Massachusetts seniors joined Governor Charlie Baker and Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders at the State House today as the Governor signed into law two budget provisions that will improve the health and quality of life of low-income seniors. One initiative will expand access to the Medicare Savings Program to 40,000 low-income seniors, and the other will enable the state to better control the exorbitant and growing costs of pharmaceuticals.

SMC Youth Media Open House

Thursday, September 19, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

at SMC Studios, 90 Union Square

RSVP at https://scatvsomerville.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f666d0ca2473e6d81ef0dc44f&id=6448202265&e=a6639670d7

The greater Somerville community is invited to learn more about Somerville Media Center’s robust and popular youth media education programs during our Open House. There will be various hands-on media production activities happening throughout the afternoon. Light refreshments will be provided.

Aleef Mahmud, a 30ish young man, met me in the lobby of the Artisan’s Asylum, a hotbed for technology and the arts in Union Square in Somerville.

Mahmud is the founder of PROTYO, a concern that develops artificial intelligence for things like automated cars, robots, thermostats, medical devices, etc. Although he is located in Somerville, in the Asylum he has employees working all over the world.

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Janet Sylvester has published two books of poetry, That Mulberry Wine and The Mark of Flesh and has another, And Not to Break, in the works.  She teaches writing at Harvard Summer School and Harvard Extension and Reading Poetry at MIT.

Arrests:
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Luciano Castro, September 11, 1:14 a.m., arrested at Fellsway West on warrant charges of miscellaneous municipal ordinance violation, indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older, and assault and battery.

Marcus Peterson, September 11, 3:02 p.m., arrested at Middlesex Ave. on a warrant charge of felony daytime breaking and entering.

— Photo courtesy of MarKa, LLC

New green, open space to be added as part of ongoing mixed-use development project at 1060 Broadway.

As part of the ongoing reconstruction of the former Powder House Community School, located at 1060 Broadway, the pedestrian walkway connecting Broadway and Holland St. will need to be closed for approximately four months as the project team begins work on the new green space adjacent to the building. The walkway closed on Monday, September 16, and remain closed through at least the end of 2019. During the closure, pedestrians may access Holland St. by heading west on Broadway to Teele Square, or east on Broadway to Paulina St.

Michelle Malone.
— Photo by Clay Miller

By Blake Maddux

“My brother had a guitar and he told me not to touch it,” singer, songwriter, and guitarist Michelle Malone says. “That’s how I became a guitar player, because all I wanted to do was play the damn guitar because he told me not to!”

— Photo by Bobbie Toner

The Little Sisters of the Poor announced this week with sadness, that they will be withdrawing from Jeanne Jugan Residence in Somerville. The Sisters met with the residents, their families, lay associates, staff and volunteers sharing their decision.

The Somerville Community Growing Center hopes you can join in for its Harvest Festival on Sunday, September 29, 2:30 – 5:00 p.m., 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville. Free to all, donations are welcome.

Celebrate Pollinators and Migration. In honor of all the creatures and people who make harvest of the food we eat possible, come join in a visual and auditory feast and participatory activities.

There will be a Public Hearing before the City Council’s Committee on Public Health and Public Safety, on Wednesday, September 18, 2019, at 6:00 p.m., in the Somerville High School Auditorium, 81 Highland Avenue, on the Order of Councilor Jesse Clingan, Chair of the Committee, for public input on airplane noise in Somerville.