Patricia Vossler of Somerville has joined  (SAA) to make a splash for pediatric cancer programs at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and MassGeneral Hospital for Children Cancer Center. Vossler will swim in the 20^th annual Boston Harbor Swim on July 8, alongside Olympians Carlton Bruner, Janel Jorgensen McArdle, Kristy Kowal, Heather Petri, Craig Beardsley, and Erik Vendt.

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Ward 5 Alderman Mark Niedergang, and the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development invite the public to a Hoyt-Sullivan Playground community meeting to discuss potential renovations. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 29, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the third-floor community room at the Visiting Nurses Association Building, 259 Lowell St. All are welcome to share ideas that will help to shape the design of the new playground.

Somerville Community Access TV is happy to bring you its 2nd season of “Cinema Somerville Outdoor Movies,” an outdoor movie series at the Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave. The event series is free and is open to the community-at-large.

Erica Voolich congratulates Ashutosh Bhargo, Anmol Bhargo, Anmol Saini and Belal Sohel on winning Somerville Math Fund renewable scholarships for outstanding work in math and science. — Photo by Arthur Ingalls, Geskus Photography

By Rebecca Danvers

The Somerville Mathematics Fund recently announced the winners of their renewable mathematics scholarships for 2016. The Math Fund was founded to celebrate and encourage math achievement and these students deserve to be celebrated for their work in math and science while in high school.

Winners of the 2016 Somerville Babe Ruth Baseball Championship, Highlanders Red.

By Bob Schofield

Justin Schofield pitched a five-hitter with 6 strikeouts as Highlanders Red edged Highlanders Green 10-5 in the 2016 Somerville Babe Ruth Baseball Championship at Trum Field on Friday, June 17.

For the fourth year, Somerville will host the annual American Rendezvous weekend (ARDV) gathering from June 24 to June 26, where parkour practitioners will participate in training sessions led by elite coaches from across the country and abroad. Parkour is a form of movement rooted in a variety of physical disciplines – gymnastics, martial arts, climbing, breakdancing, and track – and its popularity has grown rapidly in the Boston metropolitan area. Parkour was born in the banlieues (suburbs) of Paris in the 1980s and is now one of the world’s fastest-growing sports. The 2016 ARDV weekend is sponsored in part by the City of Somerville and Shape Up Somerville.

By Joe Beckman

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To me, as a long term member of committees dealing with the Green Line, school reform, and affordable housing, the current process for the High School seems naive: well-intended, but not connected with the needs of either the city, the kids, or the parents. Plans developed in silos risk being hit by missiles. This will be one of them.

~Photos by Claudia Ferro

East Somerville Community School’s annual Moving On ceremony took place on Friday, June 17. Kindergartners held the hands of 8th graders and walked them into the auditorium as a symbol of leading them onto the next part of their life, high school. Superintendent of Schools Mary Skipper was in attendance, as was Ward One School Committee member Steve Roix, State Representative Tim Toomey, and Alderman at Large Mary Jo Rossetti.