L to R: Dartmouth Guarini School Dean F. Jon Kull, Dr. Don Pease, Phil Privitera, Dean Lee Coffin, and Payton Privitera.

By Francis J. Kautz, Esq.

On Thursday, August 16, Dartmouth College held a dinner honoring Somerville Attorney Philip J. Privitera. Privitera earned both a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree from Dartmouth, and remains an active Dartmouth Alumnus serving on the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) Alumni Council.

Eagle Feathers #160 – The Rough Rider

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

Brady Towers, the nine-story, 84-unit building at the intersection of Medford Street, McGrath Highway, and Highland Avenue, is a federally funded development that houses the elderly and young disabled. For many years, its front lobby boasted an attractive trophy case that displayed an interesting collection of memorabilia.

The summer season is winding down. Kids and families and, yes, our public officials have had their vacations and play time. Now it’s time to get back to the business of running the city. Or attempting to, at any rate.

And there is much to be done. A lot of hot button, high priority issues were left on the table when the sunscreen got packed into the luggage. Now it all awaits the scrutiny and care of both the public and the administrators of civic policy.

Event organizers invite all residents who like to camp to the 9th Annual Great Urban Campout, Saturday to Sunday, Aug 25 and 26. Also, people who aren’t regular campers can test out tenting and still have a way to get home in the middle of the night if need be. Join and share the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/509737246108227/ Come by at any point, whether or not you want to stay over.

Marilyn Ranker traversed the shoals of the Bloc 11 Cafe to the inner sanctum, my usual perch in the back of the said eatery in Union Square. I was munching on a bagel – a plain one – though longing for my multigrain, the very one the store assured me would have a second coming, as soon as it “rises.”

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Benjamin Ostrowski is a current PhD student studying Organizational Behavior at Carnegie Mellon University. He has poems published in The Gyroscope Review, Blue Muse, weirderary, The Dark River Review, An Anthology of Emerging Poets, and The American Journal of Poetry. With his father, Steven Ostrowski, he has published a collaborative chapbook called Seen/unseen. Steven Ostrowski is a poet, fiction writer, painter and songwriter. In 2009, he won Harpur Palate’s Milton Kessler Award for a single poem. In 2017, he won The Atlantic Road Prize for his long poem, After the Tate Modern, which will be published as a chapbook by Island Verse Editions in 2018. He has published four previous chapbooks, and his work appears widely in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. He teaches in the English Department at Central Connecticut State University. These poems are part of a collaboration between father and son:

Trustees to manage Jobs Creation and Retention Trust fund, work with stakeholders to implement workforce development strategies, and more

The City of Somerville is currently seeking applicants for the newly created Jobs Creation and Retention Trust (JCRT) Board of Trustees. Responsibilities for members will include managing the JCRT fund, working with the Mayor’s Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development (OSPCD) staff to implement strategies outlined in the workforce development strategic plan released early this year, identifying target industry sectors and resident demographics for job training programs, soliciting project proposals, and more.

SMC Art Exhibit
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The Canary Warnings are a series of paintings inspired by the practice of keeping a canary in a coal mine as an early warning system for miners. When the bird dies the air will soon be too toxic for humans as well. The canary serves a kind of guardian, like a life force monitor. This series considers a myriad of possibilities about the ways in which one could be warned of tragedies or other dangerous situations.  It is my hope that the viewer will “read” and interpret the Canary much like reading tea leaves or deciphering a Rorschach test.

Adult Family Care Licensed Clinical Social Worker Lissa Marcucci.

By Lissa Marcucci

Providing in-home care for someone who needs daily assistance is a major commitment. It’s not something people enter into lightly – and for that reason, it’s important for a caregiver to have a backup plan ready before it’s needed.

I recently spoke to a fellow social worker who saw the importance of a backup plan firsthand He was working with a caregiver who believed that a family friend would step in to provide care if needed. However, the caregiver never discussed this plan with that friend. When the caregiver unexpectedly landed in the hospital, the friend was not in a position to help.