Not only did Martinez leave his mark on Boston during his seven seasons with the organization. The city also left an impression on Pedro, which the former pitcher shed light on Tuesday after being elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

I just know Im part of baseball, an energetic Martinez said Tuesday at Fenway Park. Im part of the whole thing. Im part of the tradition here in Boston. Im part of the fans. Im part of everything in baseball. And I just want to live that and enjoy the moment with everyone that can probably appreciate what I did.

Martinez was one of four players elected to the Hall of Fame as part of this years class the largest in 60 years. Hes joined by Randy Johnson, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio, all of whom Martinez praised Tuesday while discussing his own upcoming enshrinement.

Martinezs 18-year career featured eight All-Star selections, three Cy Young Awards, three ERA crowns and one World Series title. Yet when asked to reflect on the highest point of his illustrious career, particularly with the Red Sox, the pride of the Dominican Republic had a hard time singling out one specific moment.

My highest point here was every game I got, Martinez said. I took it with the same intensity. I took it with the same pride every day and enjoyed it. Every time I pitched a game in Fenway Park, it was sold out. I was probably one unique person who could say I played with the Red Sox and every single game (at Fenway Park) was sold out.

Moments that I can say Im relieved for Boston? Martinez continued. Handing out the (World Series) trophy in 2004. The 99 All-Star Game having Ted Williams take me into the suite and personalize a program for me and tell me the things he said to me. I could say now Im relieved, and Boston is as much a part of the whole thing to me like I am to them. This goes to them, too. And every moment I could share with Boston was special.

Martinez left the Red Sox following their 2004 World Series victory and signed with the New York Mets as a free agent. The decision sent shock waves through the organization, but neither side harbors any ill will. In fact, the relationship between Martinez and Boston is as strong as ever, even if his departure represents a low point in the hurlers career.

My lowest point was probably having to leave Boston, having to go away from Boston, because (of) probably a lack of communication. Not because of lack of love or interest from either side, Martinez said. Just a lack of communication, which could happen sometimes. Misjudging, maybe. But thats over with. This is the moment where Boston can be proud. Im proud. I feel like I belong here, too. I have a lot of love for everything Boston and a lot of respect.

Martinez will head to Cooperstown this summer to officially be enshrined in the Hall of Fame. Hell presumably wear a Red Sox cap on his Hall plaque, as Boston was where the true magic took place.

Thumbnail photo via Elise Amendola/The Associated Press

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Hillary Clinton is beginning to put together the pieces for a likely campaign, tapping two top strategists including President Barack Obamas pollster to work with her in the lead-up toward an ultimate decision.

Robby Mook, who worked on Clintons 2008 campaign and is widely expected to be Clintons campaign manager, and Joel Benenson, Obamas pollster who had for months been eyed for a role on her team, have been working with her as she makes a final decision and begins to put together a framework for a staff, according to people close to the former Secretary of State.

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But, if he is hired, Benensons presence in the campaign would mark a major departure for Clinton, who stayed in her comfort zone in her previous campaigns using Mark Penn, the pollster and message guru who had worked for her husband. After she shook up her campaign in the second half of the 2008 primaries, Clinton made Geoff Garin her main pollster.

Obamas campaign used Benenson as part of a team of pollsters, an approach Clinton is said to be considering for her next effort. And he would come to her off two successful presidential races.

Mook, who won Obama aides respect for the job her did out-organizing them in a string of states in the 2008 primaries, has been holding meetings with people, according to multiple sources, to begin planning for a likely campaign.

Mook and Benenson did not respond to emails seeking comment. And a Clinton campaign is not expected to be launched for several weeks, possibly as late as mid-spring.

A Clinton aide, asked about the two mens involvement in her current plans, said, She has said that she is seriously considering running for president. Shes casting a wide net, meeting with a variety of experts to discuss the economy and a range of challenges facing American families. And shes using this time to look at what components are necessary to build an inclusive, thoughtful and technically advanced campaign, so that if she decides to run, shell be ready.

Mook is expected to be part of a team with current White House hand John Podesta, a longtime Clinton adviser. Clinton advisers are said to favorably view the two as a pair, in which Podesta will have either the chairmans job or a different senior title.

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Looking around inside Leiphart School, the one-room schoolhouse at the Midland County Fairgrounds, one word comes to mind: simplicity.

Mint green paint covers the walls and an original, gray colored desk sits in the corner. This desk rests on top of well-worn wood floors. There is one spot on the floor that outlines a nearly full circle where a potbellied stove used to sit.

The room itself may seem rather ordinary, but the history that took place there that is remarkable.

From about 1881 until 1950, children from kindergarten through eighth grade, many of whom were siblings, sat at their desks and learned their subjects all in one room, and mostly from one teacher. The concept today, with more populated towns and larger schools, seems harder to imagine, but for the students of Leiphart School it was a reality.

In one section of the room are off-white shelves that contain framed copies of photos. One photo from 1910 shows 26 children standing next to their teacher, Grace Sugnet.

Leiphart School is at least 133 years old and was once located on Jefferson Avenue, then known as Old State Road. Driving north on Jefferson today, it is easy to miss the grassy field set apart by a few short, wood pillars and some cable rope, where Leiphart, and eventually the two-room schoolhouse that replaced it, once stood.

After the two-room school was built, around 1950, Leiphart was kept intact but moved to the fairgrounds.

In recent months, 13 people some who went to Leiphart and some whose relatives went have formed a committee. Their hope is to raise the funds needed to renovate the school. The group would like to maintain the originality of the school and its design, while providing updates and some needed repairs.

There is value in preserving the history that goes with Leiphart #4, said Barbara Rice, associate broker at Mid-Land Realtors.

Rice talked about the nostalgia of a quiet, simpler way of life that the schoolhouse represents.

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For much of its 74 years, when it operated as Carmen's Restaurant, the building at 2427 Buffalo Road seemed to be stuck in time.

Carmen's was known for its homemade pastas and lasagna, created from recipes its only owners, the Pacinelli family, never wrote down.

The restaurant's sunken dining room, decorated with white miniature lights hung on white lattice, featured a dcor reminiscent of Frank Sinatra in his Rat Pack heyday.

Three years after Carmen's closed, the future has caught up with its former home.

A local businessman, Aaron Jarmolowicz, is renovating the 4,191-square-foot building, which was erected in 1920. He bought it for $34,835, including about $3,800 in fees, at a judicial tax sale in December 2013.

Since he got the deed to the property in March, Jarmolowicz has spent about $200,000 to have contractors and his architect, Tom Gross, design and install a new facade -- sleek, and featuring lots of stone -- and gut the interior.

Jarmolowicz, 40, recently advertised the building for lease. He said he will complete the renovations based on what any tenant wants -- an office building, perhaps, or maybe a restaurant; Jarmolowicz has kept the kitchen intact for the latter possibility.

"We are just waiting on a tenant," Jarmolowicz said. "They could have a million things they want to do."

The remaking of Carmen's is one of 2,892 projects for which the city of Erie issued building-related permits in 2014. The figure includes permits for new houses (three), plumbing (243), electrical work (1,048), and permits for additions and alterations to residential buildings (215) and nonresidential buildings, such as Carmen's (109).

The estimated value of all the work itemized in the permits is $97.6 million, according to the city's Bureau of Code Enforcement, up from $63.9 million in 2013, when the city issued 2,819 building-related permits. The figures were $108.2 million and 3,268 permits in 2012, and $70 million and 3,890 permits in 2011.

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Officials say a restaurant will move into the former Cafe De Paris space at the corner of Capitol and Quarrier Streets in Charleston.

There is still no physical indication or word from the business or building owner as to what is moving into the former Cafe de Paris space located at 201 Capitol Street, but the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department confirmed Tuesday a business started the paperwork to operate a restaurant there.

Matt Ballard, Charleston Area Alliance president and CEO, whose organization has been working for several months now with that business, said the restaurant moving into the space is not a Steak Escape, despite rumors circulating around town.

Its not a national chain, Ballard said. Its West Virginia-based.

Building owner John Smallridge is in the restaurant industry himself, and has previously franchised Steak Escape restaurants.

Smallridge could not be reach for comment.

The business applied for the Alliances facade design grant, Ballard told the Gazette in December. He added the new business addition would complement the existing businesses around it.

At Smallridges request, David Winowich, with KCHD, would not disclose the name of the business. The paperwork hasnt officially been filed with the health department yet.

Hayes Brothers Construction spent a week in mid-December removing the main floor and some fixtures from the former French restaurant.

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Two companies negligently installed a brick oven in a restaurant in Market Square, causing a fire that resulted in more than $500,000 worth of damage to two buildings, a Boston-based insurance company claims in a federal lawsuit filed Monday.

Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. is seeking to recover the $509,429.31 it paid the buildings' owner on a damage claim from the fire Feb. 24.

The insurer claims that PBI Construction Co. LLC and Quality Mechanical Services Inc. are responsible for the fire in NOLA restaurant that damaged Perl, an adjacent restaurant.

PBI Construction of Richland declined comment.

Nick Birkos, vice president of Quality Mechanical Services in Penn Hills, said the company reviewed a preliminary copy of the lawsuit and prepared a response denying it was responsible for the fire. There's no proof that we had anything to do with it, he said.

Though the brick oven was installed in the same spot as a previous oven, its hood wasn't aligned with the exhaust flue in the ceiling, so the companies used various elbows and angles to connect the new oven exhaust ductwork to the existing ductwork and flue, the lawsuit says.

The companies failed to take into account that the ductwork ran near combustible material in the ceiling, the lawsuit says.

Birkos said his company didn't install ductwork.

It only welded a connection from the new oven's hood to the duct system, he said.

Pittsburgh inspectors cited the restaurant for failing to obtain a permit which would have included plans signed by a registered designer to install the oven. The restaurant corrected the violations, a city spokesman said.

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MIDLAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STW Resources Holding Corp (OTCQB: STWS), a leader in oilfield water reclamation and remediation, has signed an initial $2.9 million contract to build, operate and maintain a comprehensive system of water reclamation facilities for a NYSE-listed oil & gas company with multiple locations throughout the Permian Basin, Stanley Weiner, CEO of STW Water, announced today. STW Water, with its partner TRE & Associates, LLC (TRE) (a civil engineering firm), is moving forward to obtain drinking water permits and to build water systems for the clients field operation facility in Midland, Texas and its Mancamp housing facilities across its Texas operations.

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