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Review By Andy Hoffman

Tony winner for Best Play in 2022 The Lehman Trilogy, playing at the Huntington Theatre through July 16, 2023. It tells the history of Lehman Brothers investment bank from its roots as a dry-goods store in Montgomery, AL, in the 1840s to the last involvement of anyone named Lehman in 1969, with the death of Robert Lehman, grandson of the founders. Over the course of three acts running three and a half hours, the play reveals the evolution of three Jewish European brothers on the make in America, and what their ambitions wrought.

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Barb Ariel Cohen lives with her husband in the Boston area. She is a scientist and entrepreneur who also practices the complementary discipline of writing poetry. She has been published in The Penmen Review.

Riverside Community Care has been awarded a grant that will allow the nonprofit to offer enhanced respite services to local families.

Riverside Community Care, a nonprofit leader in behavioral healthcare and human services, recently received a $900,000 grant through the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) to strengthen its capacity to support 100 caregivers and an estimated 150 youth with behavioral health challenges via a new innovative project, Caregivers SOAR (Sustainable Opportunities for Accessing Respite). The project will support and enhance services provided by Riverside’s long-standing community-based programs in Somerville and Cambridge.

Ambitious agenda outlines the brewery’s intention to be a force for good

Portico Brewing has announced its environmentally focused business plans to the public, launching the effort with a new page on its website and a series of community initiatives.  

Residents urged to use bug spray when outdoors

Friday, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) announced that West Nile virus (WNV) has been detected in mosquitoes in Massachusetts for the first time this year. The presence of WNV was confirmed by the Massachusetts State Public Health Laboratory in a mosquito sample collected July 6 in the town of Brookline in Norfolk County. No human or animal cases of WNV or Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) have been detected so far this year. 

James V. “Jimmy” McCallum, a 47 year resident of Somerville and formerly of Charlestown, entered into eternal life on Wednesday, July 5, 2023 following a lengthy illness. He was 80 years of age.

Planning an event in Somerville this summer? Public Event license applications for events before Labor Day must be submitted online by Monday, July 10. Doing so ensures adequate processing time for the application to be submitted to the City Council before its summer recess begins at the conclusion of its meeting on July 13.