THE HOUSE AND SENATE: Beacon Hill Roll Call records local senators’ votes on roll calls from debate on the $38.1 billion fiscal 2016 state budget. There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week.
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Daily Archives: June 1, 2015
Somerville Family Aims To Turn Heartache into “Hope and Awareness” For Others
Somerville, MA – Almost immediately after their son Ryan’s death, the Harrington family felt compelled to channel all of their love for Ryan and the insurmountable pain of losing him into something positive for the community. “When we lost Ryan we were broken, we still are, but life keeps moving and so we must too, in a positive way for ourselves and for Ryan” said Ryan’s father Dave Harrington. Continue reading Somerville Family Aims To Turn Heartache into “Hope and Awareness” For Others
CITY’S SOMERSTREETS PROGRAM RETURNS FOR SUMMER 2015
Kicking off with “Carnaval” along East Broadway, SomerStreets promotes active living, reconnecting with city neighborhoods
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Somerville Seeking Residents to Test New City Website on June 3 and 4
On Wednesday, June 3 and Thursday, June 4, we still have room for Somerville residents to sign up to take a sneak peek at an early prototype of the all-new http://www.SomervilleMA.gov, and share their ideas to make it better.
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Somerville High School Boys Track News
Our team competed at the MIAA Eastern Mass Division 1 Track & Field Championship Meet on Saturday at Lowell’s Cawley Stadium (photos from Newton Sports attached)
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Real Life Somerville Police Stories:Saks 5th Ave at Assembly Row
On Saturday, May 30, 2015, I was on duty and assigned to the Assembly Row area as Unit A-2. At approximately 6:12PM, I was dispatched to the Saks Off 5th store (300 Canal Street) on a reported larceny. Continue reading Real Life Somerville Police Stories:Saks 5th Ave at Assembly Row
Real Life Somerville Police Stories:shoplifting and three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon ,the weapon being a knife
I was in uniformed patrol in East 2.I was dispatched to 400 Somerville Ave the Market Basket for a shoplifter who had threatened the employees and was being followed by store employees. I responded with Officer Guillen. The suspect had also threatened to cut the employees when they tried to stop him.
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Real Life Somerville Police Stories:Carrying a Firearm Without a License and Possession of Class D (Marijuana) With Intent to Distribute
NERIS A CALDERON ////JERSON MERINO Arrests
May 25, 2015 at 10:22 p.m., while on duty, I observed a black Honda CR-V with Massachusetts registration 1CL679 traveling south on Central Street near the intersection of Highland Avenue in Somerville. Without signaling, the vehicle abruptly pulled onto the sidewalk in a hazardous manner.
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Somerville Police Department Arrest Log 5/25/15-5/31/15
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CALDERON , NERIS
43 BROADWAY SOMERVILLE MA
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GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS by John Dwyer
GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS MONDAY, June 1, the 152nd day of 2015 with 212 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 5:10 and sunset is @ 8:13. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are stars are Neptune & Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn & Venus.
ON THIS DAY IN: 1485 – King Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and made the city his capital.
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Coakley is Wrong to Champion ‘Chip and PIN’ Fits-All-Solution By Neil McCabe
Martha Mary Coakley, recently hired at the liberal Boston law and lobbying firm Foley Hoag, has come out swinging for mandatory “Chip-and-PIN” systems for debit and credit cards.
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