The Walnut Street Center accepted a check for $5,000 from the St. Patrick’s Day Road Race, Ras na hEireann, on Tuesday, August 14. The Center was named a beneficiary of the 2012 Road Race, an event it hopes to continue sponsoring in the future.  The funds will be put towards continuing WSC’s mission of making life more meaningful for persons with developmental disabilities through employment training, day and residential habilitation programs and clinical support.

Interscholastic fall sports start soon for all SHS 9-12 graders.

August 23:

Boys and Girls Cross Country should report to the High School field house at 10:00 a.m.

Co-ed Golf should report to the high school field house at 10:00 a.m. for a meeting.

Endicott Creative Writing professor, Margaret Young.

This week  we have poetry by Endicott Creative Writing professor Margaret Young. Life can be described as a strange dance. Cheek to cheek,/ eye to eye,/ we trip the light fantastic/until the day we die.

Arrests:
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Anthony Silvestri, 58, of 252 Medford St., August 14, 10:39 a.m., arrested at Dane St. on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Jorge Furtado, 37, of 11 MacArthur St., August 14, 2:13 p.m., arrested at home on a charge of assault and battery.

Creative Union Gallery, 29a Union Square, will be open every day from 10-6:00 p.m., August 20-26. – Photo by Harry Kane

Come by Creative Union Gallery this week for your chance to support our artists in our gallery during its final days. All items in the store, including fine art, will be 25% off. Creative Union will be custom screen-printing all week. Drop off your articles of clothing and one of our trained screen printers will print your choice of over 30 hand drawn images, while you wait or drop off. A $10 donation is suggested.

– Photos by Bobbie Toner

Poet Amaranth Borsuk.

On any given day at the Sherman Café you can watch a passing parade of poets and writers while sipping your morning cup of java.  Recently I have chatted with Julia Story, Joe Torra, Richard Cambridge, and Bert Stern to name a few. While at my usual appointment in the said café the parade stopped and left off Amaranth Borsuk. Borsuk joined me at my table and we discussed her life and work as a poet. Amaranth is a slight, 30 something young woman, with an engaging manner and an elfin smile. She is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. She has a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California, and has been published in such journals as Field, Colombia Poetry Review, Colorado Review and others. She has a new collection of poetry out titled Handiwork that was selected for the 2011 Slope Editions Poetry Prize. Borsuk is particularly interested in the use of writing technologies by modern and contemporary poets.

Rt. 16 goes green this weekend as Somerstreets takes over just for the fun of it.

“Going Green on Rt. 16,” the city’s third installment of the 2012 SomerStreets series, is scheduled for Sunday, August 19, from noon –4:00 p.m. along Route 16 (Alewife Brook Parkway), from Dilboy Stadium to Broadway.

On The Silly Side by Jimmy Del Ponte

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From Dilboy Stadium that kisses the Arlington line all the way down to lower Broadway near Charlestown there is something in the air. The feeling in the ‘Ville is different. It appears every year around this time. It’s not the soupy, muggy humidity that I am talking about, it’s the impending start of…school.

By Donald Norton

A moving truck sprang a gas line leak while traveling through Union Square, around 2 p.m. Friday afternoon. Somerville Police and Fire departments responded to the scene and cleaned up the spill. The truck was towed and traffic resumed back to normal.

– Photos by Donald Norton