From left to right: Nana Garrity, Father Paul Garrity, Kelsey Garrity ’11 and Brother Mark Garrity.

In a 52-46 loss against Wachusett High School, Senior guard Kelsey Garrity scored 24 points scoring her 1,000th point in the third quarter for the Lady Highlanders at the free throw line. Kelsey is the third Lady Highlander in school history to reach 1,000 points behind Joelle Martin in 2002 with 1,280 career points and Stacey Dell’Anno in 1995 with 1,159 career points. She is the fifth overall Highlander to reach this career milestone.

First step in City Website overhaul includes user-friendly Traffic and Parking Website; New City Website to debut later this year

The City’s Traffic and Parking Department (T&P) introduced a new website, according to Acting Director, Matthew Dias.  The new website boasts improved, user-friendly features, including online payment and streamlined permitting options, direct links to traffic-related information and policies, and updated parking information.  Since joining T&P in September 2010, Dias has implemented several changes, which, in addition to the new website, will include experimenting with new wireless meters that accept credit cards, capital improvements to the building’s lobby, and streamlining the appeals process.  The new T&P website can be viewed at http://www.parksomerville.com/.  The City plans to roll out its full, updated website later this year.

Gold Key: Alexandra Garczynski, Gr. 12: Mixed Media, Encaustic (Teacher: J. Cohen)

Seven Somerville students in grades seven to 12 will have art on display with other Boston Globe Scholastic Art Award winners at the Boston Transportation Building from February 14 to April 7 during business hours. Students with art on display in downtown Boston are Gold or Silver Key Winners and their work will advance to a national Scholastic Art Award competition. Visit www.somerville.k12.ma.us/arts for a slide show of all Gold and Silver Key winners, along with the 20 honorable mention winners.

By George P. Hassett

On The Silly Side by Jimmy Del Ponte

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When I got my first legitimate part time job at 16, the minimum wage was a whopping $1.60 an hour. Gas was around 36 cents a gallon and a year later, I paid $50 for my first “car.”
The job was at Lyndell’s Bakery in Ball Square. I dumped 50 pound bags of sugar and flour into the bins, carefully removed cakes from baking sheets and filled jelly donuts. It took me a while to grasp the proper technique and I had  to carefully discard many ruined  pastries.

Beam Somerville up.

By Sanjeev Selvarajah

A Science Fiction film marathon is coming to Somerville on Sunday and organizers are asking viewers to test the outer limits of what the genre can do.

“Don’t limit your definition of what science fiction is. It is all about what is possible” said Garen Daly, the ringleader of the successful Boston Sci-Fi Marathon run mainly by his company Zeotrope Media. The sci-fi genre draws in a crowd to festivals, conventions, and a TV channel because of the reaction it elicits from the general audience of television and film whether they are a casual viewer or the avid enthusiast.

(L to R) Top Standing Up SR #32 Victoria Gay, Assistant Coach Angy Marcharl, Assistant Coach Janice Marcharl, SR #22 Christy Novembre, Head Coach Shawn Thornton, SR #20 Tasiha Bazile, JR #34 Beatrice Boisvert, SR #13 Kendra Brathwaite Kneeling FR #10 Jessica White, JR #4 Diana Tran, JR #11 Elva Martinez, SO #10 Allison Caloggero, Trophy, 8th #21 Jess Popken, SO #3 Jessie Jepson, 7th #1 Katie Monestime, 8th #2 Victoria Brown

The St. Clement Lady Anchors basketball team has finished a remarkable regular season and now have their sights set on a top seed in the state tournament.

The Lady Anchors won the Catholic Central League compiling an (11-1) league record and finishing with 16 wins overall.

Included in their championship season was a 14 game winning streak, including six straight wins on the road.

By William C. Shelton

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I do all of the other chores. You should to take out the garbage.

Somerville residents and visitors should pitch in and pay inflated and unnecessary parking fines.

Chinese entrepreneurs should ignore patents and copyrights in order to create jobs and grow their national economy.

By George P. Hassett

A 35-year-old Somerville woman showing signs of intoxication told responding police officers Feb. 9 that she graduated from the University of Hawaii before insisting that officers tell her where they attended college.

Raquel Salois, 35, of 191 Cedar St., allegedly entered a cab in Davis Square and told the driver she wanted to go to Davis Square. When the driver told her she was in that area and asked her where exactly she needed to go, Salois insisted he take her to Davis Square.

(L to R) Somerville Lions President Bill Tauro, Lion members John O'Leary, Tony Ricci and Ed Ciampa. - Photo by Tim Omally

By William Tauro

The Somerville Lions Club accepted Somerville native Tony Ricci as the first member of the Somerville Lions Club to be sworn into the service organization for year 2011.

The ceremony took place on Tuesday evening at the Mount Vernon at the Ship Restaurant in Lynnfield among his fellow club members at a Post Valentines Day Dinner Meeting.