By Jim Clark

A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held last week to work out details of the proposed Union Square Revitalization Plan.

The Somerville News Person of the Week, Eugene A. Ferraro.

Meet Eugene A. Ferraro. “Gene” to his many friends here in the ‘Ville. Gene is a lifelong resident who grew up near Prospect Hill, went to school here and got married. He is a grandfather now, still living in Somerville.

There sure are a lot of bicycles buzzing around Somerville these days. More so than ever, it seems. People are opting to utilize them as either a supplemental or primary means of transportation like never before.

The Streetscape Project continues its efforts to improve Davis Square.

By Emmanuel Vincent

One more meeting was held for the Davis Square Streetscape project at the Tab Building. It was an opportunity for the public to see where the city was headed with the project to and offer there own opinions regarding the information that was presented to them.

By  William Tauro

Valentino family and friends gathered at Saturday’s Square Dedication for Columbus Valentino who was killed in Germany in action in 1942 during WWII.

Arrests:
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A juvenile, October 1, 3:00 p.m., arrested at home on charges of assault and battery, assault and battery on a police officer, and resisting arrest.

Charles Macauley, 52, of 53 Irving St., Medford, October 1, 7:44 p.m., arrested at 52 Partridge Ave. on a charge of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor.

By William Tauro

On Saturday, Oct 6, Peter P Fantasia was honored by the City of Somerville with the dedication of the PF3 Peter Fantasia Square at the corners of Boston and Hamlet Streets.

The Somerville Chamber of Commerce held its second annual Oktoberfest on Sunday, Oct 7. – Photo by Bobbie Toner

The Somerville Chamber of Commerce held its second annual Oktoberfest on Sunday, Oct 7, at Elm and Chester Streets. The best of bratwurst and beer, along with food served from local restaurants Redbones, The Burren, Diva Indian Bistro, Foundry on Elm, Joshua Tree, and Mike’s Food & Spirits was enjoyed by hundreds who stopped by for the annual tradition. The Mad Bavarian Brass Band entertained the crowd performing polkas and great music.

Steve Cramer

I thought I had lost the following interview–but I just recently found it. It was conducted on my Somerville Community Access TV Show Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer in 2004. The audio tape is archived at the Poetry Room at the Lamont Library/Harvard University.

Steve Cramer is the author of four poetry collections, the latest being “Goodbye To The Orchard” (Sarabande 2004). His poems and criticism have been in the “Partisan Review,” “The New Republic,” “The Paris Review,” among others. He was the recipient of fellowships from the “Mass. Artists Foundation“, and the “National Endowment for the Arts.” He has taught literature and writing at B.U., MIT and Tufts. He currently directs the low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. I talked with him on my Somerville Community Access TV Show “Poet to Poet/Writer To Writer.”

Karen Miller

Karen Miller writes The Somerville News:

“I’m a Somerville person, therapist, poet.  I wrote this poem about the Somerville Market Basket. Mostly, right now, besides my practice, I’m writing about a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York that closed in the nineties after 135 years, poems about the people who lived there and their lives.  That will be part of an exhibit of these people’s possessions, photographs, letters, at the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco, opening in April, 2013.”