By George P. Hassett

Two men were seriously injured in a fight on Broadway Friday night, police said.

A 23-year-old Cambridge man was stabbed multiple times and a 22-year-old Somerville man was struck in the face and head with a blunt object in an incident police are still investigating. A third person was arrested by Cambridge Police and charged with gun possession in connection to the incident.

The 2011 Full Circle Next Wave GBBL Champions: Shawn Soares, Christopher David, Mateus Sathler, Edwin Tejada, Levi Faherty, Joel Gutierrez, Stanley Orantes, Brian Carrington, McKenna Minson, Christian Acosta, Devin Scanzillo, Martine Acosta, Head Coach/Sports Director Joel Blackmer, Assistant Dave Aronofsky.

For the first time ever, the Full Circle/Next Wave basketball team are champions and they have the trophy to prove it.

By Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone

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Our Board of Aldermen has some fairly momentous decisions to make this month concerning Assembly Square and I wanted to take this space this week to explain what City is attempting to accomplish with this project. It boils down to three things: investment, infrastructure and economic development.

The fourth and final meeting of SomerVision came to the Armory, Thursday March 31. - Photo by Andrew Firestone

SomerVision plans for the future

By Andrew Firestone

The fourth and final meeting of SomerVision came to the Armory, Thursday March 31, and residents were able to discuss and make recommendations for the future of Somerville.

Discussing issues such as neighborhood safety, community development, transit and lifestyle, job development, housing and municipal financial self-sufficiency, SomerVision was a hotbed of American urban discourse. The meeting was run by OSPCD Director George Proakis, and saw the groups divided into tables in order to discuss pressing issues.

"A Stronger Loving World" by Melanie Salerno, Oil on Canvas

By Charlie Lynch

BOOM! is a mixed media art exhibit, by artists Spiridoula Politis and Melanie Salerno, currently on display at Gallery 321 at the Washington Street Art Center. The pieces focus on interpretations of this explosive expression and include oil paintings, drawings, and other mixed media.

The concept was conceived by Politis.  “I was going through a really heavy emotional experience and sometimes you get really intense emotions where you feel like you are going to explode,” she said.  This experience lead to the concept of BOOM! though the artists believe the expression has a broader, more open definition and one that proved difficult at times to translate.

By George P. Hassett

A pair of crooks known to police for breaking into local homes were busted last week as they tried to sell their stolen goods at a Broadway barbershop, police said.

Graziano Mellone, 32, of 67 Jaques St., and Manuel Leal, 31, homeless, were arrested at the Broadway barbershop Goodfellas trying to sell a stolen camera to customers, police said.

Denise Provost says local businesses can spur economic growth if they're locally focused. ~Photo by Andrew Firestone

By Andrew Firestone

Bringing business closer to local communities may be a way to get out of the current economic slump, according to local officials and activists.

On Monday, March 28, state Rep. Denise Provost hosted a free screening of the documentary “The Economics of Happiness,” together with Professor Julie Matthaei of Wellesley College and Joe Grafton of Somerville Local First.

Police are cracking down on local smoke shops. ~Photo by Bobbie Toner

By Andrew Firestone

Somerville police have recently sent investigators from the Drug Control Unit into local stores warning owners they can not sell glass pipes and smoking devices.

Two Union Square  stores were visited by Sgt. John Gobiel in order to educate the owners of the prevention of selling glass pipes and bongs in the state.

By  Blaire Sieber

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone’s Second Annual Shape Up Somerville Fitness Challenge kicked off at the high school gymnasium Saturday. Somerville Recreation ran a boot camp, including jump roping and push-ups, for volunteer attendees shortly after.

A Farmer’s Market provided local residents with healthy food choices: Vegetables from Enterprise Farm, baked goods from Great Cape, seafood from Jordan Bros. and home-made hot sauce from Burnin’ Love Sauces.

Tuesday April 5 marks  the six-year anniversary of Senator Charlie Shannon’s passing, hard to believe he’s been gone that long, he was a good guy to all those who both he knew and didn’t know, he liked everyone.  Unlike the present senator who only likes those that agree with her leftist liberal thinking, would be nice to have someone like Charlie again back in office.

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Speaking of Charlie Shannon, today Wednesday marks the anniversary of the bill that passed called The Shannon Grant, again this fiscal year funded, it’s an “anti gang grant” named in Charles honor for his years as State Senator and before that as a Police Officer.