Somerville’s Memorial Parade will step off at 11:00 a.m., Sunday, May 26, from the Davis Square rotary. The parade will go up Holland Street and proceed through Teele Square, ending on Broadway and North Street. The annual Memorial Day remembrance ceremony at Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery (on Broadway between Alewife Brook Parkway and North Street) will follow on Monday, May 27, at 10:00 a.m. To learn more, visit somervillema.gov/memorialday. The ceremony will be livestreamed on the CityTV Facebook page (facebook.com/SomervilleCityTV) and broadcast after the event on GovTV (RCN channels 13 or 613; Comcast channel 22) and on the city’s YouTube channel (youtube.com/SomervilleCityTV).

Expectant mothers in Cambridge, Somerville, and Medford are invited to Riverside Early Head Start’s free community baby shower on Wednesday, May 29.

Riverside’s Early Head Start (EHS) program prepares children to successfully enter preschool and helps families learn important parenting skills. To introduce families to the program, they are holding a free community baby shower on Wednesday, May 29, at 474 Broadway, Somerville, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

SCES CEO Marta Corvelo, Rep. Thomas Stanley, Sen. Patricia Jehlen, Mass Home Care Executive Director Betsey Crimmins.

Last week, local nonprofit Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES) welcomed more than 50 local legislators, city councilors, and nonprofit and healthcare leaders to its first annual Legislative Breakfast.

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A refreshing sauce that adds multi-layers of complex flavors to grilled skirt steak, flank steak and so much more. Just let your imagination run wild with this one!

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For the last two years Denise Provost and I have been co-presidents of the New England Poetry Club, that is based in Somerville, Mass. The summer season has started and the New England Poetry Club, founded in 1915 by Amy Lowell, Robert Frost and Conrad Aiken, will have a full program of events. I decided to republish an interview I conducted with Der-Hovanessian in 2018. Here is a link to our events page https://nepoetryclub.org/events/

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Rich Murphy’s collections Susan Constant by Cyberwit and Inside Stories by Resource Publications at Wipf and Stock were published in 2024. First Aid and Footholds were published in 2023 by Resource Publications and Cyberwit. Meme Measure, was published by Resource Publications in 2022. His poetry has won The Poetry Prize at Press Americana twice for Americana (2013) and The Left Behind (2021) and Gival Press Poetry Prize for Voyeur (2008). Space Craft by Resource Publications also came out in 2021. Books Prophet Voice Now, essays by Common Ground Research Network and Practitioner Joy, poetry by Resource Publications were published in 2020. He has published nine other collections of poetry.

On Wednesday, May 22 at 6:00 p.m., Arts at the Armory will host the 14^th Annual Somerville Youth Peace Conference.  The event will include theater, speeches, spoken word, and dance performances   POP Presents: Somerville Youth Peace Conference – The Center for the Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave. https://artsatthearmory.org/events/pop-presents-somerville-youth-peace-conference/

Theatre@First presents a comedic tale about being true to yourself – even while in disguise.

Theatre@First brings live theatre to Powderhouse Park this June 8-30 with a production of Marian, Or The True Tale of Robin Hood by Adam Szymkowicz. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.