Pitcher Sean Sullivan played a big role in helping the Somerville Alibrandis nail down its fifth consecutive championship title.

By Jim Clark

The Somerville Alibrandis have won the Yawkey Baseball League Championship for the fifth straight year in a row, having beaten the Al Thomas Athletics in 5 games.

While Somerville largely dominated the series, the Athletics gave them a run for their money. In game 1 Somerville prevailed over the A’s 3–2, beginning the championship series with a 1-0 lead.

Well, what is so special about the opening of yet another T-stop in our city, one might ask? On the Orange Line, no less? After all, the big news is the Green Line Extension, isn’t it? What with its blazing a new trail through previously untouched territory, transit-wise that is.

Not so fast, though. As we all know, the route towards the redevelopment of the Assembly area has been a long and torturously twisting one. Riddled with false starts, unfulfilled commitments, and ultimately triumphant in the realization of its present state as a modern, thriving commercial success story.

*Eagle Feathers #60 – The Sentinel

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

How old is Somerville? It depends on how you measure it. If you use the European settlement or when it was part of Charlestown as your barometer, it would date from 1628. If you use the time that it separated from Charlestown, it would be 1842. If you use when it became a city, it would be 1872.

By Jim Clark

A uniformed Somerville police officer on bicycle patrol in Union Square last week attempted to stop another cyclist for a violation, but was met with resistance by the violator.

Police said that the cyclist, Jessica Dasilva, 30, ignored the officer’s request to stop and attempted to leave the area without regard to the order to stop.

On Miranda Aisling’s website she describes herself as an “idea machine.” And indeed, Aisling is chock-full of ideas for different creative projects. Aisling, who lives on the Somerville/Arlington line, loves the area. She said: “I love all the artists, and young creative people that are running art-based businesses.” Aisling, who holds an advanced degree in Community Arts from Lesley University, has recently written a book “Don’t Make Art, Make Something.” In a nutshell the book deals with the creative block most people encounter in their lives. Aisling said: “Once people create, just the act of creating opens things up. I want people to recognize their creativity. Not everyone is going to be an accomplished artist but everyone has their own degree of creativity.”

Arrests:
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Christopher MacInnes, 32, of 64 Gibbon St., Medford, August 25, 3:27 p.m., arrested at 540 Broadway on warrant charges of miscellaneous municipal ordinance violation and shoplifting by concealing merchandise.

Rose Louis, 46, of 3 Sargent Ave., August 25, 3:47 p.m., arrested at 540 Broadway on warrant charges of threat to commit a crime and assault.

Josh Buckley will be celebrating the release of his new album at the Lizard Lounge on Sept.4.

By Blake Maddux

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Josh Buckley was born at Boston’s now-defunct St. Margaret’s Hospital in 1973. He later graduated from Emerson College with a degree in audio and video engineering.

Buckley released Living Man’s Blues, his first solo album, in 2005. That same year, he moved to Somerville and formed the band Gilded Splinters, which describes itself on Facebook as “Rolling Stones and Hank Williams with a touch of the Who.”  They recorded three records and toured locally before moving to Austin, Texas, in 2011.

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Ward 5 Alderman Mark Niedergang invite neighbors and community members to a public meeting on Monday, September 8 to discuss the Cedar Street Flood Mitigation Project. The meeting will be held in the Kennedy School cafeteria, 5 Cherry Street, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Acting City Engineer, Melissa Miguel, and Weston & Sampson Consulting Engineers will present twenty-five percent design plans and review the proposed timeline for the planned sewer separation project. For more information about the project, contact Melissa Miguel at 617-625-6600 ext. 5412, or MMiguel@somervillema.gov.

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

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My two sons have been living with their mother since 2005. I still live in the big old cluttered family house with the family pug. Family pug? I guess he’s my pug because I have been feeding him, taking him to the vet, walking him and cleaning up after him by myself for 9 years.