Freshman Katie Monestime serves for the Lady Anchors.

The St. Clement volleyball team clinched a spot in the State Tournament for a second year in a row by beating Cathedral High School, Mystic Valley Regional Charter School and Saint Joseph’s Prep. The team is now seeking to earn a bye when the playoffs begin.

Mayor Curtatone was among the attendees as Robert E. Invernizzi was honored with the dedication of a city square in his name on October 7.

The City of Somerville held a Veteran’s Square Dedication Ceremony for Mr. Robert E. Invernizzi on Sunday October 7 at the corner of Gussie Terrace and Porter St.  Mr. Invernizzi is a life-long resident of Somerville. He is a veteran of WWII and Korea.

Poet Wendy Ranan.

Some people are motivated by love; some are motivated by money, others by power. Poet Wendy Ranan is motivated by beauty. More specifically the beauty of nature.  And there are generous and evocative doses of nature in her work. Ranan has worked for years at a major psychiatric hospital just outside of Boston that at one time housed such poets as Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath.  I met with her at her office, a Spartan hole-in –the wall, to interview her in light of her new poetry collection “The Quiet Room.”  Ranan, like most writers is no trust fund baby and struggles to find time in her busy day to  manage work, raise a family, and keep the creative fires burning.

Anne Ardery.

Have you ever wondered about the homeless men or women you pass in the street? How did they get there? Could you wind up on the unforgiving pavement yourself?  Somerville poet Anne Ardery ponders this with her poem Mist.

Non-profit community organizations in Somerville are invited to apply for 2012 grants from the Tufts Neighborhood Service Fund (TNSF).  TNSF collects donations from faculty and staff throughout the year and then awards small grants to community-based, charitable organizations that serve Tufts’ host communities (Somerville, Medford, Grafton and Boston’s Chinatown).

Initiative to launch with event at Armory on October 17
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Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced  the kickoff of a new initiative to implement the urban design and land use goals of the City’s SomerVision Comprehensive Plan. The program, called “Somerville by Design,” will officially launch with an event at the Center for Arts at the Armory on Wednesday, October 17.

The suspect in the Saturday morning robbery of Citizens Bank in Union Square has been arrested in Salem, New Hampshire. Michael Tucker, age 45, was arrested early this morning at a Red Roof Inn in Salem by agents from the FBI, Violent Crimes Task Force, U.S. Marshals Service, Somerville Police and Salem Police.

(L to R) Dr. Jennifer Rhodes-Kropf, Medical Director of HSL Medical Group at the Sloane Center; Lou Woolf; Dorothy Kelly Gay; Kitty Dukakis; Michael Dukakis; Marshall Sloane; Barbara Sloane; Barry Sloane; Linda Sloane Kay; Jonathan Kay; Len Fishman; Jennifer Silver.

By William Tauro

In recognition of a generous gift from the Sloane family and Century Bank, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held last Thursday.

The Somerville Chamber of Commerce announced today that State Treasurer Steven Grossman has been scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Chamber’s 66th Annual Dinner and Awards event Wednesday, November 7 at the Boston-Somerville Holiday Inn, 30 Washington Street, Somerville.