By Jim Clark

Somerville Police officers were dispatched to the Food Mart store on Broadway in the early hours of last Sunday on reports of a breaking and entering.

The reporting party provided a description of the suspect to police dispatch, which was then relayed to the responding officers as they were on the way.

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

It’s getting harder and harder to navigate a car with all the bicyclists throughout Somerville. When I pass a bicycle, I have to basically come out of my lane to avoid hitting them, which puts me in the path of oncoming traffic.

Firehouse Reels is the Somerville Museum exhibit of the archives of SCATV, Somerville Community Access Television, the oldest access cable television station in Massachusetts. The speakers include Somerville Mayor Emeritus Gene Brune, Mayor Dorothy Kelly Gay, Smitty, and Kate Deming, SMC board member. SCATV is now does business as the Somerville Media Center.

The reconstruction of the I-93 viaduct between exit 21 and Temple Street is expected to continue through the fall of 2024.. — Photo by Bobbie Toner

By Michael McHugh

Next month, work will begin on the I-93 viaduct in Somerville between exit 21 and Temple Street.

In a June 9 public meeting, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) outlined their plan for the reconstruction project which will take place from summer 2022 to fall 2024.

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By Jack Connolly
Jackconnolly422@gmail.com

Street guy Mike dead of drug overdose on May 10, 8:30 a.m., in Davis Sq. Plaza. Days later another OD, this time saved by a good Samaritan who had Narcan.

A week later, shots fired into a Paulina St. apartment, a few blocks up from Davis Sq. Last Tuesday, at 8:30 p.m., a disagreement between two men resulted in one man being stabbed multiple times, again in the Davis Square Plaza. For the first time in months, more than one police vehicle was present in Davis Square as several Somerville police officers and vehicles were in the plaza, dealing with a violent crime scene.

Groundwork Somerville recently held a workshop at the South Street Farm on dealing with invasive plants in the garden. — Photos by Luda Tang

By Luda Tang

Groundwork Somerville, a nonprofit organization dedicated to food and environmental justice, launched a workshop on June 11 at the South Street Farm teaching residents how to identify and remove invasive plants that may appear in their gardens.

FY23 Budget meetings are taking place. To view what is being discussed visit the city’s website at www.somervillema.gov to watch the videos of each meeting. Tonight’s topics will be fire and alarm, emergency management, police, animal control, and E-911. http://somervillecityma.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=3575.

Thirty-fourth Middlesex District State Rep. Christine Barber.

After a historic vote in the House of Representatives in February and state Senate in early May, the state legislature voted  to override the Governor’s veto of the Work and Family Mobility Act (WFMA), and it is now state law. The bill, filed by Representative Christine Barber of Somerville and Medford, with Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier and Senators Brendan Crighton and Adam Gomez, enables all state residents to apply for a standard Massachusetts driver’s license regardless of immigration status.