Nonprofit food rescue organization Food For Free is helping to feed the food insecure.

By Ryan DiLello

Every Tuesday and Thursday, my office provides a catered lunch. As I wrap up morning assignments, I watch the caterers march disposable tin trays of food up the stairs to our cafeteria where they warm it up for an hour over tiny portable burners.

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By Jack Connolly
Jackconnolly422@gmail.com

Nearly 100 concerned residents survived a two-hour City of Somerville multi-department infomercial last Thursday night at the Community Baptist Church.

Congratulations to the winners of Tuesday’s state-wide election, and special congratulations to governor-elect Maura Healey. She is the first woman to be elected governor in the entire history of Massachusetts. We wish her and all the other candidates who achieved victory in this most contentious political race the best as they take up the mantle of leadership and service.

The Somerville Arts Council’s Inside Out Gallery at Davis Square is currently featuring the “Dark Tales, Familiars & Object of Divination” exhibit at 1 Davis Sq.

To ring in the arrival of autumn and its many mysteries, the Somerville Arts Council’s Inside Out Gallery at Davis Square presents a group exhibit, Dark Tales, Familiars & Object of Divination, curated by local artist Boriana Kantcheva, that brings together works to celebrate the darkness and magic of the season’s perennial “thinning of the veil.”

Eagle Feathers #267 – Flanders Fields

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

For the last one hundred years, much of the world has paid homage to November 11, 1918. On this day, commencing in 1919, the annual celebration of the end of World War I or The War To End All Wars began. It was called Armistice Day in the United States and France, and Remembrance Day in England and Canada.

We honor them every year and we regard them with awe and deepest admiration. Proud, but humble in countenance, they seem to simply play their part in our annual celebration of appreciation for their courageous contributions to the wellbeing of our nation. The well-being of ourselves as a society.

The Tree Stand
By Jay Atkinson
Livingston Press, Alabama
2022, 318 pages. $19.95

Review by Ed Meek

Jay Atkinson is the author of two novels, a short story collection and five nonfiction books. He received Massachusetts Book Award Honors for Massacre on the Merrimack, a compelling tale of a vicious Abenaki attack in 1697 that killed twenty-seven men, women and children. But when captives are taken, they plot and carry out revenge on their captors. It’s an illuminative well-researched book about a murky period in our local history.

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Ruth Chad is a psychologist who lives and works in the Boston area. Her poems have appeared in The Aurorean, Bagels with the Bards, Connection, Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England, Constellations, Ibbetson Street, Montreal Poems, Muddy River Poetry Review, Lily Poetry Review, Amethyst Poetry Review and Writing in a Woman’s Voice, pending on October 23/22. Ruth’s chapbook, The Sound of Angels, was published by Cervena Barva Press in 2017. Ruth was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2021.

Weather permitting, City contractors will pave the intersection of Broadway and Boston Ave in Ball Square on Thursday, November 10, between approximately 6 a.m. and 4 p.m.