By George P. Hassett

A 27-year-old man was stabbed Sunday night at a Central Street home, police said.

Police said the victim knows the suspect who allegedly stabbed him and it was not a random incident.

Workplace training pays off for Somerville’s Angelica Textile

Mayor Curtatone recently honored the workplace English training program at Angelica Textile in Somerville. Left to Right: Mayor Curtatone; Michael Taylor, state director of Workforce Development; Jose Lopez, Angelica employee; Robert Haynes, MA AFL-CIO president; Fernando Lemus, United Food and Commercial Workers Union. ~Photo by Elizabeth Sheeran

By Elizabeth Sheeran

One Somerville business has discovered a new strategy for turning good workers into great workers.

Dozens of employees at Angelica Textile Services have attended on-site classes to improve their English language skills, and company leaders say that translates into better productivity and a safer workplace.

Arrests
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Salnave Berrouet, 21, of 115 Spring St., Cambridge, Oct. 4, 5:01 p.m., arrested on warrant charges.

Dana Memory, 22, of 42 Granville Ave., Malden, Oct. 4, 6:11 p.m., arrested on Broadway and charged with possession of a class C drug, possession of a class B drug and receiving stolen property over $250.

– Photos by Lauren Ostberg and Robert Davidson

By Mike Rubin

Cassie Marsden has emerged as a strong senior captain as the Somerville High girls' soccer team is off to a 5-1-3 start.

With three games in three days, the Somerville High School girls soccer team continued their strong start.

Following a 1-1 tie with Malden last Wednesday, the Highlanders cruised to a 5-0 win over Latin Academy on Thursday followed by a 3-0 shutout win over Cambridge on Friday.

As of press time, the Highlanders currently stand at 5-1-3 overall.

McCourt will be the featured for the festival Nov. 13.
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Timothy Gager and Doug Holder, founders of the Somerville News Writers Festival, announced the lineup today for the November 13, 2010 event to be held at the Arts Armory on Highland Avenue in Somerville. Gager, the founder of the acclaimed Dire reading series as well as a well-published author in many genres, and Holder, the arts editor of The Somerville News, and a member of the faculty of Endicott College in Beverly and Bunker Hill Community College are: “Very excited about another literary extravaganza,” said Gager. This year the Festival will feature such writers and poets as Malachy McCourt, Rusty Barnes, Michelle Hoover, Sam Cornish, David Ferry, Ethan Gilsdorf, Steve Almond, Matha Collins, and others.

By William Tauro

- Photo by William Tauro

Saint Clements High football team suffered a 32-6 loss to Lowell Catholic at Cawley in Lowell Friday night.

Saint Clements will kick off with it’s next scheduled game Saturday October 23rd at Dilboy Field in Somerville vs Cathedral High at 7pm.

On The Silly Side by Jimmy Del Ponte

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A big fat Hammond B-3 organ. Railings surrounding a wooden oval floor, and hundreds of kids on roller skates! The roller-skating rink was called The Bal-A-Roue, and if you grew up in Medford, Somerville or surrounding areas, you remember it.

I believe the historic skating rink was situated where the Century Bank building is now, on Mystic Avenue in Medford. Some say that it opened as far back as  1915 and lasted into the early to mid 1980s, according to the sources we could find.

By Cathleen Twardzik

Congressman Michael Capuano’s bipartisan resolution to support peace in Sudan passed the House recently.

The resolution sought full implementation of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and steered attention to the importance of imminent referenda, according to a press release.

By George P. Hassett

An alert police officer caught a Malden man trying to sell his mom’s laptop computer in a Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot on Broadway Monday, police said.

Detective James Slattery allegedly watched Dana Memory, 22, hand a bag of electronic devices to another man in exchange for cash at the Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot at 220 Broadway.