The Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS) welcomed two new community leaders in October to its Board of Directors – Edna Monteiro Leith of Cambridge, and Maria da Silva Dickinson of Lowell.

Join your neighbors, friends, and larger community on Sunday, November 13 to help clean up and beautify East Somerville. Meet at the East Branch Library, 115 Broadway, at 10:00 a.m. Pickers, trash bags and gloves will be available. Feel free to bring your own gloves or tools, as well. 

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Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and Director of Veterans Services, Ted Louis-Jacques, and others, honor our veterans at The Veterans Day Ceremony at Mass General Brigham at Assembly Row.

Somerville small business owners can apply for forgivable loans worth up to $15k starting November 15, 2022

The City of Somerville and Mayor Katjana Ballantyne are thrilled to announce that new funds are available for small businesses impacted by COVID-19 via Somerville’s Small Business Recovery Program. 

City offices will be closed on Friday, November 11, for Veterans Day.

Trash, recycling, and yard waste collection will be delayed by one day.

No street sweeping on Friday.

Moving Wall – Vietnam Veterans Memorial 

Opening ceremony begins at 11:00 a.m. Friday, November 11, Great Lawn at Mass. General Brigham, Assembly Row, 399 Revolution Drive. The Moving Wall covers more than 252 feet from end to end and stands six feet tall at its highest point in the center. Its 74 separate frames display more than 58,000 names of American service members who died in the Vietnam War.

Somerville Veterans Day Remembrance Ceremony

Friday, November 11, 2:30 p.m., Milk Row Cemetary, 439 Somerville Ave.

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This article was first published in the April 18, 2018 edition of The Somerville Times.

By William C.  Shelton

For many of my generation the Vietnam War was the defining experience of our lives. Whether we were there, or here, what we chose to do about it, and how we came to understand it, influenced who we became. And who we became, divided us.

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

Another stellar Somerville business is going away.

If you need a water pump, alternator or generator for your 67 Dodge Dart with a 225 slant six engine, you better get down to Nissenbaums Used Auto Parts, 480 Columbia St., before December 1. The 112-year-old business is closing its doors forever.

By Fernando Cervantes Jr.

Last Thursday, members of the Ward 6 community with members of the city government held its fall ward meeting at the Somerville Community Baptist Church. The meeting, one of two for the year, focused on issues affecting the neighborhood and future plans for Davis Square.