Category: Worcester

Public events in Worcester federal building: talk to manager?

A few weeks back, Ken Hannaford-Ricardi went into the Worcester federal building to see about getting a permit to hold a political/religious event there. After being sent to various offices, and waiting several days for people to check around about a permit, he was told that nobody knew about such a permit. He wrote to the judge in our civil disobedience case, letting him know that getting a permit was not so straightforward as the US Attorney made it out to be.

Now the Government has written a letter in reply, saying that the Building Manager is the person to approach, as per Code of Federal Regulations 41 S. 102-74.460 through S. 102-74.555.

When we’ve had a chance to approach the Building Manager, I’ll post the results here.

508 #41: Cascading Waters

Tracy Novick takes us on a tour of Worcester’s Cascading Waters, a project of the Greater Worcester Land Trust.

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Wild turkey at Cascading Waters
Wild turkey at Cascading Waters

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No “permit process” for Worcester federal building

This is the text of a document submitted today to Judge Timothy S. Hillman by Ken Hannaford-Ricardi. Emphases added.

Dear Judge Hillman,

At our June 16, 2008 pre-trial conference, Assistant U.S. Attorney Karin M. Bell’s written reply to our motion for the right to present evidence in support of a defense of necessity stated that the defense should be excluded as a matter of law because: “the defendants in this case had a very specific legal alternative they could have pursued. They could have requested a permit to enter the courthouse to perform a short prayer in protest of the war in Iraq. Indeed, the defendants were provided with this information by the U.S. Marshall upon entering the courthouse to pray.”
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508 #40: Bad Sound Quality

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s conversation is one of the best ever, but due to sound problems is almost unintelligible. Panelists are Brendan Melican, Jeff Barnard, Cha-Cha Connor, Kevin Ksen, and Dave Maciewski.

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Topics include bears, Billy Breault, Barbara Haller, Counselor Palpatine, NebuAd, Tim Heard’s final blog post, “Q”, the Q, Mike’s pre-trial hearing, and lots of talk about hot dog vendors.

Pictured: The Commons is torn up again for a new ice skating rink.
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A little no-trial vigil

Worcester Telegram & Gazette: Judge to decide on ‘necessity’ of prayer: Group says other anti-war tactics failed

(This isn’t on their website . . . it is now.)

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Today was originally supposed to be our trial, and since we mailed out many announcements some of us went to morning mass and the federal building in case some supporters hadn’t heard about the change. Two folks did show up.
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No necessity decision yet in “rosary arrest” pre-trial hearing; trial Sept 23

Today was the pre-trial hearing for the Worcester “rosary arrest” case. Note that I am a defendant in this case, and that while I will try to present a fair view of the proceedings, it will probably be biased.

The big news so far: the trial will be 9am, September 23, 2008.

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Photos outside the courthouse.
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508 #39: Power failure

508 is a show about Worcester. Unsteady electricity from a storm earlier this week threatens to derail, then does derail, the show. Brendan Melican and Cha-Cha Connor appear briefly. Mostly it’s Bruce Russell.

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There was a big storm in Worcester. Cha-Cha went to New England’s first trans pride march. Mike reads the InCity Times: both unconvincing arguments against a shelter at 62 Elm St, and Rosalie Tirella channeling Jean Teasdale on “Sex and the City.”

Watch out for the latest WordPress hacks; they got the Worcester Republican blog, they could get you too. Mike’s pre-trial hearing is Monday. The Toxic Soil Busters debuted a short film about their project last night. It’s Bruce’s birthday; call the hotline if you want to leave a birthday greeting to be played on the show.

Note: the Charter ads have returned in this week’s Worcester Magazine.

Extra note: this is the greatest Worcester blog post in history.

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Patrick Duffy is confirmed

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Patrick Duffy was one of 25 confirmed today at St. Peter’s in Worcester. I was honored to be his sponsor.

I occasionally see an article about what baby names are popular, but never confirmation names. So for the curious, here were the confirmation names: Patrick, Marcella, Sophia, Anne, Dwayne, Beatrice, William, John (Pat Duffy’s), James, Arthur, Angelica, Andrew, Christopher, Emmanuel, Marie, Elizabeth, Mateo (first name: Matthew), Concepcion, Andre, Clare, Manami, Sebastia, Daniel (first name: Daniel), Thea, Del Transito.

(We weren’t allowed to pick confirmation names when I was confirmed. Yes, I’m still bitter about that.)

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508 #38: The renegade blogger

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel includes Brendan Melican, Scott Zoback, and Jeff Barnard.

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We start by interviewing renegade blogger Marc Reece. John Wood and Karon Shea, if you want to give your side of the story you can contact us at pieandcoffee@gmail.com or leave a message at 508-471-3897. (Other listeners can drunk dial this number.)

Mike’s federal trial date is now up in the air; there’s a pre-trial hearing June 16. The Telegram & Gazette lost several reporters this week. (See Scott McLennan’s farewell column.) Charter ran no advertising in Worcester Magazine the week after WoMag ran an article critical of them; Scott Zoback comments. (John has fun trying to find someone at Charter who knows about their web monitoring plan.)

Taxi fares are going up. People are complaining about a proposed shelter on Elm Street. Jordan Levy’s blog is still kinda lame. The Grecian Festival should be awesome.

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