The Somerville Alibrandis dominated the Brighton Minutemen by a score of 11-1 Friday night, coming off of a rejuvenating break in the season due to some rainouts earlier that week.

By Ben Cassidy

After a couple of rainouts earlier in the week, the Somerville Alibrandis looked well rested last Friday night against Brighton, thrashing the Minutemen 11-1 at Trum Field.

Somerville used a consistent offensive attack and dominant pitching to beat the Minutemen. The Alibrandis scored five runs in the fourth inning and three in the sixth, along with single runs in the second, third, and fifth innings. When it was all over, every Somerville batter had collected at least one hit, including Mike Maguire, who belted his first home run of the season and drove in three runs.

Enjoy local cooking with a night out
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About Community Survey: SCATV has been serving the community since 1983. We’ve grown to be quite rooted and interwoven into the rich culture that continues to exist here in Somerville. We have trained over thousands of residents and media makers, empowering them and providing them with tools that enable them to create media which they can then share with others. However, we want to find out what specific things people know about us. We are asking a few brief questions that will help us improve our visibility in Somerville.

Our guest columnist this week is Somerville writer Ralph Pennel. Ralph is the fiction editor at the Midway Journal (Online) and teaches at Bunker Hill Community College. Here he reviews Reckoning, a novel by local writer Rusty Barnes.

The LYRICAL got this message from poet Janet Dutcher. “I am a Senior at Endicott College with a minor in English. The inspiration for this poem came from the long winter we had and my desire for a warm summer day at the beach. I hope you enjoy Summer at Singing Beach.”

Arrests:
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Naresh Bhandari, 25, of 27 Sewall St., July 14, 8:28 a.m., arrested at home on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault, and assault and battery.

Daniel Caruso, 47, of 97 Ten Hills Rd., July 14, 4:04 p.m., arrested at home on a charge of abuse prevention order violation.

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Ward 4 Alderman Tony Lafuente, and the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development (OSPCD) invite all interested community members to an informational community meeting to discuss upcoming renovations to the Marshall Street Playground. The meeting will be held in the conference room at the Central Library, 79 Highland Avenue, on Thursday, July 24 at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome to attend. For more information, please contact Luisa Oliveira at 617-625-6600 ext. 2529, or LOliveira@somervillema.gov.

Assembly Row Summer Series is right around the corner, so get ready to have some fun in the sun – and the shade.

By Jeremy F. van der Heiden

Assembly Row is one of the hottest areas in Somerville today, as the shops and restaurants have already started to open and the new MBTA station is set to be functional within the next few months. While the attractions have already started to attract more Somervillians and others from neighboring towns, several events will likely send traffic soaring even higher.

Former funeral director Joseph V. O’Donnell.

By Jim Clark

Cremated human remains have been discovered in storage facilities in Somerville and Weymouth by law enforcement investigators who have been looking into allegations of fraud by a former funeral director, Joseph V. O’Donnell, 55, of Mattapan.

Dozens of cremated remains were found by investigators at U-Haul Moving & Storage in Somerville on Wednesday of last week, followed by 12 more remains discovered in a Public Storage Unit in Weymouth on Thursday.

— Photo by Claudia Ferro

The Sunsetters will be performing at the following locations through the month of July:
July 21 — Palmacci Park
July 22 — Little Sisters (indoors)
July 23 — Pearl Street Park
July 24 — 21 Hall Ave.
July 28 — 22 Rose St.
July 29 — Cobble Hill Apts
July 30 — Chandler Street
July 31 — 20 Kensington Ave.

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

(The opinions and views expressed in the commentaries of The Somerville Times belong solely to the authors of those commentaries and do not reflect the views or opinions of The Somerville Times, its staff or publishers)

Originally published July 17, 2010

My kids had turned just about every light in the house on and went out. When they came back I said, “Who do you think I am, Rockefeller?” They looked at me with a very strange expression. I should have updated it to Donald Trump.