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By William Tauro Flora Pignatielo of Somerville gets an eye screening exam from Somerville Lion's Club Member Ed Ciampa in the eye mobile during Tuesday's Elder fair in Somerville. Hundreds of local seniors attended the Annual Cambridge- Somerville Elders Service's Elder Fair that was held this past Tuesday at the Healey School on Meacham Street. |
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A Somerville man was arrested early Thursday morning as he tried to steal more than 50 feet of copper wire from NStar on Inner Belt Road, police said. James Michael Brietzke, 30, of 1102 Broadway, was arrested and charged with breaking and entering in the nighttime for a felony after NStar security officers allegedly saw Brietzke dressed in all black throwing 10 foot lengths of copper over a fence. When police arrived at the scene, Brietzke tried to run but was caught and handcuffed after a brief chase, police said. Officers found copper wire in Brietzke's truck nearby. |
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Somerville Local Artist Market offers great venue for artisans By Julia Fairclough It was the first time that Janet Steele had ever shown her artwork, but any anxiousness was easily assuaged by the cozy darkness of the back room at the Burren pub in Davis Square, as well as the low-keyed atmosphere amongst the other artisans there. Steele was joined by about a dozen other local artists and artisans during the Somerville Local Artist Market (SLAM) at the popular Irish watering hole. The back room at the Burren, usually reserved for live music at night, was transformed into a relaxing market, brimming with unusual and innovative art work, rendered by artists like Steele who were trying their hand at selling what they love to create. Steele, a Malden resident who works for Harvard by day, got serious about her art when she stopped drinking nine years ago. She used to quilt, but has moved on to creating mosaic mirrors, jewelry, and boxes using tiles that she has created. "I stopped drinking and got sober, and it changed my life," Steele said. "I started doing art." |
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235th Anniversary to be Celebrated at Foss Park with Historic Games, Refreshments Beginning at 10 a.m. Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Historic Preservation Commission Executive Director Brandon Wilson invite all residents and community members to the City's 235th Patriot's Day celebration, to be held at Foss Park on Monday, April 19th beginning at 10 a.m. Co-sponsored by the Preservation Commission, Historic Somerville, Somerville Museum, East Somerville Main Streets, and Friends of Foss Park, the day's events will include Colonial games and songs, light refreshments, speeches, and a visit from Paul Revere on horseback on his historic ride from Boston to Lexington through Somerville. "Somerville has a rich, vibrant history, and we're proud to celebrate our City's important role in the Revolutionary era with this popular annual event," Mayor Curtatone said. "Each year our Patriot's Day celebration, like many of our great events, gets bigger and better, and I look forward to seeing residents and community members once again turn out to help us celebrate Somerville's historic traditions." |
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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.) On Sunday we went to a comic book convention at The Westin Waterfront Hotel. The two day event was packed to the rafters. Some fans went all out and dressed like their favorite characters. I saw two different Wonder Women, a few Batmen, several X-Men and some pretty cool looking female heroines. They were decked out to the max from head to toe. |
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And a lot of large commercial bankers too William C. Shelton (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.) There is a genre of horror movie in which harmless creatures like birds, insects, dogs, or rodents come together as an implacable mob to ruthlessly devour human flesh. In a similar genre, formerly congenial neighbors turn into soul-sucking pod people, zombies, or demon-possessed children. |
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By George P.
Hassett
A Somerville man who turned his music up after police asked
him to turn it down early Saturday morning was arrested and charged with
disturbing the peace.
Jackson Lindsay, 26, of 96 Line St., was playing
loud music on his porch at 4:15 a.m. when police asked him to turn it down. For
a short time he did but when officers turned to walk away, he turned the volume
back up to a level that was louder than it had initially been, according to
reports.
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By Ashley Taylor
At 10 a.m. on Saturday, J.P. Sacco placed the first wet clay brick on the dome of a new wood-fired pizza oven at his former business, Sacco's Bowl Haven. Five hours later, Evan Fetras, the future manager of the Day Street hangout, laid the final bricks on the second oven. The business is literally changing hands.
The bowling alley's new owners, Flatbread Company, invited the whole community to help build two brick ovens for the new pizza restaurant and bar that will open in June. Flatbread Company is keeping ten of Sacco's fifteen lanes open for bowling. They removed lanes one through five to make way for the pizza ovens and will replace Sacco's pool tables with restaurant tables.
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| Break-ins up as warm weather arrives, police say
By George P. Hassett Police arrested an Ossippee Street woman after officers allegedly saw her removing screens from windows and trying to break into a Cottage Avenue apartment Wednesday afternoon. Police said residential break-ins have increased in recent weeks. Farrah Manning, 34, of 55 Ossippee St., was arrested and charged with attempt to commit a crime after police allegedly saw her on a fire escape trying to lift a window open. |
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