On the Silly Side with Jimmy Del Ponte and Peggy McDonald

There
is a CD release party this Sunday at Sally O'Brien's from 3pm to 6 pm
for a Somerville musician named John McDonald. John grew up in
Somerville and went to Immaculate Conception and then St. Clements. In
1968, John's band, Indescribably Delicious won the Battle of the Bands
at Somerville High School, playing the Doors "Light My Fire." The band
consisted of John on guitar and vocals, Jimmy Hutchinson on bass, Wayne
Sherwood on guitar, Dom Musto playing keyboards and Steven Cody on
drums. I was there that night and let me tell you, that band rocked!
Indescribably Delicious was a band that every aspiring Somerville
musician wanted to be like.

By William Tauro

Mayor Joseph Curtatone and Boston Globe Columnist Kevin Cullen were among the many special guests that attended and sang along to "when Irish eyes are smiling" at The Somerville Kiwanis Club's Annual St. Patricks Day Luncheon.

The event was held at the Somerville Holiday Inn.

Two
days after seeing a proposed set of zoning amendments get turned down
by a Board of Aldermen committee, community advocate Teri Swartzel
appeared at City Hall hoping her own set of zoning changes would fare
better.

By Tom Nash

Two days after seeing a proposed set of zoning amendments get turned down by a Board of Aldermen committee, community advocate Teri Swartzel appeared at City Hall hoping her own set of zoning changes would fare better.

Brian Briggs, a surveyor from BHB Surveyors out of Watertown, is in the city today surveying for the Green Line Extension project, which is slated to be completed by 2014. Today, Brian and his team are surveying beneath the McGrath Highway overpass on Medford Street.

Photo from left to right: Chief Cabral, David Harris and his children.

By William Tauro

The missing elderly man was found by Cambridge Police in Central Square in good health. He has been reunited with his family. The 82 year old David Harris suffers from alzheimers,he was reported missing from Properzi Way.

Lot at 44 Park St. where a senior housing project is slated to be built. ~Photo by Tom Nash

Advocacy group claims victory

By Tom Nash

A
group of residents fighting for zoning reform packed a City Hall
committee room last Monday to watch a controversial set of amendments
touted as a fix for the city's senior housing crisis get put aside.

The
zoning changes, which the city's Office of Strategic Planning and
Development has said it will rework, would have allowed for-profit
senior housing developers to increase the number of units allowed in
each building without increasing the maximum height.

(pictured left to right)Mike Capuano, Gene Brune and Paul Haley

By Julia Fairclough

His
friends remember when Paul Haley would give out ice cream to children
and seniors on the fourth of July, or play the piano for city
functions; another side to the former Somerville Alderman and City
Solicitor who fought fiercely for his causes, and who died following a
battle with lung cancer on February 27.

That was back in the
days when the Aldermen honored a tradition of presenting ice cream to
children and seniors in their wards during the popular summer holiday.