The Alibrandis are still riding high, fueled by top-notch fielding, batting and pitching. – Photo by Harry Kane

By Mike Stoller

A few milestones highlighted another four-win week for the first-place Somerville Alibrandis baseball team, which improved its record to 22-3 in the Yawkey League. Also included in the squad’s record is a 3-0 loss to the second place Stoneham Sabers.

Eagle Feathers #31– The Last Armory

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

The First Armory – It was quarried and built from the bluestone beneath it, and today is the discernible seal of Somerville. Why do they call it the Powder House, and was it built to be a powder house?

It comes as little surprise to most of us, but the mayor confirmed it recently when he replied, “Absolutely,” when asked if he was considering a run for the Governor’s seat while at a speaking engagement last week.

Well- we are in the dog days–so I was browsing my archives in this sultry heat and I found an old review of mine ( Never published in my column) of a book about the late Beat poet Jack Micheline. Micheline was a North Beach/San Francisco poet–but he is read by many Somerville poets of my acquaintance… Hope you enjoy  and have a cool drink…perhaps at Sherman’s or Bloc11 or many of our cafes in the Paris of New England…

Poet Marc Zegans is mourning for a spoken word.  The word wafts/ into the open air/drifts/ and then/no longer there…

Somerville’s Rising Musical Stars made up of Somerville Public Schools Summer Wind Camp will be performing FREE at the Cross Street Center at 165 Broadway, Wednesday, July 24 at 11:30 am.  Somerville Wind Camp is open to all wind and percussion players who have played for at least one school year.  The campers meet for three hour days a week for ten days in july and work with three instructors: Richard Romanoff and Rosemary Sears (both SPS music teachers) and Anthony Prestigiovanni, who just graduated from UMASS Lowell with a degree in Music Education.

Arrests:
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Leah Ferriabough, 28, of 180 Harvard St., Malden, July 15, 12:49 p.m., arrested at Alewife Brook Pkwy. on a charge of operation of a motor vehicle without a license, attaching wrong motor vehicle, and operation of a motor vehicle with a revoked registration.

A juvenile, July 16, 1:42 p.m., arrested on a warrant charge of armed and masked robbery.

The FOX25 Morning News team will make a Zip Trip stop in Somerville, MA 02143 on Friday, July 26 at Union Square. Residents are invited to celebrate ten years of Zip Trips during a live FOX25 Morning News broadcast from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. with Co-hosts Shannon Mulaire and Gene Lavanchy, Meteorologist Shiri Spear, News Commentator Doug “VB” Goudie and Reporter Elizabeth Hopkins.

Free workshop offers information and help completing naturalization applications

Registration is now open for a free citizenship clinic on Saturday, July 27, in Somerville where residents seeking to become U.S. citizens can receive assistance in completing their naturalization applications or learn more about the naturalization process.

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

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Remember helping your mom stick S&H Green stamps into the booklets? In one of their heyday years, three times as many S&H Green stamps were printed than U.S. Postage stamps. They were popular from the 1930’s until the late 1980’s. They were given to shoppers based on the dollar amount they spent. The booklets contained 24 pages each holding 50 points. Each book held 1200 points. The S&H stood for Sperry and Hutchinson, the company that started the stamps. We still have a lamp that my mom got with green stamps.