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COMPLIMENTARY HOME DELIVERY ONLINE: WWW.STURBRIDGEVILLAGER.NET Friday, March 8, 2013 THIS WEEK’S The force is strong in Sturbridge Selectmen approve QUOTE “Age is …wisdom, new licenses for if one has lived one’s life properly.” Piccadilly site Miriam Makeba BY GUS STEEVES restaurant well. Although he VILLAGER STAFF WRITER lives in Florida now, William STURBRIDGE — A shrunk- Martin started the chain in INSIDE en Board of Selectmen 1973 and opted to retain own- Monday,Feb. 20, unanimously ership of the building when ALMANAC ................. 2 approved granting liquor and he sold the company about common victualler’s licenses four years ago. His partner, LOCAL.................. 2-3 to two men aiming to reopen Paul Allard, ran the the defunct Piccadilly Pub on Sturbridge Piccadilly for POLICE LOGS............. 9 Route 20. nearly 17 years and will man- OPINION ................. 10 They’ll be renaming it age the new place. Bentley Pub, and it has a twin “They took over and ruined OBITUARIES............. 12 in Auburn that opened last the name and went bankrupt CALENDAR .............. 12 summer. about a year ago,” Martin said The two men knew the old SPORTS............. 14-15 Please Read LICENSE, page A13 LOCAL Film locally, Mark Ashton photos Darth Vader and Darth Maul both attended the party. STURBRIDGE — The win nationally knowledge – and understand- ing – of all things “Star Wars” was put to the test on TANTASQUA TEEN BRINGS Saturday, Feb. 23, at Joshua Hyde Library, where a Star MADD MESSAGE HOME WITH Wars Symposium took on the look and feel of a colorful AWARD-WINNING VIDEO cantina scene on Tatooine, minus the exotic drinks and beverage containers – except BY MARK ASHTON for a sippy cup or two. Star VILLAGER STAFF WRITER Archery Nationals Wars expert/promoter Peter STURBRIDGE — So, you’re Struzziero, from a children’s a high school senior, a mem- Page A3 library from Scituate, ber of the National Honor brought his own knowledge Society, busily applying to col- of George Lucas’s fanciful leges, serving as Student empire – along with action Council president, anxiously OPINION figures, humorous videos, engaged in extra-curricular books, and trivia questions activities, and preparing for that kept local Star Wars afi- the prom. cionados entertained and What do you do in your amused for about 90 minutes spare time? Mark Ashton photos on the lower level of the If you’re Jason Girouard, of With his trophy in hand, Jason library. Tantasqua Regional High Girouard celebrates his winning of For the story, and more School, you go out and win a the annual Power of You(th) Video photos, turn to pages A8! national video award support- Contest with Jan Withers, national The costume contest was a tough call. ing the important message of president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and Lisa Ripley, represent- Please Read VIDEO, page A13 ing contest sponsor State Farm. Scouts visit Sturbridge residents take anti-incinerator names to DEP Page A10 BY GUS STEEVES Led by Steve Greenberg processes shoot “some pollu- lots of smoke curling above. Fellow Sturbridgian VILLAGER STAFF WRITER and including three tion into the air. Where it “That’s the whole point of Kirstie Pecci led the group at STURBRIDGE — A handful Sturbridge selectmen, the lands I do not care,” in the it,” Greenberg said by phone Boston’s DEP office, where SPORTS of local activists comprised group gathered at words of the cartoon poster afterward. “People think they most of the signatures were one of the three groups deliv- Worcester’s DEP office to they used as their major can just send it up the smoke- presented. A third group gave ering more than 10,000 peti- present a counterpoint to the image. stack and it goes away, but it theirs in Springfield. tion signatures and com- idea that incineration, pyrol- It shows a trash truck doesn’t. … All of this materi- Pro-incineration, pyrolysis ments opposing a state pro- ysis or gasification “solve the dumping a load in an inciner- al that could be recycled is and gasification folks argue posal to lift the moratorium landfill capacity problem.” ator.The result comes out as a gone. We could have reused on incinerators. Instead, they argued, the wheelbarrow load, but with it.” Please Read DEP, page A13 Candidate Gomez meets and greets in Sturbridge Young Warriors ‘I’M NOT A POLITICIAN AND I’VE NEVER BEEN ONE’ gain experience BY MARK ASHTON Obama’s appointment – and Page A14 VILLAGER STAFF WRITER Congress’ approval – as STURBRIDGE — Among Secretary of State. the stops Republican U.S. Other Republicans Gomez OPINION senatorial candidate Gabriel will face in an April 30 pri- O Gomez made on the first day mary battle are former U.S. GET YOUR of his campaign was Attorney Michael Sullivan Sturbridge, where locals and State Rep. Daniel POINT ACROSS grilled him on fiscal matters, Winslow. Democratic con- PAGE A10 his Constitutional views, and tenders for the U.S. Senate wondered how he plans to seat are U.S. Rep. Edward Mark Ashton photos survive an “uphill battle” Markey and U.S. Rep. Republican U.S. Senatorial candidate Gabriel Gomez met with a “Navy POLICE LOGS against entrenched Stephen Lynch. mom” and other inquiring potential supporters in Sturbridge to official- Democrats in Massachusetts. Gomez, who earlier in the ly announce his candidacy. PAGE A9 “I’ve always faced chal- day launched his campaign lenges,” said the candidate, in Quincy and Shrewsbury, one of three Republicans was greeted at Sturbridge dozen citizens seeking Opening his remarks in CALENDAR “I’m not a politician and I looking to fill the seat recent- Coffee House, on Main answers, and a possible con- Spanish (“It’s an old habit!”), never have been,” announced ly vacated by John Kerry, Street, by local Republican servative candidate to sup- Senatorial candidate Gabriel AGE who accepted President leaders and more than a port in the June 25 elections. P A12 Gomez in Sturbridge. Please Read GOMEZ, page A4 2 STURBRIDGE VILLAGER • Friday, March 8, 2013 ‘You are on the line’ RUNNING FOR OFFICE REQUIRES VISION AND WORK BY GUS STEEVES own psychology because of that fact. Not only VILLAGER STAFF WRITER do people who run routinely find themselves Have you ever thought of running for idealized (positively or negatively) by the pub- office? lic based on whatever information (real or Well, now is the time, since the local election not) that’s out there about them, they often season is underway. Papers are still available find themselves “on call” even if they lose or in Southbridge and Charlton, but Sturbridge’s eventually leave politics, he observed. That signature collection period has closed. “can be very lonely.” But that’s the easy part. As about 50 people Manski knows campaigning from various from around New England, mostly Greens perspectives, having served as campaign man- and other progressives, discovered Saturday ager for Jill Stein’s presidential campaign last in Worcester, actually being a candidate and year, being involved in “hundreds” of cam- running a campaign well takes some work. paigns including his wife’s current one, and Although some of what they learned was fair- being a state legislative candidate himself in ly third-party specific, much of it applies Wisconsin. regardless of party affiliation. Running for office, he said, is a job with spe- “You are on the line,” said keynote speaker cific duties; anything else is the responsibility Ben Manski during one of the various break- of the campaign manager and staff. The can- out sessions, noting being a candidate has its didate must focus on encouraging people to vote for them, selling themselves and their ideas, pulling in support (voters, volunteers, endorsements and funds), and keeping them- selves healthy. They need to know the issues and be prepared for questions well enough that they can link their solutions to almost anything they’re asked, he and Stein said. She also added they should have three “stump speeches” memorized of one sentence, one minute and five minutes. “Anything not directly tied to those goals is File photo a waste of your time,” Manski observed, Voters cast ballots in a recent election. although he noted that family issues are obvi- ously important. Staying on message matters; track,” she said. Instead, a candidate’s key job didates essentially have to “knock on all he observed that “when you’re getting sick of is to build relationships with everyone they doors” four times, reaching voters in various saying the same thing, the voters are just meet – she noted you end up being everyone’s ways. beginning to get it.” family in an effective campaign: parent, Vickery noted knowing the “why,where and That can be a challenge for those deeply friend, therapist, son, daughter, etc, because what” of running is crucial. involved in community activism, Stein discov- the goal is to “be trusted and hearing them.” “If you don’t know why you’re running now, ered. To her, the candidate’s biography gradually you won’t know throughout your campaign,” “If you’re thinking like an organizer, you’re becomes more about shared values and how he said.