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Cambridge Poet Joseph A. Cohen

By William Falcetano

You’ll find him most Saturday mornings seated in the same café with a cheese danish and a black coffee, chatting with his fellow poets, writers, and artists. He is Joe Cohen and he is about to turn one-hundred years old tomorrow, July 13. The fact that a ninety-nine-year-old gentleman is a “man about town” is in itself noteworthy, but Joseph A. Cohen doesn’t only attend the Bagel Bards informal weekly meet-up. He also gives public readings of his poetry in such literary settings as the Periodicals Room of the Boston Public Library (for National Poetry Month), the Armory in Somerville, and the Somerville and Cambridge Public Libraries. Joe’s poetry readings are often accompanied by his violinist daughter Beth Bahia Cohen, who teaches world violin traditions at Berklee College of Music and Tufts University.

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Let’s face it, sometimes don’t you want to get down and downright dirty? Poet Lo Galluccio takes on that persona.

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Along with many other fine poets like Ifeany Menkiti, the owner, Gloria Mindock, Elizabeth Doran, etc.

The Grolier Poetry Book Shop (“the Grolier”) is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It lays claim to being the “oldest continuous bookshop” devoted solely to the sale of poetry and poetry criticism.

Here is the trailer – full movie out soon.

Arrests:
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Robert Gallagher, June 30, 9:17 a.m., arrested at Somerville Ave. on a charge of larceny over $250.

Filsdym Modan, of 1 Memorial Dr., June 30, 1:24 p.m., arrested at McGrath Hwy. on warrant charges of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest.

An alert District Fire Chief discovered a porch fire on Saturday morning, July 8 preventing what could have been a serious fire. District Chief Robert McCarthy, working out of the Highland Avenue fire station, smelled smoke around 930 Saturday morning while doing paperwork in his office. After investigating, McCarthy spotted smoke coming from a third floor, wooden rear porch at 271 Highland Avenue. Firefighters alerted the occupant of the fire and were quickly able to extinguish burning materials on the porch.

Planning on applying for CPA funding for a project on City or State land? Join the City’s Community Preservation Act Manager on Thursday, July 13, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Central Library Auditorium to learn more about the CPA application process and requirements for community projects on public land. Eligibility determination forms for community projects proposed on public land only are due to the CPA Manager by August 4, 2017, via email to kstelljes@somervillema.com.

Staffers at Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services are helping to raise awareness about elder abuse by wearing purple ribbons and sharing information about how to identify and report elder abuse.

By Norah Al-Wetaid and Nathan Lamb

Roughly 10 percent of older adults have experienced some form of elder abuse – but a recent study funded by the National Institutes of Health estimates that only one out of every 14 instances of elder abuse are reported to authorities.

Massachusetts Developmental Team qualifiers Josslyn Marujo and Rachel Dunlap, with coach O’Brien.

By Jen Scannell

Gymnastics and More proudly announced recently that two Level 4 Girls qualified to the Massachusetts Developmental Team.

Josslyn Marujo, of Somerville’s Argenziano School, and Rachel Dunlap, of The Lynch School in Winchester, were chosen to participate in a Massachusetts State Sponsored Clinic held in Reading on June 25.

School is out and the Red Sox are in full swing so LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Boston is celebrating America’s favorite pastime with a baseball themed weekend of events on July 8 and 9.