The Somerville Alibrandis baseball team has clinched first place in the Ted Williams Division of the Yawkey League.
– Photo by Harry Kane

By Mike Stoller

Clinching first place in the Ted Williams Division of the Yawkey League on the same day it tied for most number of regular season wins in team history with 26 made for a very special week for the Somerville Alibrandis baseball team. Alibrandis was 26-3 after a 6-1 victory over the South End Astros.

You have to hand it to city leaders and planners when it comes to delivering on promises of big things taking shape at Assembly Square.

The big Odysseo show opens this week, bringing world-class entertainment to town, and a few much welcomed jobs to go around during its run here as well.

By Jim Clark

Police responded to Shaw’s Market on McGrath Highway last week on a report of an unwanted person on the premises.

Upon arrival, officers were advised by the store’s loss prevention personnel that a woman, Maxine Davis, 49, of Cambridge, had attempted to shoplift from the store.

A memoir-essay of the author’s early years.   I think we all have memories of that hole-in-the wall we lived and survived in, during our first foray into the ADULT world. You know the drill– the hot plate, bathroom down the hall, maybe kitchen privs, or as a friend of mine described it, ” the suicide suite.” Well in the late 70’s I moved back to Bean Town and got a furnished room on Newbury Street. That’s right- fashionable and oh-so chic Newbury Street. But behind the august Brahmin Brownstone facade, was a gone-to-seed series of rooms that constituted a rooming house. And what a cast of characters resided there. Right across from me was a red-faced retired Irish civil servant.

Poet Robert K. Johnson is a keen observer. Here are two summer poems that he sent us recently.

Arrests:
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Ricardo Vasquez, 36, of 201 Main St., Waltham, July 29, 2:23 p.m., arrested at 162 Central St. on a charge of operation of a motor vehicle with a suspended license.

Jose Hernandez, 38, of 17 Dexter St., Medford, July 30, 11:07 p.m., arrested at 197 Cedar St. on charges of leaving the scene of property damage and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

Mayor Joseph Curtatone and Somerville Office of Prevention (SOP) Director Cory Mashburn announce that, for the 10th consecutive year, Somerville Cares About Prevention (SCAP) will partner with the Somerville Police Department to host Somerville’s National Night Out Against Crime and Drugs.

– Photos by Donald Norton

Law enforcement officials, youth services workers and local teens joined together for the Sixth Annual Metro Mayors Basketball Tournament, Saturday, August 3, in a show of solidarity among youth and those who fight for their safety.

Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Quincy, Revere, Somerville and Winthrop sent teams to a five-on-five tournament hosted by the Metro Mayors Coalition as a way to promote safe summer activities and kick off the coming school year.

The Metro Mayors Coalition, facilitated by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), is a collaborative group that brings together 13 mayors and city and town managers from the Greater Boston area to find common solutions to shared problems.

The actual process of taking down the Brickbottom Waste Transfer Station has not yet been determined, according to City of Somerville sources.

By Cathleen Twardzik

The plan to demolish the Somerville Waste Transfer Station, located at Brickbottom, just off McGrath Highway, in August has still not been solidified.

Somerville Public School’s Summer Wind Camp performed at Cross Street Center. This is a program led by Richard Romanoff and Rosemary Sears, SPS music teachers and Anthony Prestigiovanni, a recent Music Education graduate of UMASS Lowell. Pictured here, Grace Lotti performs on saxophone.