Make the Mural Night is this week, on Thursday, from 8:00–10:00 p.m. at 34 Cross Street East. You are welcome to join in to bring the mural design to life. Help trace the community mural design on the wall at Deano’s Pasta Factory. The Cross Street mural projection event is an opportunity for the community to see and be a part of a very important part of the mural process. You can help trace the community mural design up onto its new home and reveal a mural design created from community participation and stories told at the mural design event on the 18th. The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded East Somerville Main Streets, in conjunction with the Somerville Arts Council, a grant to fund a place making initiative for East Somerville during 2014 and 2015. The initiative, called “This is East,” will celebrate, maintain and promote East Somerville’s identity at this time of change for the neighborhood. This event is only one piece of a much larger place making initiative that includes video stories and other events.

By Rebecca Danvers

Crystal Rene´ Burney has been beautifying various spaces in Somerville, such as the Trum Park Playground, pictured here, and will now be creating a mural for the new US2/Workbar headquarters in Union Square.

Somerville mural artist Crystal Rene´ Burney has been selected to design a mural celebrating Union Square in the new headquarters of Union Square Station Associates (US2), the City of Somerville’s master developer partner for Union Square’s revitalization, that it will share with co-working space network Workbar.

By Jim Clark

Plainclothes police officers working a narcotics surveillance detail in the Assembly Square area last Saturday evening observed what they believed to be suspicious activity in the Home Depot parking lot and decided to investigate the situation.

And so it goes. Boston’s arguably controversial bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympic games is no more, as proponents of the plan failed to meet the required expectations of the United States Olympic Committee in the allotted time.

Peach season is finally here. This versatile fruit can be used in salads, compotes, salsas, preserves and pies or whatever clever idea you can think of. One way I like to prepare them is using a grill or grill pan to bring out the natural sweetness of the fruit. The desserts listed below are not overly sweet, but if preferred, sugar may be substituted for the honey.

This week we have poems in Spanish by Sergio Inestrosa, a professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Endicott College, with English translations by Max Sklar. Max Sklar is an actor and a translator based in Salem, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of McGill University, and works as the Foreign Language tour coordinator for Cambridge Historical Tours.

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Somerville Police Chief David Fallon have announced that Imran Laltaprasad, 31, of Quincy, has been found guilty on charges of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute heroin. Middlesex Superior Court Judge Shannon Frison sentenced Laltaprasad todayto two and a half years in the House of Correction.

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Osvaldo Lima, of 4 Sterling Sq., Boston, July 21, 5:51 p.m., arrested at Washington St. on charges of refusal to identify self, resisting arrest, bicycle violation, and assault and battery on a police officer.

Nelly Oliver, of Somerville, will be walking with her coworkers as Senior Research Project Manager working with Dr. Levi Garraway in the Center for Cancer Precision Medicine Team in the upcoming Boston Marathon® Jimmy Fund Walk. Together, the team of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute caregivers has one unifying goal, to conquer cancer.