Our guest reviewer this week is Tom Miller. Miller is a Somerville Bagel Bard – a history graduate student at Salem State University, and a retired auto industry executive.

Philip Burnham, Jr. writes of the Ukraine – the carnage – the pain, and yet perhaps a hint of beauty and transcendence.

— Photo by Donald Norton

(from the City of Somerville’s Election Dept.)

DEMOCRATIC

SENATOR IN CONGRESS
EDWARD J. MARKEY  6309
WRITE IN  191
BLANK  1404

GOVERNOR
DONALD M. BERWICK  2610
MARTHA COAKLEY  2986
STEVEN GROSSMAN  2130
WRITE IN  28
BLANK  150

— Photos by John Pratti

A sinkhole was discovered in the street near the corner of Pearl and Medford Streets.

The City of Somerville invites all community members to join in the annual 9/11 Vigil Walk to honor those who lost their lives in the attacks on the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, and on Flight 93 in 2001. The walk will step off from the Cedar Street end of the Community Path at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 11, and end with a brief ceremony in Davis Square.

The City of Somerville is pleased to announce the next community meeting for the Central Broadway Streetscape Improvements Project, held by the Mayor’s Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development and part of the Somerville by Design process.

The meeting will be take place on Wednesday, September 10, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm at the Arthur D. Healey School, 5 Meacham Street in Somerville.  The meeting will be held in the cafeteria.

Arrests:
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Ryan Gfeller, 20, of 607 Fellsway, Medford, September 2, 4:31 a.m., arrested at 16 Puritan Rd. on a charge of nighttime breaking and entering of a vehicle or boat.

Vando Macedo, 24, of 175 Norfolk Ave., Boston, September 3, 9:13 a.m., arrested at Broadway on a charge of possession of a class B drug and on a warrant charge of operation of a motor vehicle with a suspended license.

To gather data on how the recently issued trash toters are serving city and resident needs, the City of Somerville is asking residents to take a brief phone survey on the program, as well as the Zero Sort Recycling program that was rolled out in 2012.

Beginning on Monday, September 8, residents currently signed up to receive city alerts via telephone will receive a call requesting they take the seven question survey.

Beginning on Monday, September 8 and lasting through late 2015, ongoing repairs to the Gilman Street Bridge on McGrath Highway will require the closure of Gilman Street to all pedestrian traffic. During this work, pedestrians traveling south on Gilman Street will turn left onto Aldrich Street and cross McGrath Highway at the Pearl Street pedestrian signal. Those traveling north will turn right onto Cross Street to return to the McGrathy Highway and Pearl Street signal.

Somerville Overcoming Addiction’s vigil honoring those who have been lost due to substance abuse will be held Monday at Connextions in Somerville.

By Cathleen Twardzik

A photo collage was created for display at Somerville Overcoming Addiction’s (SOA) First Annual Vigil, which will occur on September 8. The purpose of the vigil is to recognize, to remember and to celebrate loved ones all of whom were lost to addiction.

On August 12, SOA hosted an event at 149 Broadway Somerville at Connextions to make the collage. Participants were asked to bring photos of their loved ones to produce it, and pizza was provided by Wicked Sober Inc.