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| By George P. Hassett
Governor Deval Patrick this week signed into law a bill banning the commercial use and sale of a wood floor finishing product linked to a deadly 2004 Somerville home fire. State Senator Pat Jehlen, a Somerville Democrat, sponsored the bill in response to a string of home fires caused by the extremely flammable finishing product. Continue reading » |
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| William Tauro and George P. Hassett
A motorcycle accident Friday night left a 29-year-old woman dead and a 37-year-old man in serious condition, according to police. Sinead M. Lovett, a preschool teacher from Braintree, was thrown from the motorcycle as Richard Migliacci, of Somerville, swerved around traffic, witnesses said. Continue reading » |
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| By George P. Hassett
Drug-unit cops conducting routine surveillance in East Somerville followed a person they knew from previous investigations to a pair of percocet dealers July 9, police said Dennis Ryan, 32, of 24 Spring St., Everett, and Charles Ryan, 55, of 75 Myrtle St., allegedly met the man and sold him four pills of the prescription painkiller. Continue reading » |
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By Tom Nash For the second time in a month, Somerville aldermen are asking the state's two U.S. senators help keep revenue flowing to cities struggling through an economic downturn. At the board's first full meeting since passing next year's budget, Ward 2 Alderman Maryann Heuston said lobbyists for online travel agencies were working on Capitol Hill to hinder state's and localities from collecting their share of hotel taxes. |
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By Andrew Firestone
At the new exhibit at NAVE Gallery. "Elements: Line, Color and Form,"
three very different artists, using three very different art forms,
painting, drawing and sculpture to come together in a spectacle of the
grand and the minuscule.
Curator Susan Berstler said the
diverse works were united by their use of "found" objects calling the
goal of the exhibit "to create conversations between and to draw
attention to similarities among these different bodies of work."
The works visually evoked the raw materials of life, from Kathleen
Finley's miniaturized villa-cities, to a strikingly expressionistic
visual grid of the human hand in a graphite drawing by Alisa Dworsky.
Somerville artist Ron Brunelle exhibited a range of his acrylic
paintings, which brought many to absolute memorization with his
enrapturing use of deep colors. Peter Miner said he felt Brunelle's
"Mayo" was "Monet-like."
Brunelle used everyday objects such
as bicycle chains to simulate effects of patterns, and said he wasn't
surprised when his paintings resembled nuclei and proteins in shape. "I
think there is a connection between common industrial structures and
molecular structures."
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By William Tauro The Massachusetts State 9-1-1 Department mobile emergency response unit which is operated out of the Executive Office of Public Safety & Security Department sits on Merriam Street next to the Somerville Police station. The state of the art fully equipped mobile command unit is set up as a temporary command center while the police station dries up after days of continuous flooding. Flash floods destroyed half the Somerville Police cruisers and motor cycle fleet and flooded the building. |
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By William Tauro Work crews work through the weekend throwing out water soaked debris from the Somerville Public Safety building located at the rear of 255 Somerville Avenue. |
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