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Residents clash with development proposal for Cross St.
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120 rental apartment units may be built at the intersection of Cross Street and Mystic Avenue if Criterion Developers can convince the city and its residents that the project is in everyone’s best interest. – Photo by Bobbie Toner
By Izak Shapiro
The scene in the senior room at 165 Broadway could have been from a movie: the team from Criterion Developers, dressed in business suits, sat in a tight row along the right side of the white-walled room. Somerville residents filled the rest of the space, some dressed going to or from work, others coming from home, but everyone meant business.
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There’s no doubt about it. Modern industrialized societies utilize a lot of packaging material and produce tons of waste that must be disposed of properly.
For generations we took for granted that disposal issues were somebody else’s problem, the garbage collector’s, for instance.
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By Terence Clarey
New England Patriots Center Ryan Wendell signed autographs read to kids at “Read by the River” Carnival at the Tufts Gancher Center last Sunday. – Photo by Terence Clarey
The goal, according to Tufts Hillel, the organizers of the 13th annual “Read by the River” Carnival at the Tufts Gancher Center last Sunday afternoon, was to make reading fun for both kids and parents. To that end, the Tufts Hillel presented an event that combined fun learning activities like word and spelling games with more carnival-like activities such as face painting and cotton candy and popcorn machines.
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Somerville High grad and UMass Lowell junior Antoinette Toussaint.
By Mike Stoller
Somerville High grad and UMass Lowell junior Antoinette Toussaint earned All-American status by finishing in seventh place in the pentathlon at the Division 2 NCAA Track and Field Championships Saturday in Birmingham, Ala.
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Doug Holder with Robin Stratton
Robin Stratton has been a writing coach in the Boston area for almost 20 years. She is the author of The Revision Process, A Guide for Those Months or Years Between Your First Draft and Your Last, and two chapbooks, Dealing with Men and Interference from an Unwitting Species. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she’s been published in Word Riot, 63 Channels, Antithesis Common, Poor Richards Almanac(k), Blink-Ink, Pig in a Poke, Chick Flicks, Up the Staircase, Shoots and Vines and many others. Her novel, On Air, (Blue Mustang Press, 2011) was a National Indie Excellence Book Award finalist. A second novel, Of Zen and Men, is now available from Big Table Publishing Company. She’d love to have you visit her at robinstratton.com I had the pleasure to interview her on my Somerville Community Access TV Show: Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer.
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Former Ward 1 Alderman, William M. Roche, has accepted a full-time position with the City of Somerville as the Director of Personnel.
Following approval by the Board of Aldermen at the Thursday, February 28 meeting, Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced last week that former Ward 1 Alderman, William M. Roche, has accepted a full-time position with the City of Somerville as the Director of Personnel. Roche had been serving as part-time Acting Director following the departure of former Director, Sarah Kloos, as the city worked to maintain operations. Six candidates were interviewed for the position.
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