The Ward 6 City Hall Community Meeting has been postponed to Thursday, November 3rd at Somerville Community Baptist Church, 31 College Avenue.

The meeting will still be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. In-person and online interpretation is available by request.

To request interpretation, please call 311. For more information and to join online via Zoom, visit somervillema.gov/communitymeetings.

SCES staffers found lots of ways to walk for falls prevention awareness in September. Ellen Provencher (left) while apple picking, Jennifer Velasquez (center) while hiking with dog, and Nina Cohen while walking her children to school. Overall, Team SCES contributed more than 1.8 million steps during Falls Prevention Awareness Month.

Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES) staff and supporters dedicated more than 1.8 million steps toward falls prevention awareness in the month of September.

The 1,833,169 steps were part of a statewide challenge from the Executive Office of Elder Affairs to dedicate 45 million steps toward the cause during Falls Prevention Awareness Month.

Vigil Scheduled for Wednesday, October 26, at 6:00 p.m.

Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, the Somerville Commission for Women, and RESPOND, Inc. are honored to invite residents to join them for the annual Domestic Violence Vigil on Wednesday, October 26, to remember those who lost their lives to domestic violence in 2022.

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By Parma Chai
Manager/Business Owner of OOTB Gallery at the Armory

The Arts at the Armory building and its current tenants have been in flux and worried about their futures. Since the Eminent Domain seizure by the City of Somerville, current tenants of the Armory lack clarity for their futures, have not been provided with meaningful rehousing monies or resources for future places of operation, and have been constantly poked and prodded by the City Management to work with rehousing consultants. We are currently being put through an “arts consultant” research firm from NY working alongside the Somerville Arts Council and the Somerville Economic Development department to determine who gets to stay and who does not. The Somerville Arts Council management has so far not met with the current tenants communally, including not being present at our first introduction to the Arts Consultants. This is happening while the Eminent Domain Seizure was made possible by the division of Economic Development and the Arts Council under the leadership of the former Mayor Curtatone and now the current Mayor Katjana Ballantyne.

The Boston Flow Show returns to the stage at the Center for Arts at the Armory on Friday, November 4. The Flow Show is a celebration of the intersection of movement arts and mindfulness, creative expression, and inner pursuit of mastery. Some of the top talent from across the Northeast will gather to showcase various forms of “object manipulation” such as juggling, hooping, levitation wand, poi, and more – mixed with their unique styles of flare and pizzazz.

Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and city staff invite you to a community meeting to discuss findings from the Citywide Parking and Curb Use Study and its proposed recommendations for developing an effective, equitable curb-management system in Somerville. 

By Jim Clark

Somerville Police officers were dispatched to the Target store on Somerville Ave. last week on reports of an unwanted person.

Upon arrival, the officers met with Target’s Assets Protection Specialist, the reporting party, who stated that a man, Christian Donaruma, of Cambridge, who was trespassed earlier this year was currently in the store.

Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

I’m a loyal listener to sports radio and rumors are flying around about who will be Tom’s next relationship. I couldn’t believe it when they mentioned Taylor Swift’s name.