By Somerville Times Staff

The city of Somerville, Somerville Community Corporation (SCC) and Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) will hold three public forums starting the first week of February to discuss housing issues in the city with an eye towards shaping future housing policies.

The forums, titled Housing Roundtables: A Discussion Series on Housing for Families and Individuals in Somerville, will be held on the following Tuesdays: Feb. 4 and 11 and March 4. Each forum will begin with registration and refreshments at 5:30 p.m. followed by discussions that will run from 6 to 8:30. All meetings will be held at the Argenziano School, 290 Washington St., and will include childcare and interpretation services.

SHS Girls JV Basketball hosted Winthrop on Monday, losing the game with a score of 44 to 39.

Wednesday, Jan 22, 2014

No School due to snow

Thursday, Jan 23, 2014

Ice Hockey: Boys Varsity Tournament vs. Arlington or Triton at 6 p.m. – TBD

Boys Varsity Indoor Track: vs. Everett at Field House – 3:30 p.m.

Girls Varsity Indoor Track: vs. Everett at Field House – 3:30 p.m.

 Eagle Feathers #44 – The Finest

In 1927, life changed dramatically along the Mystic River marshes in Somerville.  Headquarters for the nation’s first retail supermarket chain was built at the intersection of Middlesex and Mystic Avenues.  It was a huge complex that encompassed a packing plant, a bakery complex, and multiple produce warehouses.

Mayor Curtatone and Meridith Levy stand proud with their CPA awards together with Rep. Carl Sciortino, Rep.Denise Provost, Senator Pat Jehlen and Emily Monea, the City’s Community Preservation Act Manager.

On Tuesday, January 14, Mayor Joe Curtatone and SCC Deputy Director Meridith Levy became recipients of the 2014 Kuehn Community Preservation Award, presented by the Community Preservation Coalition at the Massachusetts State House.

I braved the unforgiving winds of the Polar Vortex on a recent January afternoon to reach the warm shelter of the Somerville Community Access TV studios. There I was to interview two key staff members of this fine organization: Erica Jones and Gordon Nelson. Jones, an upbeat woman hovering around the 30 year old mark, has a slightly subversive sense of humor, and a knack for snappy dialogue. For the past year or so Jones has been the Program and Outreach Coordinator for SCAT. Nelson, a laid back man, with a graying beard and an avuncular manner, is the Youth Coordinator for this non-profit.

Emily Pineau’s poetry has appeared in the anthology, Like One: Poems For Boston, and in newspapers and literary journals such as The Somerville News, The Endicott Observer, The Endicott Review, Ibbetson Street, Muddy River Poetry Review, and Notes from the Gean: Monthly Haiku Journal. The Ibbetson Street Press of Somerville published her poetry collection, No Need to Speak. The Aurorean chose No Need to Speak as the Editor’s Chap/Book Choice to be featured in their October issue in 2013.

Please note that due to snow, the Assessment Info Session scheduled for tonight, Tuesday, Jan. 21, is postponed to Thursday, Jan., 23, at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will now take place:

• Info Session 1: Thursday, Jan. 23, 6:30 p.m., at the West Somerville Neighborhood School cafeteria, 177 Powderhouse Blvd.

Arrests:
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Joseph Dixon, 53, of 444 Harrison Ave., Boston, January 13, 8:54 p.m., arrested at 278 Powder House Blvd. on a warrant charge of operation of a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor.

James Huguley, 49, of 102 Exchange Ave., Medford, January 13, 9:01 p.m., arrested at 660 Broadway on a charge of trespassing.

Following a nine-month renovation that began in late March 2013, Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced today that the rehabilitation of the Cross Street Bridge is complete and the bridge will officially reopen midday on Tuesday, Jan. 21 to all vehicular traffic. The bridge had been deemed structurally deficient, and as part of the state’s Accelerated Bridge Program, $4.8 million were dedicated to the rehabilitation of the bridge connecting McGrath Highway to Cross Street and East Broadway.