Our four-legged friends are looking for more places to play freely in Somerville, and they just may be getting them soon.
~Photo by Harry Kane.

By Harry Kane

An increase in recreational areas for off-leash dogs is under consideration after a recent Board of Alderman meeting on March 14. Dogs may soon be allowed more access to run free during designated times in specified open spaces.

Tonight: Business Town Meeting VIII with Mayor Joe Curtatone, City of Somerville’s business and economic agenda “Questions & Answers  Session” at Davis Square Theatre, 255 Elm Street (Next to Foundry on Elm). Opens at 5:00 p.m. Business Town Meeting starts 5:30 p.m. After hour’s reception at Saloon, 7 p.m. Free appetizers. Contact Somerville Chamber of Commerce, 2 Alpine St, 617-776-4100 or smackey@somervillechamber.org, www.somervillechamber.org.

Eagle Feathers #22 – The first Big Dig

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

This year we saw a lot of snow fall in and around Boston. And as we all learned (as if we didn’t already know), shoveling is hard work, even of it’s just the light, fluffy stuff.

By Mike Stoller

Now that the Somerville High winter sports season has wrapped up, it’s time to roll the Highlander highlights. Achievements included:

• The boys hockey team winning the Greater Boston League title for the first time in about a quarter of a decade. The Highlanders accomplished the feat by defeating archrival Medford, 4-1, which was tied with Somerville for first place entering the crucial contest.

It’s not as though we have anything against athletics in general or big city-sponsored events in particular. These are, at their core, fine things for a community to participate in and support.

Is it necessary, however, for us to be underwriting and putting up with so many of them with such frequency?

By Rose Scherlis

John Doyle and Karan Casey bring their unique brand of Irish folk stylings to contemporary audiences.

On March 6, Irish folk rock came to Somerville, courtesy of Somerville Theatre in Davis Square. John Doyle and Karan Casey performed for the packed theatre, with John Doyle on acoustic guitar and vocals, and Karan Casey singing. Other instruments were incorporated into the act.

Arrests:
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Walter Bennett, 55, of 349 Broadway, Chelsea, March 11, 1:42 p.m., arrested at 75 Mystic Ave. on charges of larceny over $250 and assault and battery, and on warrant charges of failure to signal, failure to stop or yield, conspiracy to violate drug law, drug possession, and operation of a motor vehicle with suspended registration.

Somerville poet Afaa Michael Weaver has a new collection of poetry out The Government of Nature. I asked poet Dennis Daly author of The Custom House ( Ibbetson Street Press) to review this book…

Poet Jake Montgomery writes the LYRICAL about his poem Fool’s Gold….

“My standard is not the gold standard; but what is the new gold standard? Today gold is more valuable than ever, and who is it that made that decision? Where is the golden lining? Who is defining our market?”

The City of Somerville will lift its snow emergency as of 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 19. Residents parked in municipal or school lots during the snow emergency will have a two-hour window starting at that time in which to move their vehicles. Cars still parked in city lots at 8 p.m. may be subject to ticketing and towing.  For more information, please visit www.somervillema.gov/snow, or visit the city Facebook pages and Twitter feeds.