— Photo by Claudia Ferro

Local Stop & Shop employees took a bus to go to a negotiation meeting at Lombardo’s in Randolph on Sunday. Their current contract ended on Saturday, so a negotiation meeting was arranged. While no strike is underway at the moment, the employees voted to authorize one if necessary.

Sometimes it seems like you can’t win for losing. Especially when the fight itself is fraught with controversy.

Take, for example, the case of the City of Somerville vs. the proposed Wynn Casino in the city of Everett. There seem to be plenty of people shouting pros and cons over both sides of the fence, with solid sounding arguments to back up their respective positions.

Somerville Middle School Team won their 2015-2016 Valley League Championship lead by Coaches Sergio Amaral and John Donovan over the Bedford Junior Bucks in Haverhill on Sunday night.  They ended the season with a 10-4-1 record.

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There has always been a cafe in my life, some haunt where I can read the paper, get my head on straight, maybe do some writing and then move on. T.S. Eliot wrote that he could measure his life in coffee spoons. I guess I can relate to that.

Mary Millner McCullough is a writer, performer, and co-founder of The Streetfeet Women, a multicultural writing and performing company. McCullough’s plays have been produced by Our Place Theater Project of Roxbury and the former Theater Cooperative of Somerville. Her play Sorry Don’t Fix It was selected from an Ed Bullin’s Playwriting Workshop for production by ACTRoxbury; and Twilight Time, also written by McCullough, was toured nationally by The Streetfeet Women. McCullough’s fiction and poetry have been featured in Streetfeet publications and local literary journals. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from Goddard College and a Masters of Arts in Writing from Northeastern University. McCullough lives in Somerville, MA.

— Photo by Donald Norton

Massachusetts projected winners:

Republican Party

Donald Trump

Democratic Party

Hillary Clinton

Below is how the city of Somerville voted.

Somerville’s projected winners:

Starting on April 1, the Somerville Council on Aging and the Health & Human Services Department, in conjunction with the Somerville Fire Department, will offer free smoke alarms/carbon monoxide detectors to Somerville’s older adults and to Somerville residents with a wide range of disabilities (Photoelectric Smoke Alarm with ADA Compliant Strobe Light will be available) as part of the Senior SAFE Program. The Senior SAFE Program is designed to create a partnership between the older adults and fire departments through established providers of senior support services such as the Council on Aging, Senior Center, Visiting Nurse Association, or other similar agencies.

Today, Massachusetts will hold its Primary Election for the 2016 Presidential Election. Polls will be open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. To find a complete list of polling places in your ward click here.

Don’t forget to vote!

The Somerville High School Science Department invites parents/guardians, younger students and their families, teachers, and community members, to the 2016 SHS Science & Engineering Fair Exhibition Night on Thursday, March 3, from 4:30-6:00pm. Come view student science fair research projects and listen to student presentations. Visitors will be able to view the projects at their leisure from 4:30-5:30pm and an informal awards ceremony will follow at 5:30pm at the SHS Auditorium. A host will greet you at the school’s main entrance and escort you up to the science project area.

As a culminating activity to their poetry unit, second grade students at the Winter Hill Community Innovation School presented a “Poetry Slam” on Friday, February 12th.  Students highlighted their poetry writings with eloquent ‘performances’ of their poetry in front of an appreciative audience. Parents were in attendance, along with fifth grade book buddies.