Educational Outreach for off of Salisbury Street. I went to Flagg Festival Ballet Providence, then I worked Street School. Dr. Finkel recommended as an adjunct professor at Dean College in the Performing Arts School of Worcester Franklin and Salve Regina in Newport. after she saw my moves when I was When you retire from performing, some randomly selected to participate in a dancers feel stripped of their identity. dance assembly. She introduced me to Kevin Milam. In the early 80s there was a The right mentors had taught me that you can’t perform forever. I wrote grants and homophobic stereotype about dance, but created programs. I found that I was there Mr. Milam was able to recruit 14 boys, to help promote ballet. A lot of schools more than the Boston Ballet. I stuck with embrace competition, which I can respect it. Mr. Milam really had a very good thing going at the Worcester Youth Ballet. and appreciate, but with ballet it’s about the arts and performing. I co-founded the When the school went under, the director Worcester County Dance Festival, which of Ballet Arts Worcester took the dance is set to happen at Hanover Theatre next program to Youth Ballet of Worcester. I year. I started a program with the Girl started to teach when I got older in my career as I began thinking of retiring from Scouts. We developed a children’s ballet series at The Hanover just to try to educate the stage.

Worcester County. I’m married, and in 2013 my wife was relocated to Hong Kong.

When did you know you were serious about We went to China from 2014-2015, and ballet? Seventh grade was when I got serious. I knew I wanted to pursue a career I got to work out there with the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. Then, in dance, as did my classmates, Rachael she was relocated to London for just five Markarian and Isaac Spencer. My love months. There was interest in my working was classical ballet. I earned my MFA from University of Utah. One of the better in London as well. That was good for my ego. We’ll be moving to LA this July for a jobs at the time was, believe it or not, in Providence, Rhode Island. There are really two-year stay. only two companies in New England.

What was the proudest moment of your Boston is ‘grade A,’ and the top regional career thus far? I’ve had several proud company is in Rhode Island. I worked moments. Your career takes different performing and choreographing until shapes and forms as the years go on.

2010, when I got injured. I ruptured my Performing wise, I grew up watching a Achilles and it took me out of dance. This VHS recording of the principals, Amanda is a typical situation for a performer. I look at it this way: I got to go off at a good McKerrow and John Gardner, at American Ballet Theatre. I would hit “play” and I time before other people could say that I would watch it over and over again. I saw should have retired. Recovery wouldn’t

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that video of them when I was 14 and never once thought I would work with them in person. Years later, I found out they were coming to the festival and I was chosen to be the lead. We performed that same piece; it was so cool. More recently, I am very proud of the Worcester County Dance Festival. It has really grown into something special. Running into colleagues and donors who remember my choreography makes me feel like I have made a difference. Students have been sending me cards, even at the college level. I am proud to feel like I’m nurturing the future of dance. These are the people who will be in the audience.

What is your most vivid memory as a student of the Worcester Public Schools?

I was very isolated as part of the dance world. I wasn’t the coolest kid at Flagg Street School. Other kids couldn’t really appreciate a straight male dancing in America. It wasn’t the most pleasant of times. Then, with two days left at Flagg Street School in the sixth grade, there was a talent show and I decided to do a solo.

I did it and, oh my God, it was absolutely amazing. I just giggle thinking about it. I had recorded “Escapade” by Janet Jackson.

I watched the tape over and over until I could perform her whole routine. I felt like

the coolest person for the last two days of school.

What advice do you have for aspiring dancers? If you really love it, go for it.

Dance is something so special and so unique. We can only dance for such a short amount of time. It is something you can’t turn back to later, so you’ve got to give it a try now. Have a great sense of humor, because there will be times when you need to learn the dance of politics and have the gift of gab to succeed in this world. There’s not a class that teaches you what to do if things don’t work out. So, dance as much as you can, whenever you can. Be as versatile a dancer as if you were changing your clothes. This will make you more valuable. Classical, contemporary, jazz, musical theatre - the different roads will improve your overall dancing, not just technically, but as an artist. I enjoy that dance is an escape from the crazy reality of the world. In a way, it makes you grow up and mature way faster than an average kid, because in the dance world you’re on a time crunch. Teamwork, critical thinking, work ethic and discipline develop early on.

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844-275-6037 Reqs AT&T postpaid svc on elig. plan (excl. Lifeline & Residential Wireless) on a smartphone or phone (excl. Wireless Home Phone). Svcs: Svc addresses must match. To be elig. for 2nd-yr price guarantee both services must remain active & in good standing during 2nd year. Price Guarantee: TV pkg only. After 24 mos.

Or loss of eligibility, then-prevailing monthly rate for All-Included TV Pkg applies, unless customer calls to cancel/change service prior to the end of 24 mos. Price excludes taxes, equipment upgrades/add-ons and other chrgs. Some offers may not be available through all channels and in select areas. See att.com/directv.

DIRECTV SVC TERMS: Subject to Equipment Lease & Customer Agreements. Must maintain a min. base TV pkg of $29.99/mo. Add’l Fees & Terms: $19.95 Handling & Delivery fee may apply. Programming, pricing, terms and conditions subject to change at any time. Visit directv.com/legal or call for details. ‡PREMIUM MOVIES OFFER: After 3 mos., then-prevailing rate for all four (4) premium movie pkgs applies (currently $53.99/mo.) unless canceled or changed by customer prior to end of the promotional period. Expires 7/15/17. ©2017 AT&T Intellectual Property. All Rights Reserved. AT&T, Globe logo, DIRECTV, and all other DIRECTV marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.

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