By Bobby Potaris

The Somerville Times talked to two service representatives/technicians, Doug Graybea and Len Nielson, who came to Somerville recently to train railroad engineers on the new technology in locomotives.

Happy April Fool’s Day to everyone out there. We hope the only fools are those fools that think they are fooling everyone but they aren’t. They’re just bullies and wanabees.

Space will help fulfill vision of Union Square as an employment center

Union Square Station Associates (US2), the City’s master developer partner for Union Square’s revitalization, announced today it has signed a lease to open a headquarters in Union Square.

Eagle Feathers #75 – Torpedoes Away

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

Before Vice-Admiral Ralph Waldo Christie left the U.S. Navy in 1949, he had spent thirty-eight years working his way up the ranks. The Somerville native graduated from the Naval Academy in 1915. As an Ensign, he had various duties. His first ship assignment was on the battleship, New Jersey, where he received instruction on submarine construction and torpedo design. This prepared him for the newly opened Submarine School in New London, Connecticut, becoming one of its first members. By 1923, he had earned a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Not many of us can boast that we are perfectly fit and not in need of some serious physical training. Those who are that fit can number themselves among the most fortunate. With fitness comes a better quality of life, a generally healthy state of being, and the satisfaction of knowing that one is living their lives to the fullest. At least as far as our bodies are concerned.

A.D. Winans has appeared numerous times in the LYRICAL SOMERVILLE and Somerville’s literary magazine IBBETSON STREET. Here is a review of his latest book:

Nina Rubinstein Alonso’s poems appeared in The New Yorker, Bagel Bards, U. Mass. Review, Ploughshares, Ibbetson Street, etc. and her book This Body was published by David Godine Press.  Her stories were in Broadkill Review and Southern Women’s Review, was once a pushcart nominee, and she edits Constellations A Journal of Poetry and Fiction: www.constellations-lit.com.

The street sweeping parking enforcement season resumes tonight at midnight, the beginning of Wednesday, April 1, and residents are reminded that they must adhere to posted schedules, and move vehicles to the appropriate side of the road on sweeping days. Street sweeping schedules are posted on signs on every street that is swept in Somerville. Failure to comply with street sweeping parking regulations will result in a $50 fine.