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Review by Off the Shelf Correspondent Ed Meek
Isaac Fitzgerald is a literary celebrity. He appears on The Today Show and recommends books. He has a very enthusiastic demeanor and a bubbly personality. Intermittently, when speaking, he puts his hand on his heart. Dirtbag, Massachusetts (a name his friend gave to a town in Massachusetts) is a collection of his essays focusing on periods of his life from early childhood to the present.
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Virtual meeting will highlight spring/summer construction schedule and forthcoming streetscape improvements on Summer St.
Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and Ward 3 Councilor Ben Ewen-Campen invite you to join a virtual community meeting to learn about construction progress on the Spring Hill Sewer Separation project.
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Arrests:
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Joshua Sperling, of Cambridge, March 27, 11:40 a.m., arrested at Assembly Row on a charge of lewd, wanton and lascivious conduct.
Calling all Somerville high school students! Applications will open Monday, April 3, for the Mayor’s Summer Jobs Program.
Through this annual program, the City of Somerville hires teenage participants to work in the Parks and Recreation Department, Somerville Public Libraries, and other City offices as well as local businesses.
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More than 40 District Attorneys, members of law enforcement, and community program leaders participated in a roundtable at the Catholic Charities Teen Center in Dorchester’s Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood. The discussion focused on statewide strategies for effective violence prevention and impactful community-based partnerships. — Photos courtesy of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security
The Healey-Driscoll Administration allocated $2 million for the newly created grant opportunity focused on improving quality of life, bolstering youth programming, reducing street violence, and preventing illegal drug distribution across Massachusetts. The Safer Communities Initiative is a collaborative public safety model that brings together prosecutors, state and local law enforcement, and community stakeholders to identify emerging trends in a community and develop results-driven programs to advance prevention, intervention, diversion, and enforcement.
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Shortly before 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, Trooper Beau Schlichting, assigned to State Police-Medford, was stationary observing traffic at the intersection of Memorial Road and Canal Lane in Somerville. At that time he observed a black Honda Civic with illegal window tint pass his location. An electronic inquiry of the vehicle’s license plate revealed it was being sought by the Somerville Police Department regarding an incident that occurred approximately three weeks earlier. Trooper Schlichting entered traffic, activated his blue lights, and stopped the vehicle on River Road.Continue reading »
Individuals and families in Massachusetts will receive their first state-funded extra Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payment on April 7, following Governor Healey’s signing of a supplemental budget that includes $130 million to create an offramp from the extra COVID SNAP benefits, known as SNAP Emergency Allotments. The Congressional Consolidated Appropriations Act 2023 ended these payments as of February 2023 and Massachusetts households received their last federal payment on March 2, 2023.
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Assault
On 3/22/23 at approximately 12:57 a.m., Somerville Police responded to the MBTA station on College Ave for report of two males fighting. Upon arrival, officers spoke with the two males who stated they got into a verbal argument that escalated into a fight. One of the male parties suffered minor injuries.
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