Vinicius Cafer with Principal of Somerville Evening School Sophia Carafotes, along with Mariana MacDonald and Scott Weaver celebrate and congratulate Vinny for completing High School. Cafer should be proud of his hard work and dedication.

Arrests:
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Steve Milice, 21, April 15, 6:19 p.m., arrested at 135 Bailey Rd. on warrant charges of armed assault to rob, extortion by threat of injury, and conspiracy.

Somerville Bagel Bard Tino Villanueva  has a new poetry collection out “So Spoke Penelope.” This book was published by Somerville resident Ifeanyi Menkiti, the founder of the Grolier Poetry Press, and the owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge. Here is a review by Michael T. Steffen.

Poet William Harney writes: “The poem about my father conflates things by describing me as a boy playing with him, as a young adult  when he died, and my missing him now, long after.  He was a big, gentle man who seemed always to enfold any of his eight children standing or sitting with them, a    reassuring physical presence.  In the process of writing a poem, of making choices, one of  the rewards often is that your reasons for holding on to particular scenes and sensations becomes  clearer, the emotional charge things have comes out.  That happened for me here.”

Community BBQ to be Held at Blessing of the Bay Boat House Following Cleanup, at Noon

Deputy Director of Communications for the City of Somerville, Jackie Rossetti (right) presents Somerville resident Thomas Barton with a $250 prize for his winning design of the new Somerville Spring Cleanup logo.

Please join Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone for the annual Somerville Spring Clean-Up on Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. – noon at several locations throughout the city.  The annual cleanup is sponsored by Comcast, and this year Comcast will also partner with Groundwork Somerville for a cleanup at three additional sites, as well as the SomerGreen Festival to be held at the Blessing of the Bay Boat House on Shore Drive following the Cleanup.  A rain date has been set for Sunday, April 28.  Volunteers should meet a ward captain at 10:00 a.m. at the following locations:

Residents Asked to Take Online Survey to Help Shape Meeting Agenda

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone invites residents to the Spring 2013 ResiStat Community Meetings, a twice-yearly effort to share the latest city news and data directly with residents and gather their feedback.

By William Tauro

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Funeral services for Boston Marathon bombing victim Krystal Campbell are planned for Monday morning, April 22 at 8:00 a.m. at St. Joseph’s Church, located at 114 High Street in Medford, MA.

By William Tauro

– Photos by William Tauro

Over two hundred motorcycles lined Franey Road in Somerville on Sunday as they prepared to make their way to Dello Russo Funeral Home located at 306 Main Street in Medford.

Author Dick Lehr sheds light on one of the most notoriously dark figures in the world of organized crime. – Photo by Blake Maddux

By Blake Maddux

“I think it’s the job of a biographer to also get at the ‘why?’ and the ‘how’ all this happened,” author Dick Lehr said during his appearance at The Book Shop last week. “The ‘why’ of the Whitey, the making of this monster, digging into psychology and other factors influencing the emergence of someone who’s now, in my view, a historic crime figure.”

By Paul Maisano

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As the April 30 special election for the U. S. Senate draws closer, the heat is on. It appears the average working person in Massachusetts has decided, ‘enough is enough.’ Voters are prepared to once again send their message from the voting booth.