By Haley ED Houseman

Rachel Estapa’s More to Love Yoga classes are bringing body acceptance awareness to the realm of personal fitness and health.

To the uninitiated, yoga can seem the purview only of fitness gurus twisting themselves into pretzels, or pushing up into handstands. While yoga classes fall across a wide spectrum of practice, from quiet mediation to more intense and sweaty bikram, classes and their teachers are usually one size fits all. Rachel Estapa is on a mission to bring the benefits of yoga to all kind of bodies. Her classes, called More to Love Yoga, are geared toward an audience that doesn’t feature in the considerations of most yoga classes, where practitioners can be intimidatingly flexible and fit.

Odd/even parking started last week on April Fool’s Day, and will go through to December 31. Those Traffic and Parking people will be walking around handing out tickets, so watch the signs on the various streets for the day your street is earmarked for street cleaning.

The Somerville Democratic City Committee’s Reorganization Meeting and Caucus took place on Sunday, April 3 at Somerville High School.

By Joseph Hannigan

This past Sunday, the Somerville Democratic City Committee’s Reorganization Meeting and Caucus was held at Somerville High School. Approximately 100 Democratic Party members were in attendance, representing all seven wards in Somerville.

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Every spring and fall, I make a point to go through my spice and dry goods cabinet looking for soon to be expired items, rearrange products and take inventory. A couple of weeks ago I found a pannetone leftover from Christmas. Not wanting to waste it, I came up with this great recipe that can be used for part of your brunch menu. I like to serve this bread pudding with crème anglaise. You can make your own crème anglaise, but I found it much easier to purchase my favorite vanilla ice cream and let it melt down. That sure beats purchasing all the ingredients and having to cook down the cream, eggs, sugar and vanilla extract.

By Jim Clark

Police officers were dispatched to the Cataldo Ambulance parking lot on Washington St. last week on reports of a motor vehicle incident.

Upon arrival, an employee of Cataldo Ambulance reportedly told the officers that a man, later identified as Jatinder Singh, had parked a car in the lot and began walking away. The employee said that Singh was told that he could not leave the car parked there so he turned back and returned to the car.

By Rebecca Danvers

Sophomore Melissa Baptista led Tufts’ quarterfinal win over Scranton with 23 points.

The Tufts University women’s basketball team competed in their first-ever national title game on Monday, April 4, in Indianapolis. The Jumbos entered the tournament as a 7-seed but have emerged as the Cinderella story in Division III.

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Article by Guest Columnist Kirk Etherton.

I am happy to report that in this year’s poetry festival a number of Somerville poets will be reading, including Harris Gardner, Lucy Holstedt, Kirk Etherton, State Representative Denise Provost, Lloyd Schwartz, Ifeanyi Menkiti, Gloria Mindock, Alexander Levering Kern, and Doug Holder.

Our poet this week is Nina R. Alonso. Alonso is the founder of the literary magazine Constellations.

Urban grocer’s model aims to focus on fresh foods

An urban grocer, Fresh Formats LLC, has filed building permit applications to open a fresh foods market at 240 Elm St. in Davis Square, the site of the former Social Security Building. Ongoing renovation of the building is underway and it is expected that the 11,000-square-foot ground floor will be a neighborhood market later this year.

Arrests:
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 Matthew Galvin, of 49 College Ave., March 30, 11:49 a.m., arrested at College Ave. on warrant charges of nighttime breaking and entering of a vehicle or boat, larceny over $250, utter false check, receiving stolen property under $250, forgery of check, and possession of a burglarious instrument.