The state Department of Transportation and the MBTA will hold six public meetings to discuss noise and retaining walls proposed as part of the Green Line Extension project. The first meeting takes place from 6 to 8 tonight (Wednesday, Jan. 8) at the Holiday Inn at 30 Washington St. and will focus on the Inner Belt, Brick Bottom and Union Square (Union Square Branch) areas.

Somerville’s own Indira Evora shines as brightly at Saint Michael’s College as she did at Somerville High School.

Saint Michael’s College women’s basketball first-year Indira Evora, of Somerville, was named Northeast-10 Conference Rookie of the Week for the week ending on Sunday, Jan. 5. Juniors Kelly Frappier (Colchester, Conn./Bacon Academy) and Maggie Sabine (Litchfield, Maine/Oak Hill/Central Maine CC) landed on the NE-10 Weekly Honor Roll, as the three Purple Knights all drew their first career league accolades after helping their squad knock off No. 22 Stonehill College, 61-59, on Saturday.

Common themes emerged during the speeches and promises offered during the ceremony at the East Somerville Community School Monday night marking the inauguration of Mayor Joe Curtatone for an unprecedented sixth term and the swearing-in of members on both the Board of Alderman and School Committee.

There will be a Bagel Bards Celebratory Reading at the Somerville Library (main branch), Highland Avenue (next to the  High School) on January 15th. There is a pot-luck reception at 6:15 to  7:00 p.m. The reading is from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. This reading is to celebrate the occasion of the Somerville  Library accepting # 1-8 of Bagels With The Bards Anthologies for permanent archiving in the Local History Room. The Bagel Bards is a literary organization founded by Doug Holder and  Harris Gardner in 2004.