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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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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Rusty Barnes lives in Revere, MA, with his family and a herd of cats. His work appears widely He is the author of the poetry chapbook Dear So and So and the co-editor of Live Nude Poems.

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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. 

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.

By Jim Clark

On Saturday, July 15, at approximately 5:15 p.m., a Somerville Police officer on patrol overheard another officer transmit over the radio that he witnessed a man running out of Sun Glass Hut at Assembly Row holding several pairs of sunglasses.