2012 Somerville Little League majors city champions, Boston Closet Tigers. Left to right. Front kneeling, Joel Hancock. 2nd row, Sean Sullivan Jr., Easton Hanson, Paul Pefine, Henry Shugrue, Jalen George, Josh Frost, Andrew Atherton, Patrick Doherty. Back row, head coach Sean Sullivan, assistant coach Dan Shugrue (holding son Mac), Kyle Finigan, Conrad Demasi, coach Keith Doherty.

On Wednesday, June 20, the Boston Closet Tigers won the 2012 Somerville Little League majors championship. For the second year in a row, a team sponsored by Tom Lynch of Boston Closet and managed by Sean Sullivan has won the Somerville Little League majors city championship.

This year’s team had only two returning players from last year’s team, Sean Sullivan Jr. and Henry Shugrue. These two players, along with returning head coach Sean Sullivan and assistant coach Dan Shugrue, and a host of new players were able to pull out an amazing come from behind victory in the best two out of three-city championship.

Eagle Feathers #4 – Play Ball!

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

Remember that Somerville provided a pair of red socks, a place to use them and a star to wear them.

This year marks the 100th birthday of Fenway park, the beloved home of our favorite baseball team. And with summer underway, what better time to celebrate Somerville’s influence on our nation’s favorite pastime? So, let’s start with the home team. While named the “Boston” Red Sox, the team has many connections to Somerville. Charles Taylor, founder of the Boston Globe, was a Somerville Alderman who raised his family on Belmont Street. Taylor had a son that was not particularly good at staying out of trouble so, in an effort to keep him on the right track, he did what any good old-fashioned working-class father would do and went out and bought him a baseball team.

The Somerville News Person of the Week, Louise McCarthy.

This week we salute Louise McCarthy of East Somerville, wife for 45 years to former Ward 1 Alderman Jim McCarthy, as well as a mother and a grandmother. If you’ve been to City Hall and visited the election department you’d recognize her big smile and great personality at the counter. But alas, it’s now 22 years and another good City of Somerville employee has officially retired from full-time service this past Friday. Her co-workers in the department gave her a nice party and just about everyone working for the city stopped in to bid farewell and to give their best wishes. Fortunately, we hear she’s coming back part time to help out but hopefully not until summer is over. She will want to relax and enjoy her official retirement and we hope she does.

Denise Provost, in her years as editor, reviewer, columnist, lawyer, and legislator has done a lot of writing, but especially enjoys poetry. She has been most recently studying with poet Susan Donnelly. She publishes occasionally, and looks forward to the publication of her two collections of poetry, “Curious Peach” (2010) and “Desire Lines” (2011). Denise is a member of Somerville’s Bagel Bards, and a long-time Somerville resident and state legislator.

Arrests:
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Edward Cottier, 44, of 37 Harvard St., June 25, 4:54 p.m., arrested at home on a charge of trespassing.

Robert Kneeland, 60, of 78 Boston Ave., June 25, 8:42 p.m., arrested at 80 Boston Ave. on a charge of assault and battery.

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced that the city is moving two of its SomerMovie Fest shows to new locations.  The July 19 showing of “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part I” will now be held at Blessing of the Bay Boathouse at 32 Shore Drive in Ten Hills, while the August 23 presentation of “Arthur” will now be at the City Hall Concourse, 93 Highland Ave.  All other film selections, dates and locations remain unchanged.

In a ceremony held at the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office training academy in Billerica, Middlesex Sheriff Peter Koutoujian swore in nine sergeants to the rank of Lieutenant.

By Tiffani Westbrook

Families braved the high temperatures to indulge in a day of fun and community togetherness.  The heat did not stop Somerville families from taking over Trum Field on Saturday afternoon from 12-5 p.m. The second part of a two-day event to kick off the city’s summer events series was a well-paced addition to the fireworks of the day before.  The event hosted by the City of Somerville offered a little something for every kind of kid, from balloon animal to live reptiles, and even a little something for the parents, information booths from Century Bank and City Hall. A representative from the mayor’s office reminded residents to “just call 311 to get any information you need” about the city while helping them make beaded jewelry. The family fun day is a great platform for such community building initiatives giving citizens the opportunity to see the real people behind the businesses of Somerville.

Trash and recycling that are normally scheduled for picked up this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, will be delayed by one day due to the Independence Day Holiday.