By Jim Clark

Police responded to a called in report of a breaking and entering in progress at a Pinckney Pl. residence last Friday afternoon.

Upon arrival at the residence officers were met by the reporting party, who told them that a man, Rafael Lima, 38, of Cambridge, had broken into his home and had also physically attacked him.

A small sampling of the community got a chance to dig into the groundbreaking ceremony for the Community Path extension. – Photo by Josh Maislin

By Josh  Maislin

On Monday, May 13, Mayor Joseph Curtatone and other officials hosted a groundbreaking ceremony to commemorate the first extension of Somerville’s Community Path in over 18 years. The path will be extended a quarter-mile east from its current terminus at Cedar street, to Lowell Street.

By Harry Kane

The Board of Aldermen continue to discuss proposed methods to fill vacancies once an alderman retires with less than one year of their term and prior to any regular election. But on May 14, a rules change was adopted, changing the process for filling vacant seats.

Open Letter to the Public:

It has come to my attention that offensive, homophobic slurs have been publicly spoken about a Somerville elected official, and a friend of mine. In light of this information, let me renew my stance on this and any other derogatory remarks against human beings in ours and any other community: This kind of abusive behavior has no place in our city – or any other.

The annual Somerville High Scholarship Foundation raffle is this Friday evening, May 17, and tickets are still available the first price of $10,000 that will be awarded along with many other prizes. Only 250 tickets are to be sold. The event will be held at the Highlander Café at the High School, Friday night at 7 p.m., with the drawing starting at 8p.m. Several door prizes, refreshments and lots of fun for a great cause. To purchase a ticket for the raffle beforehand make checks payable to the SHS Scholarship Foundation and mail your $100 check to SHS Raffle, c/o Eugene Brune, P.O. Box 440275, Somerville 02144. We do know that from past years you can or might be able to purchase a ticket directly at the function this Friday night, so show up and take part in the festivities. This is a great local charity that raises funds for scholarships for well deserving students. Send a check today and get your tickets. Who knows? You just might be the big winner.

By Linjing Cheng

Representatives from Centro Presente and others made their grievances known to members of the Somerville Board of Alderman regarding alleged “wage theft” practices by local employers. –Photo by Linjing Cheng

Four wage dispute cases between One World Cuisine – which operates Diva Indian Bistro in Davis Square, as well as a number of other restaurants and liquor stores – and its former employees developed into a political discussion in Somerville this week.

What Davis Square needs is a good boutique style hotel with plenty of parking and no restaurant to compete with those already in the area. Agreed? Well, almost.

By Mike Stoller

As Somerville High girls track and field coach Charlie O’Rourke put it, the Highlanders “are running their best when it counts, at the end of the season.”

Eagle Feathers #26 – Queen of the Air – Heart of the Ocean

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

From above, it looks like an island in the middle of a body of water, not unlike a footprint of a modern castle surrounded by a moat. From the shore, it looks like an airport with its conning tower protruding high into the air where operators have a great 360° vista. It was completed in 1966 and was built in Somerville at the intersection of the Mystic and Malden Rivers. Its construction improved navigation and recreation along the waterfront, but its main purpose was to protect against flooding…flooding that could do damage to any of the 22 communities in the mystic river watershed under the right circumstances. Upstream, you will find freshwater rivers, lakes, brooks, and streams. Downriver, it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. The flavor of the ocean and air are highly fitting in the design of this complex because it is Amelia Earhart Mystic River Dam and basin.

Ibbetson Street, a literary magazine founded by Doug Holder, Dianne Robitaille, and Richard Wilhelm in 1998 in Somerville, Mass. is proud to announce that poetry from Issue 32 has been selected for the Pushcart Prize, and inclusion in the prestigious Pushcart Anthology in 2014.  Somerville poet, Afaa Michael Weaver’s poem, Blues in Five/ Four, The Violence in Chicago, that was  nominated by poetry editor Harris Gardner, is the winning poem.  Issue 32 was edited by Kim Triedman, and included work from Dennis Daly, X. J. Kennedy, Miriam Levine, Philip Burnham, Jr., Diana Der-Hovanessian, and many others. Ibbetson Street is now affiliated with Endicott College in Beverly, Mass.