The Metro team prevailed with a 7-3 victory over the Southeast/Coastal team in the bronze medal game last week.

By Charles Lane

On July 10, two Somerville residents captured a bronze medal at the Bay State Games with the Metro girl’s hockey team. Kaleigh Conte (Phillips Exeter) and Shannon Higgins (Somerville High) helped lead the Metro team to 7-3 victory over the Southeast/Coastal team in the bronze medal game.

Airbnb rentals have entered the crosshairs of city officials who see a need for regulation and taxation of the service.

By Josie Grove

Short-term vacation rentals have proliferated in recent years, thanks to sites like Airbnb, which boasts hundreds of vacation apartments and rooms in Somerville. Airbnb handles payments between guests and hosts, but it has cut the state and municipalities out of the deal, and skirts the regulations governing hotels. Legislation on Beacon Hill could change the equation, and Somerville’s board of aldermen is considering how to regulate the short-term rental market.

~Photos by Claudia Ferro

Presented by the Somerville Arts Council, ArtBeat took place last weekend in Somerville’s Davis Square.
This is one of the area’s largest and most innovative arts festivals, with over a dozen bands, dance troupes, 75 craft vendors, food, and all-age activities.

Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) and Somerville Community Access Television (SCATV) this Thursday night will hold a candidates’ debate will be held, beginning at 6:00 p.m. The first one is for the 2nd Middlesex Senate District and the second one is for the 27th Middlesex Representative District. The debate will be held over at the Cambridge studio, 438 Massachusetts Avenue, and will be between incumbent State Senator Pat Jehlen and challenger, Cambridge City Councilor Leland Cheung. Following the Senate race debate, there will be another one between incumbent State Representative Tim Toomey and Mike Connolly, beginning at approximately 7:30 p.m. The debate will be produced and moderated by Joe Lynch of SCATV. The panelists will be from Somerville, Medford and Cambridge.

‘Villens United by Chris Haskell

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Black lives matter. Blue lives matter. ALL LIVES MATTER…

Over the last few weeks the media has been flooded with horrible images of innocent black men and innocent police officers being gunned down. While there is justifiable anger on both sides of this senseless violence, there are those in the media who are carelessly fanning the flames of rage and ignorance to push their own agenda. Instead of trying to shine a light on the problem and help unify our country they choose only to blame and further divide. Unfortunately one such media outlet is The Somerville News Weekly.

Yunior Mayorga-Galvez.

By Jim Clark

On Sunday, July 17, at approximately 10:00 p.m. a Transit Police officer assigned to the North District received a radio call to respond to the Kendall Square MBTA station to investigate a possible assault.

It’s kind of crazy how certain trends take off like wildfire and consume the world’s time and attention, to the point where it becomes big news and suddenly everyone’s talking about it.

Barely even two weeks old, the Pokémon GO game app phenomenon has probably set records for the speed at which it spread in usage and popularity among those who have gotten “the bug.”

Eagle Feathers #108 – The Memory of a Lifetime

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

It was March 8, 1862. The location was near the mouth of the James River at Hampton Roads, Virginia. The Civil War was then raging, and the Union Navy commanded this position in order to protect Washington, D.C.

Somerville Rotary’s installation of new officers and directors for the upcoming year took place recently at the Holiday Inn.

By Tom Bannister

The Somerville Rotary Club announced the installation of its new officers and directors for the upcoming Rotary year that started July 1. The club met at the Holiday Inn for an evening of awards and leadership recognition.

Mr. Emmanuel “Manny” J. Roche

December 23, 1924 – July 13, 2016

Mr. Emmanuel “Manny” J. Roche – 91, A resident  of Somerville and York Beach, Maine, passed away surrounded by his family at the Jeanne Jugan Residence.