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| Lauren C. Ostberg
As officials brace for cuts in local aid and a tight city budget, School Committee members are discussing layoffs and elimination of jobs in city schools. "The most important thing is to get through one year at a time without a reduction in programs," said Superintendent Tony Pierantozzi. |
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Ard Ardalan Christian Gomez lines up at Foss Park at 5:30 a.m. everyday to compete with dozens of other men for an $8 an hour or less job. The hazards are many: he's gone unpaid after an eight-hour workday and he contracted lead poisoning at one work site. Now, the stories of Gomez and the laborers who gather at Foss Park each morning has inspired a play, "They Don't Tell You Anything" written and produced by Meryl Becker, which premiered at the Elizabeth Peabody House on Friday. |
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Ard Ardalan Tufts professor Sol Gittleman is an expert on Yiddish culture and baseball history, not motivational speaking. On Sunday, Gittleman addressed more than 3,000 Tufts University students awaiting graduation, and he left out the pep talk. "Students at Tufts don't need to hear much motivation; what characterizes them is their energy, their curiosity and their willingness to take on a lot of things they never seem to stop," said Gittleman, the day's commencement speaker. "They always seem to go to the library. There's a world out there that everybody's got to understand." |
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Photos William Tauro
SomerStreets
will act as an extension of Shape Up Somerville, promoting active
living with programs for bicyclists, walkers, and pedestrians of all
ages. The May 22nd event will covered a three mile loop, kicking off
from Foss Park and continuing along the future Blueback Herring River
Route, Shore Drive, and the Mystic River Reservation. Similar programs
will be held each month throughout the summer, in different Somerville
neighborhoods.
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Ard Ardalan Construction started last Saturday on the new Clarendon Hills community garden on the corner of Powderhouse Boulevard and North Street. The project was approved in January by the Somerville Housing Authority (SHA), which owns and operates the housing development. Various members of the community of all age groups were on site helping out with construction. |
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Jimmy Del Ponte (The opinions and views expressed in the commentaries of The Somerville News belong solely to the authors of those commentaries and do not reflect the views or opinions of The Somerville News, its staff or publishers.) It happened again last week. A neighbor's house was sold and the "re-modeling" has begun. My family moved on the street in 1960, and these folks were already there back then. The sad, all too familiar scenario played out once again. The kids all get married and move out, dad passes away, and mom goes into assisted living. No one wants to keep the family home, so it goes on the market. It stays on the market for about ten minutes and sells for around $680,000. |
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By Joseph A. Curtatone (The Somerville |
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