The Business Town meeting VII with Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, at the Davis Square Theatre 255 Elm Street,  is today, Wednesday, April 11. The doors open at 5:00 p.m. and the event starts at 5:30 p.m. The Mayor will give his annual address to the business community here and then there will be a round of Q&A.

– Photos by Bobbie Toner

The K-6 students and the art teachers of the Somerville Public Schools have produced a beautiful array of foodthemed art that is now on exhibit in the auditorium of the Central Library, 79 Highland Ave, Somerville. The exhibit is part of the “Somerville Reads” campaign and will be on display through the end of April, stop in and have a look at their wonderful work.

Up, up and away. Aerial photography is now in the hands of the masses thanks to the efforts of groups like PLOTS and Parts and Crafts. – Photo by Amanda Rhodes

By Amanda Rhodes

If you were in Davis Square on Saturday, you might have noticed a big, red balloon hovering high in the sky. You might not have noticed the camera attached to it. The camera and the balloon were part of a grassroots mapping event hosted by the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) and Parts and Crafts.

Professor Grant Garven’s innovative research into geothermal energy is catching on in a big way at Tufts University.

By Chris Leo Palermino

Soon, Tufts University may be powered by a new energy source: geothermal energy from groundwater beneath the urban campus.

Disaster was narrowly averted last week when firefighters rescued Carlos Barbosa from this paper silo at Universal Wilde. – Photo by Bobbie Toner

By Harry Kane

Firefighters rescued a man after he allegedly fell into a silo during the nightshift on Thursday, April 5.

Carlos Barbosa, 47, of Rehoboth found himself in a tight spot after trying to unclog a jam in a paper-filled silo at Universal Wilde in the Inner Belt section of Somerville.

Barbosa was in danger of losing his life in what escalated from a routine issue, to a near death situation.

By Jim Clark 

While performing ongoing investigative duties, Somerville Police Narcotics Officers observed what they determined to be a known heroin user along with four other individuals making their way through the streets of East Somerville towards Charlestown last Saturday afternoon.

Let’s face it, no matter how one may feel about specific policies and programs coming out of the mayor’s office, one has to give it up for the sheer energy and resolve exhibited by this very busy man.

Meet Ann Dunbar, a mother, grandmother and lifelong member of the ‘Ville. Ann raised her children as a single mom, and she did a great job teaching the lesson of life. Ann worked hard as well, she worked full time for the T and retired, she is now involved in that great role as Grandmother.

Results of the Somerville High School girls track meet held at Dilboy Stadium on Thursday, April 5, are as follows:

Nicole Genard set a new SHS record in the long jump of 18’5” – breaking her own record of 18’0 set when she was a freshman in 2009. Genard also placed first in the javelin throw with a distance of 121’0.

Dennis Daly has been many things in his eclectic life. He has been a union organizer, an English graduate student at Northeastern University, a mental health worker on the night shift on a back ward, a columnist for The Salem News, and  a world traveler–who chose to traverse the dangerous hinterlands of Afghanistan,and other hotspots around the world. Daly, who can be found at the ungodly hour of 8 a.m. every Saturday at the Au Bon Pain in Davis Square at the Bagel Bards literary group meeting, is also a poet and a translator. Daly, who has published poetry when he was a young man, has now come back to the fold and in a big way. Over the years he has been published in numerous magazines and small poetry journals such as The Sou’wester, Lyric, Boston Today Magazine, Soundings East, Tendril, Poetry &, Dark Horse, Green House, Lyrical Somerville, Wilderness House Literary Review and is included with two other poets in a chapbook entitled 10 X 3, published by Northeastern University Press. And now he has just completed a verse translation of Sophocles’ Ajax, which is published in the current issue of Wilderness House Literary Review.