By Joe Creason

The Somerville City Council convened for a regular meeting on Thursday, October 19. A portion of the meeting was designated for public hearing where residents could voice their opinion on several infrastructure and community maintenance agenda items.

A grant of location was submitted by the Cambridge Network Solutions to install conduit from the manhole at the intersection of South St and Windsor St and along the Cambridge-Somerville property line.

A 20 mile per hour speed limit in the Powderhouse Circle area was proposed and approved at the latest Traffic Commission meeting. — Photo by Bobbie Toner

By Fernando Cervantes Jr.

On Thursday of last week, the City of Somerville’s Traffic Commission held its monthly meeting. In it, several topics were discussed: ranging from handicapped parking to parking spaces.

The meeting itself was a short one, only 15 minutes, with members of the Commission and members of the public in assistance as well.

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By Ken Brociner

There are eight candidates running for the four At-Large seats on the Somerville City Council. For most people in town, trying to figure out who to vote for on Nov. 2 isn’t going to be an easy task. With that in mind, I’m going to offer my own views on each of the candidates in the hope that it might help you think through which four would most effectively guide our city in the years ahead.

Seven days of early voting will be held prior to this year’s Election Day on November 2. All early voting takes place in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 93 Highland Ave. Early voting days and times are as follows: Saturday, October 23 – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, October 24 – 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday, October 25 – 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 26 – 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 27 – 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Thursday, October 28 – 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Friday, October 29 – 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more information, visit somervillema.gov/elections.

Eagle Feathers #239 – Sergeant Hansen’s Flags

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

This article was first published on February 13, 2019. We are running it again as a response to the recent desecration of Henry Hansen’s memorial stone in Magoun Square, and as a reminder to residents of his patriotism and heroism.

Henry Oliver Hansen was a young United States Marine from Somerville who was killed during World War II at the Battle of Iwo Jima. He was raised in the Magoun Square neighborhood on Nashua Street, attended Northeastern Junior High School and Somerville High School.

For some of us it feels like forever since we’ve shaken off the cares and concerns that seem to be bearing down so heavily as we deal with the stress and concerns of dealing with the COVID pandemic, and then there is also the tension that accompanies yet another political season.

The local election is just around the corner, and the national mis-term election is coming up next year. The balance of power nationwide will be in play, and more than ever it seems as though so much will be at stake in that particular election cycle, no matter which side we align with.

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Katya Popova, is a Somerville artist, who maintains a studio at the Vernon St. Studios in our city. She is a woman brimming with ideas, and the ideas spark her visual and sound presentations.

Popova, who is originally from Moscow, in the Soviet Union, said she moved here in the summer of 2008. She said, “I was impressed with the vibrancy of the community.” Soon she got involved with an artist collaborative in Sullivan Square.

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Somerville Bagel Bards member and physician-humanist, Ian Halim, writes about how medicine relates to everything from ethics to botany, aiming to make science accessible to the widest possible audience. Ian earned his PhD in Greek and Latin literature and his MD at Columbia University in New York City and is now training at a hospital in Boston.

Arrests:
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Nicholas Evans, of Hyde Park, October 13, 9:24 a.m., arrested at Canal St. on warrant charges of receiving a stolen credit card, receiving stolen property under $1200, possession of a burglarious instrument, felony daytime breaking and entering of a vehicle or boat, trespassing, and attempt to commit a crime.

Alexis Rodriguez-Perez, October 14, 6:43 p.m., arrested at Somerville Ave. on a charge of larceny by check under $1200.