Mark Alston-Follansbee received a citation of commendation from the Board of Aldermen citing his many years of service to the homeless community in Somerville upon the occasion of his retirement.

By Jim Clark

The Somerville Board of Aldermen issued a citation of commendation to the retiring Director of the Somerville Homeless Coalition, Mark Alston-Follansbee, at their latest regular meeting on Thursday, June 14.

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Somerville has a new brewery in town! A great addition to the Bow Market Plaza. The brewery opened in mid-May and currently offer 5 beers at a time that will rotate out for new ones to try.

The Somerville High School Groundbreaking ceremony held last week marked a milestone in this historic project, as the school year comes to a close and the start of demolition and construction work approaches. Demolition of the B wing is slated to begin on Friday, June 22.

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It was an unusual chilly morning for mid-May, so I found myself huddled in the backroom of my old haunt, the Bloc 11 Cafe in Union Square. A balding man with a biblical beard took his place at my table. His name, Michael Russem.

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Benjamin D. Carson is a Professor of English at Bridgewater State University. His creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in Red Fez, The Ampersand Review, Cactus Heart, Free Inquiry, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, and the Charles River Journal.

Front row: Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Tim McNabb, IBEW 103 Business Agent Rich Antonellis, and Brayan Andrade.Middle row: Superintendent Mary Skipper and Tom Bent, Bent Electrical.Back row: SHS Headmaster Sebastian LaGambina, Guy Ando – SHS Electrical Instructor, SHS Associate Headmaster and CTE Director Leo DeSimone, Joe Marino – SHS Electrical instructor

Tim McNabb, Brayan Andrade enter apprentice program at Bent Electric

Class of 2018 Somerville High School (SHS) graduates Tim McNabb and Brayan Andrade entered a five-year apprentice program after each student earned an I.B.E.W. Local 103 scholarship for the pre-Apprentice Partnership Program at Bent Electrical Contractors, Inc. The apprenticeship program allows participating students to become members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.  I.B.E.W. Local 103 represents all of eastern Massachusetts.

Arrests:
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Michael Shippee, of 54 Sydney St., June 13, 3:59 p.m., arrested at Washington St. on charges of larceny from a building, larceny under $1200, receiving a stolen credit card, identity fraud, forgery of document, and improper use of credit card under $1200.