The annual fundraiser has to date raised more than $45,000 to benefit Somerville youth organizations, all in memory of Ryan Harrington.

By JC

A year after Ryan Harrington lost his battle with opioid addiction, the Harrington family founded the Ryan Harrington Foundation in his memory.

From that point on, they set out to make an impact on their community. They figured the best way to do that would be to raise and donate money to youth organizations in Somerville.

By Rebecca Danvers

Somerville Fire Lt. Jay Colbert was elected by acclimation as interim President of the Professional Firefighters of Massachusetts on Sept. 1. He will serve in this role through the October 23 union’s general election for President. Colbert replaces Edward Kelly, who on Aug. 17 was elected General Secretary-Treasurer of the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF).

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Originally, I had other plans for these fingerling potatoes, but an impromptu potluck dinner changed the fate of these little gems. I sorted through the potatoes looking for those similar in size, which is important for even cooking and, of course, presentation purposes. This dish is perfect for 4-6 people as an appetizer.

It goes without saying that not everyone gets their way when election time rolls around. There are winners and losers, the satisfied and the disgruntled. As passionately as we may feel about our pet issues of interest, the inevitable day comes when our convictions are put to the test and the results are set in stone, for better or worse, depending on which side you are standing on.

By Ross E. Blouin, Publisher The Somerville Times

VOTE FOR LELAND CHEUNG!!

Insanity: “doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result”…and here we are looking at another Primary Election this Thursday, September 8th. I saw Pat Jehlen out at the corner of Boston Ave. on the Medford Hillside with a bunch of her young minions from Tufts University and I thought back to the stark contrast she has made with our former State Senator, Charlie Shannon, may he rest in peace. Pat Jehlen couldn’t even be a coat holder for Charlie. The difference is so apparent, it is breathtaking. Senator Jehlen has been with us for 11 long years and she might be the darling of “the Chablis circuit” in Winchester, but she has not been our Senator here in Somerville. I offer the following numerical list of Senator Jehlen’s accomplishments over the past 11 years… -0-. That’s right folks, she has accomplished absolutely nothing for her constituents in Somerville. Oh sure she has made the perfunctory applications for City Charter changes, etc. but a clerk could have done that at a tenth of the cost. Pat, did you think we would not notice that you had skipped taking your per diems this election year, when you usually take them in other years.

Last Friday, September 2, at 1:46 a.m., Somerville Police 911 received calls regarding multiple vehicles on fire at a Walnut St. location. Upon arrival, units observed a Dodge Dakota, a Kawasaki motorcycle, and a moped engulfed in flames. Somerville Fire Department extinguished the fires. The incident is under investigation, and no further information is available at this time.

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Somerville Bagel Bard Alice Weiss reviews Frannie Lindsay’s new collection of poetry:

To any reader who knows Frannie Lindsay’s work it will come as no surprise that in this collection the poems are lyrical, complex, imagistic, syntactically subtle and musical. But they are also philosophical; they play with with and against logic. Take the title itself and the poem of the same name. If Mercy, is, the first clause of an if/then statement. In logic, if/then is a statement formed by combining two statements, where the second is a condition of the first. In such a statement, only if the If clause is true, can the statement be true. But in the poem the statements are incomplete. A series of nouns substitute for the clauses that follow the if clause: If, August, house, joy, mercy, peace. What is true here is the lightest touch of felt image: If August…

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Poet Alfred Nicol writes The Times: Ichabod’s Diary and several other poems written in his voice appear in my second collection of poems, Elegy for Everyone. This new poem in Ichabod’s voice, Persnickety Ichabod, Class of ’74, represents the only appearance of the persona in my new collection, Animal Psalms, published this year by Able Muse Press. Ichabod finds himself at a high school reunion and, having found himself, wishes there was some way he could get lost. Unfortunately, as noted in one of his diary entries, “one can’t get away / without having to stay / somewhere else, so it’s pointless to travel.”

Arrests:
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Eduardo Donson, of 20 Perry St., August 30, 5:33 p.m., arrested at Washington St. on warrant charges of marked lanes violation and operation of a motor vehicle with a suspended license.

Colleen McCarthy, of 1 Colonial Village Dr., Arlington, August 30, 6:29 p.m., arrested at Winter St. on warrant charges of felony daytime breaking and entering, utter false check, and larceny from a building.