– Photos by Donald Norton

A car rolled down the bridge in Ball Square, across Broadway before stopping when it hit a traffic light. The accident happened around 5 p.m. Tuesday evening.

Arrests:
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Jenny Saenz, 32, of 15 Abruzzi St., Revere, August 20, 7:48 a.m., arrested at 300 Alewife Pkwy. on a warrant charge of shoplifting over $100 by concealing merchandise.

Joseph Renzulo, 49, of 27 West St., Melrose, August 20, 7:13 p.m., arrested at 220 Washington St. on warrant charges of assault and battery and misdemeanor breaking and entering.

Somerville Poet Ed Meek.

Somerville Poet Ed Meek teaches English at Austin Prep. His work has appeared widely in journals and magazines over the years.

Somerville High School Headmaster John Oteri finalized his school leadership team in recent weeks with the hiring of three new Department Heads as final preparations for the start of the 2012-2013 school year are under way.  Karen Woods (Science), Jim Nocito (World Languages) and Jodi Remington (English) join the SHS leadership team as Department Heads.

Jaime Corliss to Head State’s Mass in Motion Program; City will Undertake Search for New Director

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone announced this week that, in a meeting last week, the Director of the City’s Shape Up Somerville (SUS) program, Jaime Corliss, tendered her resignation in order to accept a leadership position with Mass in Motion, a program of the state’s Department of Public Health.  Corliss has served as the SUS Director since May of 2009, and will assume her new role, Manager of Community Initiatives within the Division of Prevention and Wellness next month.

By Jim Clark

Police responded to a report of an unwanted person at a Washington St. residence in the early hours of the night of Wednesday last week. As a police unit approached the location a radio dispatch reported that the suspect had left the residence, but a description of the man was given and officers proceeded to search for him.

Jack Lepiarz (aka Jacques Ze Wippeur) cracks the whip at King Richard’s Faire, weekends from Labor Day to Columbus Day.

By Max Sullivan

For the past five years, King Richard’s Faire in Carver, MA, has been dominated by one Frenchman, or so Jacques Ze Wippeur would have you believe.

Autographs can provide a special sense of satisfaction for the collector.

By Kenneth Gloss

Collecting autographs has become more and more popular in recent years, as people have realized autographs are a great way to not just form a collection but also form a connection to the person whose signature you hold. When you read and touch a letter signed by a former president, or correspondence between two famous people, it’s like discovering a story in and of itself.

Presidential signatures are one of the most popular areas of autograph collecting. Most collectors prefer handwritten letters on presidential stationary, written while the president was actually in office. That is more valuable than from the days before he became president or in the days after he left office.

Some young bikers rolled into town last week and hitched their hogs to one of our convenient bike racks. Thank goodness there was no trouble to speak of.