This Thursday evening, June 7, between 5-7p.m., the Somerville Chamber of Commerce monthly “Business After Hours” will be held at Orleans Restaurant, 65 Holland Street, Davis Square. Bring your business cards. It’s a great way to network and meet fellow business leaders here in Somerville. The event this month is sponsored by East Cambridge Savings Bank.

Eagle Feathers #2 -Eyes on Bette Davis

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

Over the years, the Somerville Theatre has showcased the likes of Bruce Springsteen, U2, Frankie Fontaine, Kate Smith and Leonard Nimoy. While you may be aware that these various icons of the entertainment industry performed at the theatre (some of them more than once), you may not know that one of the biggest Hollywood legends ever to grace the silver screen actually lived just a few blocks away on College Avenue. During World War II, the great Bette Davis was the single highest-paid working female in America. She was voted the second-greatest actress of all time according to the American Film Institute. Her rank was trumped by Katherine Hepburn, whose grandfather, incidentally, started the Union Glass Company on Webster Avenue (Somerville’s largest employer during the 1850’s). While you probably won’t find Davis’ movies in your local Redbox, since they hardly qualify as “new releases,” you can buy or rent many of her 100+ motion pictures online. Many of them, such as All About Eve and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, are considered by critics and audiences alike to be the greatest films ever made. She also gave the name “Oscar” to the statuette awarded at the Academy Awards.

Another year passes and we pause at this time to congratulate and honor the hard working students who achieved their goal of successfully completing their courses of studies at their respective high schools and colleges.

Class Day 2012 brought generations of SHS students past and present together in celebration of Senior class achievements.

By Emmanuel Vincent

It was a memorable day for the Senior Class of 2012 this past Friday as they took part in the annual Class Day. The event is a long-standing tradition at the school. The graduating class of 1962 was in attendance as each year the 50th anniversary class is invited. Parents, friends, and family were in attendance to show their support of their loved ones who have reached a significant milestone in their life.

The Somerville News Person of the Week - June 6

Meet Peggy Zullo, a lifelong resident and sort of a local celebrity. Peggy is a nice lady, and very active here in Somerville. She was married to her best friend for 36 years, Frank, who passed away several years back. Frank Zullo and her ran a small local real estate office on Highland Avenue.

Book Shop at Ball Square.

Gil Barbosa doesn’t look like a stereotypical bookseller. He is a burly man, with a plethora of tattoos on both of his muscled arms. His hands look like they have clashed with metal rather than a rarefied page in a brittle tome. Yet this former head of a towing business handles his new charges with great delicacy. Since June, 2011 he has been the proprietor of the Book Shop at Ball Square. And although he is not getting rich, he is getting by, not a small accomplishment in the indie book biz.

Gary Metras.

Gary Metras is the author of fifteen poetry chapbooks and books, most recently, Two Bloods: Fly Fishing Poems (winner of the Split Oak Press Chapbook Award 2010), with a new book, Captive in the Here, due in 2012 from Cervena Barva Press.  His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Poetry East, Blueline, Yankee Magazine, New England Watershed, English Journal, Poetry Salzburg Review, Istanbul Literary Review, Small Press Review, Wild Earth, and Gray’s Sporting Journal. He is the editor and letterpress printer of Adastra Press in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

The City of Somerville would like to invite all interested vendors to participate in the “Summertime in Somerville” fireworks celebration on Thursday, June 28 (rain date is Thursday, July 5).  The city is planning to have up to five (5) concession stands and vendors selling items such as balloons, toys (no toy guns permitted), food and beverage etc. at the event.  The city will choose the location of these stands and will judge proposals on the following criteria:

Arrests:
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A juvenile, 17, May 29, 3:46 p.m., arrested at 19 Newbury St. on a warrant charge of disorderly conduct.

Matthew Marujo, 18, of 30 Linden St., May 29, 6:05 p.m., arrested at 24 Melvin St. on a charge of violation of city ordinance possession of a dangerous weapon.

SHS Class of 2012 Graduation has been rescheduled due to the weather. Graduation will now be Tuesday, June 5, at 6 p.m.

The Ceremony will be held indoors in the Tufts University – Gantcher Center, 161 College Ave., Medford