Somerville Neighborhood News #59 was election heavy! Stories focused on engaging young voters to polling to local presidential candidate canvassing teams.

In SNN #59, we explore how two thirds of Somerville residents are renters, and many of those are young and have no ties to the city, and no political involvement. Getting young voters to participate is good for them and for the process. Young Somerville takes on the issue. Find out more on this topic in SNN #59!

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas have announced that they have located the suspect vehicle in connection with a hit-and-run crash involving an individual in a wheelchair early Sunday morning at approximately 4:40 a.m.  They have also identified a Somerville resident as the driver of the car. This remains an open and active investigation and no charges have yet been filed.

The City of Somerville is sponsoring the 2016 Urban Agriculture Ambassador Program (UAAP). Taught by Green City Growers, a Somerville-based urban agriculture company, the program is now seeking applicants for the 2016 class. The UAAP, which started as a pilot in 2013, will train 20 residents in urban growing techniques in exchange for 30 hours of volunteer service in garden projects across the city. Four intensive workshops will take place on Saturdays in April and May (April 16, 23, and 30, and May 7), covering topics including building raised beds, planting and harvesting, troubleshooting pests, and an introduction to bee- and chicken-keeping.

By William Shelton

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Some people fondly remember high school as a time of increasing freedom, new learning experiences, youthful hijinks, and shared adventures. Others, less so.

By Sal Ghamo

Aeronaut Brewing Company. — Photo by Sal Ghamo

The idea breathes in every full glass of brew. The stills hide in plain sight, their responsible for the IPA’s dripping off your collection of empty glasses, and now the steel reflection on those stills bounces between your grip and drags your focus to the back wall. Nostalgia screams it’s light across a canvas, because where most pubs would have a cliche painting of some suds on the wall, this machine of an environment projects Super Mario onto it for the people to play. Live music, real music is everywhere. It’s a sound that can only very suitably be measured in RPM’s, because when you walk into Aeronaut Brewing Company you’re witnessing the engine of a brewery, you’re floating under the experimental hood, the laboratory for the machine.

By Brian Harris

The Prospect Hill Academy Lady Wizards go into post-season play with a perfect undefeated record of 16-0.

The undefeated Prospect Hill Academy Lady Wizards will take their perfect record of 16-0 into post-season play on Friday, March 4, at 4 pm at the Clark Athletic Center on the campus of U Mass Boston. This will kick-off the quarter-finals of the 2015-2016 Massachusetts Charter School Athletic Organization (MCSAO) Girls’ Basketball State Tournament. Their opponent will be the winner of a preliminary round contest between two high schools from Hyde Park—the Academy of the Pacific Rim (9-3) and Boston Prep (8-4).

By Jim Clark

While walking along Grand Union Blvd. last Friday, two police officers took notice of a man who placed a plastic shopping bag inside a trash receptacle and then walk into the nearby Express store.

Curious as to what the man was doing, the officers waited to see what might happen next. A short time later, they reportedly observed the same man exit the store, at which time he removed clothing from inside his jacket and, place them in another plastic shopping bag, which he then stashed in another trash receptacle.

By Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone

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Given Somerville’s industrial past, we’re no strangers to cleanup operations. Almost every development in the city involves some type of brownfields recovery and we’ve been steadily reviving the water quality in the Mystic River for decades. I remember in my youth when litter was a lot more prevalent, not just in Somerville but everywhere, and your nose used to fill with soot from the local air pollution. Our city and American society in general has gotten a lot cleaner in my lifetime … except when it comes to greenhouse gases.

Arrests:
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Erin Eckert, of 22 Brookings St., Medford, February 22, 4:32 p.m., arrested at Foley St. on warrant charges of conspiracy to violate drug law, attempt to commit a crime, and distribution of a class B drug.

Glenn Ketterle, of 452 Winthrop St., Medford, February 23, 9:00 a.m., arrested at College Ave. on charges of bicycle violation and bicycle violator refusal to identify self.

Somerville High Senior Gabrielle Etienne placed third in the Shot Put at the New England  High School Track Championships held on Sunday, February 28 at the Reggie Lewis Center. Etienne’s best throw of 40’9.5″ came on her final throw in the competition and moved her into third place. Etienne holds the Somerville High Shot Put record with her throw of 40′ 11.5″ at the Massachusetts State Finals.