Food For Free’s Heat-N-Eats program is helping

Hunger is a struggle that can often be invisible at first glance. Christopher Hope, Founder and CEO of Loop Lab – a BIPOC led nonprofit social enterprise that specializes in media arts internships and digital storytelling in Greater Boston – has experienced first-hand how becoming more intimately aware of the gaps in food access has allowed him to identify food insecurity amongst his students.

Legal Help for Green Card Holders Applying for U.S. Citizenship Will Be Available December 3, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.  

The Somerville Office of Immigrant Affairs and Project Citizenship will host Somerville Citizenship Day on Saturday, December 3, at St. Anthony’s Church, located at 12 Properzi Way, Somerville, MA. Free food will be provided.  

Attention SMALL MART shoppers: you have two opportunities to support local businesses this holiday season with a new curated vendor market. The SMALL MART shopping experience will feature over 50 local vendors of vintage, handmade, fine art goods.

Prince William and Kate Middleton visited Somerville’s Greentown Labs today as part as their visit to Boston for the Earthshot Prize Awards Ceremony.

The Somerville Rotary Club hosted a fundraiser with the Kiwanis and Lions Clubs of Somerville at the Mount Vernon Restaurant last week. Known as a Tri-Club meeting, the three service clubs raised money, food, and personal items for the Somerville Homeless Coalition’s Project Soup and Respond Inc.

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

In 1969 I was 16 years old. I landed a job as a stock boy at Woolworths five and ten cent store in Davis Square. We called it Woolies. Woolworths was where Starbucks is now. I started out doing the stock room duties and got promoted all the way up to luncheonette worker where my favorites were grilled cheese sandwiches and hotdogs.

Somerville Public Schools Enrollment Portal opens from January 4 through February 24, 2023. Families who enroll by February 24 deadline will be eligible for first round of school assignments. 

The Somerville Public Schools’ (SPS) annual school enrollment period for prekindergarten and kindergarten students will open on January 4, 2023, and SPS staff are gearing up to make sure Somerville families are ready and able to enroll students. All students who will be 4 years old by August 31, 2023 are eligible for the district’s PreK program. All students who will be 5 years old by August 31, 2023 are eligible for Kindergarten.

This Thursday, December 1, from approximately 9:00 a.m. to noon, the block of Somerville Avenue from Dane to School Street will be closed to accommodate security measures for the British Royal visit to Greentown Labs. Both directions of travel, the sidewalks, and parking will be closed to the public during this time.

The Director of the Office of Housing Stability, Ellen Shachter, delivered a thorough explanation of the benefits and potential workings of the city’s municipal voucher program.

By Jim Clark

Director of the Office of Housing Stability (OHS) Ellen Shachter presented an update on the new municipal voucher program and other tools to promote affordable housing at the latest meeting of the Somerville City Council.

The short film “We Are Here Too,” which explores the experiences of four women during the Covid pandemic, was recently screened at the Somerville Museum.

By Emilia Wisniewski

The Somerville Museum hosted an online showing of the city-based short film We Are Here Too on November 22, capturing the stories of four creative and talented women and their experiences through the global pandemic.