Jaime Corliss to Head State’s Mass in Motion Program; City will Undertake Search for New Director

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced this week that, in a meeting last week, the Director of the City’s Shape Up Somerville (SUS) program, Jaime Corliss, tendered her resignation in order to accept a leadership position with Mass in Motion, a program of the state’s Department of Public Health.  Corliss has served as the SUS Director since May of 2009, and will assume her new role, Manager of Community Initiatives within the Division of Prevention and Wellness next month.

By Jim Clark

Police responded to a report of an unwanted person at a Washington St. residence in the early hours of the night of Wednesday last week. As a police unit approached the location a radio dispatch reported that the suspect had left the residence, but a description of the man was given and officers proceeded to search for him.

Jack Lepiarz (aka Jacques Ze Wippeur) cracks the whip at King Richard’s Faire, weekends from Labor Day to Columbus Day.

By Max Sullivan

For the past five years, King Richard’s Faire in Carver, MA, has been dominated by one Frenchman, or so Jacques Ze Wippeur would have you believe.

Autographs can provide a special sense of satisfaction for the collector.

By Kenneth Gloss

Collecting autographs has become more and more popular in recent years, as people have realized autographs are a great way to not just form a collection but also form a connection to the person whose signature you hold. When you read and touch a letter signed by a former president, or correspondence between two famous people, it’s like discovering a story in and of itself.

Presidential signatures are one of the most popular areas of autograph collecting. Most collectors prefer handwritten letters on presidential stationary, written while the president was actually in office. That is more valuable than from the days before he became president or in the days after he left office.

Some young bikers rolled into town last week and hitched their hogs to one of our convenient bike racks. Thank goodness there was no trouble to speak of.

On The Silly Side by Jimmy Del Ponte

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With me, nostalgia is a way of life. I love the old days and all the memories of those good times. It’s ironic that Good Times is actually one of the old shows that we watched growing up, and this story is about a few of our beloved TV characters that we have lost recently.

According to the Cambridge Health Department, the easiest and best way to avoid WNV is to prevent mosquito bites.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) announced that a second human case of West Nile virus (WNV) has been confirmed in Middlesex County. The patient, a Cambridge man in his 70s, is currently hospitalized. The first human case of WNV this year was confirmed in another Middlesex County resident on August 15. In addition to the elevated threat level in Cambridge, the nearby communities of Arlington, Belmont, Boston, Brookline, Somerville and Watertown have been raised to a “High” WNV threat level.

By Allison Caloggero

Nave Gallery will host “Yarnstorm Perry Park,” a two month public art installation beginning on Saturday, August 25, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. The event will be feature artists, young and old, who enjoy knitting, crocheting and livening up a public space with yarn-based designs and patterns. The installation will give Perry Park a warm and fuzzy makeover. All are welcome to join in on installing this amazing public art piece. Perry Park is located between Dane and Leland Streets, outside of Union Square.

By Joseph A. Curtatone

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In a densely populated community like Somerville, we’ve all had the experience of seeing someone, often someone we know, who appears to be having problems related to mental health.

By Jim Clark

While directing traffic last Wednesday at the corner of Medford St. and Broadway, an area which was having its crosswalk repainted, two officers on paid detail witnessed an impatient driver go around four stopped cars then speed away, narrowly clipping one officer with the vehicle’s mirror, according to reports.