In the spirit of the season, VNA of Middlesex-East social workers (l to r) Tammy Pacyna, Jennifer Quinn and Cheryl Wall delivered Thanksgiving dinner makings to patients in need. VNA of Middlesex-East donated gift certificates for turkeys and staff donated all the trimmings to help 10 families have a Happy Thanksgiving. The special deliveries were made to patients located in Woburn, Arlington,Somerville, Peabody, Wilmington and Billerica.

Sunday,  November 22, the Somerville Public Library will host an afternoon with Christopher Daley, author of the book Murder & Mayhem in Boston: Historic Crimes in the Hub who will discuss Massachusetts’ most infamous murder cases.

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~Photos by Donald Norton
 
The design for Symphony Park, Somerville’s newest park, was developed through a comprehensive community process. Located at the corner of Pearl and Florence Streets in East Somerville, the park will be a quiet neighborhood pocket park containing amenities for all generations and abilities.

Attention Somerville residents who have your streets swept on the second and fourth Thursdays! Beginning in November 2015, streets on the fourth Thursday route will be swept on the Monday immediately following Thanksgiving. Please park according to normal street sweeping requirements for your street on Monday. Due to the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday and unpredictable weather late in the season, sometimes these streets are not swept from early November until April. To avoid this going forward, City crews will conduct one additional street sweeping day each year for the fourth Thursday route ONLY. Reminders will be sent each year.

Midnight Sun Iceland by Sherry Autor, one of many artists displaying their work this weekend.

Brickbottom Artists’ Building will host its 28th annual Open Studios—one of the oldest open studio events in Somerville—on November 21 & 22, 2015, 12-6pm each day. Over 60 artists will open their live-work studios to the public, showing and selling work in a wide variety of media and formats. A block away, the 50+ artists of Joy Street Studios will open their doors as well, many offering demonstrations of their methods and working techniques.

By Joseph A. Curtatone

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The saying goes, “first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” According to that timeline, it appears that we’re in the third stage of the movement to divest from fossil fuel companies. Opponents argue that fossil fuel divestment is a poor financial strategy, or make straw man arguments about the unfeasibility of immediately ending fossil fuel use or investments. Simple research shows that these arguments are unfounded, and I stand by my call for the Somerville Retirement Board to divest from fossil fuel companies.

Youth Activity Fair, live entertainment, workshops with renowned percussion ensembles will take over ESCS on Dec. 5 for residents of all ages, FREE

Join the All-America City of Somerville, MA for an afternoon of live music, games and crafts for young residents, interactive workshops, networking and more at the City’s All-America City Grooversity Festival on Saturday, Dec. 5 at 1 p.m., at the East Somerville Community School.

From Saturday, Nov. 21 at 1 a.m. through Sunday, Nov 22 at approximately midnight, Keolis construction personnel will be working at the Park St. railroad crossing to remove and replace existing track structures, requiring the closure of Park St. between Somerville Ave. and Beacon St. (open to abutters only) throughout the weekend. During the work, detours will be posted as follows:

Video surveillance footage helped police to identify and locate the suspect in this alleged hit-and-run incident.

By Jim Clark

The Cambridge Police Department has announced that it has identified the driver of a truck involved in a hit-and-run incident that seriously injured a Somerville resident, Dr. Geren Stone in late September of this year.