— Photo by Claudia Ferro

Top candidates advance to November 7 ballot
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By The Times Staff

The Preliminary Election to determine the top two candidates for the positions of Mayor of Somerville and Ward 1 School Committee member took place on Tuesday.

If you’re not using Facebook you’re missing quite the postings by a mysterious do-gooder and purveyor of the truth regarding the mayor, his family, and his administration. Theo has appeared as the alternative to fake news in our city, a blog full of hate and bile that is trying to accuse the mayor of corruption. Theo comes along and is the one source of balance against what that blog has to say.

— Photo by Donald Norton

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone held a Preliminary Election Night Party at Orleans Restaurant  in Davis Square Tuesday night. Supporters joined the mayor in celebrating the decisive victory in his bid for reelection in November.

Eagle Feathers #138 –The Fourth Day of July

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

It was one hundred years ago this past spring that Americans began arriving in Paris to help their French allies in the war against Germany. In a symbolic salute, General John Pershing presented an American flag at a Frenchman’s tomb.

By Beckett Bathanti

The Somerville High School Highlanders hung in the game early, but ultimately fell 28-16 to Lynn English High School Bulldogs on Friday at Dilboy Stadium.

Head Coach Makonnen Fenton said the effort was there, just not the execution. “We fought hard, but we didn’t do what we were supposed to do. When you don’t do what you were supposed to do, you lose,” he said.

Long time Somerville resident and businessman Sal Ferro is heading into retirement. Ferro started off with a part time printing business in 1967 with a tabletop letterpress, in his home. A lot of his printing at the beginning started off with wedding invitations using the slogan “Brides are our business, our only business.”

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By A.D. Winans

I read in an article that Charles Bukowski’s books of poetry are a stealing magnet at many bookstores – including our own Porter Square Books – thus the article…

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Judy Katz-Levine is an internationally published poet who has authored two full-length collections: Ocarina (SARU) and When The Arms Of Our Dreams Embrace (SARU). Her most recent chapbook is When Performers Swim, The Dice Are Cast (Ahadada). Her poems have appeared recently in Blue Unicorn, Ibbetson St., and Salamander.

~Photos by Claudia Ferro

MAYOR

JOSEPH A. (JOE) CURTATONE 2805
KENNETH C. VAN BUSKIRK III 328
PAYTON CORBETT 1694
WRITE IN 43
BLANK 33

Arrests:
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Carlos Carrion, of 13 Pine St. Cambridge, September 12, 1:20 p.m., arrested at Calvin St. on charges of larceny from a building and receiving stolen property over $250.