Arrests:
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Frank Chan, of 109 Glen St., June 19, 7:47 a.m., arrested at home on a charge of misdemeanor breaking and entering.
Nicole Monico, of 2 Hannah St., Haverhill, June 20, 10:37 a.m., arrested at Skilton Ave. on a warrant charge of operation of a motor vehicle with a suspended license.
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The Food and Nutrition truck is loaded with healthy provisions for the city’s hungry youngsters.
Enjoy free breakfast and lunch prepared by Somerville’s award-winning Food and Nutrition Services Department, available all summer for youth under the age of 19. Look for the Food and Nutrition truck to get your nutritious free meal. For more information, please visit www.somerville.k12.ma.us/summermeals.

Kristin Bell.
By Kristin Bell
Consider the toll moving takes on someone. Now apply that to an older adult or person with disabilities, living on a low fixed income. Unfortunately, displacement is a very real issue facing many who contact Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES) for help.
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Somerville Media Center and Greater Somerville host Joe Lynch showcased the WGBH-TV, 2017 winners of the “Sing That Thing” competition. This is “Sound Off”.

Gal Gadot Stars as everyone’s super-Amazon, “Wonder Woman,” now playing at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square.
By Dre Joseph
When she was first sketched on a blank page, it was 1940, the dark days of the Second World War. A year later she made her first appearance in All Star Comics. Little boys liked her because she was strong – and half-naked. Little girls liked her because she was pretty.
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The Little Sisters of the Poor, Jeanne Jugan Residence on Highland Avenue were chosen among over 500 applicants to be one of 100 charities to receive a grant of $100,000 as part of this year’s Cumming Foundation 100K for 100 programs.
The Sisters are thrilled about this generous gift, as it will help them in continuing their mission of serving the Elderly Poor of the Greater Boston area.
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London-born Ghanaian, now US citizen, Andrew.
Andrew: late 30s, shaved head and a goatee, is a London-born Ghanaian – tall, powerful looking, broad-shouldered, with an exuberant, gap toothed smile – who became a US citizen in 2010.
At Andrew’s invitation, I am at his apartment for the Super Bowl, eating Haitian Creole goat from a Union Square restaurant, drinking red wine, and enjoying Andrew’s enthusiasm whenever he jumps up from the couch to yell in exasperation or triumph. Opposite his large screen TV, two framed black and white photos, of scenes from Boston and New York City, hang on the wall over his leather sectional couch. Andrew has lived in Boston since 2007 and is a Patriots fan.
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