At the regular Board of Aldermen meeting on Thursday, May 23, Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Aldermen Connolly, Cuff-Bastardi, Desmond, Heuston, O’Keefe, Sullivan and Trane introduced an ordinance that would set limits for campaign contributions made to any candidate or incumbent for public office in the City of Somerville by developers, contractors, lobbyists or individuals and organizations seeking to do business with the City including, financial assistance such as grants, loans or tax incentives from the City, or City contracts not awarded to the lowest bidder.

It was a very nice Memorial Day Parade this past Sunday. Congratulations to an old friend, Jim Legee, who was the parade marshal. What a nice guy. He worked for the City of Somerville for many years before retiring in Inspectional Services. We think the city Veterans Services Dept. picked a great guy to be honored this year, of course, along with all our other Veterans here in the Ville. We salute them.

(L to R) Somerville Lions Club President Gene Brune and Comedian Lenny Clark.

By William Tauro

The Somerville Lions Club Comedy Night got a sell-out crowd last week. With over a hundred twenty-five Somervillians in the audience, including forty-five seniors from Somerville’s Council on Aging, all who attended the event had a great time. The special guest star of the show, comedian Lenny Clark, kept the crowd laughing all night, and all for a good cause. Proceeds raised that evening went to benefit Lions Club Charities including help in finding a cure for blindness and to help cure diabetes.

SHS alumnus Antoinette Toussaint added yet another All-American title to her record of achievements.

By Mike Stoller

Capping a remarkable career on the track for UMass Lowell, Somerville’s Antoinette Toussaint was crowned an All-American at the NCAA Track and Field Championship Saturday at Colorado State University’s Pueblo Neta and Eddie DeRose Thunderbowl.

Eagle Feathers #27 – In the ‘Nick’ of time

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

Bikes and bike paths, love them or loathe them, they are here to stay. As far as Somerville is concerned, the first owner of a two-wheeled velocipede (or bicycle) was Willie Nickerson in the 1880s.

William E. Nickerson was one of the first chemical engineering graduates of MIT and married the daughter of a Winter Hill developer, Horace Partridge. Willie’s father-in-law built them a small house, laboratory, and shop on Partridge Avenue near Vernon Street where his research began.

Poster desgn by Miguel Gaydosh.

Union Square Farmers Market opens Saturday, June 1 and runs every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. through November 23. Located at Union Square Plaza where Prospect St, Washington St, and Somerville Ave. meet.

Roz Puleo witnessed first hand the terrible impact of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Somerville resident Roz Puleo had never been in battle, but she knew right away something was wrong when she heard the first bomb explode at the 2013 Boston Marathon.

“I don’t know how, but I had a gut feeling that it was something bad,” said Puleo, a 2011 graduate of the MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing, who was volunteering in one of the medical tents across the street from the Boylston Street finish line, about the infamous attack that killed three people on April 15.

Arrests:
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Courtney Meacomes, 28, of 29 Cutter Ave., May 20, 9:54 p.m., arrested at home on a charge of assault and battery.

Francisco Rosaaponte, 21, of 153 Alewife Brook Pkwy., May 20, 10:33 p.m., arrested at 34 North St. on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Now don’t you think Somerville should have a Poet Laureate?

Lo Galluccio,2013 Cambridge Poet Populist.

We are glad to say Lo Galluccio, a Somerville Bagel Bard, and a published  poet with Somerville’s Ibbetson Street  Press (Hot Rain 2004), has been elected Cambridge Populist Poet. Lo has been in numerous issues of Ibbetson Street, was on the  planning committee for the Grolier Poetry Room Reading Series, sponsored by the Ibbetson St Press and the Blind Elephant Press, and was a reader at the Somerville News Writers Festival founded by Timothy  Gager and Doug Holder in 2003. She has also participated in many of our  readings for the last decade…so glad for you Lo!

Poet Teisha Twomey is currently working on her MFA in Poetry at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Teisha’s work has appeared in Ibbetson Street , Fried Chicken and Coffee, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Metazen, Poetica and she recently was selected for publication for the upcoming “Wasn’t That Special?” Anthology. http://www.teishatwomey.blogspot.com/