ResiStat Meetings for All Seven Wards Will Be Held in the Month of October

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and the City Council invite residents to attend the fall ResiStat Community Meetings of 2019. These meetings are held twice a year in each of Somerville’s seven wards to share the latest City news, data, and neighborhood updates with residents, and provide an opportunity for residents, elected officials, and City staff to talk with one another.

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Review by Lawrence Kessenich

No doubt inspired by the 2018 death of well-loved New England poet Donald Hall, this anthology pays tribute to Hall through poems about him and his beloved wife, Jane Kenyon, poems dedicated to him (or them), and poems responding to Hall’s work. At least half-a-dozen of the poems are inspired by specific poems Hall wrote, such as Scott T. Hutchinson’s Wild Honey, after Hall’s Self-Portrait as a Bear; Tricia Knoll’s Obsessed Haiku, after Hall’s Distressed Haiku; and Kyle Potvin’s Waiting for the Results, after Hall’s Her Long Illness.

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Poet R. Steve Benson has been in a variety of literary journals including North American Review, Christian Science Monitor, Minnesota Review, Briar cliff Review, Snowy Egret, South Carolina Review, Weber – The Contemporary West, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poet Lore and others. Donald Hall, in his final collection of essays, A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety published in 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, included his 33 line poem Pissing Beside Donald Hall that was first published in Mudfish magazine in New York City.

Arrests:
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Keith Hill, of 240 Albany St., Cambridge, September 16, 4:44 p.m., arrested at Chester Ave. on a warrant charge of shoplifting by asportation.

Michael Ford, of 66 Bowden St., Malden, September 17, 11:39 a.m., arrested at Artisan Way on warrant charges of trespassing, possession of a class B drug, municipal bylaw or ordinance violation, and shoplifting by asportation.

The 2019 Candidate Climate Forum is scheduled for Saturday, October 5, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at the Visiting Nurse Association of Eastern MA (VNA) 259 Lowell Street, Somerville, MA 02144.

City, MassDOT staff to meet with community members about planned safety improvements, receive feedback on future planning.

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and the City’s Mobility Division announce that a community meeting has been scheduled to discuss two fatal crashes along State Route 38 (Mystic Avenue) in Somerville and efforts underway to improve safety for all road users. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 1, in the auditorium of the East Somerville Community School at 50 Cross Street beginning at 7 p.m.

More than 80 Somerville Public Schools (SPS) students honed their math skills at The Calculus Project (TCP) this past July.

Co-directed by SPS Data Coordinator Kenya Avant and Innovation Project Specialist Jason Behrens, this was the third year Somerville offered the program, which targets underrepresented student populations in the STEM fields.

Collect stamps, be entered for prizes for supporting local businesses

The City of Somerville, in partnership with local businesses in Ball and Magoun Squares, will launch the Somerville Business Loyalty Program on Sunday, September 22, 2019. Loyalty cards will be available at the Ball Square Festival on September 22, at participating businesses in both squares, and at the City Hall Welcome desk, 93 Highland Ave.