Linda Schlossberg writes fiction and teaches literature and creative writing at Harvard.

By JT Thompson

Linda Schlossberg grew up in San Francisco, initially in the Haight Ashbury district, then in the suburbs, and came to Boston as an undergraduate at Brandeis. She then earned a PhD at Harvard in English and American literature, and is now Assistant Director of Studies for Harvard’s Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. She was thrilled to be awarded a 2019 Literary Arts Fellowship from the Somerville Arts Council/Mass Cultural Council, as well as the 2016 Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Writer’s Center in Maryland.

On Sunday, March 17, 3:00 p.m. at Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave., owner Liam Mannion and Rob McWatters invite everyone to hoist a pint of Guinness. Enjoy some Irish music and nosh on some corned beef and cabbage at Sally’s, the best Irish pub in the city.

The Massachusetts Senior Action Council (MSAC), with active members from Somerville, Cambridge, and other adjoining communities, joined with allies from six other elder advocacy organizations to lobby lawmakers on life-saving reforms seniors say they need to protect their health, wellbeing and dignity as they age. MSAC is the only elder organization in Massachusetts that is run by its senior members.

Somerville Media Center (SMC) hosted its 2019 SMC Honors Gala at Arts At The Armory on Friday, March 8. This night recognized the best facets of community-made media shared in greater Somerville.

Seniors with State Tournament Trophy & North Division Plaque: (L to R) Ashley Cadet, Ashley Fortune, Kaleesha Joseph and N’yshma Leroy.

By Katie Harris

Last Friday night at the Clark Athletic Center on the campus of the University of Massachusetts in Boston, the curtain came down on the 2018-2019 varsity girls’ basketball season in the Massachusetts Charter School Athletic Association. The last act in the season was the state tournament championship game pitting the 2017-2018 state tournament champion and this season’s top seeded Prospect Hill Academy Lady Wizards (19-0) against the third seeded Pioneer Charter School of Science II Lady Pirates (16-2) from Saugus.

Eagle Feathers #174 – Teele Square

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

In 1836 Jonathan W. Teele, who was a participant in the battle of Lexington and a five-year veteran of the Revolutionary War, built the Teele House. It was a travelers’ roadhouse at the corner of Broadway and Curtis Street. His family eventually acquired and built upon much of the Clarendon Hill land between Professors Row and the Cambridge line.

It’s a tradition that most of us have a lot of fun with. Whether one is of Irish lineage or not, St. Patrick’s Day stands for a recognition of Irish and Irish American culture, and in many ways its resulting fusion.

The religious origins of the day have, for some, been obscured and often all but forgotten in favor of the prominent displays of the color green, eating and drinking, and numerous parades. The day has been celebrated on the North American continent since before the American Revolution, and is actually an official holiday in neighboring Suffolk County. Ask any of our Boston brethren and they would – to a single soul – be aware of this fact.

(L to R) former Somerville Ward 3 Alderman Bob McWatters, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, and Zac Zasloff at Senator Sal Didemenico’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration on Friday, March 8, at the Charlestown Knights of Columbus. Several elected officials tried out their best jokes at the event that featured laughs, food and song, and included an Irish Dinner, music by Devri, bagpipers, comedians, videos and plenty of laughter.

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David P. Miller’s chapbook, The Afterimages, was published in 2014 by the Červená Barva Press. His poems have appeared in Meat for Tea, Main Street Rag, Ibbetson Street, Painters and Poets, Fox Chase Review, Third Wednesday, Wilderness House Literary Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, Oddball Magazine, Incessant Pipe, Clementine Unbound, and Ekphrastic Review, among others. Anthology appearances include Tell-Tale Inklings #1 and three Bagel Bards Anthologies. His poem Kneeling Woman and Dog was included in the 2015 edition of Best Indie Lit New England. David was a member of the multidisciplinary Mobius Artists Group of Boston for 25 years, and was a librarian at Curry College in Milton, MA.

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Lucas Restivo is a writer from San Diego by way of Boston. He loves the abstract and finds inspiration from the collective individualism of DIY communities. His poem desert daydreams can be found in his first collection of poetry if i could take your hand i could shake your hand. He hopes others can find their own meaning in his work and be inspired to learn something new.