Arrests:
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Frederick Camp, of 23 Payson Ave., Dorchester, August 21, 4:40 p.m., arrested at Mystic Ave. on a charge of larceny over $250 and on warrant charges of shoplifting by asportation and receiving a stolen motor vehicle.

Jennifer Crump, August 22, 4:10 p.m., arrested at Artisan Way on charges of receiving stolen property, shoplifting over $100 by asportation, and conspiracy.

Vaughan, Harold E. “Harry” Jr. –Of Revere, Aug. 27^th. Beloved husband of the late Kathleen (Bruning). Father of Maureen “Moe” and her husband Rick Schober of Arlington, Harold E. “Harry” Vaughan III and his Fiancé Charlene Paolillo of Somerville, and Eric and his wife Marisa Vaughan of Saugus. Son of the late Helen and Harold E. Vaughan Sr. Grandfather of Saffron, Ameriah, Noelani, and Keziah Schober, Ava, Harold IV, Bryce, Adriana, and Carina Vaughan. Harry is also survived by his Aunt Barbara Glazebrook and many loving family and friends. A Funeral Mass will be held in St. Anthony’s Church, 250 Revere St., Revere on Thursday, Aug. 31^st at 10am. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden.

Summer is almost over. Somerville Public Schools welcomes students in grades 1 -12 back to school on Wednesday, August 30.

The first day for Kindergarten and PreKindergarten students is Tuesday, September 5. There will be no school on Friday, September 1 and Monday, September 4 (Labor Day.)

The Somerville Foundation for Animals (501(c)3) announces the 8th Annual Somerville Dog Festival. The festival will be held at Trum Field on Broadway.  Admission is free but donations accepted.  All well-mannered dogs on leash and current on their vaccinations are invited.

Movie Nights in the Park is back after a successful first edition. Come join in at Chuckie Harris Park for a series of short movies organized by East Somerville Main Streets, Somerville Media Center and the Arlington International Film Festival.

Come at 7:00 p.m. for live music as well as food and drinks from locally beloved Fasika.

Open-Source student data system offers near real-time information that helps schools provide timely, individualized interventions and student support

The Boston Foundation awarded a two-year, $200,000 grant to Somerville Public Schools (SPS) this summer to continue development of Somerville’s innovative, open-source Student Insights online student data software. The funding will be used to add new software features as the district continues to improve and expand the system, and to extend the software to other urban Massachusetts school districts. Under the guidance of SPS K-8 Curriculum Coordinator Uri Harel, Somerville has been working on Student Insights to centralize student data in order to give teachers a fuller and more timely picture of the interventions and supports students need to be successful in their classrooms.

Silent Films with live musical accompaniment from Jeff Rapsis are coming to the Somerville and Capitol Theatres.

Clara Bow in Get Your Man (1927) in 35mm will be shown on Sunday, August 27, 2:00 p.m., at the Somerville Theatre, Davis Square, Somerville. Richard Barthelmess in Tol’able David (1921) plays on Thursday, September 14, 8:00 p.m., at the Capitol Theatre in Arlington.

~Photos by Claudia Ferro

Project STAR, Somerville’s summer musical theatre camp, presented their original mini-musical on Thursday, August 17, at The West Somerville Neighborhood School. For 6 weeks, the talented Somerville teens rehearsed their play called Enough is Enough. The show addressed school bullying.

It’s an epic weekend on the road in “Girls Trip”– now playing at the Somerville Theatre.

By Dre Joseph

Have you ever been on your way to work or driving around town and a song comes on the radio or your music streaming device and you yell out, “Oh! That’s my song!”? You turn up the volume, blasting your speakers as the bass thumps and rattles your car that has now turned into a time machine transporting you back to when you and your crew use to “turn all the way up” on the regular?

By Joe Beckman

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Since Mayor Capuano’s Affordable Housing Task Force in 1998, people have talked about a 1% transfer tax. Some see it as an “admission fee” to buy and move into Somerville. Some see a penalty for speculators. It was then. At that time, it was designed to support an Affordable Housing Trust Fund to finance rentals.