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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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Marco Chaves, 45, of 7 Dell St., July 5, 12:11 a.m., arrested on warrant charges.
John Knudsen, 39, of 53 Central St., July 5, 1:12 a.m., arrested and charged with destruction of property under $250 and assault and battery.
Stephen Jackson, 22, of 784 Washington St., Dorchester, July 6, 2:49 a.m., arrested and charged with breaking and entering a vehicle in the nighttime.
DeShawn Chappell, 26, of 79 Perkins St., Charlestown, July 6, 4:51 p.m., arrested and charged with selling liquor to a person under 21 and possession of an open container of alcohol.
Carlos Regalado, 22, no address, July 6, 4:51 p.m., arrested and charged with possession of an open container of alcohol.
Jose Garcia, 37, of 11 Austin St., July 7, 10:04 p.m., arrested and charged with witness intimidation and violating a restraining order.
Ramon Perez, 34, of 268 Powder House Boulevard, July 7, 9:47 p.m., arrested on warrant charges.
Alex Gomes, 21, of 298 McGrath Highway, July 8, 10:03 a.m., arrested on warrant charges.
Lisa Bokuniewicz, 46, of 35A Albion St., July 9, 8:31 a.m., arrested on warrant charges.
Carlos Miguel, 39, of 9 Brook St., July 9, 9:18 a.m., arrested and charged with destruction of property over $250.
Dennis Ryan, 32, of 24 Spring St., Everett, July 9, 2:20 p.m., arrested and charged with conspiracy to violate a drug law.
Charles Ryan, 55, of 75 Myrtle St., July 9, 2:20 p.m., arrested and charged with distribution of a class B drug, conspiracy to violate a drug law and possession of a class B drug with intent to distribute.
Gary Sylvain, 22, of 20 Nashua St., July 10, 2:30 a.m., arrested on warrant charges.
Luciano Desorbo, 22, of 380 Somerville Avenue, July 10, 2:30 a.m., arrested and charged with defacing property.
Michael Kerr, 43, of 24 Robinson St., July 10, 4:44 a.m., arrested and charged with assault and battery and warrant charges.
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