Mark your calendar for a week from this coming Friday night for “Somerville Fight Night” at Dilboy Stadium, presented by the Somerville Boxing Club, Mayor Curtatone, Somerville Recreation Department and USA Boxing. It’s a great community event that helps a lot of our young people here in Somerville. The cost is $20 for adults, $10 for youth and children under 12 are free. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the first bout is at 7:00 p.m.

City officials and design consultants briefed residents and fielded questions regarding the future plans for Broadway’s renovations, along with concerns over the citywide rodent infestation problem. – Photo by Donald Norton

By Donald Norton

The Cross Street Community Center was filled on Monday night with residents and business owners alike from East Somerville to get an update on the roadwork and sidewalk renovations that will be done soon.

Admiral Alfred Melville Pride.

Eagle Feathers #7 – Pride of Somerville

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

If you were driving down Hudson Street  in Somerville and you came to #105, you would find yourself near the rear entrance of Engine Seven’s firehouse.  Parallel to the engine house are 12 garages, an area that once housed a carpentry shop owned by Alfred Pride’s father.

Lefty’s Silver Cart will participate in Swirl and Slice: Specialty Foods Market on September 6, September 13 and September 20 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Union Square Plaza.

By Cathleen Twardzik

While the City of Somerville contemplates municipal regulations regarding food trucks, a pilot program will begin in Union Square on August 16 to discover the way in which that type of “vending” would affect the community.

The Somerville News Person of the week, Nancy Gaudet Bacci.

Meet Nancy Gaudet Bacci. She’s the Youth Program Coordinator here in Somerville at City Hall. A longtime Somerville resident, originally from Cambridge, she’s married and, together with her husband, raised their daughter here. Nancy is very active locally in politics, but more importantly she’s very involved in the community in various charities and nonprofit organizations. Nancy is seen all over the city at just about every event going on. Recently, she’s boosting the Somerville Boxing Club, where she has been involved with a lot of other city residents and politicians.

What on earth is going on with our trash collectors these days? Numerous incidents involving garbage trucks either speeding, blocking traffic, or otherwise menacing the good citizens of our community leave many scratching their heads and wondering how far it has to go before some form of control is gained over the situation.

Arrests:
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Arjuna Kataria, 27, of 4 E. 132nd St., New York, NY, August 7, 2:36 a.m., arrested at 20 Windom St. on charges of burn personal party, disorderly conduct, witness intimidation, and violation of city ordinance open container.

Paulo Cebola De Sena, 22, of 136 Webster St., E. Boston, August 7, 6:53 a.m., arrested at 72 Jaques St. on a charge of assault and battery.

Suzanne Cope.

Old habits die hard. Now I find myself gravitating to the window seats at the Bloc 11 Cafe in Union Square, Somerville, Mass. It may be the darker environs in the back are less attractive as I press closer towards the 60 year mark–you know rage, rage against the dying of the light and all that sort of rot. On this morning I was at my window at Bloc 11 to shed light on my subject for the day, writer Suzanne Cope.

Somerville Poet Tara Skurtu.

Somerville Poet Tara Skurtu studied Creative Writing at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and is an MFA candidate at Boston University. She’s the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a 2012 Tennessee Williams Poetry Prize finalist. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Review, Hanging Loose, Salamander, Poet Lore, The Los Angeles Review, Hiram Poetry Review, The Southeast Review,The Comstock Review, Amethyst Arsenic, and elsewhere.

By Jim Clark

Somerville fire and police units were dispatched to a Windom St. residence at approximately 2:40 a.m. on August 7 on reports that a garbage can’s contents had been set on fire. West Somerville has reportedly been beset by an unusually large number of such fires in recent months, according to police and fire officials.