The city is once again engaged in its annual summer meals for Somerville youth program. Kids 18 or younger can get free meals at various locations throughout the city from now through August 11.
It’s a great way of making sure that the city’s youth get the nutritional support they need, regardless of financial or social standing.
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Pensive lady wonders what’s ahead… — Photo by Denise Provost
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Interview by New England Poetry Club Co-President Doug Holder
In (2007) when I was running workshops for the Voices of Israel organization based in Israel, one of the workshop members was a young poet, Dara Barnat. Well, since then she has become a distinguished academic at Tel Aviv University, and has come out with a fascinating piece of scholarship. I caught up with her recently to talk about her new book Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry.
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The Somerville Mobile Farmers Market is back for its 13th season, now selling fresh produce across the city on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays through October 28. All produce is sourced from local farms and priced low to make good food affordable and accessible for all. The Mobile Market accepts cash, credit, debit, SNAP, P-EBT, and Farmers Market Coupons for payment. All are welcome!
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Rental opportunities at the properties at 124 College Ave. and 300 Somerville Ave.
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Biennial Survey gives residents and everyone engaged with City of Somerville services opportunity to rate personal happiness, wellbeing, and satisfaction
How’s it going, Somerville? We want to know! As of, July 21, the city’s biennial Happiness Survey, mailed to a random sample of 5,000 Somerville residents in June, is now open for everyone to complete online. The survey will close on Tuesday, August 15, 2023.
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Sessions planned for July and August will help inform planning for a civilian oversight entity in Somerville
Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and The Somerville Civilian Oversight Task Force, established by the city’s Department of Racial and Social Justice (RSJ), invites community members to attend an upcoming public listening session led by Task Force members about civilian oversight of law enforcement.
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Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and the City of Somerville invite you to a public meeting to help guide the future of the historic Armory building.
The City of Somerville acquired the Armory building in 2020 to preserve it as an arts space. In 2022, the city initiated a master planning process to guide the building’s transition into a public arts center. As the next step in that process, the Somerville Arts Council and the city’s consultant, Create Today, are hosting three public meetings to present potential programmatic and business models for the new arts center to the community for feedback. Each meeting will cover the same content.
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