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.

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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.