Seven days of early voting will be held prior to this year’s Election Day on November 2. All early voting takes place in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 93 Highland Ave. Early voting days and times are as follows: Saturday, October 23 – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, October 24 – 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday, October 25 – 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 26 – 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 27 – 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Thursday, October 28 – 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Friday, October 29 – 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more information, visit somervillema.gov/elections.

Eagle Feathers #239 – Sergeant Hansen’s Flags

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

This article was first published on February 13, 2019. We are running it again as a response to the recent desecration of Henry Hansen’s memorial stone in Magoun Square, and as a reminder to residents of his patriotism and heroism.

Henry Oliver Hansen was a young United States Marine from Somerville who was killed during World War II at the Battle of Iwo Jima. He was raised in the Magoun Square neighborhood on Nashua Street, attended Northeastern Junior High School and Somerville High School.

For some of us it feels like forever since we’ve shaken off the cares and concerns that seem to be bearing down so heavily as we deal with the stress and concerns of dealing with the COVID pandemic, and then there is also the tension that accompanies yet another political season.

The local election is just around the corner, and the national mis-term election is coming up next year. The balance of power nationwide will be in play, and more than ever it seems as though so much will be at stake in that particular election cycle, no matter which side we align with.

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Katya Popova, is a Somerville artist, who maintains a studio at the Vernon St. Studios in our city. She is a woman brimming with ideas, and the ideas spark her visual and sound presentations.

Popova, who is originally from Moscow, in the Soviet Union, said she moved here in the summer of 2008. She said, “I was impressed with the vibrancy of the community.” Soon she got involved with an artist collaborative in Sullivan Square.

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Somerville Bagel Bards member and physician-humanist, Ian Halim, writes about how medicine relates to everything from ethics to botany, aiming to make science accessible to the widest possible audience. Ian earned his PhD in Greek and Latin literature and his MD at Columbia University in New York City and is now training at a hospital in Boston.

Arrests:
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Nicholas Evans, of Hyde Park, October 13, 9:24 a.m., arrested at Canal St. on warrant charges of receiving a stolen credit card, receiving stolen property under $1200, possession of a burglarious instrument, felony daytime breaking and entering of a vehicle or boat, trespassing, and attempt to commit a crime.

Alexis Rodriguez-Perez, October 14, 6:43 p.m., arrested at Somerville Ave. on a charge of larceny by check under $1200.

Paul Hollings has announced that he will be retiring next year from his position as Executive Director of Somerville Cambridge Elder Services (SCES).

In a letter announcing his pending retirement, Hollings wrote that “Our mission to support the right of elders to live in the setting of their choice has resonated deeply with me,” and “…To work with all of you, to offer alternatives to institutional care, has been one of the most meaningful experiences of my career.”