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| By Tom Nash
Somerville residents emerging from Aquapocalypse are asking the Board of Aldermen that they not to get stuck with the bill. The half-hour system flush recommended after a boil water order was removed for the Boston area has some concerned their bills could be much higher than usual. |
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EPA gives Mystic C- for water quality
By Andrew Firestone
Sunday was a beautiful day for a paddle fest on the Mystic River but concerns about substandard water quality continue to flow.
Curt Spalding, recently appointed by President Barack Obama as the Environmental Protection Agency's New England administrator, said the Mystic River's water quality was given a C- grade.
The low grade was based on bacteria levels in the water.
According to an EPA report, the Mystic River meets boating standards 93 percent of the time, but swimming standards only 57 percent of the time. The grade has failed to rise for the last three years, since rising from a D in 2008.
"It is persistence that matters in restoring urban waters," said Spalding. "It's not going to be a day or a week, it's going to take years," he said.
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By George P. Hassett
A 14-year-old Somerville boy was strangled with a piano chord in music class at the Winter Hill Community School on Friday, according to police.
The victim was sitting at a piano in class when another student approached and strangled him in front of the class, police said. The music teacher tried to pull the suspect away from the victim and screamed, "Stop," police said.
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(from the Somerville police) Somerville Police today released a composite sketch of a suspect who was involved in two assaults on women earlier this month. On May 6th, at about 10:30 p.m., a 21 year old female victim reported that she was walking on Main Street from Broadway nearing Moreland Street when she heard the sound of footsteps. She looked back and saw a man behind her. Less than ten seconds later this male subject grabbed her from behind and indecently assaulted her. The victim was able resist her attacker. She then ran to a safe location. When she looked back she saw her attacker running back toward Broadway. The suspect is described as a white male with a darker shade of skin. He seemed young, perhaps in his twenties and seemed to be in good shape. She said he was sprinting from the scene like a younger man. His hair was described as looking like "a fresh buzz cut hair style; neat and particular." The suspect's hair color was black or dark brown. The suspect was wearing shorts below the knee and a hooded sweatshirt. |
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| By George P. Hassett
A Delaware man elbowed and kicked police officers as he screamed for beer and foamed at the mouth on Sunday afternoon, police said. Adrian Ramirez, 31, was heavily intoxicated when an employee at Liquor Zone on Washington Street refused to sell him beer, police said. |
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| By George P. Hassett
MS-13 gang members armed with a baseball bat and metal pipe chased a 16-year-old Somerville boy down lower Broadway May 11, according to police. The 16-year-old victim was returning home from work when he got off the bus near Franklin Street and noticed four males following him, police said. The group chased the victim and started to yell in Spanish, police said. |
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By William Tauro The 2010 Sunsetter's auditions took place on Monday evening at the West Somerville Neighborhood School located on Powderhouse Boulevard. June Knight, Jimmy DelPonte and Jackie Rossetti judged hundreds of local talent hopefuls that auditioned one by one to be picked and hopefully chosen to become a Sunsetter for the 2010 season. |
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Crucial Milestone Reached in Major Public Transit Project
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) today joined Congressman Michael Capuano and Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone in announcing an agreement on a new preferred site for a maintenance and storage facility needed for the Green Line extension to Somerville and Medford.
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By William Tauro Somerville Masons hosted a Child Identification Program (CHIPS) at the Boy's and Girl's Club on Washington Street Saturday morning. The CHIPS program consist of the child accompanied by parents stopping at several stations within the workshop. The first station is the registration desk where the child's personal information is gathered. Station number two is where the dental impressions and DNA swabs of the child are taken. Station three is where a video taped interview of the child is recorded while asking the child a series of relevant questions . Station four is where police volunteer their time at the event to take finger prints impressions of the child for identification purposes. Then at the final station, all this information is combined into a package including a disk that parents keep one copy and another copy for the child's school to keep on file. The program is designed that in the event of a missing child, information gathered from the CHIPS program could provide police with valuable information and leads that could possibly assist them in finding the child and returning him or her back home again. The event was conducted by volunteers from Somerville Masonic Lodge and it's Master Skip Trahey, King Solomon's Masonic Lodge, Eastern Star members, Gary Stiller DDS office of Cambridge and the Somerville Police Department. |
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