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trip down Worcester’s Main Street goes smoothly, unless you’re in a car dealing with traffic congestion or in a wheelchair dealing with decrepit sidewalks. The city is getting a boatload of money - $7.5 million – from the federal and state governments to fix those problems, but the city is hoping the street paving, sidewalk upgrades and new bike lanes will do more than scratch the surface. “Vibrant commercial corridor,” “pedestrian-friendly destination street,” and the city’s favorite phrase, “an 18-hour city,” got thrown around in the excitement surrounding the project. Those ambitions might seem lofty to local small business owners carving out small pockets of restaurant and retail space in a wall of office buildings. Forget the 18-hour day, they say, businesses are closing early now, and cutting out parking spaces as part of the plan could make things worse. “I get questions from people all the time, from out of town, asking where a good place to eat is, and I have to bang my head against the wall thinking of somewhere that’s open,” one business owner said. “That should be a perfect indicator of the fact that we’re in dire straits.” But the city said the street renovations will lead to bigger and better things, and small business owners would love to be proved wrong.

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In Worcester’s summer of violence, a baseball team rises as symbol of hope BOB BERNIER

Walter Bird Jr.

here are, perhaps, no two more striking contrasts in Worcester this summer than the gang violence plaguing its streets and keeping wary communities on edge, and the sweets sounds of city youths cheering on a beloved local baseball team that, improbably, captured a second straight title to once more stand tall as champions. The divide, however, may not be as wide as you think. Team officials, law enforcement agencies and city leaders look at the Worcester Bravehearts and see a symbol of all that is good in Worcester. They see what youngsters can become if they can somehow be convinced not to pick up a gun. They see a team that, while focused on winning baseball games, has not forgotten who it is playing for — a team that also has not forgotten there are much bigger things in life — and certainly in Worcester — than baseball. During the frenzied celebration going on all around him on a Connecticut ball field recently after his team had done the seemingly impossible by winning a championship after finishing the regular season with a losing record, General Manager Dave Peterson’s smile was replaced by steely-eyed visage that acknowledged the grim goings-on in the city he loves. “We were talking about this on the ride down on the bus, what’s going on in the city,” Peterson said. “There’s some challenges ahead of us - the breakins on Flagg Street, the drug problems in the city. This is much more than just baseball.” The Bravehearts, a team of mostly college-aged kids, with a few recent high schoolers thrown into the mix, did not stay rooted to their home field at Hanover Insurance Park at Holy Cross’ Fitton Field this summer. They hosted baseball camps for 200 kids. They visited the Boys and Girls Club. They visited a ministry on Park Ave. They hosted a Clean Living Night that brought out Gov. Charlie Baker, Sheriff Lew Evangelidis, District Attorney Joe Early and others. In short, as Peterson said, the team did not put baseball and its own continued on page 6

After struggles and challenges all season long — not unlike the city they play for — the Worcester Bravehearts emerged as champions. Some see them as a symbol for a city struggling with its own serious issues this summer.

WOO-TOWN INDE X A weekly quality of life check-in of Worcester

Worcester’s fifth homicide rekindles fears of gun violence, even though, statistically, the city is well behind other, similar New England cities in murder victims this year. -5

Water main breaks in different parts of the city have turned some roads into car-swallowing pits of despair. With an aging water/ sewer infrastructure, the situation is unlikely to improve. -4

Union Hill revitalization project give residents reason to be positive about the future, even if other, more difficult steps must be taken to create a truly secure neighborhood. +2

The old Elm Park bridge remains absent from the park, the small ponds are becoming overgrown by weeds and other filth, and the only thing councilors are concerned about is a hot dog truck. -3

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Total for this week: We would be remiss if we did not give a nod to the unique artwork in one corner of Elm park, which stand almost in defiance of vandals who damaged some pieces earlier in the year. +3

The Worcester Bravehearts defy the odds to win a second straight championship, bringing the league trophy back to their home city. +2

A loyal city servant departs, while another earns a promotion in the Worcester Fire Department. Farewell and happy retirement, Chief Dio. Congratulations, Chief Gardell. +2

The roadwork will ultimately yield improvements, but boy, oh boy, the traffic nightmares plaguing Worcester right now. -4

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ANALYSIS: All eyes on Worcester’s preliminary election Tom Quinn

orcester’s political junkies will be eying the preliminary election closely this year. While it is not a perfect indicator of how candidates will do in the general election, and much can happen between the Sept. 8 primary and the general election Nov. 3, how Council hopefuls fare in the preliminary election can foreshadow how they will place in the general election. Preliminary elections are only triggered for the at-large race when more than 12 candidates gather the required number of signatures, and district races when more than two candidates are eligible, and the city has not had many of them recently. However, the most recent preliminary election in 2011 served as a remarkably accurate predictor of the general election. That year, 8,316 voters anointed Kate Toomey, Konnie Lukes, Joe O’Brien, Joe Petty, Mike Germain and Rick Rushton as the top six vote-getters, in that order. Although the order was switched around a bit when 19,244 voters showed up in November, recent history buffs will remember all six of those candidates placed in the top six in the general election, earning Council seats. Four years prior, in 2007, 18 candidates were on the ballot in September. Gary Rosen, Lukes, Toomey and Rushton finished as the top four candidates in that year’s preliminary – and repeated the feat, in order, in the general election (Lukes ended up winning a recount over Rushton to become mayor, and Rosen, despite winning the at-large race, finished third in the mayor’s race). Dennis Irish and Grace Ross finished fifth and sixth in that preliminary, respectively, but slipped

to seventh and eighth when 21,516 voters showed up in November (14,272 voted in the preliminary). Taking their places at the top were Petty, who was the ninth place finisher in the preliminary, and Mike Germain, who had been seventh. Before 2007, the last at-large preliminary election was in 1995. The top candidates were Ray Mariano, John Anderson, Tim Cooney, Lukes and Rosen, who all won seats. John Buell, who had finished seventh in the preliminary by a hair, ended up winning a

received five more votes than Virginia Ryan in the preliminary. But Economou went on to win by more than 100 votes, keeping the pattern intact. The last time the second-place finisher in a preliminary district race won the seat was in 1991, when Raymond McGrath garnered about 200 votes more than Wayne Griffin in the District 5 preliminary, only to lose by 11 votes in the general election. While the sample sizes are not large enough to point to proof of anything, one thing is

seat as well, with Robert Hennigan slipping to eighth place in the general election from sixth in the preliminary. The same rule of thumb – high finishes in the preliminary overwhelmingly result in general election victories – holds true for District Council races to an even greater degree. Since 1995, there have only been seven preliminary elections for district seats. In that time period, the candidate who finishes with the most total votes has always gone on to be elected as the district councilor, without exception. The correlation can seem weak – district races tend to have lower vote totals and fewer votes separating candidates, exemplified in 2011 when Tony Economou

clear – the order candidates finish in the preliminary is not superficial. Candidates who finish outside the top six in the at-large race should be prepared to campaign with gusto before November, since the preliminary order rarely gets shaken up when the ballots start getting cast for keeps. And given the history of preliminaries in district races, a victory by the second-place finisher in this year’s only district primary race - District 2 - would be a shock. The deadline to register to vote in the Sept. 8 preliminary election has already passed, but doing so is not a requirement for registering to vote in the general election. The deadline to register to vote for the general election is Oct. 14. Forms are available at City Hall or on the

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city’s website, worcesterma.gov. The general election is Nov. 3.

Worcester Preliminary Candidates (in order of how they appear on the ballot)

At-Large

Matthew E. Wally Linda F. Parham William S. Coleman, III Joseph M. Petty Christina L. Zlody Ronald L. O’Clair Carmen L. Carmona Khrystian E. King Kate Toomey Juan A. Gomez Philip P. Palmieri Morris A. Bergman Michael T. Gaffney George A. Fox, III Robert J. Sargent Konstantina B. Lukes

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Larry R. Shetler Jennithan Cortes Ana I. Sequera Candy F. Mero-Carlson Reporter Tom Quinn can be reached at 508-749-3166 x324 or tquinn@ worcestermagazine.com with story ideas, feedback, or questions. Follow him on Twitter @bytomquinn.

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MOYLAN RE-ELECTED

Former Worcester commissioner of public works and parks Bob Moylan Jr. was recently re-elected to the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Coalition for Water Resources Stewardship. Moylan has served as a director of the coalition since 2009. He was previously the president of the Board of Directors. The re-election follows FILE PHOTO/STEVEN KING Moylan’s appointment by Gov. Charlie Baker in May to the state Department of Transportation’s Board of Directors. He resides in Worcester. As DPW&P commissioner, Moylan oversaw more than 500 employees, an annual operating budget of more than $85 million and a capital budget of $45 million. He is a UMass grad, with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. He became DPW&P commissioner in January 1993. He was recognized in 1998 as one of the Top 10 Public Works Leaders of the Year by the American Public Works Association.

IN SERVICE

Catholic Charities Worcester County has received a $751,523 grant from Senior Service America Inc. Almost 90 percent of the grant, which originally came from the U.S. Department of Labor, will pay wages and benefits to at least 112 low-income older adults residing in Worcester and Franklin counties. They will take part in the Senior Community Service Employment Program. “We are very pleased to continue our support of Catholic Charities Worcester County for the 38th consecutive year,” Senior Service America Executive Director Tony Sarmiento said. Catholic Charities Worcester County has received the annual SCSEP grant since 1977.”

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Worcester psychotherapists Margot Pagan and Leo Mendez were so inspired by the nonprofit organization Little Dresses for Africa, they decided to do something closer to home to help. They created a group for female clients diagnosed with depression and anxiety, called Costura 360˚, whose mission is to encourage clients to do something productive by helping others. The group uses the model established by Little Dresses for Africa by making dresses to be distributed to young SUBMITTED African children in orphanages, churches and schools. “We recently met our goal of completing 11 dresses, and we are now in the process [of shipping] them to Africa,” Pagan said. She hoped by publicizing her group’s work, it might inspire other organizations or individuals to help other communities in need.

By Steven King

DRESS UP

understandably singular vision of winning a championship above all else. Instead, the players seemed to feed off it. Comparing gang shootings to baseball might seem strange, but the larger picture is this: The summer of 2015 in Worcester has been marked by struggles, challenges and a battle to defeat a determined and quite relentless enemy armed with guns and little regard for self-preservation. Over on the well-kempt ball field that rests angularly below an elevated and winding stretch of Interstate 290, a collection of young athletes struggled to forge an identity of their own after last year’s Bravehearts won a championship in their first season. They won two games fast, then lost 10 straight. They would finish with a sub.500 record and enter the month of August on the outside looking in at a playoff berth. The recent past indicated the team might win a few more games, but finish the season on a down note. They had tried, but a winning campaign was not to be. Something happened, however. The team did not give up. Players adopted a mantra, “Do it for the kids.” In what seemed like the blink of an eye, the Bravehearts turned it all around, finished the month with just two losses, got into the playoffs, won the first game, stole the second in what many observers say ranks among the best baseball games ever — at any level — and got themselves into the championship series. And get this – they won. Sure, it was baseball and not gang life. But some see parallels and lessons to be learned. “I think [the Bravehearts] represent everybody that lives and works in Worcester, and what’s good about the city,” Mayor Joe Petty said. “They represent the heart of Worcester filled with hope.” Hope is precisely what residents and their duly elected and appointed leaders are holding out in an ongoing war on gangs in Worcester. The way some people see it, the Bravehearts serve as a model of

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how to deal with what may at first appear a no-win situation. “They showed how you come through adversity,” Petty said. “You work hard and you never give up. They showed that if you stick to the game plan, keep working hard, you’ll be successful. I think we have a game plan in the city, but absolutely it’s been a tough summer.” Early remembered talking with the Creedon family that owns the Bravehearts when the team was piling up losses. The discussion was about how the team could get out of last place. “The message we have in the DA’s office,” Early said, “is life is a series of ups and downs. Gangs and baseball are not the same pressures, but there is a need to remain ever-vigilant and to fight. “Life’s a rollercoaster. At some point, when you hit rock bottom, you’ve got to start coming back up.” Early said the Bravehearts worked hard at getting into Worcester communities to spread a message of hope. “We’d like to spread that message to kids who think the only way to deal with a problem is to pick up a gun,” Early said. Like his general manager, Bravehearts owner John Creedon Jr. sees his team and its role in Worcester as much more than just winning championships. “We’ve said all along that this is bigger than baseball,” he said. “This is as much about fans coming to the ballpark, having a good, safe place to be night to night over the summer. Worcester’s an awesome place. I love Worcester to the core. “Last year, we came out of the gate guns blazing. This year was a different story. We took a different path to the top of the mountain. I think that’s the kind of stuff that relates to the city of Worcester. This is bigger than stats and hits. The Bravehearts are a symbol for the community.” It is a symbol that could not be more needed right now in a city trying to climb its own way to the top of a mountain and leave its own losing streak — the needless loss of lives — in the dust.

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Program tackles student’s summer slide Tom Quinn

being spent on literacy coaching. Youngsters in Camp Freedom sounded positively frustrated that the group had interrupted their time with ‘Junie B. Jones is Captain Field Day,’ described as a gripping tale of competitiveness and morality in sportsmanship among kindergarteners. “We pick books the kids enjoy and they can get into,” reading aide Pat Yacuzzi said. Shirley Taylor, the program coordinator for the Summer Literacy Initiatives, said the program has come a long way in a short time in terms of collaboration and best practices. “When it started, everyone was really

s the first day of school approaches in Worcester - sorry kids, but Aug. 26 is just around the corner - students will be preparing to be thrust back into a learning environment after months away from school on summer vacation. Overcoming the “summer slide” is hard enough for kids from privileged households, but students from low-income families have historically been devastated by the break in schooling – something area organizations are trying to solve with an expanding Summer Literacy Initiative program. DAN VAILLANCOURT/PATRICK O’CONNOR STUDIOS Studies, including one from Johns Hopkins, have shown that underserved children keep pace with their high-income peers during the school year, but may lose up to a third of their literacy skills over the summer. Other studies have estimated that by age 3, upper-class children have twice the vocabulary as their lowerincome classmates. Worcester is particularly vulnerable – an assessment conducted as part of the city’s Youth Violence Prevention Initiative showed only 34 percent Students take part in the Summer Literacy of third graders in public school Collaborative can read at a third-grade level. The goal of the Summer Literacy territorial about their programs,” Taylor Collaborative, which was started in 2010, said, noting increased cooperation between is to address those issues in Worcester and other school districts with underserved youth. program leaders now. Still, there are things staff say could The goal is simple – to increase the literacy improve even more in a program that could curriculum at summer programs to eliminate be viewed as a model in summer learning loss the summer slide and put all children on a prevention. level playing field. “The schools test the kids to death,” Taylor One of the programs that has benefited said, while noting the Summer Literacy from the investment in stopping summer learning loss is Camp Freedom, located in the Initiatives try to keep testing to a minimum, but could cut it out entirely with changes to heart of Worcester public housing, in Great Worcester Public Schools testing schedules. “If Brook Valley. About 136 campers, ages 5-14, they tested kids in the Spring and then again attend the six-week program, which ended in the Fall we wouldn’t have to do anything.” earlier this month. The 19 camp counselors Unfortunately for the SLI leaders, the and nine counselors-in-training try to get confidentiality measures in place for student their charges to walk 12,000 steps per day in testing mean even current tests are not between swimming, basketball, meals, and much use to literacy coaches, since data is other recreational activities. “My best feedback from parents is their kids only available in aggregate and individual, identifiable student data is not accessible by fall asleep right after dinner,” camp director outside organizations. Taylor said the SLI Lynn O’Toole said. makes sure to hire knowledgeable literacy The summer literacy programs received coaches to make up for the gap. a boost from Greater Worcester Community “That’s why we hire Worcester Public Foundation funds totaling $44,000 this year. Schools teachers,” Taylor said. “They’re in the The United Way of Central Massachusetts is programs all year long, so they know what’s the major facilitator in Worcester, although going on.” the SLC relies on resources from the school Literacy leaders held some of their own districts it serves and other nonprofit partners. light evaluations last year to determine the Recently, a group from the GWCF and the program’s effectiveness. A Dynamic Indicators United Way took a trip to Great Brook Valley of Basic Early Literacy Skills test was given and another site to see how the money was

to kids before and after the program ended. Of 266 children served that year, 66 percent held steady or improved their literacy skills, while 85 percent avoided typical low-income summer learning loss, with students showing an average gain of 1.7 words per minute of reading fluency skill. And, in a statistic reflective of the program’s focus on weaving literacy into

an enjoyable atmosphere, an astounding 92 percent of students said reading was more fun at the end of the summer last year. Reporter Tom Quinn can be reached at 508-749-3166 x324 or tquinn@ worcestermagazine.com with story ideas, feedback, or questions. Follow him on Twitter @bytomquinn.

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WORCESTER VS CLINTON:

Black Lives Matter, with or without the hashtag, has been making waves during the 2016 presidential race, which kicked off in earnest earlier this year. A few activists interrupted Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders during a planned speech in Seattle on Aug. 8 – but no one from Worcester was involved, so what’s the point of talking about it, unless you’re interested in nationally applicable conversations about race relations? Hillary Clinton’s encounter with BLM activists on Aug. 11 had a strong Worcester connection, though – Julius Jones, known locally for advocating for communities of color and for being a current legal target of the city of Worcester for blocking traffic in Kelley Square for four and a half minutes earlier this year. Jones and a group of Massachusetts activists were able to have an incredibly frank conversation with the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president, released in a nearly eight-minute video earlier this week. “You can get lip service from as many white people as you can pack into Yankee Stadium and a million more like it who are going to say, ‘We get it, we get it. We are going to be nicer,’” Clinton said in the video, urging Jones and others to come up with a concrete plan or list of demands, saying at another point she is interested in changing policy, not hearts. Jones didn’t back down from the former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator, accusing her of “victim blaming,” and pressing her to accept personable responsibility for policies and decisions at the core of BLM complaints, such as mass incarceration strategies. “If you don’t tell black people what we need to do, then we won’t tell you all what you all need to do,” Jones said. The whole video is available on YouTube, and is worth watching in its entirely, even absent the Worcester connection, for the most direct comments Clinton, who would be the first female president in the history of the country if elected, has made about Black Lives Matter. The video, which was filmed at a private session following a campaign event in New Hampshire, has been covered with gusto by the national media, including CNN, the Washington Post, NBC, CBS, ABC, Politico, People Magazine, Yahoo News, the Huffington Post, and any other politically-minded news organization you care to name, all calling the conversation frank and insightful. Clinton, for her part, congratulated Jones on asking a “thoughtful” question, although she didn’t answer some of the more direct accusations with as much specificity as activists might have hoped. “We’re spending more money on prisons than we are on schools, but if we look at it from lens of let’s solve this financial problem, and we don’t look at the greater bottom line that African-Americans who are Americans are suffering at greater rates than most other people, every other people, for the length of this country then it’s not going to go away,” Jones said at one point.. “It’s just going to morph into something new and evolved. You know, I genuinely want to know, you, Hillary Clinton, have been in no uncertain way, partially responsible for this. More than most. There may have been unintended consequences.”

CORRECTING THE NYT: It seems like only yesterday that the New York Times published a hugely positive article about Worcester as a college town, an article widely cited by city officials as an example of Worcester’s rising profile on the national stage. Alas, the esteemed paper now seems to have forgotten Worcester even exists, as demonstrated in their coverage of the Hillary Clinton/Black Lives Matter encounter. “[Clinton] is animated, serious and forceful, jabbing her finger at Julius Jones, a Black Lives Matter activist from Boston, as if she were arguing with a classmate back at Wellesley,” claims the Times. C’mon, New York – you’re better than that. TELEVISION WITH PITY: Channel 7 in Boston has a program called “Solve It 7,” which seems to be a segment in which the news team confronts organizations who won’t listen to reason, getting a timeshare company to pay back money to dissatisfied customers or a plowing 8

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{ worcesteria } company to fix a resident’s stone wall, for example. The recent target was the city of Worcester, which apparently sent a crew to plant a dead tree in Larry Riley’s yard. After months of talking with city workers, who at one point said they couldn’t remove the tree without monitoring it for six months, according to Riley, the Worcester resident decided to leapfrog over the impotent Worcester media outlets and go straight to Boston with his problem. Solve It 7 not only got City Manager Ed Augustus Jr. to promise a fix, but got the city’s top official to actually physically help plant the tree himself, no doubt lured by the bright lights of TV news coverage. A happy ending for all involved, and it’s rare to see a Boston news station trek out to Worcester to humbly do some selfless good. “Solve It 7 did everything that they could and that’s why I got my tree,” Solve It 7 quoted Riley as saying. “They solve a lot of problems, they make a lot of people happy so I believe in Solve It 7.”

REJECTED VOLUNTEERISM: The Mayor’s Walk on Aug. 18 ended up turning into a

Mayor’s Stand Around in the Recovery High School due to thunderstorms, but residents of the Mount Ave neighborhood were still able to get their complaints heard by the mayor and a slew of city officials. A major one was nearby Kendrick Field – in addition to shady alleged drug activity going on in the parking lot, residents said the playground has been taken over by overgrowth. One particularly saucy resident wasn’t happy with District 1 City Councilor Tony Economou’s offer to volunteer one of his Saturdays to come down with a weed whacker and help the neighborhood clean out the undergrowth. The nerve of some politicians! “If you don’t want the help, fine,” Economou said in a bemused and slightly frustrated tone. The debate is over expediency – getting the playground cleaned up as soon as possible – and the city taking responsibility for its property, in which case a volunteer effort to clean up the park could be viewed as a band-aid solution. Of course, residents volunteering time to clean up an area is hardly unprecedented – Working for Worcester being a large-scale example of citizens picking up the government’s slack.

PACK A BACKPACK: As Worcester Public School starts up again, parents will be dipping into their wallets to purchase the annual allotment of school supplies. Parents whose wallets might be a little light for whatever reason can pick up some relief at St. John’s Church on Temple Street on Saturday, Aug. 22. That’s where Hawa Sankoh and her Equal Opportunity Foundation will be giving away backpacks filled with school supplies – pencils, crayons, markers, etc. Sankoh said she started collecting money to buy the book bags this year – she has a child in elementary school – as a result of the lists of items teachers recommend purchasing for young academics. The giveaway will last from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with Sankoh saying all are welcome as long as they don’t abuse the foundation by taking more backpacks than they need.

THE SOUL OF WALPOLE: Have you forgotten about Walpole Street? The Southeast Asian Coalition and Jen Chau are asking that you remember (or think about for the first time) the short road near Clark University in Main South, and help them clean up the street Friday, Aug. 21. The city is providing gloves and trash bags, but the main crux of the effort, according to Chau, will be getting rid of the abandoned furniture. The SEAC already has a few volunteers, but would like more to help between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Chau said there is a larger plan for improving Walpole Street, but that could take more planning and city approval. The cleaning could be the first step toward making the street a point of pride for the neighborhood, though. SEISMIC SHIFT: Worcester will be host to the Fukushima Game Jam Aug. 21 at Becker

College. The Worcester Game Pile will be the first organization to host the annual event in the United States. The game jam, run by Japan’s International Game Development Association, started in 2011 after the Fukushima earthquake in 2011 that captured international headlines. The event is “a 30-hour event where participants will form teams and create a video game from start to finish around a centralized topic,” according to the organization’s press release. It probably won’t result in the next Grand Theft Auto, but it’s a good way to raise awareness for a cause while giving game developers valuable experience. In addition to Massachusetts and Japan, countries with Fukushima Game Jams this year include Taiwan, Switzerland and Chile.

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e share the optimism of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce and the world-renowned Hanover Theatre when it comes to the future of Main Street, but we also must be realistic. Is a multi-million-dollar street and sidewalk project going to bring back to life a stretch of downtown that, not so long ago, was among the most vibrant in Central Mass – if not beyond? Of course not. Troy Siebels, president and CEO of Hanover Theatre, gets that. We assume the rest of the city does, too. Sure, it will be great to have sidewalks that do not trip you when you walk or make it nearly impossible for a wheelchair-bound visitor to navigate the area safely, and resurfaced streets that are easier on your tires. As for the bike lanes, we could do without them in the downtown area – no offense to WalkBike Worcester, which does great work and has made sure the city pays attention to the more traditional modes of transportation. The city is obviously sinking millions of dollars into reshaping and reimagining Downtown Worcester. But it is hard to envision a return to the glory days of nightclubs drawing hundreds of people out at night, and food carts lining the sidewalks and filling the air with the sweet smell of sausage, onions and peppers. Progress, of course, means going forward. And the downtown area will not resemble that time now long gone. But what is the long-term plan? What is the master plan, in short, for the north end of Main Street? Parking remains scarce and there are no plans to beef that up along Main Street as part of the street and sidewalk project. The explanation from civic leaders and city officials is that Downtown Worcester will continue to welcome more and more folks living around the downtown core. Those people, the city reasons, will want safe streets and sidewalks to navigate. But what about the visitors from elsewhere in the city, from beyond its borders, from outside Central Mass? And what will they have to visit when they get here and finally find a parking space? We love the idea of more housing space for students, and hotels for visitors. But what, pray tell, are we giving them when they get here? Where is the master plan for new restaurants and interesting shops and street vendors and other attractions you typically find in thriving cities? Chamber President and CEO Tim Murray, whipping up a sports analogy, said it takes “3 yards every day” to get to the final goal, not just a long bomb down the field. We agree with that, but we also believe the city is going to continue to lose business from the downtown if it does not at least try to implement some short-term strategies. Shack’s on Main Street will probably close up shop at some point, and the Owl Shop is in danger of folding, also, according to its owner. Again, progress means changing the past and sometimes bidding farewell to old friends. But for too long now, Worcester has had a hollow north end of Main Street with little more than a few restaurants and some shops clinging to life. The Hanover Theatre is, perhaps, the only reason the entire area has not collapsed. We know steps are being taken to complement that gem. And we know 3 yards a carry can get you where you want to go. But we would not mind seeing a breakout run for 20 yards or more.

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Open wide – this is gonna hurt Janice Harvey

aying goodbye is never easy, and it would seem that in 2015 I’ve said it too often. There was, of course, my ink-stained exit from my beloved North High, which is a column topic for another day. It was tough enough when my mail carrier retired, but when my dentist did the same – well, cue the violins. Call my therapist. Dr. Bill Dagilis has left the building. Dr. Dagilis became our family dentist 25 years ago, when my kids refused to go back to a pediatric dentist they deemed “creepy.” I don’t think the guy was THAT kind of creepy, just phony-baloney creepy, which kids have an innate ability to detect. Dagilis was recommended by a friend who hated going to the dentist. To me, this was the best recommendation one could ask for: a dentist you don’t dread visiting. My own dental dilemmas began as a kid, when my parents first dragged me to a dentist within walking distance of our Lincoln Street flat. He looked like Burl Ives, but not the Burl Ives who sang “Silver and Gold” at the North Pole – more like the Big Daddy Burl Ives of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” He was nasty, gruff and had no patience left for his patients. I hated his guts. When we moved to Columbus Park, my cash-strapped parents — both of whom had worn dentures since age 20 — thought the “dental clinic” housed in a dingy corner of the old South High on Richards Street was a good place to send me. I think it was free. Like tomato plants from Spag’s. There was no such thing as “dental insurance.” Why pay for a dentist when wet-behind-ears apprentices could use your kid as training ground? There were two things about the dental clinic visit that I will never forget: other kids knowing that you must be at least “kinda poor” if you were eligible, and the long walk to Richlands Street from Columbus Park School on Lovell Street. The patrol line of victims marching slowing, silently

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(except for the occasional sniffle from the terrified among us) was a humiliating experience. We sloshed through puddles in the rain and slid on ice; we wiped sweat from our foreheads in May. It was the Long Green Mile of my life. When I booked a visit with Dr. Dagilis decades later, I felt that same wave of nausea come over me that I felt on the death march to dental hell. His office on the corner of Casper and Grafton had once been a small ranch home; it’s since become a hair salon. I shoved open the door and saw Bill Dagilis stretched out on a sofa in the waiting room. Bill was never a small guy. His impressive belly rose up and down from the sofa with every breath, and his hands were folded across his chest. His eyes were closed. He was resting after a grueling morning of filling cavities. What I liked about Bill was his blunt assessments. He never performed any work on anybody’s teeth that he deemed a waste of time or money. He’d say: “I can temporarily fix this, but it’s not gonna last,” or “I can fix this but the life of that tooth is tops five years.” He gave you options. And my kids adored him. Over the years, I sent several “anti-dentites” to Dagilis. People who were terrified of having dental work done because of bad experiences in their youth came to happily anticipate a visit with Bill. We all crossed our fingers when he battled cancer – somehow we knew he’d beat it, because frankly, he was not going to waste time dying. And he didn’t – he survived it and came back long enough to give up dentistry the right way: he sold the business and retired. As I write this column, I am looking at the clock, because I have a two-hour appointment booked with Bill Dagilis’s replacement in less than an hour. He’s going to fix a few teeth that Bill would’ve dismissed as a waste because when I smile they don’t even show. If they did show, Bill would’ve said: “My advice is don’t smile.” Problem is, every time I think of Bill Dagilis, that’s exactly what I do.

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A Dead End: Worcester’s downtown

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Main Street ‘needs a jolt’ Tom Quinn

Main Street has long been a symbol of a city’s business core. It is often the busiest commercial corridor in town, serving as an indicator of a city’s overall health, representing the heart of a community. Which is why it is so puzzling that in Worcester, the Heart of the Commonwealth, the second largest city in New England, Main Street is noticeably quiet. Some might say it is “dead,” while others say it is simply taking time to improve. While officials tout Worcester’s “renaissance,” storefronts remain vacant on the city’s main thoroughfare, and out-of-towners flock to Shrewsbury Street or the Canal District rather than the main road downtown. As the city prepares to spend millions of dollars on a new street improvement project on the section of Main Street between the

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Federal and District courthouses, small business owners are weighing in on the city’s plan to bring more residents, more businesses and more foot traffic to Main Street. Will the project be the medicine officials say is necessary to keep downtown healthy and make it even more vibrant? Will it be the defibrillator small business owners say is necessary to prevent a mass defection to greener pastures? Or will it have no effect on a struggling city core?

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“Main Street after 4 [p.m.] is dead,” Zack Photakis, owner of the Owl Shop at 416 Main St., said as smoke wafted through his tobacco shop. “It’s a ghost town.”

Photakis’s family has been running the Owl Shop nearly 70 years, although he says he is on the verge of packing up, since business has declined to a point that is nearly unsustainable. Around 140 customers per day came into the shop in the 1990s, he said. Now, that number is down to a crowd of about 50 per day, most of them loyal regulars. It is not just veteran business owners pining for the good old days who are noticing the

lack of foot traffic, either. Rob Evans opened Addie Lee’s Soul Food at 596 Main St. in November last year, and says his business suffers when foot traffic dries up – something that happens frequently on a street with few entertainment options and few competing restaurants. “Downtown is dead,” said Evans, adding his goal is 50 customers served per day. “It needs a jolt of something.” Not everyone is as pessimistic about the current state of downtown. The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce represents businesses in the region, including many on Main Street, and president and CEO Tim Murray cited multiple instances of positive growth on and around Main Street, including the Worcester District Courthouse built in 2007, the Hanover Theatre, which opened in 2008, new programming on Worcester Common, and a start-up business incubator at 20 Franklin St. that opened earlier this year. “I think we’re absolutely moving in the right direction,” Murray said. “Everybody likes the deep pass for the touchdown, but this is the ground game, trying to get 3 yards every day.” Hanover Theatre president and CEO Troy Siebels likewise said Main Street is improving, saying the Hanover brings in 180,000 patrons annually for shows ranging from high-end Broadway events to family entertainment. “I think we’re trending in the right direction,” Siebels said. Still, even the most optimistic Main Street observers can see the vacant storefronts lining what would be prime real estate in

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A reflective view through the window of Shack’s, a clothing store on Main Street other cities, or in another decade. Signs for Bluri Bar, Blush Yogurt Cafe, Irish Times Pub, Rehab Nightclub, Photo Impressions and New York Jewelers still remain like heads stuck on medieval battlements, serving as a grim warning to other entrepreneurs even after the businesses shut down and left Main Street. “There’s plenty of room for improvement,” said Bill Aldrich, who owns Theatre Café at 529 Main St. with his wife, Jeanette. He said foot traffic is generally passable for the lunch crowd, but things peter out if there is not a show at the Hanover at night, and the restaurant is serving about 60 or 70 percent of the customers it could be accommodating. One of the main issues seems to be the idea of Main Street as a destination. While there are entertainment venues — the Hanover, the Palladium, Mechanic’s Hall — and more than 15 restaurants and eateries, they are broken up by long stretches of office space, banks, attorney’s offices, and other buildings that do not draw people to the street outside of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, even as city officials bang the drum of an “18 hour day” in Worcester. “Lately, you look at the last year and this year, there’s not that many people here after four,” Han King, the manager at Modelo’s clothing store, said. “I haven’t seen that many people around here after the office workers go home.”

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The city is hoping to breathe some life into Main Street with a proposed project, which will be paid for with an estimated $7.5 million

in federal and state money, that would revamp the streets and sidewalks from the Federal Courthouse near Myrtle Street to the District Courthouse near School Street. Department of Public Works Commissioner Paul Moosey said the street was on the city’s list of targets due to its high traffic volume as well as its rough paving and, in parts, downright decrepit sidewalks.

“Main Street is in marginal condition,” Moosey said. “There’s portions that are in poor condition, others in average condition. Overall, you’d say it’s a priority based on its traffic volume. A street that takes a lot of vehicles, to me, is a higher priority than a street that’s in really poor condition, but doesn’t take as many vehicles.” In addition to traffic congestion and less than optimal road paving, Main Street’s sidewalks are torn up in parts, creating an environment that could be discouraging or dangerous for residents in wheelchairs or families with baby strollers, for example. “We have an obligation to have decent, safe sidewalks,” City Manager Ed Augustus Jr. said. “If your own Main Street is a mess, what does that say about us as a city?” The solution starts with resurfacing Main Street and replacing the sidewalks. The new Main Street will have new benches, lights, trees and other streetscape items to beautify the area. One of the biggest changes will be to the nine main traffic lights along the strip of road. The current lights are “antiques,” according to Moosey, and do not regulate

{ coverstory } traffic as efficiently as they could with a technological update. A traffic study conducted by Beta Group, which was also paid to complete the overall design (the city will foot the bill for the design process, a cost Moosey estimated at at least $800,000) found Main Street north of Myrtle Street handled 12,100 vehicles per weekday, 8,900 between Elm Street and Pearl Street, and 9,300 south of School Street. Those numbers all dropped on Saturdays. Worcester’s current traffic lights do not handle the load optimally, according to the same traffic study. The study assigned a level of service score to each intersection along Main Street, with none earning a perfect score during morning and evening peak hours. The worst offenders were the Foster Street/Maple Street area, earning a ‘C,’ the Myrtle Street/ Austin Street area, receiving a ‘D’ in the later peak hours, and the Pleasant Street/Front Street area, which scored an ‘F’ — basically flowing at a breakdown rate — during the morning peak. “You get a lot of queuing at peak times in the day,” Bill McGrath, a Beta Group engineer who worked on the design, said. “You get backups at signals that occasionally block adjacent intersections.” The new lights will hopefully alleviate some of the current congestion by responding

to each other, rather than behaving in a static, unchanging manner. “They’ll all be coordinated, so they’ll talk to each other and regulate traffic better,” McGrath, who said the design took around three years to complete, said. “It allows you, if you’re traveling at a designated speed, to hit a green light at each intersection. So you don’t have to stop at each intersection.” The other major change is the reduction of Main Street from its current two lanes in each direction to one lane in each direction, with dedicated turning lanes at intersections. There was not enough room to maintain the current structure, since the federal government requires bicycle lanes, which will be added to the street, as part of any plan funded with federal dollars. “In order to maintain parking, which is a high priority for abutting businesses, we’re going from a four lane to a three lane section,” Moosey said. City officials said they do not think the reduction in lanes will worsen traffic, as some small business owners fear, since the new traffic lights, coupled with an increased focus on pedestrian and bicycle transportation over car rides, should keep the street running smoothly. “We’ll be able to make up for that, and continued on page 14

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have no worse congestion than we have today,” Moosey said. “The technology of the new signal system will make up for the loss of the lanes.” Augustus said his administration is hoping the street renovations do more than shore up broken sidewalks and fix congested traffic lanes. The hope is they enhance the street to the degree that businesses are incentivized to set up shop downtown, and residents are encouraged to walk the street. “We need to fix the Main Street just in terms of safety,” Augustus said. “But we’re also looking for an opportunity, as downtown becomes an 18 hour day, to put in other amenities that make downtown feel more like a neighborhood.”

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are hard enough to come by now, let alone after the city cuts out around 50 of the indemand spots.

“Main Street is congested, but for no reason,” Evans said, as a handful of patrons finished their meals in his restaurant. “There’s no parking.” Evans went as far as to appear before the City Council in June with a petition requesting three 15-minute parking spaces around dinner time, with the mentality that any possible way to keep customers from driving off after circling the block and deciding the Federal Plaza Garage was not worth it for a quick bite to eat was worth fighting for. “Not a day goes by that I don’t hear that [about parking] from customers,” Evans said. Moosey said up to 50 parking spots will be removed, some due to distance restrictions, since parking spots are required by law to be at least 20 feet from intersections. A large number of off-peak spots will also be lost between Foster and Front streets. King said he liked the idea of a less decrepit Main Street, but said with the current lack of foot traffic, the most important thing for Modelo’s, which has been on Main Street for 15 years, was more parking spaces. He said a few customers were towed recently after parking where they shouldn’t have, hurting business.

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and hotels downtown.” Part of the vision for the future involves projects like CitySquare and a hotel near Union Station, which will add hundreds of units of market rate housing within easy walking distance of Main Street. The old courthouse at the north end of Main Street was also recently sold to a developer planning to turn it into more than 100 units of market rate housing. “Facilitating pedestrian connections is probably better long-term than reducing them for 40 or 50 parking spaces,” Augustus said. Murray agreed with the city manager’s assessment. He pointed to an influx of college students living downtown, and space recently acquired by schools like Quinsigamond Community College at 20 Franklin St., as evidence that downtown was shifting more toward a home for young people than a temporary destination for office workers. “You’re going to have thousands of people living downtown in the next couple years. People who need to eat, need to shop,” Murray, the former mayor of Worcester, said. “Millennials are more inclined to bike or walk, are less car-reliant, and many of the people who will be living downtown will fit that demographic.” Some small business owners remain skeptical, though.

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“It would help, but in order to help the business, it’s parking that is essential,” King said, adjusting bargain basement priced clothing on racks in an empty store. Others were harsher in their assessment of the city’s idea to remove parking spaces as part of the renovation plan. “I think the city’s plan for Main Street is flawed because it doesn’t address the traffic flow the way it should, and it doesn’t address the parking the way it should,” Aldrich said. “Diagonal parking would make much more sense than a bike lane.” “You’re losing valuable space that could be used for parking,” Photakis said. “We don’t need a bike lane, period. It should have diagonal parking like every other city in the country.” The city has been moving toward a more pedestrian-friendly atmosphere for a while, adopting a Commercial Corridors Overlay District that, among other things, reduced some requirements for parking spaces with commercial property. Augustus stood by the city’s plan, saying the future Main Street will have a different demographic makeup than the current iteration. “I think change is always difficult, and what they’re thinking about is the current situation downtown,” Augustus said. “I’m trying to think about where we’ll be 18 to 24 months from now, with residential property

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“People need a way to get down here, and that’s usually by car,” Photakis said. “And there’s just no parking.”

NOT DESPERATE ENOUGH “The biggest problem with the renovations is – knowing there’s state money available and there’s certain requirements – yes, we need a facelift, but it has to be functional,” Photakis said regarding the addition of bike lanes to Main Street, something he said takes valuable parking spots away from a final design.

Moosey said Worcester did apply for a waiver from the bike lane requirement, showing a desire to get a design that probably would have been better received by smaller businesses, but it was shot down. “To get [the federal government] to waive that policy you would need a better argument than the need to take away a lane,” Moosey said. “Especially when they can demonstrate it’s not going to be a huge impact, if you do it right, to remove a lane. We weren’t pinned into a corner enough for them to grant a waiver. And there’s a lot of political pressure not to grant waivers.” McGrath, the Beta Group engineer, said there was no way to work diagonal parking, which would increase the number of spots, into a plan with bicycle lanes. “The space really isn’t there to do diagonal parking, and it’s generally not something MassDOT (the Massachusetts Department of Transportation) would promote along an arterial roadway,” McGrath said. Small business owners have other concerns, such as the proposed two-tiered sidewalks, which will look like the ones on Front Street – a regular sidewalk, with a lower step up to the main walkway. “The two-tiered sidewalks are a logistical nightmare in wintertime,” Photakis said. The concern is plows, when they push snow off the street, cover the first step of a two-tiered sidewalk, cutting the walkway down in size. The reason they are required is to adhere to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Sidewalks have to have a “cross slope” of two percent or less in order to be ADA compliant, and the current sidewalks are sloped too far to meet the requirements. Flattening them out without adding a second tier would put the curb a foot or more off the ground, according to Moosey, making it difficult to open car doors or walk up to the sidewalk. From the city’s side, scrapping the current plan and the $7.5 million investment coming with it would be passing up an irresistible

Bill Aldrich, owner of the Theatre Café, said: “There’s plenty of room for improvement.” opportunity to spruce up the city’s main artery. “If we say we don’t want it, then whenever we’re ready, we’d have to do it on the city’s dime,” Augustus said. “We’ll have said to Uncle Sam, ‘Send it to Tulsa, we don’t want it.’ I don’t know if that’s the best course of action for the taxpayers of Worcester.” MassDOT will hold a public hearing at a yet to be determined point in the future, and Augustus said the city is still listening to businesses and residents and their concerns. However, with regulations hanging over the money needed to complete the plan, listening might be all the city can do. “There’s not much left to be flexible about, when you come right down to it,” Moosey said. “There is a little flexibility where we can widen or narrow sidewalks, not that I’m advocating for that.” “A lot of it is pretty cookbook based on federal and state requirements,” the DPW commissioner continued.

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with any large crowd of people, some of them are often up to no good.

“People don’t see Main Street as a destination because they don’t feel safe,” Aldrich said. “You can’t walk from the parking garage to the theater without being asked for money or food or to buy drugs.” Aldrich said he would like to see a heavier police presence — although he could do without what he says is a near constant siren drone from ambulances hurtling down Main Street — but he also has hope for other projects the city and developers are working on to bear fruit and solve his problem organically. “I think CitySquare will be a big help,” Aldrich said, noting the importance of a groundswell of professionals and students to small businesses. “The more normal people you have on the street, the less abnormal people you have here. They tend to displace each other.” Photakis said the noticeable crime on Main Street – a 20-year-old was shot in the leg in Federal Square before 9 p.m. on Aug. 15 in the latest entry in a long line of nonfatal shootings in the city this year – is a hindrance to improvement. “Sure, beautify [Main Street], put benches

“Lately, you look at the last year and this year, there’s not that many people here after four,” Han King, manager of Modelo’s clothing said of Main Street. and lights in,” Photakis said. “But let’s have [residents] on those benches, not transients.” The Main Street renovation could have an immediate effect on safety. There were 259 motor vehicle crashes on the street from 2010 to 2012, a problem the revamped traffic signals could rectify. Despite whatever else happens, business owners are clear – Main

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NOT A FINAL DESTINATION Aldrich, who has been on Main Street five years, lamented the lack of competition for the Theatre Café. He said he would not mind having to fight for customers with other Main

Street restaurants, as long as it meant he didn’t have to fight with entire sections of the city – by himself.

“I as a business owner have to lure people to my specific location,” Aldrich said. “There’s no other businesses to co-market with.” He pointed to Worcester’s “restaurant row,” Shrewsbury Street, as an example of a street with many competing businesses that help each other thrive. The restaurants in that area often partner together for special events, such as the recent Restaurant Week promotion,

something Aldrich says would be impossible on Main Street due to the sheer lack of restaurants. “If there were just three restaurants, and the rest was vacant stores and apartments, how many people would go to Shrewsbury Street?” Aldrich asked. “The single restaurant can ill afford to spend that kind of money on a full page ad. It’s an economy of scale.” Siebels, while remaining bullish about the direction Main Street is heading in, did say there was room for improvement in terms of providing visitors to Main Street with more options for a night out.

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“People come here for an experience,” Siebels said. “We don’t have the idea that you can park once, go out to eat, see a show, get drinks, get dessert and go home. We don’t have a destination area.” But Hanover Theatre, an anchor for its area of Main Street, is getting proactive about its role in fixing Main Street. The Theatre bought the building next door for $1.1 million last year, and has plans to put, among other things, a new restaurant in the space. “The theater is really going to try to roll up our sleeves,” Siebels said. “It’s one thing to be a catalyst, it’s another to be an engine of change.” Still, Siebels spoke for many small business owners when he said Main Street needs another big draw to anchor a true destination street. “We need at least one other performance destination. We can’t be the only one,” Siebels said. “We need foot traffic. And that’s driven by venues like us as well as more residents downtown.” Officials are confident Main Street can become the destination other streets in the city have morphed into. Murray said the Chamber, which hosted an information session for businesses in July about the street renovations, has been educating local businesspeople about the city’s vision for a vibrant downtown. “The strategy has got to be block by block, storefront by storefront, figuring out how to fill those buildings and finding a mix of retail uses that complement each other,” Murray said. “We just want to make sure our local business owners understand the opportunity that will be presenting itself downtown in the next few years.” Still, small businesses are not always Chamber of Commerce members, and the street level tends to contain more pessimism than “the glass tower,” as a few people called the Chamber’s headquarters at 446 Main St. “If they go with the plan as they currently want it, this whole area is going to be vacant,” Photakis said, gesturing outside to the strip of Main Street kitty corner from City Hall. “It’s going to absolutely eviscerate what little hope we have to survive.” The message from the city is coming down loud and clear, though. The street renovation is not just an aesthetic move. It’s the first step toward what will hopefully be the reinvention of Main Street as a place people flock to, rather than a road people drive down to get somewhere else. “We do have people who have been survivors,” Augustus said. “I’d like Worcester’s Main Street to look nice. I’d like to send a signal that our Main Street is one we’re proud of.” Reporter Tom Quinn can be reached at 508-749-3166 x324 or tquinn@ worcestermagazine.com with story ideas, feedback, or questions. Follow him on Twitter @bytomquinn.

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At what has become a go-to place for top-notch musical entertainment, Rick Estrin earlier this month showed his cool in more ways than one at Worcester’s Viva Bene Restaurant. Estrin and his excellent band, the Nightcats, played a highly-charged night of music – albeit one that was punctuated by an unscheduled intermission due to an incident which involved an unruly customer interfering with the show. More on that later. Estrin, one of the world’s most renowned blues harmonica players, climbed onto the stage a few minutes past 8 p.m. and took charge with a midtempo shuffle, “Hand To Mouth.” Pumping quick breaths into his harmonica, Estrin’s playing is very rhythmic, propelling the beat of the song beyond what the rest of the band supplies. The crowd was

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already leaning on every note, and almost instantly an impromptu dance floor appeared beside the stage. An amusing tune, “Wrap It Up,” followed, in which Estrin demonstrated his hilarious sense of humor. The song is filled with lyrics about buying things, and the absurdity of it all. A tune from his new live CD followed, called “You Asked For It,” in which Estrin reached for his patented Chromatic harmonica for the first time. The extremely upbeat swing tune featured an amazing solo from guitarist Kid Anderson. The song was a showstopper, which earned the band its first standing ovation. Keyboardist/Bassist Lorenzo Farrell picked up his upright bass for the first time in the next song, a Little Walter instrumental, “Off the Wall.” To this

point, Estrin had been generous in showing off his band, but this tune was all his. He proved convincingly why he is considered one of the best. This is where things got interesting. Halfway through the Estrin classic, “New Old Lady,” a woman who had been behaving erratically throughout the show took it one step too far, as she leapt on to the small stage, grabbing Estrin. Employees from the restaurant attempted to remove her, but she would have none of it and mayhem erupted. The band, unfortunately, had to cut the song short. Through it all, which was squirmingly uncomfortable, Estrin maintained his cool, and once order was restored and the band played on, he even continued on page 23

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joked a bit about the incident, all in good taste. The events certainly didn’t deter the band from its mission, resuming with a fun, highenergy boogie and another amazing solo from Anderson. He wasn’t through at all, as the next song was his own personal showcase, roaming around the neck of his Gibson ES335, the tone drenched in reverb. The instrumental went through a series of surf guitar riffs, and it all sounded like something from the soundtrack to “Pulp Fiction.” This produced another standing ovation. SUBMITTED

Worcester’s Wet Hot American Summer Joshua Lyford

“Wet Hot American Summer” came out in 2001, and in the 14 years since it was released it has taken hold of the hearts and minds of a small, but generally quite silly, segment of a generation. Sure, you could label the comedy film a “cult hit” if you’d like, but that doesn’t really do it justice. Luckily, a few Worcesterites (Worcesterians?) are making it their beeswax to give the outrageous comedy its due with “Wet Hot American Summer LIVE!” at the Dive Bar, 34 Green St., on Wednesday, Aug. 26.

Estrin then rejoined the band and spoke hilariously about his travels on the road, and The movie was written by the many “large” women he has met. This led David Wain and Michael Showalter into his tune, “That’s Big.” “Calling All Fools” (Showalter is also a lead actor in was next, and was, to me, the highlight of the film) and is absolutely drenched the evening. On the smoky, quiet ending, in satire. It takes place during the barely-heard band whispering on one the last day at a fictional summer chord, Estrin awed the crowd with an intense camp in 1981 and takes jabs at just display of raw blues. Drummer J. Hansen about everything that crosses the masterfully controlled the dynamics. screen. What is interesting about the film is Three more songs included the classic its pace: while it begins similarly to a slightly Estrin sing-along, “Dump That Chump,” yet goofy teen comedy, it slowly ramps up into another humor-filled blues tune about failed completely outrageous territory. It is one of relationships. A brief encore featured Estrin those rare films that you really have to watch alone on stage, playing a bass harmonica, multiple times in order to begin grasping the pumping away on a tune called “Outta onion-peel levels of comedy taking place. Town,” an awesome display that left the For those who enjoyed the film, the crowd fulfilled, despite the unscheduled live event ought to crank things up to 11. intermission. ial! ummer Sp Mollyec McGrath (owner of Grime-New and S

Used Clothing on Shrewsbury Street) and Shaun Connolly (prolific Worcester-based comedian and creator of the Sort of Late Show live comedy event) are spearheading the production, and along with an ensemble cast numbering in the mid-20s, aim to take some of the appeal for “Rocky Horror Picture Show” screenings appeal and apply it to “Wet Hot American Summer.” “With ‘Rocky Horror,’ that was a cult following where people who loved the movie started making up their own interactive things,” explained McGrath. “It was kind of organic. For this, we are setting the tone. When Abby (Bernstein, a character in the film) eats a stick of gum, you throw a stick of gum. We’re setting the tone.” The team will project the film on the wall in the patio area of the bar, while the Worcester cast will act out the scenes beneath it. McGrath, deeply involved in Worcester’s community, and Connolly, a longtime area comedian, tapped their friends for the different roles. These include individuals who have experience in acting and comedy as well as those who have never performed before. “It’s really cool watching the nonperformers and performers interact together iaS pec iaother and how give ecl!pe erthey cil!al!ideas,” said S m um mSerm S erpeach um

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Connolly. “Everyone is just collaborating like crazy and it’s really awesome.” “It could be horrible, or it could be amazing,” added McGrath. “But either way, it’s definitely going to be funny.” The experience will be interactive and audience participation is encouraged. Attendees are urged to dress up as their favorite campers and if a particular moment calls you to action, so be it. The event is, by design, just as much about audience participation as it is about the cast performing. “We’re encouraging people to yell something out or do something if they feel inspired. We’re only sharing our own experience of the movie,” said Connolly. “Everyone has their own favorite parts. Some people, a lot of my friends, love to watch the campers in the background, other people have their favorite quotes from Paul Rudd. Everyone experiences the movie differently.” Along with the actors and their individual contributions comes the props department, which has been wholly overseen by local artist Derek Ring. Expect nothing short of an incredible time with vibrant individuals. With Netflix recently adding “Wet Hot American Summer” and its 2015 series “First Day of Camp,” it is about time that a new generation falls in love with the irreverent comedy. “Everyone is really creative and excited and it’s been awesome getting everything ready,” said McGrath. “It’s going to be a lot of fun and I’m sure I’ll be laughing the whole time.” Head to the Dive Bar, 34 Green St., Aug. 26 to check out “Wet Hot American Summer LIVE!” You can find more information on the Facebook event page. The show starts at 8:30 p.m., so why don’t you make it your beeswax to be there for 8:30? Reporter Joshua Lyford can be reached at 508-749-3166, ext. 325, or by email at Jlyford@worcestermagazine.com. Follow Josh on Twitter @Joshachusetts. Over Over Over 40 COlOrs 40COlOrs COlOrs 40 On On sale Onsale sale

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EAT CHILI, DIE: I absolutely love chili, it has got to be my favorite liquid(ish) meal. My second favorite wet meal? Chowder. Yeah, I realize that’s a little weird and potentially blasphemous out of the mouth of a vegetarian, but what can I say? My mom used to make me veggie chili and chowder as a kid and now when I want warm, wet food in my mouth, it’s chili or chowder. Further, chili and chowder may seem like an odd topic for The Lyford Files. You may be saying, “why did I just read six sentences that have repeated wet and chili over and over again?” Here is why: This Saturday, Aug. 29, Worcester’s First Annual Chili & Chowder Festival is spicing things up on the corner of Winter and Harding streets. Tickets are available in advance at Worcchilichowderfest.com or at the door. It’s $15 for adults and $10 for tiny children. This gets you all the chili you can drip down your gullet, and there is a big selection of local restaurants vying for the title of Worcester’s best chili and chowder, complete with a people’s choice award. I realize there is an incredibly slim chance there will be any chili I will sample (as an herbivore), which is chill (this pun was bad and I feel bad), but I’m hoping for a veggie award next year and if I don’t speak up, who can I blame? Bring antacid tabs.

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infamous (dubious?) California punk band Fang (pictured) will be shredding at Ralph’s Rock Diner on Grove Street Aug. 30. Look, I try to be transparent and I consider myself pretty knowledgeable in the realms that I cover, but I knew very little about Fang before I saw this event get set up. After some deep, involved research (Wikipedia) it appears Fang was a hardcore/punk product of the 1980 California scene. Vocalist Sam McBride strangled his girlfriend, Dixie Lee Carney, to death and was sent to prison in 1989 for manslaughter. He was released after just six years in 1995 and the band has played off and on since. I don’t want to get into it too hard and overshadow the other bands, but my initial reaction is surprise that you can strangle a human being to death and only go to jail for a handful of years. One of my buddies completely betrayed me in high school after a party by dumping all the trash on one of my neighbor’s lawns, prompting the police to search the garbage and find receipts with “Lyford” on them. While at the police station I was told that I could do “hard time” and pay tens of thousands of dollars for this. I realize they were just putting the fear into me, but that was just a little garbage and hey, I picked it up! Anyway, this has devolved into incoherent babble. Fang is joined by The Stuntmen, FLQ, Nothing but Enemies and Truth Decay. That last band alone is worth the $10 admission.

FULL BLAST CAFFEINE ROUNDUP: I’m getting a little close to my word count max for this week’s The Lyford Files and there are still a number of things I’d like to slip in here before the coffee blows my brain into tiny fractal pieces: POETRY IN A GARAGE: A good friend of mine, Nick Kostas Kratsas, is currently

embarked on a poetry-reading tour and will be playing in a space known as “John’s Garage” in Shrewsbury on Aug. 27. Kratsas is from Cleveland, Ohio and sings in the hardcore band Harvey Pekar. He is more than just a gorgeous mustache, too, he is smart as hell and a real talent. This event uses punk-rules, so find the event online and ask for the address. It’s mysterious.

DO THE JACOBOOCH: Jacobooch is coming back to the Hotel Vernon in Kelley Square Aug. 28. I’ve written about Jacobooch in the past and his wild cover songs and stage presence, but after getting more stoked than the Elven fire that created Glamdring, I was forced to miss out on the show. Don’t make the same mistake I did. BEAVER BROOK KICKBALL: Want

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In the Swing of things

Jim Perry

Steve LeClaire is sounding pretty calm, considering what just happened to him. LeClaire severed tendons and nerves in his right thumb while working on his farm in Sutton. The veteran saxophonist, known in the Worcester area for legendary bands Tornado Alley, the Valves and now Valvatross, can ill afford losing use of such a valuable digit.

Posting a picture of his bandaged hand on his Facebook page, he brazenly defied any possibility of having to stop playing. “You do what you gotta do,” he told Worcester Magazine. “I’ll just have to work my way around it.” LeClaire couldn’t have picked a worse time for this injury. This past week, his band, Valvatross, performed at Greendales Pub in Worcester, where it bade farewell to longtime guitarist Todd Dufault. At the same time, he is investing a lot of time, energy and excitement into yet another new mega project. Called Mike Girard’s Big Swinging Thing, it is the brainchild of LeClaire and Girard, the lead singer of Boston-based group The Fools. Mike Girard’s Big Swinging Thing makes its debut Friday, Aug. 28 at The Blue Ocean Music Hall in Salisbury Beach. LeClaire calls the project a “very, cool big band.” He is hesitant to use the term “big band,” because as he puts it, “everybody thinks Count Basie, Duke Ellington, traditional 1940s, you know, World War II.” He describes it as more of a rock ‘n roll big band. An eclectic song list includes numbers from AC/DC, Green Day, Johnny Cash, even the theme from “Blazing Saddles,” all lovingly arranged by workaholic LeClaire. There will also be tunes from Tina Turner and the Stones as well as some old Fools songs. “We take ourselves seriously musically, but not in presentation and pomposity,” LeClaire said. “You know what I mean?” LeClaire met Girard at an annual Christmas show in Manchester, New Hampshire, where LeClaire plays the role of musical arranger. Many Boston-area luminaries have passed through the popular show, including Sal Baglio, John Butcher, Charlie Farren and others. This past year, Girard, along with longtime Fools guitarist Rich Bartlett, participated in the show. When Girard stepped up to sing an arrangement of “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” a

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mutual admiration society was born. According to LeClaire, “We got talking afterwards, and Mike was saying ‘Wow, I loved the horn arrangements,’ and I was going, like, ‘I knew you sang the rock ’n roll stuff for the Fools, but Ray Charles?’ It was amazing.” The bond was so strong that talk was initiated right away about doing a project together. “ We put some feelers out,” said LeClaire, “and before you knew it, we had this band.” They picked out some songs, and started rehearsing. “It just went down this road,” he said. The eclectic song list and the quirkiness of the whole project began to take hold. “Holy crap, this is really good,” LeClaire said of the initial jams. LeClaire can’t say enough about the

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chemistry between the two camps of musicians: The Fools on one side, Tornado Alley on the other. “Guys in the trenches, men in foxholes, all of a sudden there’s magic, this chemistry that’s palpable, and every player just feels it,” LeClaire said. Added Girard, “You never know what kind of cocktail of personalities you’re going to get when you’re putting it together. Sometimes there’s a problem or two, but not in this band. They just come in and do their job.” There is a third link in the band, according to LeClaire. The horn section is rounded out with some of the players he worked with in the ’80s while attending the University of Lowell. “That’s a lot of fun, to be 30 years hence, further down the road, and be playing together now,” he said. In total, the band has 20 members: four

trumpets, four trombones, five sax players, bass guitar, drums, a six-string guitar, keyboards, plus Girard out front. The final pieces are two fine female singers from different backgrounds, Denise Cascione and Alexandria Bianco. “We call them the Jewels, rather than the Fools,” LeClaire said with a laugh. Added Girard: “I was sold as soon as I heard them.” LeClaire said the odd song choices for a 20-piece band aren’t really that odd after all. “A good riff is a good riff, whether you play it on guitar or kazoo,” he cracked, “but to do it with a wall of horns is like driving the nail home.” It sounds like a unique, quirky concept, and in Steve LeClaire and Mike Girard, the project has the right people at the helm. Keep an eye out for this one.

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CIA, KGB, OMG Jim Keogh

“The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” is something of a mystery to me. I was a kid when the TV series aired (1964-1968), so I have dim recollection and zero nostalgia for it, although the names of Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin (played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum) are imprinted on my brain. The show’s consultant, Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, is credited with naming the superspies, giving them an additional layer of pop-culture pedigree.

The film version, splashily directed by Guy Ritchie, apparently is less an homage to its source material than it is a headbanging attempt to vault stars Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer into the ranks of viable leading men. It’s a role for which they’ve got the appropriate DNA — I’m comfortable enough in my own sexuality to admit these guys are damn good looking — yet for which they possess little of the necessary charisma, the panache, the duende. Cavill may be the movies’ latest Man of Steel, but he’s the Actor of Iron. And the towering, stoic Hammer, with the stink of “The Lone Ranger” still clinging to him like wet Saran Wrap, may find himself relegated to second-banana status for the remainder of his career. But they try. Lord do they try. Cavill discards his British accent to play Napoleon, the American art thief turned CIA spy who is forcibly teamed with his KGB counterpart, Ilya, for which Hammer swaps his American accent for a sludgy Russian delivery that’s part Boris with a dash of Natasha. The two are oil and water. Napolean is suave and crisp (Cavill approximates Vaughn’s smoothly staccato delivery) and Ilya has big-time daddy issues (his father, a traitor was exiled to Siberia) and bigger-time anger issues (he likes to hit — everything). The year is 1963, the thick of the cold war, and the rival nations reluctantly agree to use their top spies to rescue “Hitler’s favorite rocket scientist,” who has been kidnapped by a criminal organization and forced to build a nuclear bomb. Napoleon frees the scientist’s lovely daughter, Gaby (Alicia Vikander, so memorable as the cyborg siren in “Ex Machina”), from East Berlin to pose as Ilya’s fiancé and help infiltrate the cabal. Among the obstructions are a skyscraper-tall femme

fatale (Elizabeth Debicki) and Gaby’s uncle (Sylvester Groth), a former Nazi torturer with the kind of cartoonishly-sinister mien typically found in an Indiana Jones villain. Ritchie has fun with the swinging ’60s motif — the fashions are bold and the music will make retro lovers weep. Even with mainstream stuff like this, the director of grungy British caper classics like “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” and “Snatch” brands the film with his signature style.

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Food and friends Mike Murray

If there is one thing Worcester is not short on, it is relaxed, laidback restaurants to grab a burger, a beer, and enjoy a comfortable night out with friends. Given the wide variety of casual pubs in and around the city, it can be hard for one restaurant to continually attract local diners, but that’s precisely what Eller’s Restaurant has done at 190 Main St. in Cherry Valley. With modest prices, good portions, and above all, extremely friendly and welcoming service, it is no wonder Eller’s has become so popular for diners around the Worcester-side of Leicester.

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Eller’s serves breakfast, lunch and dinner six days a week, so Lillian and I visited on a Saturday afternoon looking for a take-it-easy lunch. Dining in the bar area we were greeted by our server immediately, who warmly sat us at one of the several booths that line the perimeter of a bar and lounge. The space is broken into a main dining room on the left side of the entrance, with a large bar and lounge to the right, a perfect place to catch a game with billiards and darts aside several largescreen TVs. The bar has nearly anything any sports fan would desire with the lone exception of a strong beer list, as most of the beers on tap and in bottles were your standard major domestic brewers. With craft beer becoming more and more common at bars and restaurants around the area, it would be nice to see a tap from a local Massachusetts craft brewer. Regardless, Lillian and I had a thirst and our server was quick to provide something to quench it, as Lillian enjoyed her first Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale of the year and I settled for a Yuengling Lager.

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With beers in hand, we were quick to put in an order of boneless buffalo tenders. Six large, well-fried chicken strips were doused in two kinds of buffalo sauce. Eller’s mild buffalo is a tangy and sweet buffalo sauce with a slight kick, but the hot sauce was just right, enough to generated a bead of sweat without overdoing it. Shortly after we finished our tenders, our server arrived with our entrees. Eller’s large menu features soups, salads, sandwiches and entrees you would expect at most American pubs, with a focus on comfort foods,

good-sized portions and fair prices, with sandwiches and burgers around $8-10 and entrees in the low teens. Lillian opted for the Cobb Salad ($9), which featured well-chopped greens, mixed with a diced veggie medley, corn, cheddar cheese, a hard-boiled egg, and served with light-fried chicken strips, doused in a sweet and tangy honey mustard dressing. This salad was large and the ingredients were fresh making for a filling lunch time meal. At a previous visit I had enjoyed a super filling Prime Rib Shepherd’s Pie, but I decided to scale back slightly and go for a specialty burger. What arrived was a giant burger ($10), pink in the middle (how I like it) topped with melted cheddar cheese, two thick slabs of bacon, hoisting three thick fried onions rings, slathered in a tangy barbeque sauce, with lettuce, tomato, and chopped onions to round out the food groups. In spite of the enormous burger, it came served with a generous helping of crispy, crunchy, hot French continued on next page

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It was, we suppose, only a matter of time before the wheels of technology spun up something like this. Actually, it has been in place in several other U.S. cities for about two years, but Worcester is about to get its first taste of straight-to-your-door alcohol delivery. Partnering with Boston-based technology company Drizly, Austin Liquors on Thursday, Aug. 20 will start delivering beer, wine and liquor straight to consumers’ doors, powered by a mobile app that allows the driver (an Austin employee) to know who placed the order and to scan the customer’s ID right on the phone. Austin will be the first Worcester liquor store teaming up with Drizly, which started in 2013 as the brainchild of two Boston College grads. Here’s how it works: Download Drizly to your iPhone or Android, or log onto Drizly. com, sign up and add your favorite beer, wine and liquor to your cat. Check out, enter discount codes and pay and tip your driver. The delivery will arrive in less than an hour, according to information provided by a Drizly spokesperson. The service will be available to approximately 100,000 Worcester residents in the neighborhoods of Bell Hill, Brittan Square, Biotech Park, Burncoat, Elm Park, Federal Square, Forest Grove, Greendale, Indian Hill, Indian Lake East, Lincoln Square, Main Middle, Mass Ave, Newton Square, North Lincoln Street, Salisbury Street, Shrewsbury Street, Tatnuck, West Tatnuck and Worcester Common. Deliveries will not be made to college campuses. There is a $5 delivery fee, and customers are encouraged to tip their driver when checking out on the app. Through Sept. 20, Drizly will offer free delivery on all orders with the promo code HELLOWORCESTER. “We look at our Worcester expansion as just an extension of what we’re doing in Massachusetts,” said Kerin Horgan of Drizly. “We see Worcester as up and coming.”

CITY TO SADDLE

Mesa Farm in Rutland hosts a Farm to Table Dinner Sunday, Sept. 27 at

3 p.m. The farm is at 67 Muschopauge Road. The dinner will raise money for the nonprofit

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organization, which provides horse programs to inner-city and under-served children. Chef Brian Treitman, owner of B.T. Smokehouse in Sturbridge, will prepare a three-course tasting menu, with some of the items coming right from Mesa Farm. There will also be a silent auction, live music, artwork by local artists and more. Tickets are $99 per person and can be bought

krave at citytosaddle.org. No tickets will be sold at the door. For more information, call 508-886-6898 or email Leonora@citytosaddle.org.

FOOD BANKING

UniBank is collecting non-perishable food donations throughout August at 24 Goldstar Blvd. The bank is a platinum sponsor of Jeremiah’s Inn’s 21st Annual Food Drive.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Peppercorn’s Grille & Tavern, 455 Park Ave., is going all out with its 20th Anniversary Bash in September, but first things first. Breakfast at

Peppercorn’s is back with new hours, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. What’s new on the menu? How about BYOB (Build Your Own Bloodies). As for the anniversary celebration, here’s what Peppercorn’s has planned: On Tuesday, Sept. 8, take part in a golf tournament at Pleasant Valley, held in partnership with 100.1 The Pike FM. Foursomes are limited. Call 508868-5642. On Wednesday, Sept. 9, it’s a blast from the past and present as executive chefs Marcos Ferriera, Tommaso Gargiulo, Tim Vaillette and Anthony Joseph team up for a four-course dinner. Tickets are $40. On Thursday, Sept. 10 Amanda Lee Peers of “The Voice” performs from 6-8 p.m., followed by a Patriots season-opener party. The fun wraps up Sunday, Sept. 13 with an outdoor pig roast. You can win tickets through upcoming raffles.

you think about this cookout classic.” You can download a menu at nichehospitality.com. Get ’em while their hot, however, because the special ends Sept. 7.

LEADING ADVOCATE

“Whisky Advocate,” a magazine devoted to whiskey, announced two of Julio’s hand-selected whiskies had been chosen to be among the magazine’s Top 10 highest-rated whiskies. Julio’s has enjoyed a number of accolades, winning the National Whisky Retailer of the Year in 2013 and 2014 and the Massachusetts Beverage Business’s Retailer of the Year in 2011. In 2012, owner Ryan Maloney became a Market Watch Leader. “We are thrilled to be recognized,” said Maloney. “Our success in recent years has allowed us to expand our reach and influence both nationally and internationally all while thriving here at home in Westborough.” For more information, visit whiskyadvocate.come.

NO WAFFLING, HERE

Have you thanked your waffle today? If you’re a local first responder, you still can, at least through Sunday, Aug. 23 at Comfort Inn & Suites, 215 Charlton Road (Route 20), Sturbridge. In honor of National Waffle Day, the hotel chain serves up complimentary hot breakfasts, including waffles, to local police, firefighters and EMTs.

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fries, which despite my best effort I was not able to finish. Though both of our meals were great for your neighborhood pub and we left full, we wouldn’t travel a great distance for our dishes, though luckily Eller’s is a hair over the Worcester-Leicester line so we don’t have to. The slogan of Eller’s is to “come in as a stranger … and leave as a friend,” and while that seems like such a cliché, the staff at the restaurant are incredible friendly and warm. The bar area was slow on this particular Saturday, so our server was attentive and very friendly, chatting with us at certain parts of our meal and making us feel truly welcome at the restaurant. Prices are great and our bill came to $38 before tip for a couple of beers, an appetizer and two enormous meals. The ambiance of the restaurant is what you might expect for a family restaurant and pub, and while the exterior façade resembles an auto-sales shop more so than a restaurant, the interior is pleasant and inviting. The casual pub dining scene in Worcester may be overcrowded, but Eller’s is a great option for anybody looking for relaxed meal with fair prices and remarkably friendly service.

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Looking for more food fun? Niche Hospitality serves up a New England Clambake at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20 at Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Square, Leominster. RSVP at 978-534-5900 or rsvp@nichehospitality.com. The cost is $50 per person. You can also enjoy a Bodegas Jorge Ordonez Wine Dinner at Bocado Wellesley, 45 Church St., Wellesley. Head there Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 7 p.m. RSVP at 781-772-2390 or rsvp@ nichehospitality.com. Enjoy a five-course dinner and award-winning wines. Cost is $75 per person. Not to be outdone, Bocado Providence, 60 Valley St., Providence, Rhode Island, hosts a Signature Wine Dinner Thursday, Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. RSVP at 401-2706080 or rsvp@nichehospitality. com. The cost is $45 per person. Bocado Worcester, 82 Winter St., Worcester, will host a Signature Wine Dinner Monday, Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. RSVP at 508-797-1011 or rsvp@nichehospitality.com. The cost is $59 per person. It’s a Chili Pepper Palooza at Mezcal’s Worcester and Leominster locations through Sept. 7. Check out the menu at mezcalcantina.com. If it’s hot dogs you’re looking for, visit The Fix Burger Bar, 166 Shrewsbury St., Worcester for The Fix Dog Days of Summer. For a limited time only, The Fix is serving up house-made, halfpound hot dogs it says will, “change the way

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miss out! Free. 8-11 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877 or covering -- be it Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley, Tom Petty or James Taylor, John Lennon or Billy Joel -- Bill keeps his performances fresh worcesterjazzcollective.com Audio Wasabi - Hosted by Brian Chaffee. 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. and never fails to please his audience! Free. 6-9 p.m. Plaza Azteca, >Thursday 20 539 Lincoln St. BillMcCarthyMusic.com Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122. Backyard Songwriters on the Patio. Four great acts perform Classic Rock Karaoke. Looking for something a little different? Chris Reddy. 6-9 p.m. Park Grill and Spirits, 257 Park Ave. on our outdoor patio. Full menu and bar available under the stars. Worcester Jazz Collective @ Grill on the Hill. Watch the Primo’s Rock and Sports Bar at 102 Green St gives a new twist to Ben Knight - A prolific performer throughout New England, Ben’s sunset at one of many scenic views Green Hill as to offer as you dine Thirsty Thursday! Classic rock videos and Karaoke hosted by one high energy and Blues-influenced style of modern rock has earned and listen to the Worcester Jazz Collective free. 6-9 p.m. Grill on the Hill of the areas best Karaoke DJ’s : DJ Matty J...kitchen open for $5 him accolades from both The Boston Blues Society and The New at Green Hill Golf Course, Skyline Drive. worcesterjazzcollective.com bar menu until 10pm, patio open weather permitting. 8:30 p.m.-1 England Music Awards. Marina Evans - Marina combines strong, Amanda Cote. Canal Restaurant & Bar ! Saturday, August 7th! a.m. Primos Lounge, 102 Green St. 508-459-8702 or find them on sultry vocals, unusual melodies, and clever lyrics into a sound entirely Facebook. Come get some New Orleans food and tunes at The Canal! Relax, her own. Sarah Barrios - From Torrington CT, Sarah’s credits speak Live Band Karaoke with Fingercuff $1000 Contest. Angry kick back and unwind listening to Amanda Cote from 7-10pm! Hope for themselves; 2015 New England Music Award Nominee “Female to see you out ‘n’ about! Following @ 11PM is our late night DJ who Idol 5 is back! You could win $1000! Live Band Karaoke has over Performer of The Year” - Connecticut Music Award Nominee 2015 for 300 songs to choose from. Come sing with a live band and unleash never fails to bring the best beats to Canal for our late night goers! “Songwriter of the Year” - Winner at The New England Music Awards your inner Rock God! Visit loveshackmusic.com for more info. 9 N/A. 7-10 p.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353. “Best New Act” for 2014- along with appearances on both FOX TV’s p.m.-midnight Angry Ham’s Garage Restaurant & Pub, 2 Beacon St., Corn Hole Challenge. All New Night! Corn Hole Tournament. The XFactor and American Idol in 2014. Dan Blakeslee - The hills Teams forming for September. Brand new boards and corn hole bags. Framingham. loveshackmusic.com and highways are made for wandering, this has been deep rooted Set up inside so we can play in any weather. Come check it out! 7-10 Metal Thursday CCLXXXIII with Throaat, Angmar, in Dan Blakeslee who performs an average of 200 shows per year. p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877. Sentience, Abstruktor. $8. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick In a gymnasium at Laconia Prison (NH) in 2005, a crowd of 150 The Sage Project. 7-10 p.m. Perfect Game Sports Grill and Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543 or find them on inmates became hushed after hearing Blakeslee’s songs of hardship, Facebook. Lounge, 64 Water St. 508-792-4263. hope and true grit. The Bull Run is a full-service, farm-to-table Tuesday Night at the Movies. 7-10 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Jim Devlin. 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange restaurant in a pre-revolutionary tavern, located about 35 miles NW Ave. 508-926-8877. Place. 508-459-9035. of Boston with plenty of free parking and lots of rustic charm. . $10. College Night w DJ techtreat. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Perfect Game Dustin Brideau. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Mill 185, 185 West Boylston 6-9:30 p.m. Bull Run Restaurant, Outdoor Patio, 215 St., West Boylston. 774-261-8585. Sports Grill and Lounge, 64 Water St. 508-792-4263. Great Road, Shirley. 978-425-4311 or tickets. Howie Day. Howie Day’s emotionally resonant lyrics and inventive DJ (21+) Canal. N/A. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. bullrunrestaurant.com melodies have earned him both critical praise and a legion of devoted Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508Concert: Mark Mandeville & fans. He is known for his energetic, heartfelt shows, where he 926-8353. Raianne Richards. Please connects with audiences through the strength of his songwriting and join us for a concert with folk his quirky sense of humor. music duo Mark Mandeville Day’s warm tenor voice & Raianne Richards! Free. If you do just one thing over the coming weekend, make it the Italian “soars into fluttering, high 6:30-7:30 p.m. Jacob Festival at Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church, 24 Mulberry St., registers, but also grates Edwards Library, 236 Worcester. The Festival runs from Friday, Aug. 21 through Sunwith real, pleading grit,” as Main St., Southbridge. day, Aug. 23, 3-11 p.m., except on Sunday, when it stretches from 11 one critic put it. After sales 508-764-5426 or a.m. to 11 p.m. Enjoy food, music, games and a whole lot of fun. Cost is of over a million albums engagedpatrons.org $2 to get in. Seniors and children under 10 are free. For more informaand two Top 10 hits, Victor’s Bluegrass tion, visit mtcarmelfestival.com or email cory.guinta.rfb@gmail.com. Day is back on the road Jam. Got any Bluegrass? showcasing old favorites, Well, bring it down and as well as new material share it with your everyone! from his upcoming studio Open to all skill levels! Jam out >Friday 21 release. With top 40 hits, including “Collide” and “She Says,” Howie’s with other musician’s in search Peanut Butter & Jam in skillful guitar chops and poignant lyrics have won him a legion of of the elusive Bluegrass. Host & the Park: Mickey Bones & fans who adore the humor and charm speckled throughout his live instructor, Victor Evdokimoff will guide the the Boogaloo Swamis featuring performances. The Bull Run is a full-service, farm-to-table restaurant group through songs, chord changes and leads. Lisa*Marie. Clear your calendar for this one, folks! in a pre-revolutionary tavern, located about 35 miles NW of Boston Meet, greet, and jam at 6:30PM. Free. 6:30-8 p.m. Union It’s the ultimate summer mash-up: we are shaking up the Swamis: with plenty of free parking and lots of rustic charm. . $25 advance; Music, 142 Southbridge St. 508-752-3702 or unionmusic.com Lisa*Marie (of Lisa*Marie and All Shook Up) lends her deep-throated $29 day of show. 8-11 p.m. Bull Run Restaurant, Sawtelle Room, 215 Thirsty Thursday Open Mic Night @ Dark Horse bluesy voice to Mickey and the Swamis for an extended afternoon Great Road, Shirley. 978-425-4311 or tickets.bullrunrestaurant.com Tavern with Mark & Wibble. *Calling all fellow musicians & of swampy Cajun/Zydeco/Rockabilly/Tex-Mex. You might consider Karaoke. Karaoke by Star Sound Entertainment 8 p.m.-12:30 a.m. artists alike!* Join us down at the Dark Horse & bring your Guitars, taking the afternoon off. Don’t know what mischief these two will Chooch’s Food & Spirits, 31 East Brookfield Road, North Brookfield. Banjos, Mandolins, Trumpets & Xylophones & let’s have some fun get into, but it is sure to be memorable. Mickey’s been with us for 508-867-2494. :) Showcasing real live local music & talent! To RSVP a time slot 16 years and Lisa for 4; that’s a combined 20 years of talent they’ve Karaoke & Dance Party. DJ & Dancing 12:30am - 2am Free. in advance please send your name/time slot you’d like and e-mail shared with Millbury! Bring your white handkerchiefs and party 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Speakers Night Club, 19 Weed St., Marlborough. 508(optional) to darkhorseopenmic@yahoo.com. To all other players parasols because we might just have a New Orleans-style Second 439-9314. that want to come up to jam and don’t want to RSVP... there will be a Line to close out this 17-year run of concerts. It’s our swan song. Ken Macy. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Blueprint New American Bar & Grill, 9 sign-up sheet so you get to play your tunes accordingly, so don’t fret Bring a blanket or chair, and your lunch. Better yet, support our local Village Square, Westminster. 978-668-5580. (no pun intended). Here are the times: 7 7:30 8 8:30 9 9:30 Free. sandwich shops downtown. Order from one of them! Rain location: Zack Slik. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Sqare, 7-10 p.m. Dark Horse Tavern, 12 Crane St., Southbridge. 508-764Elm Draught House Cinema, 35 Elm Street. Free. noon-1:30 p.m. Leominster. 978-534-5900. 1100 or find them on Facebook. Millbury Town Common, Main St and Elm St., Millbury. 508-865City Boys Acoustic Duo. Enjoy a night with Johnny Romance Karaoke. Karaoke by Star Sound Entertainment 7:30 p.m.-midnight 3477. Nickerson and Chris the Captain Combs Acoustic Duo. 8:30 p.m.Hirosaki Prime, 1121 Grafton St. 508-926-8700. Thank Friday It’s Dr. Nat. Let Dr. Nat start your weekend with midnight Southside Grille, 242 W Broadway, Gardner. 978-632-1057 Dan Cormier. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Blueprint New American Bar & Grill, 9 jazz, swing, blues, soul, samba, R&B, Broadway, original songs about or loveshackmusic.com Village Square, Westminster. 978-668-5580. Worcester, and other surprises, such as special guest vocalists and Live Music. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Dave O’Brien. 8-11 p.m. Compass Tavern, 90 Harding St. 508instrumentalists. Dancers welcome! Ask about Thank Friday It’s Dr. Gardner. 978-669-0122. 304-6044. Nat (TFIDN) menu bargains in the cabaret room! No cover charge, DJ. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Jillian’s - Worcester, 315 Grove St. 508-793-0900. Scott Babineau. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument tips appreciated. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 On The Rocks. Performs at Sakura Tokyo. “On the Rocks” Sqare, Leominster. 978-534-5900. Millbury St. 508-753-4030 or natneedle.com performs back to back nights of their high octane rock n’ roll. See The Worcester Jazz Collective Invades Beatnik’s. Bebop! Bill McCarthy’s Friday After Work Party at Plaza you there and thanks for supporting us! ontherocksma.com 9 p.m.-1 Bossa Nova! Free Jazz! Samba! You’ll hear this all tonight, don’t Azteca! Having the ability to “mold his voice” to whatever artist he’s a.m. Sakura Tokyo, 640 Park Ave. 508-792-1078.

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Roadhouse Strangers. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877. Side Effect – Pink Floyd tribute band. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. The Flat Five Band. From Justin Timberlake to Stevie Wonder, they deliver hits to keep you dancing all night! 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m. JJ’s Sports Bar and Grill, 380 Southwest Cutoff, Northborough. 508842-8420. Andy Cummings. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Michael’s Cigar Bar, 1 Exchange Place. 508-459-9035. DJ (21+) Canal. N/A. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353. Mike Lynch Trio. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Rivalry’s Sports Bar, 274 Shrewsbury St. 774-243-1100.

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Free Butch Bazillion Show. Every Saturday & Sunday ~ 1-5 PM Free Butch Bazillion Show Playing Your Favorite Rock & Pop Hits ~ Plus New Originals. Free. 1-5 p.m. Kimball Farm, 400 Littleton Road, Westford. 978-486-3891 or find them on Facebook. TJ’s Open Mic Saturdays. 1-5 p.m. Union Music, 142 Southbridge St. 508-753-3702. Seele Musicale Chamber Group. Included with admission. 2-3 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. Summer Brewfest. 2-9 p.m. Indian Ranch, 200 Gore Road, Webster. 508-943-3871. Open Mic. Open to musicians, poets, comedians or anyone with a talent! Hosted by Stephen Wright. 6-9 p.m. Nu Cafe, 335 Chandler St. 508-926-8800 or nucafe.com Sabrina Jones and Johnny Romance. Come enjoy the Deck, drinks, delicious foods, and of course the great music! 6:3011 p.m. The Grille at Westborough Country Club, 121 W. Main St., Westborough. 508-366-0207 or loveshackmusic.com Chris Reddy Acoustic Loops from Hell. 7-11 p.m. The GazBar Sports Grill, 1045 Central St., Leominster. Jazzed Up Featuring Mauro DePasquale. Jazzed Up Trio featuring Mauro DePasquale an evening of a Classic Cool blend of American Songbook and Jazz Classics. If you like Sinatra, Buble’, Connick Jr. , you will love Jazzed Up , “The Sweetest Music This Side Of Heaven”. No Cover. 7-10 p.m. FISH, 29 South Bolton St., Marlborough. 508-460-3474. Live Blues and Roots-rock: Free outdoor concert with Jumpin’ Juba. Jumpin’ Juba mixes blues from Chicago, Memphis and New Orleans with roots-y rock & roll, jazz, calypso,& Latin flavors. Steve Hurl’s guitar playing draws from great blues, & early rock & roll. Bruce Ward’s piano work recalls such greats as Prof. Longhair & Albert Ammons. Drummer Rob Rudin knocks out a solid beat. Slap Happy is their 2nd CD offering of upbeat, varied blues/ roots tunes. stevehurl.com reverbnation.com no cover charge. 7-11 p.m. Oxhead Tavern, 366 Main St., Sturbridge. 508-347-7393. Tony Soul Project - WCUW FRONTROOM Concert Series 2015. Bring your dancin shoes for this event and also your favorite snack or covered dish to share with your friends $7 - $5 members. 7-10 p.m. WCUW 91.3 FM - Worcester’s Community Radio Station, 910 Main St. 508-753-1012 or WCUW.org Echoes of Ecclesia and Movements Band. Two bands, with a young Rock sound, back to back! $5 Donation. 7:30-10 p.m. !Cafe con Dios!, Main Room, 22 Faith Ave., Auburn. Summer Concert- “Love Letters” by A.R. Gurney (Greater Worcester Opera). Join GWO for this special added event to their 12th Annual Summer Concert Series. A.R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize nominated play, “Love Letters”, is a unique play which chronicles the 50 year relationship of two friends through their letters, and features Todd Yard and Elaine Crane. As with the entire concert series, enjoy a comfortable and air-conditioned atmosphere, while experiencing engaging performances by some of the area’s finest

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singing actors, accompanied by Olga Rogach and narrated by Rick Kimball. The music and acting are exquisite, the price reasonable and the refreshments complimentary- it’s a great way to support the arts while having a wonderful time! Concerts include Broadway Melodies (July 22), American Songbook (July 29), Gilbert and Sullivan and More! (August 5), and Opera Gala (August 12), as well as two performance of “Love Letters” on August 19 and 22. $10 general admission ($5 student). 7:30-9:30 p.m. Briarwood Community Center, Birches Auditorium, Briarwood Circle. 508-930-7062 or greaterworcesteropera.org Debbie Davies. Having gotten her break with a supporting role in Albert Collins’ Icebreakers, Debbie has gone on to be one of the most outstanding guitarists in the blues world. In 1997 and again in 2010 Debbie Davies received the W.C. Handy Award for “Best Contemporary Female Blues Artist”. The Bull Run is a full-service, farm-to-table restaurant in a pre-revolutionary tavern, located about 35 miles NW of Boston with plenty of free parking and lots of rustic charm. . $18 advance; $22 day of show. 8-11 p.m. Bull Run Restaurant, Sawtelle Room, 215 Great Road, Shirley. 978-425-4311 or tickets.bullrunrestaurant.com Jodee & Brian. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The Mill 185, 185 West Boylston St., West Boylston. 774-261-8585. Brian & Captain. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Sqare, Leominster. 978-534-5900. Live Music. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122. Saturday Night Live Jazz. 8:30 p.m.-midnight Pho Dakao, 593 Park Ave. 617-803-5016 or phodakao.com Articles of Audio. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508926-8877. Brother Maynard. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Blueprint New American Bar & Grill, 9 Village Square, Westminster. 978-668-5580. David Boobie (Niki Luparelli’s David Bowie Tribute). Join Niki Luparelli, Dapper Dan Burke, and the Gold Diggers as they celebrate everyone’s favorite Thin, White Duke with a loving journey through the David Bowie Songbook. Old Hollywood Glam meets Glam Rock It’s David Boobie! Featuring an opening set by Resin ED Funky Electronic Jam. Some press about Niki Luparelli and the Gold Diggers covering Bowie “Some of us are looking for something a little more glamorous to do on [Saturday.] Take a trip through the eclectic songbook of David Bowie with Niki Luparelli and The Gold Diggers” - Boston Magazine “Want to see Bowie done cabaret style? We’re pretty sure that no one’s better for that than Niki.”- BostonBandCrush.org “Mamma Mia! meets Moulin Rouge, with ABBA’s disco replaced by Bowie’s glam-rock tunes. Let’s Dance” -Stuff Magazine “Boston’s bustiest chanteuse’ trains her headlights on dear David Bowie (backed by her retro band, the Gold Diggers) in an evening of cabaret-rock crossbreeding.” - Time Out New York 21+ 10. 9-1:30 p.m. Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629 or find them on Facebook. On The Rocks. Performs at Sakura Tokyo. “On the Rocks” performs back to back nights of their high octane rock n’ roll. See you there and thanks for supporting us! ontherocksma.com 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Sakura Tokyo, 640 Park Ave. 508-792-1078. Silverbacks. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350. The Invaders. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Jillian’s - Worcester, 315 Grove St. 508-793-0900. Andy Cummings. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Rivalry’s Sports Bar, 274 Shrewsbury St. 774-243-1100. DJ (21+) Canal. N/A. 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. 508-926-8353. Worcester Jazz Collective @ Sahara. Worcester Jazz Collective plays Sahara Restaurant every 4th Saturday! Deconstructed Standards and Originals. Free. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Sahara Cafe & Restaurant, 143 Highland St. 508-798-2181 or worcesterjazzcollective.com

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“Blueswitch” jump blues/dancing. “Blueswitch” is back from their Vineyard tour and ready to continue it on! Jump Blues and Dancing, great warm Venue, great music. 10pm Free. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439.

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Brunch with Jon Short. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Rye & Thyme, 14 Monument Sqare, Leominster. 978-534-5900. Punkcake Pop Ups and Fleas! Live Music, Alterno Art, Crafted Goodies, Flea Market, and More! Noon-5 p.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508-753-9543.

“subject box”) Network * Collaborate * Learn. Over sixty different musicians regularly support my open mic nights all are friendly and supportive -- and many are: * Former or Currently Signed Recording Artists * Award-Winning Pro’s or Semi-Pro’s * Regularly Gigging Paid-Performers * Published Songwriters * Recording Studio Owner/ Operators * Combinations of any and/or all of the above. To check the schedules and open slots visit Facebook. Any slot marked as “open” usually is! Free! 6-9 p.m. Plaza Azteca, 539 Lincoln St. Seele Musicale Chamber Ensemble. Seele Musicale Chamber Ensemble is a guild of musicians who lovingly prepare musical gems mostly from the 17th and 18th century. The play music of Mozart, Handel, Schubert and more. Their names means “Musical Souls.” Free. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Briarwood Continuing Care Retirement Community: Birches Auditorium, 65 Briarwood Circle. Funky Jazz Jam Sundays. 21 plus First, and Third Sundays! More info at facebook.com/electrichaze FREE. 7-11 p.m. Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629. Worcester Jazz Collective @ Electric Haze. Worcester Jazz Collective plays Electric Haze every 2nd Sunday! Deconstructed Standards and Originals. Free. 8-11 p.m. Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629 or worcesterjazzcollective.com

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Join instructor Ellen Hoverkamp at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston on Saturday, Aug. 22, 10-11:30 a.m., for an introduction to imaging food using a flatbed scanner and editing scans using mobile device photo apps. Feast your eyes, satisfy your APPetite and play with food. Hoverkamp will use a flatbed photo scanner as a camera for macro and still-life photography with plans and veggies from Tower Hill’s gardens. The cost is $35 for members, $45 for nonmembers. Preregistration is mandatory. Visit dnbweb1.blackbaud.com, email registrar@towerhillbg.org or call 508-869-6111, ext. 124.

Free Butch Bazillion Show. Every Saturday & Sunday ~ 1-5 PM Free Butch Bazillion Show Playing Your Favorite Rock & Pop Hits ~ Plus New Originals Free. 1-5 p.m. Kimball Farm, 400 Littleton Road, Westford. 978-486-3891 or find them on Facebook. Buddy Guy. 2-8 p.m. Indian Ranch, 200 Gore Road, Webster. 508-943-3871. The Recliners. 4-9 p.m. Rivalry’s Sports Bar, 274 Shrewsbury St. 774-243-1100. Chris Vee. 5-9 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877. Jim’s Sunday Blues Jam. Every week, Jim Perry hosts the best blues jam around, and brings in very special guest performers. No cover. 6-10 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-8531350. Open Mic Sundays @ Plaza Azteca! To check the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s

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Worcester Children’s Chorus 2015/2016 Season Auditions. The Worcester Children’s Chorus seeks singers in grades 3 - 12 to join one of its four ensembles for the 2015-2016 concert season. Work with great faculty. Learn to sing and read music. Make new friends. Travel the world. 4-6 p.m. Assumption College, Kennedy Hall, Room 105, 500 Salisbury St. 508-767-7077 or worcesterchildrenschorus.org Blue Mondays. Guitarist/Singer Nate Flecha plays the blues every Monday. Free. 7-9 p.m. starlite, 39 Hamilton St., Southbridge. 772402-8777 or find them on Facebook. Open Mic/Open Decks. Sign up is at 7pm for half hour or less slots Use our PA system, Mics, controller and sound tech Anything is welcome! 21plus Free. 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629. Tuesday Night at the Movies. 7-10 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877. Blue Mondays - Live Blues. 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker St., Gardner. 978-669-0122.

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Storytime. Join us every week for storytime. Visit bn.com for details. Free. 11-11:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Millbury, 70 Worcester Providence Turnpike, Millbury. 508-865-2801 or bn.com Romantic Gems- a Summer Sing open to all choral singers. Come sing with the Master Singers of Worcester and other local choral enthusiasts for a “Summer Sing” featuring romantic choral gems by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Brahms and other composers. Anyone who loves choral singing is welcome to join us! Scores will be provided, though please feel free to bring your own copies. Admission is $5 and includes all music along with light refreshments & beverages. $5 includes all music plus light refreshments & beverages . 6:30-9 p.m. First Congregational Church of Shrewsbury, Gifford Hall, 19 Church Road, Shrewsbury. 508-8491349 or mswma.org Tuesday Night at the Movies. 7-10 p.m. Beatnik’s, 433 Park Ave. 508-926-8877. Vertigo Trivia Game Show - Free to Enter. Vertigo hits Shrewsbury Street! This is not your typical pub trivia! An eight round interactive team event, complete with visual, audio, and other specialty rounds that are anything but boring! Prizes for the top finishers, and fun for all who participate. The host, formerly a contestant on ABC’s I Survived A Japanese Game Show, has been hosting trivia competitions for over seven years, and has recently started Vertigo to bring a jolt to the often dry, slow moving pub trivia nights in Central Mass. Teams will have a blast facing topics ranging from all areas of the knowledge spectrum! Visit and ‘Like’ the

Facebook page listed below for a free answer the day of the event. Teams can have up to six players, so grab your friends or family and come out for a night of fun competition and great food! Free. 7-9 p.m. Vintage Grille, 346 Shrewsbury St. 508-752-0558 or vertigotrivia.com Tuesday Open Mic Night @ Greendale’s Pub with Bill McCarthy Local Musicians Showcase! To check the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is Your Host at another great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it at: openmcc@verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s “subject box”) Network * Collaborate * Learn. Over sixty different musicians regularly support my open mic nights all are friendly and supportive -- and many are: * Former or Currently Signed Recording Artists * Award-Winning Pro’s or Semi-Pro’s * Regularly Gigging Paid-Performers * Published Songwriters * Recording Studio Owner/Operators * Combinations of any and/or all of the above. To check the schedules and open slots visit Facebook. Any slot marked as “open” usually is! Free. 7:30-11:30 p.m. Greendale’s Pub, 404 W Boylston St. 508-853-1350 or find them on Facebook. Hit the Bus. 8-11 p.m. Compass Tavern, 90 Harding St. 508-3046044. C.U.Next Tuesday! Tunes in the Diner with DJ Poke Smot and Special Guests every Tuesday Night! No cover. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. 508753-9543. Every Tuesday: Jon Bonner and Boogie Chillin’. 9 p.m.midnight Vincent’s Bar, 49 Suffolk St. 508-752-9439. Hip Hop Tuesdays. Every Tuesday is different! Check our Facebook page, under events for more details! $5-$15. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Electric Haze, 26 Millbury St. 508-799-0629.

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Karaoke w/ Toby. Free. 7-11 p.m. Vintage Grille, 346 Shrewsbury St. 508-752-0558. Wednesday Night Open Mic/Local Musicians Showcase w/ Bill McCarthy @ Guiseppe’s. To check the schedules and open slots visit: Bill McCarthy’s Open Mic World on Facebook Bill McCarthy (originator of the “Half-Hour Sets!”) is your host at another great Open Mic Night! Email Bill McCarthy to reserve it! at: openmcc@verizon.net (make sure you put “open mic” in the email’s “subject box”) Network * Collaborate * Learn. Over sixty different musicians regularly support my open mic nights all are friendly and supportive -- and many are: * Former or Currently Signed Recording Artists * Award-Winning Pro’s or Semi-Pro’s * Regularly Gigging Paid-Performers * Published Songwriters * Recording Studio Owner/Operators * Combinations of any and/or all of the above. To check the schedules and open slots visit Facebook. Any slot marked as “open” usually is! Free! 7:30-10:30 p.m. Guiseppe’s Grille, 35 Solomon Pond Road, Northborough. 508-393-4405 or find them on Facebook. Karaoke. Karaoke by Star Sound Entertainment 8 p.m.-midnight Dark Horse Tavern, 12 Crane St., Southbridge. 508-764-1100. Karaoke. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Compass Tavern, 90 Harding St. 508-3046044. Worcester Jazz Collective @ Nick’s. We have no idea what is going on tonight but we do know you’ll walk out of there with a new view on jazz. This is Worcester after all. Free. 8-11 p.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030 or worcesterjazzcollective.com

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ArtsWorcester, “Cropped” by Susan Paciello, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Oct. 9. Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 1-4 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday - Friday, 1-4 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Free. 660 Main St. 508-755-5142 or artsworcester.org Asa Waters Mansion, Admission: $3 for guided tour $7-10 for tea. 123 Elm St., Millbury. 508-865-0855 or asawaters.org Booklovers’ Gourmet, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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or danforthmuseum.org EcoTarium, Wild Music: Experience the Sounds and Songs of Life, Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Sept. 6; Soundtastic Saturdays, Saturdays, through Sept. 5; Sensory Sunday!, Sunday; Preschool and Toddler Wednesdays, Wednesdays, through Dec. 16. Hours: noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $14.00 adults; $10 for children ages 2-18, college students with IDs & senior citizens. Children under 2 & EcoTarium members free. Additional charges apply for Tree Canopy Walkway, Explorer Express Train, planetarium programs & other special program. 222 Harrington Way. 508-929-2700 or ecotarium.org Fisher Museum Harvard Forest, 324 N. Main St., Petersham. 978-724-3302 or harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu Fitchburg Art Museum, Hours: noon-4 p.m. Sunday, closed

Monday, noon-4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. 25 Merriam Parkway, Fitchburg. 978-345-4207 or fitchburgartmuseum.org Fitchburg Historical Society, Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday - Tuesday, 10 a.m.-midnight Wednesday, closed Thursday - Saturday. 50 Grove St., Fitchburg. 978-345-1157 or fitchburghistory.fsc.edu Framed in Tatnuck, Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. 1099 Pleasant St. 508-770-1270 or framedintatnuck.com 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

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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 Ave. 508-753-6087 or massaudubon.org Museum of Russian Icons, Byzantium to Russia, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Sept. 12; Russian Icons Examined: In Exhibition & On the Screen, Saturday. Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 11-3 a.m. Tuesday - Wednesday,

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11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, 11-3 a.m. Friday, 9-3 a.m. Saturday. Admission: Adults $10; Seniors (59 +), $7; Students, $5; Children 3-17, $5; Children <3, Free. 203 Union St., Clinton. 978-598-5000 or 978-598-5000x17 or museumofrussianicons.org Old Sturbridge Village, Kindred Spirits: A.B. Wells, Malcolm Watkins, and the Origins of Old Sturbridge Village, Through Jan. 15, 2016. Admission: $7 - $20 charged by age. Children under 3 free. 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge. 800-733-1830 or 508-3473362 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, Call to Artists: Themed ExhibitInspiration 2015, Thursday - Thursday. Hours: closed Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday - Saturday. 1 Boston Post Road, Marlborough. 508-485-2580 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. 508-7522170 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 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, Konstruct: Modern Primitives (open gallery), Thursdays, Fridays, through Aug. 28; Konstruct: Modern Primitives (open gallery), Sundays, Saturdays, through Aug. 29. 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. 508-853-5083 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 St., Fitchburg. 978-342-2809 or 978-297-4337 or topfunaviation.com Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. Admission: $12 Adults, $9 Seniors & $7 Youth, free to Members & Children under. 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111 or towerhillbg.org Worcester Art Museum, Africa’s Children of Arms, Through Sept. 20; Art Since the Mid-20th Century, Through Dec. 31; Free August at Worcester Art Museum, Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Aug. 30; Nude Drawing in the Galleries, Thursdays, through Aug. 27; Samurai: Japanese myth and tradition in the contemporary imagination, Through Sept. 6; Story Time at WAM, Fridays, through Aug. 28; Art Cart!, Saturdays, through Dec. 26; Folk Art Festival, Saturday; Salem Trayned Band, Saturday; Tour of the Month: American Folk Art, Saturday; Zip Tour: The Matisses and the Riley Collection, Saturday; Onna-Bugeisha: Women of the Samurai, Sundays, Aug. 23 - Aug. 30; Sunday Tours, Sundays, through June 26; Conservation Samurai Zip Tour, Wednesday; Knight’s Tale, Wednesdays, through Aug. 26. Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday - Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 8

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Ireland, to Australia to Grand Isle, Nebraska. He was named one of Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch” in 2008, the same year he began working at Saturday Night Live where he appeared as a “Weekend Update” correspondent and co-created characters such as “Stefon” with Bill Hader. Mulaney’s first comedy special, The Top Part, was released in 2009 and reviewed as “a finely-crafted piece of work” by The Huffington Post. He released his second Comedy Central Special and Album New In Town in 2012, and upon review EW.com hailed Mulaney as “one of the best stand-up comics alive.” John Mulaney is quickly becoming one of the most sought after young comedians and actors in the comedy world. He was recently seen starring in FOX’s new comedy Mulaney, about a rising stand-up comic trying to take his career to the next level. He also served as creator, writer and executive producer on the series. Full price tickets start at $29.50. Please call the box office at 877.571.SHOW (7469). 7:30-9 p.m. Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St. Call 877571-7469 or visit thehanovertheatre.org Summer ain’t over yet, so don’t put away those beer cups. Head on over to Indian Ranch, 200 Gore Road, Webster, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2-6 p.m. for Summer Brewfest - only if you’re 21-plus, of course. The cost is $35, and entitles you to samples from some of the best local regional and national beers micro-brews, craft beers and malt beverages available. You can also eat and hear live music on the shores of Webster Lake. For more information, visit indianranch.com/event/summer-brewfest/ or email acampbell@callananklein.com.

p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Admission: Free for members, $14 adults, $12 seniors, free for youth 17 and under. Free for all first Saturdays of each month, 10am-noon. 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406 or worcesterart.org Worcester Center for Crafts, Fishing to the Moon: A Fiber Arts Show, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Aug. 22. Hours: closed Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Saturday. 25 Sagamore Road. 508-753-8183 or worcestercraftcenter.org Worcester Historical Museum, Alden Family Gallery, Through Dec. 31; In Their Shirtsleeves, Through Dec. 31; Stories They Tell, Through Dec. 31; The Sky Is Not The Limit - 80 years anniversary of David Clark Company, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Sept. 12; WHM is a Blue Star Museum, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Sept. 7. Hours: closed Sunday - Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday Saturday. 30 Elm St. 508-753-8278 or worcesterhistory.org Worcester Public Library, Hours: 1:30-5:30 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday - Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday - Saturday. 3 Salem Square. 508-7991655 or worcpublib.org

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Dick Doherty’s Beantown Comedy Escape - Fri & Sat Aug 21st & 22nd Chris Zito Tim McIntire and friends Fri & Sat Aug 28th & 29th Chris Pennie Sean Sullivan and friends Fri & Sat Sept 4th & 5th Dan Boulger and friends Fri & Sat Sept 11th & 12th Corey Rodrigues and friends Fri & Sat Sept 18th & 19th Mike McCarthy and friends Fri & Sat Sept 25th &th 26th Steve Donovan 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 beantowncomedy.com $20 per person except Special Events. 8 p.m.midnight Park Grill and Spirits, Comedy Room, 257 Park Ave. Sunday Night Cinemageddon! Movies Shown Every Sunday Night in the Diner! - Sundays, Sunday, May 13 Thursday, December 31. Facebook: Ralphs Diner Free. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St. Call 508-753-9543. Stage Time Comedy Show - Saturdays, Saturday, April 12 - Sunday, September 27. $10. 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 p.m. Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. Call 508-926-8353. StageTime Comedy Club - Saturdays, Saturday, April 11 Saturday, April 29. Great comedians from Boston, New York, LA and beyond! Every Saturday at 9:30PM. Just $10. $10. 9:30-11 p.m.

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Canal Restaurant & Bar, 65 Water St. Call 508-926-8353 or visit stagetimecomedyclub.com American Folk Art, Lovingly Collected - Wednesday, July 15 - Sunday, November 29. One of the most important private collections of folk art in the country has been assembled near Worcester, with an unusual focus on Central Massachusetts portraits and painted furniture. The work remains little known and will be examined in light of the growing economic development in the region during the 1800s and the market for itinerant artists. Free with admission. Worcester Art Museum, PDP Gallery and American Decorative Arts Gallery, 55 Salisbury St. Call 508-799-4406 or visit worcesterart.org Love’s Labour’s Lost - Sundays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Friday, July 17 - Sunday, August 23. Love’s Labour’s Lost chronicles love’s familiar follies in a playful, witty comedy. King Ferdinand and his lords forswear the company of women to devote themselves to study. But when the Princess of France and her ladies arrive at Ferdinand’s court, the men’s resolve quickly dissolves. Performances at 8 PM Thursday - Saturday and 2 PM Sunday. Runs in repertory with All’s Well that Ends Well; check performance calendar (worcestershakespearecompany.org) for full schedule. Tickets available at the door and online at worcestershakespeare.ticketbud. com. $20 General Admission; $15 Student/Senior; Children 12 & Under with Adult free. Alternatives Whitin Mill Complex: Community Plaza, Napkin Stage, 50 Douglas Road, Whitinsville. Call 508-2346232 or visit Facebook. Open Auditions for “Wedding Secrets” - Saturday, August 22. Pasture Prime Players, Inc. is proud to announce open auditions for “Wedding Secrets” by Joe Starzyk and directed by Don Konopacki. Wedding Secrets is an hilarious farce about a young couple who marry after a whirlwind romance. As the respective in-laws gather for the first time, they are unaware that the couple is already married. Once they gather the couple slowly begins to find out that their families have secrets too. Gradually the secrets get exposed with the help of a priest, an Irish revolutionary, a lounge singer, the Phantom of the Opera, menopause and several ties. It was the 2012 McLaren Memorial Playwriting Competition Winner and was a finalist in the Neil Simon Playwriting Competition in Utah. Limited mechanical rights have been secured, so the play will be filmed for a limited run on local cable access after the live production run is completed. Auditions will be cold readings from the script. 1-3 p.m. Charlton Arts and Activities Center, 4 Dresser Hill Road, Charlton. Call 508-248-5448. John Mulaney - Sunday, August 23. Mulaney began his career in New York’s East Village as part of the two-man “Oh Hello Show” with comedian Nick Kroll. He has since performed everywhere from

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Paint Lab for Kids! Pikachu ($15.) Bring your painting clothes! Paint Lab for Kids is a painting class hosted every week! We provide everything; canvas, brushes, paint and easels! With step-bystep instruction your child will leave with a canvas creation of their own! Ages 6-12. Seating provided for parents to stay and watch. Call to reserve your spot! 508-757-7713. $15. 5-6 p.m. C.C. Lowell Art Supplies & Framing, 258 Park Ave. 508-757-7713 or cclowell.com

>Friday 21

Pampering for Parents Retreat. Join us for a night of pampering before the hustle and bustle of back to school, back to work, and back to reality kicks in! Choose between two movement workshops (yoga or Zumba) and three mini sessions (massage, reflexology, mini facial, facial peel, makeup application, beeswax hand and foot wrap, reiki, guided meditation, nutritional consult), and enjoy a night out just for you! Complementary foot soaks and polish changes, and aromatherapy applications, and well as delicious snacks and bevvies! We will have door prizes, swag bags, and some shopping as well! Enjoy a night out just for you, and go home for a restful nights sleep or have a night out with your friends! Enjoy our registration discount prior to 7/31 and get $10 off. $100. 6-9 a.m. Enlightened Interventions, LLC, 51 Union St., Suite 222. 508-3172323 or clients.mindbodyonline.com DCU Center Blood Drive. Blood Donors Needed! The DCU Center and American Red Cross are hosting a blood drive on Friday, August 21st. Donors should make an appointment at redcrossblood. org or by calling 1-800-RedCross. As a special thank you, all presenting donors will receive a free voucher for opening night of Marvel Universe Live, plus a free big E Ticket, plus a coupon for a free carton of Turkey Hill ice cream! Just one blood donation can save 3 lives! Sign up today! Free. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. DCU Center- Arena and Convention Center, Lobby, 50 Foster St. 781-439-0513 or redcrossblood.org Project Pottery Paint Night: Spread The Love. Come on down to our next ceramics decorating class for 2015! We will be working step-by-step to create this summertime platter. Aimee will help you from start to finish! Space is limited so register today. A $12 non-refundable deposit reserves your seat; pay the cost of your bisque at the event. BYOB optional and pet-friendly! $12 plus the cost of your choice of bisque. 6-8:30 p.m. Clayground, The, 65 James St. 508-755-7776 or goclayground.com

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TEAS Review Class - Science. Review classes for nursing and allied health program applicants who are preparing to take the Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS). $69. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Quinsigamond Community College, 25 Federal St. 508-751-7900 or trainnow.qcc.edu APPetizing Edibles. Instructor: Ellen Hoverkamp An Introduction to imaging food using a flatbed scanner and editing scans using

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mobile device photo apps. Feast your eyes, satisfy your APPetite, play with food. Ellen Hoverkamp will lecture and demonstrate imaging basics using a flatbed photo scanner as a camera for macro and still life photography with plants and vegetables from Tower Hill’s gardens. Sample images will be stored online and shared with workshop participants for adaptation using free and low cost photo editing apps for mobile devices. Through the use of a wifi enabled projector, participants will be able to send their app enhanced scans from mobile device (smartphone, iPad) to the projection screen. Pre registration is mandatory. A short list of mobile device photo and projector driver apps will be emailed in advance for download to the participant’s mobile device prior to the class. Ellen Hoverkamp has been using flatbed scanners for digital imaging since 1997. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and solo shows throughout New England, New York, New Jersey and Ohio, including a 4 month exhibition of her work at the James Beard Foundation in NYC and most recently in a 6 person “Farm to Fork” art show in California. Ellen had 2 solo shows at Tower Hill and was THBG’s first “Artist In Residence.” She won the Garden Writer’s Association 2013 Gold Medal in Photography for gardening book, “Natural Companions,” published in 2012 by STC Books. Her work appeared on the cover of Organic Gardening magazine in 2014, has been featured in several periodicals, most recently, on the cover and within the Spring 2015 issue of Sweet Paul Magazine. Please visit myneighborsgarden.com to view her work. Ellen has always proudly and thoughtfully scanned what other people grow, striving to bring attention and honor to the efforts of gardeners and to the exquisite beauty of nature. Member: $35, Non-member: $45. 10-11:30 a.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111, ext. 124 or dnbweb1. blackbaud.com Reiki II. Reiki is a natural healing method which uses universal life Looking for something different? How about a good oldfashioned dinner theater? Try the Totally ’80s Totally Murder Dinner Theater Saturday, Aug. 22, 7-9 p.m., at The Grille at Westborough Country Club, 121 West Main St., Westborough. The cost is $60 per person. For that, you get to enjoy a buffet dinner and desert while searching for a killer. Reserve a table of eight, and enjoy a complimentary bottle of red and white house wine. For more information, email contact@wccgrille.com or call 508-366-0207.

energy to restore balance -- body, mind, spirit and emotions. The history of Reiki is reviewed. You will receive a Reiki II attunement; learn Reiki 2nd Degree symbols; and learn more about the intuitive aspect of Reiki. You will practice sending Reiki at a distance and give and receive a Reiki treatment with added symbols. Upon completion of the class, you will be even more empowered with Reiki and will be able to send Reiki healing distantly, in addition to practicing Reiki for yourself and others in person. This course is beneficial for healthcare professionals as well as the general public. $215. 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Quinsigamond Community College, 670 West Boylston St. trainnow.qcc.edu Appraisal Day: Folk Art Treasures & Flea Market Finds. To register, call 508.793.4450 or educationreg.worcesterart.org 508.793.4333 Do you have a family heirloom passed down through generations? Maybe a great yard sale item or flea market finds that might be a treasure? Would you like to know what it is worth? Bring your special items to Appraisal Day at the Worcester Art Museum. Appraisers from Skinner, Inc. will provide verbal appraisals for your items. Pre-registration is recommended to reserve your space, but

drop-ins are welcome! Tips: Attendees will be seen on a first come, first served basis. Visitors should not bring coins, stamps, jewelry, and musical instruments to be appraised. Paintings and other art objects are highly recommended. Skinner also recommends that good quality photos be substituted for large or particularly fragile items. For services of china or silver, one example of each piece in a set accompanied by a list of the total number of pieces will serve to represent the entire set. $25 for up to 3 items. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Worcester Art Museum, Hoche Schofield, 55 Salisbury St. 508-7934450 or educationreg.worcesterart.org Paint Lab for Kids! Pikachu ($15) Ages 6-12. Bring your painting clothes! Paint Lab for Kids is a painting class hosted every week! We provide everything; canvas, brushes, paint and easels! With step-by-step instruction your child will leave with a canvas creation of their own! Ages 6-12. Seating provided for parents to stay and watch. Call to reserve your spot! 508-757-7713. $15. 2-3 p.m. C.C. Lowell Art Supplies & Framing, 258 Park Ave. 508-757-7713 or cclowell.com

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delicious food, live music and beach games on the shores of Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. The local Massachusetts brewery scene will be well represented by Spencer Brewery, Wachusett Brewing Company, Newburyport Brewing Company as well as Harpoon and Samuel Adams. The other five New England states present at Summer Brewfest will be Long Trail Brewing, Woodchuck from Vermont, Shipyard Brewing Company and Baxter Brewing Co. of Maine, along with Peak Organic and Geary Brewing from Maine, Two Roads Brewing Co. in Connecticut and Narragansett Brewing Company from Rhode Island. $35. 2-6 p.m. Indian Ranch, 200 Gore Road , Webster. indianranch.com

Colleges are swinging back into action, which means college sports teams are ready to start playing again. Check out the Holy Cross field hockey team versus New Hampshire Saturday, Aug. 22, 1:05-3:05 p.m., at Holy Cross, 1 College St. For more information, visit holycrossathletics@holycross.edu.

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2015 and running through August 20th on the historic Worcester >Sunday 23 Common, the 10-week concert series brings music, local food and Live Caterpillar Show. The ever popular Caterpillar Lab returns produce and art to the downtown area. Performance-The Drunken to Tower Hill Botanic Garden for a unique display of these fascinating Uncles The Drunken Uncles are two seasoned music professionals and beautiful creatures. Enjoy a close up look at some of the most from the Central Massachusetts area that play acoustic Pop/Blues/ spectacular live caterpillars found in New England. Included with Folk/Classic Rock...you get the idea. Tom Hurley sings and plays admission.. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French rhythm guitar while Robin Steiger polishes it up with his masterful Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111. lead guitar and rich backing harmonies. Food Vendors-Wooberry 80 Dusty Fingers Pastel Painting Demo. Artist-in-Residence (frozen yogurt), The Dogfather Truck (hotdogs) Farmers-Regional Cynthia Crimmin sets up a temporary studio in the Wayside Visitor Environmental Council, Schultz Farm, Laszlo Family Farm, LLC Center and demonstrates the techniques and approaches she takes Craft Vendors-Many Feet Farm, Janeen Kozlowski, EVD’s Whimsies, with pastels to make artwork that is uniquely her own. Stop in to see Wachusett Naturals & Rutland Candle Co. Free. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. how she transforms a chalky stick of color into a work of beauty. Free Worcester Common Oval, 455 Main St. 508-799-1400, ext. 255 or with admission. Noon-4 p.m. Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill worcesterma.gov Road, Harvard. 978-456-3924 or fruitlands.org

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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.339 or wlen@eswa.org All are Welcome: LGBTIQA 60 years old and older; younger partners, friends, and allies! Cost: $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 eswa.org Yoga by Nature. Instructor: Jennie Backstrom Gentle-to-moderate flow yoga for all levels. Class takes place outdoors in the Garden, weather permitting. Member $10, Non-member $17. 6-7:15 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111, ext. 124 or dnbweb1.blackbaud.com Japanese Samurai. Presented by Michael Baker, Adjunct Professor of History from Worcester State University. Free. 6:30-8 p.m. Boylston Public Library, 695 Main St., Boylston. 508-869-2371 or boylstonlibrary.org

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Out to Lunch-World Culture Day. The City of Worcester and the Worcester Cultural Coalition hosts its 6th Annual Out to Lunch Summer Concert Series and Farmers’ Market. Beginning June 18,

>Friday 21 – Sunday 23

Italian Festival at Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church. The Batista Family, local Worcester Dunkin’ Donuts franchisees are proud to be a major sponsor of the Italian Festival at Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church at 28 Mulberry Street Worcester, MA 01605 from August 21 23. The festival will be open during the following times: Friday, August 21: 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Saturday, August 22: 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Sunday, August 23: 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. As a major sponsor, Dunkin’ Donuts will be providing coffee to the church to be available for all festival attendees while supplies last. For more information about the Italian Festival visit mtcarmelfestival.com Admission $2, Senior Citizens and Children under 10: Free. 3-11 p.m. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 24 Mulberry St. mtcarmelfestival.com

>Saturday 22

Art + Market. Join us for our 2nd year of Art + Market-- a colorful community experience across the entire WAM campus. Art + Market will offer a variety of folk-inspired art vendors, cultural organizations/groups from the Worcester community, and live local music at each market. Each event is pet-friendly, biker/walker friendly, and includes a Book Exchange courtesy of the WAM Library. Free. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury St. 508-799-4406. Cars In The Park. The Whitin Community Center’s 2nd Annual Cars In The Park, 10am-4pm, in our beautiful 7.5 acre Whitin Park, with a rain date of Sunday, August 23, 2015. This event will encompass a Car, Truck & Motorcycle Show, Best In Show, Top 25 People’s Choice Awards, Door Prizes, 50/50 & Raffles, Swap Meet, Great Food, Entertainment, Kids Activities, Bouncy House and Vendor Booths of all varieties; an event for the whole family. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Whitin Park - Whitin Community Center, 60 Main St., Whitinsville. 508-234-8184 or find them on Facebook. Summer Brewfest. On Saturday, August 22, New England’s beer enthusiasts will come together at Indian Ranch once again to sample some of the best local, regional and national beers, microbrews, craft beers and malt beverages available. Attendees will enjoy

Barnes & Noble 4th Saturday Poetry Open Mic. Summer isn’t over yet and tonight we welcome poet, teacher and author Michael Fisheras the feature. Fisher, who lives in Brookfield, holds a MFA in Poetry from New England College. He is the author of the chapbook “Wolf Spider,” from Plan B press and a full-length collection “Libretto for the Exhausted World.” He works as an adjunct professor and on the editorial board of “The Worcester Review.” His poems have appeared in several publications. Open mic precedes the feature poet so bring a poem or two to share. Hosted by Carle Johnson. Group usually heads over to the in-store cafe for coffee after the reading. Free and open to the public. 7-9 p.m. Barnes & Noble Booksellers - MA/Worcester, In the stacks, 541 D Lincoln St. 508-853-6994 or worcestercountypoetry.org

>Sunday 23

The Hangover Hour Spoken Salon. Each gathering of The Hangover Hour honors the work of a dead poet. We specialize in lost or forgotten poets whose powerful work lingers on bookshelves gathering in dust. As always host Dave Macpherson will provide a few laughs along with a literary libation and a performance by the not-ever-ready-for-anything players. Open mic precedes the feature. Come on down. Donations accepted for the performer. 5-6:30 p.m. Nick’s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St. 508-753-4030.

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Tour of Allandale Farm. Presenter: John Lee, Allandale Farm General Manager Experience a behind the scenes tour of historic Allandale Farm, Boston’s last working farm. Visit the greenhouses and fields and learn about the history of the farm as well as its current sustainable agricultural practices. Also included will be a visit to the Brandegee Estate gardens. Meet at the farmstand. Member: $20, Non-member: $25. 10 a.m.-noon Travel Destination 508-869-6111, ext. 124 or dnbweb1.blackbaud.com

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Wednesday Evening Garden Tour. Enjoy a docent-led tour of the summer garden. Included with admission. 6-7 p.m. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. 508-869-6111.

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Women’s Field Hockey College of the Holy Cross Aug. 22 Home vs. New Hampshire 1:05 p.m. Women’s Soccer College of the Holy Cross Aug. 21 Home vs. Siena 4:05 p.m. Aug. 24 vs. Quinnipiac @ Hamden, Connecticut 3 p.m.

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Worcester County Memorial Park Paxton, MA. 2 Lots in the Garden of Faith. $2500.00 for both. Near the feature. Mary 508-886-4334. Worcester County Memorial Park, Paxton MA 2 lots in Heritage II w/vaults. $2,500.00 for both. Call Rick at 508-450-7470 Riverside Cemetery Winchendon #RH 63 Lots 1-4. Beautifully situated burial plots. $2500.00 each. All 4$8000.00. Before Nov 2015. 978-534-5982/978-660-5411 Worc. County Memorial Park Paxton. Garden of Faith, 2 plots, Section #347-A 1&2. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. Lot Number 297-B Space 1 and 2, Garden Of Valor Section. Current value is $8,400.00 including 2 concrete burial vaults. $4,000.00 or B/O 508-375-0080

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

FOR SALE Samsung 55" TV w/ nice stand. Best offer. Great for lvg rm or basement. Exc. cond. $300 508-797-6068* John Deere 318 Garden Tractor 18HP, 48" MWR Deck, PWR STRG, Hydro Trans, PWR Lift $2000.00 Oakham 508-882-3963*

Inground Pool Accessories 1HP filter motor; 6-ft diving board; handrail; pool ladder, $400. 508886-2433 leave message. 55 Gallon Fish Tank with stand and top light. $100. 508-7521172 Used Kohler & Campbell piano. Upright, mohogany. Asking $300. Call 508-865-1202. WWF 2001 Action Figure Undertaker (unopened) dressed as a biker. $25. 978-534-0711. Solid oak (md dk) corner china hutch w/mirrors & light. 48w x 78h. Like new. Photo avail. $650. 978-464-2952. Chrome wheels made by Helo 17" X 7.5. Came off a Honda Accord, but fits other vehicles. Excellent condition. $425. 508865-5157

Lite Pine Queen Bedroom Set, bureau 18x19x51 w/hutch top, menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chest & 2 night tables, $300. 774-239-2240

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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. WO15P2557EA Estate of: Evelyn Frances Breed Date of Death: 05/12/2015 To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with Appointment of Personal Representative has been ďŹ led by: Stephen A Breed of Holden 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: Stephen A Breed of Holden MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. 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 ďŹ le a written appearance and objection at this Court before: 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 09/01/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must ďŹ le a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to ďŹ le a timely written appearance and objection followed by an afďŹ davit of objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, 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 ďŹ le 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: August 04, 2015 Stephanie K. Fattman, Register of Probate 08/20/2015 WM

New in plastic. Can deliver. 508-410-7050 YARD SALES & FLEA MARKETS Come to the FLEA at 242 Canterbury St. Worcester MA 01603. Open EVERY Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Rain or Shine! CLASSIC CAR CRUISE EXPO7/11, 8/8, 9/12/2015 We have vintage items, one of a kind items, new items, building materials, office furniture, records, old books, etc. Dealers welcome - $15.00 per table, set up at 7:00 a.m.

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and your own private beach area! Enjoy swimming, canoeing, ďŹ shing and the beauty of a sunset--summer is coming! This adorable 2 bedroom bungalow is waiting for you with a great yard ~ perfect for a garden (complete with mature blueberry bushes!) Hot water tank, electric baseboards and pellet stove all within last 2 years ~ close and convenient to Rt 2 ~ donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss out on this darling waterfront property! As-Is. Aberman Assoc Inc Tracy Sladen 978-537-4971 x17

Our sellers are standing by for short notice showings from 11am -1pm every SundayÂ WE ARE NOT ON SITE. Please call us at 978 537 4971 x 0. Â In most instances, we will call you back in 10 minutes. Properties are listed on www.paulasavard.com

/HRPLQVWHU ust move in to your 3 level well-maintained and commuter friendly condo/ townhouse just minutes from Rtes. 2,12, and 190. Assessor`s 2013 replacement cost is $158,803. Shopping, Public schools and Hospital in the immediate area. The kitchen has an island and breakfast bar, along with stainless steel appliances, and opens into the dining room and living room. The master bedroom upstairs has a large walk-in closet. In the basement is a new water heater, plenty of space for family room game room or Man cave, and includes a wet bar with small refrigerator! Aberman Assoc Inc John Keefe 978-537-4971 x64

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Year around or second home , 200â&#x20AC;&#x2122; from Spec Pond off Fire Rd 8. Completely updated . Easy Rt 2,, I190 Rt 70 highway access. Open Concept, vaulted ceiling recent deck with water views. Lot includes undividable parcel with 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; frontage on Bogan Rd. Aberman Assoc Inc. Paula Savard 978-537-4971 x 14 www.paulasavard.com

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3 br 1 1/2 bath colonial.Â Original owner selling house. Cozy Colonial with 3 bedrooms and 1 and 1/2 bath. Fenced in yard. Aberman Assoc Inc Sherry Crocker 978-537-4971 x62

Leominster Upper West Side 8 room colonialwith 4 corner bedrooms offers gracious back to front Livingroom with ďŹ replace, ďŹ rst ďŹ&#x201A;oor family room with cathedral ceilings, ďŹ replace, atrium doors to private deck.First ďŹ&#x201A;oor hardwoods. 2 car garage under. Aberman Assoc Inc 978-537-4971 x 14 www.paulasavard.com

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Family Neighborhood, has 1.5 baths and 3-4 bedrooms. French doors on the dinning room. All enclosed fence in yard with Deck and above ground pool. Aberman Assoc Inc. Sherry CrockerÂ 978-537-4971 x 62

)LWFKEXUJ 0867 6(( This spacious Colonial has been completely updated. This home is Move in Ready. Roomy kitchen is ready for entertainingâ&#x20AC;Ś White cabinets with Granite counter tops and an island with all new appliances, Refrigerator, Gas Stove, Microwave and Dishwasher. You can enjoy four big bedrooms and two full bathrooms with new ceramic tile ďŹ&#x201A;ooring and beautiful new vanities. The Washer/Dryer hookup is on the ďŹ rst ďŹ&#x201A;oor for your convenience. The electrical and plumbing are completely new throughout. Level backyard space with a deck. Aberman Assoc Inc Moises R Cosme 978-537-4971 x23

+ROGHQ Opportunity to own this country ranch offering 4 BR,s, 2 full Bathrooms, and hardwoods through out the ďŹ rst ďŹ&#x201A;oor in his family oriented neighborhood. Six panel pine doors, and a bright sunny kitchen opening up to a patio and private deck. Fenced child safe yard and large shed for all your yard tools. This home would be perfect for an extended family with the lower level offering the 4th BR, Family Rm, Full bath and Laundry. Aberman Assoc. Inc. Linda Barry 978-537-4971 x60

Custom built contemporary colonial nestled on 2 1/2 acres. Home sits back from tree lined driveway. Three or 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, stainless steel applianced kitchen, ďŹ rst ďŹ&#x201A;oor laundry, spacious living/dining room separated by brick ďŹ replace, full unďŹ nished basement, oversized two car garage. Energy efďŹ cient propane heating system with instant hot water. 3 room approved rental unit for income, in-laws, or home ofďŹ ce with private entrance. Yard has several young fruit trees and 2 year old 10 x 16 shed with loft and 54â&#x20AC;? double doors. Aberman Assoc Inc Anna Mary Kraemer 978-537-4971 x25

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Vacation at home every day. Panoramic views of Lake Waushacum, Wachusett ReservoirÂ and Worcester.Â Long Winding drive studded with apple trees brings you to this light ďŹ lled dream home.Â Warm and beautifully in harmony with nature from every room. Open ďŹ&#x201A;oor plan, inspiring entry fouer, granite and cherry kitchen, warm wood ceilings, post and beam construction.Â Master bedroom with sliders to deck overlooking lake and pastoral acerage.Â Wrap around deck, fully ďŹ nished lower level, separate covered proch for hot tub, 2 car heated garage, young two story barn with additional 2 car garage and room for your favorite hobby or mini farm occupants. Abutting conservation and walk to Town beach from your back yard.Â Beautifully landscaped.Â Aberman Assoc Inc.Â Gail Lent 978-537-4971 x 15 www.gaillent.com

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2002 Exiss XT/300 G.N. 3 Horse Trailer. Good cond. All alum. S.S. nose. For pics craigslist. $9,750.00 508-7570887*

OTHER NOVENAS PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN (Never known to fail) O most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in this my necessity, O Star of the Sea, help me and show me where you are my mother. O Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech thee from the bottom of my heart to succor me in my necessity, (make request). There are none that can withstand your power, O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (three times). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (three times). Say this prayer for three consecutive days and you must publish it and your request will be granted to you. JMC

REAL ESTATE APARTMENT FOR RENT WORCESTER 1 - 2 BR Apts. & 2BR Townhouses 508-852-6001 Rutland Apartment for Rent One BRM with shared deck and garage. New appliances, carpet and paint. Quiet cul de sac. $800/mo includes heat and hot water. 508-332-9775

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9RM, Colonial, 3BR, 4 Full BA. 1.6 acres, AC, laundry room on 2nd FL, large kitchen with pantry, hardwood fls, carpeted BRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, tile BAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. 3400sq. ft., 1200sq ft. finished BSMT. Formal DR, library. Custom builtins in FR & library, negotiable. Town water & sewer. Pre-approved only. $670K 774-345-4355

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2011 Ford Escape 6 cyl. Leather, moon roof, Insync. Very clean. Michelin tires. $12,750.00 508-829-3363

1992 GMC Pickup Custom new tires, 366 motor, gas automatic, no rust. Harley black & orange. Asking $7,500 or B/O Call 508-768-8505 Jon

2009 Mazda CX-7 Blackcherry with gray & black interior. 48,000 miles $9,500. 774-8230466

2002 Chevrolet Corvette 39,000 miles Red with black interior. Car is in excellent condition! $26,000 or best offer. Call: 774-823-0466.

2007 Suzuki Boulevard Cruising Motorcycle C90T; 1474cc; Bike has only 6300 miles, sole owner, perfect condition. Has windshield, saddle bags, engine guards ,and new battery. Has always been garaged and covered and professionally serviced. $6,000 508-849-8635 1999 Road King Under 8,000 miles. Too many extras to list. Always stored in room temperature. $13,000 obo 978-4645525 or 781-879-8275 cell 2008 Honda Metropolitan Scooter Black and gray. Mint cond. 469 miles. Asking $1650.00. Includes helmet. 207-289-9362 OR 207-450-1492.

AUTO/TRUCK 2000 Ford F150 Flareside Pickup Showroom condition inside and out. 100K miles. All power, needs nothing. $7000.00 Call 978-466-6043 1994 Dodge Ram 1500 4X4 5.2 V8 Auto, 142K Miles. Regular cab. Black. Cap, hitch. Good shape. $3975.00 978-422-8084

AUTO/VAN 2003 Dodge Caravan 6cyl. 136K miles. Runs well. $2000.00 or B/O 508-882-3465 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. $14,999.00 508-829-2907

AUTO/VAN 2005 Chevrolet SSR 6 speed trans, 17,500 miles. Loaded. Silver. Never saw rain or snow. $28,500.00 508-769-3436

2003 Dodge Ram Van w/chair lift. 78K orig miles. Excellent condition. $2999.00 or B/O Leominster 978-840-2662

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1985 Cadillac Eldorado 74K miles. Never been in snow. Mint condition. Gray w/landau top. Bonus 2 Free Air tickets & 5 star condo for a week in FL. $5,000.00 Oakham 407-3753917

1990 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 Performance Coupe. 25K miles. 2 tops. LT5, 375HP. 6SPD, ZF Manual trans. Fully optioned. Fair weather only, always stored. $21,000 OBRO 978-422-6624

1998 Mercury Mystique 4dr 6cyl, maroon, 84,900 original miles. Very clean. $2,350.00 508-829-9882

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