By George P. Hassett

A Waltham man was arrested Oct. 3 after he allegedly threatened a bouncer at a Union Square nightclub.

Francisco Pineda, 26, was bothering a female patron at Club Choices on Somerville Avenue when club staff tried to escort him out, police said.

By Dave Carnevale

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Senator Pat Jehlen is touting her dubious successes at events around the district. Including at her fundraiser held this year in Winchester, where she bragged about, “better public transportation for seniors, paid sick days, controlling health care costs,”  (Winchester Star, April 20). The problem is, after nearly six years on Beacon Hill, she hasn’t actually accomplished any of these things or much of anything else.

Christian Waeber's exhibit of nighttime shots entitled “Another Night in Somerville” is on display at the SCATV Gallery.

By Alex Botti

A street corner, dark but for the neon light of a store’s awning. An empty storefront standing beside a dimly-lit, closed restaurant, a vacant bench sitting out front on the deserted night street. These are Somerville scenes that residents rarely see – intimate portraits of the city taken late at night, free of the bustle of the day.

Christian Waeber’s exhibit of nighttime shots entitled “Another Night in Somerville” on display at the SCATV Gallery – part of a larger collection of work for which Waeber was awarded a 2010 Somerville Arts Council grant – gives viewers a glimpse of this “other” Somerville.

By George P. Hassett

Police arrested two people Sept. 28 as they caught the couple climbing out of a car that did not belong to them.

Alicia Grace, 36, of 62 Woodville St., Everett, and Preston Reid, 26, of 16 Cutter St., were walking around Broadway, Franklin and Webster streets in East Somerville pulling on car door handles, police said.

Since the 1970's Somerville organizations have led the effort to raise awareness on domestic violence issues. Here, artwork by victims hangs in the Somerville Police Department.~ Photo by Jeremy F. van der Heiden

By Jeremy F. van der Heiden

The city’s annual domestic violence vigil last week could have doubled as a history lesson. Since the 1970’s Somerville organizations have led the effort to raise awareness on domestic violence issues.

In the mid-1970’s, RESPOND, Inc., an organization that works to prevent domestic violence and provides services to victims of it, was started in Somerville, making it the first in New England and second in the nation.

By George P. Hassett

In a vote tonight, aldermen approved a five-year contract, starting at $185,000 a year, for new police chief Tom Pasquarello.

Due to rainy weather forecast for Friday, 10/15, Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone’s 3.25-mile bike ride along many of Somerville’s new bike lanes and sharrows (which are roads marked to inform motorists to share the road with cyclists) has been moved to Monday, 10/18.

The ride will start at the intersection of Powderhouse Bvld. and Curtis St., head east to College Ave, head south to Davis Sq. where it will turn onto the Community Path, then turn south on Cedar St., taking it all the way to Elm, before turning east on Somerville Ave. and finishing in Union Square.

By Ashley Taylor

Aldermen and members of the public are questioning the financing and potential use of eminent domain in a new plan that could displace longtime businesses and impact the local economy for 30 years.

The program, known as District Improvement Financing, was discussed last week at a Board of Aldermen finance committee hearing.