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.

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Michael Andrews, 30, of 46 Tudor St., Chelsea, May 6, 9:13 a.m., arrested at 97 Washington St. on a warrant charge of operation of a motor vehicle with a revoked license.

Somerville’s own Koni as a duckling and her husband Frank as “Captain Guido” lead the “Make Way for Ducklings Parade” Sunday. – Photo by William Tauro

By William Tauro

Frank and Koni Palmisano of Somerville’s Winter Hill Yacht Club, were chosen to lead this year’s “Make way for Ducklings Parade” on Mother’s Day in the Boston Public Garden.

Somerville’s own Koni as a duckling and her husband Frank as “Captain Guido” held hands the entire route of the parade being applauded by hundreds of spectators enjoying a sunny Mothers Day.

The Somerville Public Library announces a new book discussion series entitled, “Muslim Journeys,” beginning on Thursday, May 30 at 6:30 p.m. with a discussion of Jim al-Khalili’s book, House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance. The program is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association, and aims to familiarize the American public with Islam and the cultural heritage of Islamic civilizations around the world. The May 30 discussion will be led by Tufts University Professor Malik Mufti, a professor of international relations and politics of the Middle East. The program is free and open to the public. Partners include the Center for Arabic Culture and Tufts University.

The $2 million quarter-mile project will extend the popular pathway from its current end at Cedar Street to Lowell Street, the site of a future MBTA Green Line transit station.

The City of Somerville is about to grow one step closer to its vision of a bicycle and pedestrian path that connects the city to Boston. For the first time in 18 years, a new section of the Community Path in Somerville is under construction.

Statistics show that over 43 million people in the U.S. are giving care to someone 55 or older, and almost 15 million care for someone who struggles with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia. This is a huge responsibility that often leaves individuals feeling overwhelmed and “hanging by a thread.” Caregiver burnout mirrors the symptoms of stress and depression, including feeling blue, irritability, sickness, and changes in diet and sleeping habits.

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

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No, this isn’t a story about pizza. It’s a story about those precious photographs that are part of all of our lives. They are in albums, shoeboxes, envelopes and drawers. They are a look back into our pasts, the way we used to be. Frozen in time, captured for eternity.

By Sanjeev Selvarajah

The only movie to beat Iron Man 3’s second-biggest opening weekend ever is unsurprisingly last year’s The Avengers. Marvel is doing tremendously well with Disney as custodian. As they enter into phase two, post Avengers, Disney has successfully shuffled around the creative-heads like Iron Man’s previous installment’s director Jon Favreau who takes an executive producer and actor credit in lieu of losing his position of director. With all due credit, Jon Favreau made Iron Man what it is today, but new director Shane Black adds meat on top of meat for a clever and heavy-action script.

Somerville Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Director of the city’s Housing Division Dana LeWinter announce that the Somerville-Arlington Continuum of Care, a collaborative planning body of local homeless providers that coordinates housing and services for homeless families and individuals, was awarded $2,334,299 in funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for homeless assistance programs following the 2012 application process. Additionally, the Continuum filed a proposal for a new permanent housing program that would provide housing and supportive services to ten chronically homeless individuals. Those results are expected to be announced later this spring. The Continuum was awarded $2,237,821 in 2011, $2,235,913 in 2010, $2,233, 788 in 2009 and $1.9 million in 2008.