The fiscal 2009 House budget includes $100,000 for the Arlington Youth Health and Safety Coalition (AYHSC), three Arlington state representatives have announced. Representatives William Brownsberger, Sean Garballey and Jay Kaufman said their joint amendment was adopted May 7.

Three Arlington Democratic candidates for the Fourth Middlesex Senate District will be eligible for the primary, based on the number of signatures certified by the town clerk’s office. Democrats Jack Hurd, Jim Marzilli and Ken Donnelly, gathered more than the 300 required signatures in Arlington alone. Republican candidate and Billerica resident Brion Cangiamila also took out papers to run for the seat Marzilli has held since his special election victory last December. Cangiamila lost to Marzilli in that election.

Arlington families Compete against those in Medford, Cambridge

The Energy Smackdown, an environmental effort, kicks off Sunday, May 4. The community-based reality contest seeks to expand its carbon-reduction program here. Selectman Annie LaCourt and Sustainable Arlington support efforts to include the town in the project.  

Will Seligson steps off the stage during a guitar solo, with Simon Ginet playing tambourine, Jackson Kusiak in the background and a member of the audience looking on.

To return to perform May 23

The Arlington rock band Spare Change was one of five bands performing at the Center of the Arts in Natick on Sunday, April 27, as finalists in a Rock Showdown, an eastern Massachusetts high school Battle of the Bands. The performances were judged by Berklee College of Music faculty.