By Jim Clark

A Somerville Police officer on detail at last week’s Fireworks Celebration took notice of two individuals who had reportedly gotten into a heated argument as they were walking down Broadway towards Medford St.

In the 20 years that I have lived in Somerville I have often heard of that bastion of ceramic arts, the Mudflat Studio. I always wanted to visit, but I never got around to it. So when I got the Somerville Arts Council announcement about East Somerville Main Streets’ collaboration with the studio on a mosaic project, as part of a larger project “This is East,” I was intrigued and tracked the story down.

By Jim Clark

Police officers were dispatched to the Pendelton Outlet located at 520 Assembly Row last Friday on reports of a shoplifting.

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Christopher Silveira, of 23 Foch St., Cambridge, June 29, 4:00 p.m., arrested at 1366 Broadway on charges of assault and battery on a police officer, threat to commit a crime, and resisting arrest.

The Food and Nutrition truck is loaded with healthy provisions for the city’s hungry youngsters.

Free breakfast and lunch prepared by Somerville’s award-winning Food and Nutrition Services Department will be available all summer for youth under the age of 19. Just look for the Food and Nutrition truck to get your free meal. Here is a list of locations and times where you can enjoy a nutritious meal this summer:

If you receive a call from someone stating that they are from the “IRS” or the “State of Massachusetts” and they say if you do not pay a certain amount of money TODAY they will send the police to arrest you, it is a SCAM. They will provide you with certain information regarding your address and or close family members’ names. The suspects pay for this information on a website like ZABASEARCH.COM. It gives them this information to make them seem legitimate. They use various different numbers including the IRS’s tty number. If you receive a call like this, simply hang up and inform your local police department.

You can call our non-emergency line at 617-625-1212 to report it.

By Tom Bannister

Somerville resident Kaleigh Conte will be participating in the Bay State Games for the Metro girls hockey team this summer. Conte is entering her sophomore year as a defenseman at Phillips Exeter Academy. This is Conte’s second summer skating with the Metro team.

Legendary musical Renaissance man Booker T. Jones will be performing at Johnny D’s on July 9. — Photos by Piper Ferguson.

By Blake Maddux

In addition to having their own major success with the 1962 single Green Onions, one of the most recognizable instrumentals in popular music, Booker T. Jones and the band The MG’s played on numerous recordings by some of the greatest soul and blues musicians of all time. As the house band for the Memphis-based record label Stax, The MG’s (sometimes without Jones) are heard on songs by Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Carla and Rufus Thomas, Sam & Dave, Johnnie Taylor, and Albert King, for whom Jones co-wrote the classic blues number Born Under a Bad Sign.

The Duhamel Education Initiative (DEI) presented seven grant awards to Somerville Public Schools educators at the June 22nd School Committee meeting, to support innovative programs in 2015-2016. DEI sponsors grants of up to $1,000 to support at-risk students.