The “Bridge Hopper” shuttle service, intended to help alleviate the traffic congestion created by GLX construction bridge closures, was but one of a plethora of issues discussed at the Ward 4 ResiStat meeting.

By Melissa Rosales

Community members of Ward 4 gathered together to learn about their neighborhood’s updates and news at Healey School on Thursday, May 30.

The Spring 2019 ResiStat Community Meetings is a twice-yearly effort by Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and the Board of Aldermen to share and discuss the latest on city news, data, policies, programs, and more.

DavisNOW.org, the community group who developed the “punchlist” of problems in Davis Square (go to http://online.flipbuilder.com/havm/vrsp/) will be holding a public progress update meeting on June 10 at the (new) Dilboy Post, 351 Summer St., starting at 6.30 p.m.

Another year passes and we pause at this time to congratulate and honor the hard-working students who achieved their goal of successfully completing their courses of studies at their respective high schools and colleges.

It takes a lot of dedication and commitment to follow through to completion in this world, which is filled with so many challenges and distractions. It is no small feat to take one’s education to the limit, and these moments represent important milestones along the path to success in life.

Eagle Feathers #180 – Kate Smith

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

“May Day” in this country is a day when the sight of budding trees and flowers tells us that winter is over and children sing around May poles to celebrate the arrival of spring. In other countries, like Russia, it’s a day of viewing parades and exhibiting national pride. Kate Smith would spend her life celebrating both of these practices. She was a singing patriot. She was born on May 1, 1907, May Day, and she died on June 17, 1986, Bunker Hill Day. Kathryn Elizabeth Smith grew up in the nation’s capitol. At eight years old, she sang for World War I veterans; and while attending nursing school as a teen, she sang for patients.

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Playwright Inez Hedges and Director Avriel Hillman seemed to be joined at the hip when they met me at the Diesel Cafe at Davis Square in Somerville. It seems that the duo has great chemistry – sharing knowing smiles and quick laughter.

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Marc Goldfinger has been published by the Ibbetson Street Press, The Aurorean, Pegasus, The Boston Poet, the Crooked River Press, Earth First! Journal, The New Renaissance, User’s News, Poiesis, The Porter Gulch Review, Rubber-Side-Down and many others. Goldfinger is also a member of the Liberation Poetry Collective and is included in the Liberation Anthology put out by the Trilingual Press. He is the poetry editor at Spare Change News.

February 12, 1937 – April 29, 2019

Anna E. Moran, of Somerville April 29, 2019. Beloved Daughter of the late George and Sarah Moran. Sister of Daniel Moran and the late George Moran Jr.

Funeral procession from the George L. Doherty Funeral Home, 855 Broadway (Powder House Sq.) Somerville, Wednesday morning June 5, at 10:30, followed by a Funeral Mass in St. Joseph Church (Union Sq.) Somerville, at 11:00. Relatives and friends invited. Calling hours Wednesday morning at the Funeral Home, 8:30 – 10:30am. Interment Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Arlington.

Arrests:
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Marcus Cole, of 21 Logan St., Roxbury, May 28, 5:01 p.m., arrested at McGrath Hwy. on charges of drug possession to distribute, alcohol from open container, receiving stolen property over $1200, miscellaneous statutory violation, failure to wear a seatbelt, and motor vehicle lights violation.

With the annual Historic Preservation Month (May) events behind us, the Somerville Historic Preservation Commission (SHPC) announced this week a revised schedule for spring events that were postponed due to inclement weather, as well as a revised schedule for Docent Tours of the Prospect Hill Tower, the Old Power House, and the Milk Row Cemetery. Rescheduled events will be held as follows:

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Dear Editor:

Over the past year, it’s been heartening to finally see some broad public concern in this country about the myriad environmental crises we face. The mass die-off of bees and other pollinators across the US — and the threat that die-off poses to our ability to grow some of our most critical crops — should be considered one of the most important of these problems, and one that requires an urgent response from beacon hill and our federal government.