On Saturday afternoon, a vehicle drove into the front door of Walgreens at 343 Broadway.  The store will be closed until the damage is repaired. No injuries were reported.

Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, Ward 7 City Councilor Judy Pineda Neufeld, and City staff invite you to a virtual community meeting about transportation safety improvements on Broadway between Clarendon Avenue and Alewife Brook Parkway (West Broadway). The meeting will take place Monday, October 23, at 6:00 p.m. on Zoom.

The 14th Annual Somerville Winter Farmers Market will be hosted at the Center for Arts at the Armory, beginning on November 4.

The Center for Arts at the Armory (CAA) announces that it will host and manage the 14th Annual Somerville Winter Farmers Market (SWFM) every Saturday beginning November 4 through April 6.

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Candidate Benjamin Murphy is interviewed for the position of Chief for the Somerville Police Department.

Community encouraged to join city’s efforts to keep local storm drains clear 

 Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, in partnership with the Mystic River Watershed Association, is inviting residents and business owners to help protect the health of our local environment and reduce flooding by adopting a storm drain in their neighborhood. 

The Somerville Fair Housing Commission, a nonpartisan group of citizens serving the community, asked candidates for Mayor and City Council  a set of questions about Fair Housing in 2021 and again this year, in 2023.

Question 1: Have you ever seen or personally experienced discrimination in housing (either in renting, buying, or getting a mortgage)? What did you observe, how did you handle it, and how did you feel about it?

— Photo by Claudia Ferro

Highlights include Story Collecting, Fundraising Campaign, Archive Building, Events & Staff Expansion

 As it marks the start of its 30th anniversary celebration, exactly three decades after its groundbreaking in the fall of 1993, the Friends of the Community Growing Center in Somerville, MA announces a brand-new storytelling project, fundraising campaign, nascent YouTube channel and newly created Operations Manager position, all while planning public events to highlight the anniversary throughout the year. All anniversary events and related projects coincide with the Growing Center’s ongoing Strategic Planning process, begun in the summer of 2022 with the intention of looking back at its past 30 years in order to advance and inform its future. 

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

In May of 1971 there was to be a huge anti-war demonstration in Washington DC.

I was a 16-year-old hippie with the hair, the beads and the bell bottoms. I had made friends with a bunch of people from Harvard Square and one of the guys was driving his Volkswagen bus to the demonstration. I decided that I had to go because of my deep beliefs against the war in Vietnam. But my problem was what was I going to tell my parents? They would definitely not let me go. But I went anyway and I was gone for two days.