– 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.

By Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone

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Yesterday I handed out the first-ever Mayor’s Athletic Achievement Awards to three people who have done Somerville proud. They were fifth grade swimmer Tenzin Nordon, equestrian (and Somerville animal control officer) Rachel Taylor, and Somerville Alibrandis star baseball player Marc DesRoches.

By Ashley Troutman

Last year's HONK! Festival. - Photo by Allison Mowrer

Join over 200 musicians for a Mardi Gras style celebration on Columbus Day weekend. The Honk! Festival is known as a “revolutionary street spectacle of never-before-seen-proportions.”

The festival will kick off on Oct. 8 with a performance by the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, from 3 to 5 p.m. The 30-odd-piece marching band and dance troupe seeks to support those working for social justice with their music. Local members from the Somerville High School Marching Band, Highlander Drum Line, and World Percussion Ensemble will accompany the orchestra in Union Square.

By George P. Hassett

A man was shot with a BB gun after a traffic dispute Sept. 30, police said.

Words were exchanged between two drivers and the alleged victim followed the suspect to Broadway and School Street.