Teachers enter the limelight at benefit concert
By Tawna Rathe

    Somerville teachers stepped out of the classroom and onto center
stage showing Somerville they have got what it takes to rock a crowd. 

    On Sunday Nov. 6, 16 teachers and school administrators put on a
two-hour benefit concert for hurricane relief.  The performance
included German and Spanish renditions of lively jazz numbers, a trio
tap-dance routine and old-time rock ‚Äòn‚Äô roll favorites. 

Moroney and Provost ready to chase Rep. seat

by George P. Hassett

The election schedule to replace Patricia D. Jehlen as the 27th Middlesex District State Rep. has been finalized and the only two candidates to declare as of Nov. 10 live on the same street.

Both Denise Provost and Elizabeth Moroney live on Albion Street and have Jehlen’s old seat in their sights. Thus far, they are the only two candidates on the ballot for the Jan. 10 Democratic primary.

Caught: dope in the console
By Andrea Gregory

     Howard Taylor said nothing to police after they spotted three bags of heroin in the center console of his car. But by the time police spotted the drugs, it only confirmed their earlier suspicions.  There was enough evidence to arrest Howard, 41, of Morrison Avenue.
     The alleged crime went down on Saturday, Nov. 5 on Warwick Street. As graffiti was being removed from a building near the railroad tracks, a uniform officer came up on two males, standing close to each other just beyond the brush of a tail off Warwick Street.
     Police recognized the man beside Howard. He had been arrested in the past and had a history of drug offenses.
     Howard allegedly began to book it toward his car as police approached.
    ‚ÄúAlthough I did not witness a hand-to-hand transfer, I believed that a drug transaction had just taken place,‚Äù said Sgt. Steven Carrabino in the police report. ‚ÄúThe area where the two men were meeting is isolated. Warwick Street is a one-way that leads to Clyde Street. There were no other cars parked where Mr. Taylor left his car.‚Äù
    According to the police report Taylor‚Äôs eyes were ‚Äúindicative of someone under the influence of a narcotic.‚Äù
   ‚ÄúI asked him what medications he had consumed. He told me that he had taken methadone. I asked him how much, and he told me that he had taken 90 milligrams. Mr. Taylor appeared impaired. His speech and reactions were slow,‚Äù according Carrabino.
   Police found $100 in the pocket of Howard‚Äôs companion, and he was released. Howard, allegedly in possession of dope was arrested and his car was towed.

They passed on the joint and stabbed the woman
By Andrea Gregory
 

  A group of friends had been sharing a marijuana cigarette while they were waiting for a taxi near the corner of New Road and Mystic Avenue, according to one of the victims in a weekend stabbing.
  A woman came running through the parking lot of Good Times, screaming about a stabbing. It was 1:17 a.m. on Saturday. Just down the road a purse snatching had gotten a little out of hand. And one woman would need to be transported to the hospital.
  According to police, the woman was treated for her injuries and is expected to be all right.
  When the group of guys approached the woman and her friends waiting for a cab, they were asked if they cared to puff on the joint, according to statements in the police report.
  But the three men wearing long sleeve shirts and jeans weren‚Äôt looking to get high. They wanted the woman‚Äôs purse. The man with the joint began fighting with one of the suspects. While that was going on another one of the suspects pulled out a knife and rammed it through the woman. He grabbed her purse, and the three men took off running. They piled into a four-door sedan where two black males were waiting inside the getaway car. The vehicle took off, and the suspects remain at large.

Nobody gets 23.6% in mayor’s race

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, running unopposed, won 71.7 percent of the vote. But 23.6 percent of the voters chose to vote for Nobody or leave the ballot blank.

Bockelman wins Ward 6 School Committee

Paul Bockelman defeated Jim Thomas for the Ward 6 School Committee seat relinquished by Carolyn Taylor.

At-Large incumbents return

The four alderman-at-large incumbents have all retained their seats. Denise Provost, William A. White Jr., Dennis M. Sullivan and Bruce Desmond bested challengers Marty Martinez, Kim Foster Hirsch and Stephen A. Glines.