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VOL.1 NO.54 SOMERVILLE MASS. Tuesday October 28th, 2014 Inside: Somerville’s Police Promotion Swearing-In Ceremony Photos by Kim Moss By William Tauro The Somerville COA Page 13 This past Thurs- day evening, Mayor Joseph Curtatone and the City of Somerville held a promo- tion and swearing in ceremony at TheSomerville- Somerville City NewsWeekly.com Hall for seven Favorite Photos somerville police Pages 20 & 21 officers. Continued to page 39 Somerville Police Arrests CITY SEEKS NEW FIRE STATION ON SOMERVILLE AVE Page 4 ,Real Life Somerville Police Stories Will Bay State liberals rejoice as English officials revive surprise warrantless home searches? By Neil W. McCabe Location would improve emergency response time, offer See Valuable McDonald’s Savings Coupons Page 16 more training for firefighters, reduce wear and tear on Jamie Norton Reality equipment, and make more efficient use of headquarters’ Bites Page 38 spacesustainability goals Continued to page 38 Investment Property FINANCING 617-666-8600 | 800-444-4300 | winterhillbank.com Kevin Gatlin, SVP/Commercial Lending — 617-629-3345 A Mutual Bank Serving the Community Since 1906 Richard Brenner, VP/Commercial Lending — 617-629-3349 Member Equal Housing FDIC Lender The Somerville News Weekly Tuesday October 28th, 2014 3 2 Tuesday October 28th, 2014 The Somerville News Check Out Two New The Somerville News Weekly on the Run at “How to See the Blessings of God in Newstalk Shout Out Weekly Exclusive Police & Fire Winter Hill Bank Everyday Life” Departments Series Only on Bostonnewsgroup.com & Thesomervillenewsweekly.com Here’s Your Locations Where You Can Pick Up Your Copy of The Somerville News Weekly Stop in at any one of three Winter Hill Bank locations in Somer- The Somerville News Weekly Print edition that comes out every Tuesday and can be ville and pick up your free copy of the Somerville News Weekly! found weekly in the bright red Somerville News boxes located at the following loca- And while you’re there, don’t forget to ask about the bank’s easy tions across the Ville: Union Sq. 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It has been a long time in the making and we are proud to finally introduce seven new At 9:10 AM on Monday, Traffic Officer Robert Hickey was involved in local print editions of sister news stations to our Somerville News Weekly family! Along with “THE SOMERVILLE NEWS WEEKLY”, our new weekly newspaper a motor vehicle crash while operating a police motorcycle. This crash print editions are here and will be widely distributed within those cities and towns in occurred at the intersection of Medford Street and Pearl Street and the Metro Boston Area. involved a 1995 Honda Odyssey operated by a male out of Malden, MA. Officer Hickey, a 20 year department veteran, was transported to More Newstalk Shout Out continued to page 9 Mass General Hospital via Cataldo Ambulance suffering from serious but non-life threatening injuries. The crash is under investigation by the Somerville Police Accident Reconstruction Team. The Somerville News Weekly “PUBLISHED EVERY Apply to Serve on The Working Group will Hall Annex, 50 Evergreen Ave., dations will include ways to TUESDAY” research affordability efforts Somerville, MA 02145. Please protect and preserve the afford- Sustainable underway in other cities and include your contact informa- able housing already in the city, Mailing: PO Box 117, Somerville MA 02143 Neighborhoods towns, as well as explore new, tion including your phone expand the City’s resources to Physical Walk-in Address by appointment only: 86 Joy Street, Working Group in innovative ideas that can number and e-mail address. create more along with expand- Somerville MA 02143 address the issue of housing af- The deadline for applications is ing services to low-income Somerville fordability. 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Housing Division Director of and will have the opportunity ing and Community Develop- Publisher- William B. Tauro Curtatone’s comprehensive ap- Special Projects. Please email to generate additional propos- ment Committee. Co-Publisher- Marisa Tauro proach to meeting the housing [email protected] als and recommendations on its Advertising Director- Lisamarie Tauro affordability needs of residents or mail information to Kelly own that build on the Mayor’s and families in Somerville. Distribution Manager- Patrick Tauro Donato, Housing Division, City initiative. These recommen- 4 Tuesday October 28th, 2014 The Somerville News Weekly The Somerville News Weekly Tuesday October 28th, 2014 5 SOMERVILLE NEWS WEEKLY’S SOMERVILLE POLICE ARRESTS/CRIMES OF THE WEEK Will Bay State liberals rejoice as English officials revive surprise warrantless home searches? By Neil W. McCabe away. Hardly the legal firmation, and particularly process one might expect describing the place to be when it came to suspend- searched, and the persons ing an American’s consti- or things to be seized. Somerville Police Arrest Log / REAL LIFE POLICE STORIES! tutional rights. While on the topic of gun While English legal tradi- rights, the Massachusetts tions have been cast aside, Constitution abandons bizarrely there is some- citizens to armed crimi- thing of English manners nals and depending on the REAL LIFE SOMERVILLE POLICE STORIES SPD Arrest Log 10/20/14-10/27/14 survives. Police officers are make-sure-you-go-home- 10/20/2014 14:37:20 MEACHAM ST 330 10/26/2014 20:04:00 cover cautioned against spring- at-the-end-of-the-shift 175 MARINO , JAMES GREAT RIVER RD 180 capacity, operating an ing a home search on gun police officers. FELLSWAY 41 EDWARD ST MEDFORD JAMES , NIKIA SOMERVILLE AVE unmarked Police M/V, I FREDERICK , SHAWN MA 10 NEW TOWN COURT LEONE , MICHAEL assisted in an active, street owners at an “unsocial But, the state constitu- 7 VINE STREET MEDFORD DRUG, POSSESS CLASS A CAMBRIDGE MA 165 COTTAGE ST CHELSEA level, narcotics investiga- hour” unless the threat is tion’s Article XIV offers MA c94C S34 A&B WITH DANGEROUS MA tion, focusing on the illegal pressing. the idea of a man’s home LICENSE SUSPENDED, OP 10/22/2014 19:22:01 WEAPON c26 RESISTING ARREST c268 Then, there is this gem as his castle remaining: MV WITH 191 10/25/2014 02:10:07 S32B sale and distribution of 10/20/2014 16:04:12 INNER BELT RD 333 LARCENY OVER $250 c266 controlled substances, spe- The British Home Office from the Home Office: “It “Every subject has a right 300 HARVEY , MARK GREAT RIVER RD S30 cifically, Class “A” (Heroin), A new law restricting gun announced its policy, ef- is recognised that there to be secure from all un- ALEWIFE BROOK PKY 5 NEWHALL ST.