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The documentary “Runnin’” provides an unfiltered view of the opioid crisis and the toll it has taken in the lives of many Somerville victims. — Photo courtesy of STAT
By Ian Erlichman
A scrappy looking man, with a weathered face and ice blue eye, sits in a collapsible chair in a furniture-less warehouse. His name is Marky Pantanella, and he was an opioid addict. Like many of his kind, now with a shrunken circle of childhood friends. “I feel like I’m the last man standing,” he remarked to the camera. Pantanella is featured in a film called Runnin’, directed by his childhood friend, and STAT journalist, Alex Hogan.
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Guests flocked to the 20th annual Taste of Somerville food festival held in Nathan Tufts Park on June 20. — Photos by Shira Laucharoen
By Shira Laucharoen
Andalusian gazpacho topped with black olives and breadcrumbs. Black raspberry and chocolate ice cream in burnt marshmallow fluff cones, decorated with a rim of Fruity Pebbles or bacon.
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Erica Voolich congratulates (back)Samuel Saron, Desmond Feldman, Benjamin Novik, Nicolas Ragusa, (front) Saja El-Saudi, Lizbeth Figueroa, Mekhribon Otajonova, Mei Mei Collins on winning Somerville Math Fund renewable scholarships for outstanding work in math & science.
The Somerville Mathematics Fund is pleased to announce the winners of their renewable mathematics scholarships for 2018. The Math Fund was founded to celebrate and encourage math achievement and these students deserve to be celebrated for their work in math and science while in high school. Thanks to the generosity of many individuals and a few organizations, this year we were able to award a record 8 scholarships, totaling $32,000 over four years.
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What is more exciting to the young heart and mind than that savory and unrivaled treat, summer vacation? A well-deserved reward for all the hard work and irreplaceable time invested in the previous school year.
As adults, we can look back fondly on those golden days with a warm sense of nostalgia and a longing to return to the carefree days that linger now only in our memories. And yet, we can live those times again vicariously as we engage with the present younger generation who will be making its own special memories.
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By Donald Norton
This past Tuesday, the Somerville Rotary Club inducted its newest member, Lisa Ramos, who recently became the new Manager of Century Bank in Somerville on the Fellsway. Pictured with Lisa is the club’s President Kevin Su and Past President Paul Kaufman.
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An article I wrote some years ago that appeared in the all-poetry edition of Spare Change News:
Jeff Robinson, founder of The Jeff Robinson Trio, holds court every Sunday Night at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, Ma. In the basement of the Cambridge Common restaurant, he performs a sort of wedding ceremony. This is a musical and lyrical ceremony in which poetry and jazz are paired and they make a perfect match. With Robinson on sax, Blake Newman on bass, and Jerome Deupree on drums, Robinson infuses the poetry of such local poets as Marc Goldfinger, Carla Schwartz, and Joyce Cuhna, with the Be and the Bop of Jazz.
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Newstalk – June 27
The pre-July 4th fireworks here in Somerville is this Thursday, June 28. We hear it may rain, and you know what that means. But as of today it has not been cancelled. Let’s hope whoever is in charge of the event or here in the city makes the right call this time.
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