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Mark Saba has been writing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction for 40 years. His book publications include, most recently, Two Novellas: A Luke of All Ages / Fire and Ice, Calling the Names (poetry), and Ghost Tracks: Stories of Pittsburgh Past. His work has appeared widely in literary magazines around the U.S. and abroad. He is also a painter, and is recently retired as a medical illustrator at Yale University. Please see marksabawriter.com.

Arrests:
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 Foster Starks, of Cambridge, September 24, 4:22 p.m., arrested at Meacham Rd. on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Andwain Coleman Jr., of Cuyahoga, OH, September 24, 4:22 p.m., arrested at Meacham Rd. on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and City of Somerville staff invite you to attend the next community meeting to discuss 90 Washington Street, a 4-acre site near the East Somerville Green Line station envisioned as the home of a new Public Safety Building and a range of civic, commercial, and residential spaces. 

Mary H. Regan, R.N.
Retired Mass. General Hospital Nurse

Mary H. Regan, R.N., age 87, a longtime resident of West Somerville and Edgartown, passed away peacefully at the Massachusetts General Hospital on Saturday, September 24, 2022, following a brief illness.

Born in Cambridge on August 14, 1935, she was the daughter of the late James J. and Molly (Scanlon) Regan.

Members of “The Squad” at Saturday’s participating in Saturday’s event at the Somerville Theatre. — Photo courtesy of Councilor At-Large Kristen Strezo

Somerville Police officers were dispatched to a Dover St. location last Saturday afternoon on reports of a fight that had started outside the Somerville Theatre in Davis Sq., the site of a speaking event featuring “The Squad” (U.S. Reps. Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez).

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Host, Sarah Fishman speaks with Ward 5 City Councilor, Beatriz Gomez Mouakad on this City Council Spotligtht.

Lewis “Doc” West reviews documents with Money Management volunteer Judith Rosen, in one of their monthly meetings at his Cambridge home. The Money Management program at Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services helps roughly 80 older adults maintain independence by helping with mail reading, bill paying, and financial errands.

Lewis “Doc” West has been happy to call Cambridge home since the late ‘90s. But when he started losing his vision to glaucoma, he needed to make some changes.

As a musician, the biggest was relearning how to play the guitar. More recently it was finding an apartment within walking distance of vital services. West, who is legally blind, began the process of looking for affordable housing a few years ago, and he was glad to have some assistance from a Money Management volunteer through Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES).

Pollinator Action Plan grows Somerville’s commitment to creating a healthy environment for pollinators – including bees, moths, and butterflies – that are vital for a flourishing urban ecosystem

The City of Somerville is thrilled to announce the formation of an Advisory Committee to work on a Pollinator Action Plan that prioritizes local pollinator health to establish and maintain a healthy and biodiverse urban ecosystem. The plan is the first of its kind in a city as densely populated as Somerville. 

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Traffic Commission
130 Holland Street
Somerville, MA 02144

Ladies & Gentlemen:

Pursuant to the authority vested in the traffic commission by Chapter 397 of the Acts & Resolves of 1978 (hereinafter “the Act”), I respectfully request that you remove or cause to be removed thirteen signs unlawfully installed by Tufts University and located on Professor’s Row, a public street in Somerville, purporting to restrict on-street parking to Tufts employees.  (Exhibits A and A1 annexed hereto.) See pdf link below for Exhibits